Summer Spotlight: Abby from Just a Girl and Her Blog

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The Summer Spotlight focuses on great ideas for the home from a different blogger each week. This week the spotlight is on Abby at Just a Girl and Her Blog.

Welcome to the Summer Spotlight where we’re sharing great ideas for the home from a new blogger each week this summer! This week our featured blogger is Abby from Just a Girl and Her Blog.

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The Summer Spotlight is a collaborative effort to showcase great ideas from a different talented blogger each Friday throughout the summer months. Follow my co-hosts and I online to see the great ideas we share year-round:

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Hello, I’m Carrie from Ideas for the Home by Kenarry® and today I’m casting the Summer Spotlight on an incredibly talented blogger, Abby at Just a Girl and Her Blog. Abby not only shares beautiful and helpful ideas for DIY projects, home decor and organization tips on her blog, she is also a tremendous support and encouragement to other bloggers.

Abby at Just a Girl and Her Blog

Just a Girl and Her Blog

I started following Just a Girl and Her Blog over a year ago when Abby shared her courageous decision to prevent breast cancer. Her honesty and genuineness really drew me in. Shortly thereafter, Abby published a book called Building a Framework providing all the ins/outs of everything she learned in her first year of blogging. I was still fairly new to blogging at that time and devoured the book over the course of a few days. Reading it was like sitting down for coffee with a good friend and having her pour out all her valuable knowledge and insights. I only wished I’d read it months earlier when I was first starting Ideas for the Home by Kenarry®.

Around that time, Abby and her husband, Donnie, also started publicly sharing their blogging income reports, which knocked my socks off! Every month when they release a new income report, my husband and I are quick to open the email to see how they did, what’s working well for them, what’s not working well and about upcoming plans they have to meet their goals. It’s been incredibly inspiring to us to see another husband/wife team successfully making a go of it in the blogosphere.

When Abby’s not blogging, she’s a mother to two adorable little boys she affectionately calls the C’s, Connor and Caleb. While there’s so much more I could share about Abby and her home in Pennsylvania, I know you’re anxious to see her amazing ideas for the home. Before I move on though, I want to share this quote from her which I think sums up how friendly and real she is:

I’m not perfect. I may like to make things look pretty or go the extra mile to make an event feel special, but if you would pop by my house unexpectedly, you would most likely find a floor full of toys and a sink full of dishes. I feel like in the world of blogging there’s this expectation of “perfect home, perfect family, perfect life,” and I’m warning you right up front–that is definitely not the case for this little blogger!”

Abby at Just a Girl and Her Blog with her family

Abby, Donnie and her little Cs

Great Ideas from Just a Girl and Her Blog

Abby has so many great ideas for the home on her blog, so I asked her to tell me which ones are the most popular with her readers. If you like any of the ideas we’re sharing today, please click through to pin them from Just a Girl and Her Blog rather than from the Summer Spotlight.

Let’s start the tour of Just a Girl and Her Blog with Abby’s Fabulously Feminine Home Office Makeover. I don’t know which I love more, the soothing and bright colors she chose or all the little details that went into making it look beautifully organized. I have some serious office envy!

Fabulously Feminine Home Office Makeover - Just a Girl and Her Blog featured in the Summer Spotlight

Abby includes tons of great photos of her gorgeous home office showing all the special touches that make it so enviable, I mean, inspiring. She also has several separate tutorials sharing step-by-step instructions so you can create an amazing space like this too. One tutorial, for example, is How to Add Crown Molding to Plain Bookshelves.

How to Add Crown Moulding to Plain Bookshelves - Just a Girl and Her Blog featured in the Summer Spotlight

If you love dramatic before/after home photos as much as I do, you’ve got to check out Abby’s Master Bedroom Reveal. She transformed her bedroom from a very dark space to one that is so much lighter and brighter:

Master Bedroom Reveal - Just a Girl and Her Blog featured in the Summer Spotlight

At Just a Girl and Her Blog, Abby also shares a lot of DIY tips and tricks, she’s learned along the way from her room makeovers, like The Beginner’s Guide to Patching and Painting Baseboards. To quote her, “Baseboards may not be a glamorous project like a furniture makeover or room reveal, but they can definitely make a big impact in a room.

The Beginner's Guide to Patching and Painting Baseboards - Just a Girl and Her Blog featured in the Summer Spotlight

Another aspect of home life, Abby often writes about is organization. I think she does an incredible job of being both motivational and yet realistic, even when sharing how she organized her whole life. I especially love how she always includes free printables that she actually uses herself to manage and keep track of her busy life as a wife, mother and blogger.

How I Organized My Whole Life - Just a Girl and Her Blog featured in the Summer Spotlight

And of course, once you get your whole life organized following Abby’s tips and tricks, you’re going to need these 10 Simple Habits That Will Help You Stay Organized!

10 Simple Habits That Will Help You Stay Organized - Just a Girl and Her Blog featured in the Summer Spotlight

You can follow Abby at Just a Girl and Her Blog and on social media for more great ideas like this:

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If you enjoyed this feature about Abby at Just a Girl and Her Blog, you may want to check out the other bloggers we’ve featured in the Summer Spotlight – 

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One Comment

  1. Carrie! Thank you so much for the feature and for your sweet words!! I’m so honored! Have a wonderful weekend!

    ~Abby =)

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