With Fall! Hi everyone! Thanksgiving is in 3 weeks! Crazy. It was just August! How does Thanksgiving always sneak up on us? Here’s a few things I’ve been working on at my house for November. I love November! What’s your favorite month of the year? I added a few favorites from online too! Enjoy the [Read more…]
up-cycle project Hi there- over the summer I cleaned out the garage and found a stack of extra plank flooring from our 7 month basement bathroom remodel. It’s like the blog universe handed me at least a 1/2 dozen projects with this stack of plank flooring. I decided with this perfectly perfect shapes these would make [Read more…]
Look what we had in our guacamole this weekend! Fresh Roma tomatoes from my container garden. After multiple years trying to grow anything besides weeds I lowered my expectations with a smaller surface area! Containers are less intimidating for a novice gardener like myself. I texted this image of my Roma tomatoes to my dad. I don’t [Read more…]
Hi everyone- I was at Lowe’s Home Improvement a few weeks ago and found these perennials. Not the perennials outside or down the center aisle, but tucked away near the mulch. At first I was like , “Why is there a random shelf with perennials?” And, then I spotted the clearly identifiable clearance tag. I had found the island [Read more…]
HI there- I admit I don’t use a lot of red, white and blue in my house for the 4th of July. I think because the heat just makes me cranky and it doesn’t have the wind up like say Halloween where you can get a good 4 weeks out of the ghosts and pumpkins! [Read more…]
~container gardening~ Hi everyone- I am so excited to show off my tomatoes and container gardening. Last year I tried an elevated, boxed garden. We made it on a Saturday and made a few mistakes, but nothing 4 yards of dirt and manure can’t disguise! The garden started with a boom and ended with a bust. I think a combination [Read more…]
Keep Outdoor Foam Cushions Dry Hey, here’s an easy idea I came up with to keep outdoor foam cushions dry during the rainy afternoons. I recently purchased Ikea cushions to replace my mold filled foam cushions. I didn’t take a photo- I should have! I was itching to put my new patio cushions outside but with 22 [Read more…]
Replacing Wood Spindles | 1 Day Job Hi everyone- replacing our wood spindles on our front porch with iron spindles is one of my favorite porch and patio projects. The reason: it is much easier than it looks and the impact is amazing! This project started after we replaced 241 interior wood spindles with iron. Full disclosure [Read more…]
This weekend I am sharing my popular Pottery Barn Knockoff Chaise project. I still have my eye on this collection, but until I pay off the SBA loan on my company, I need to keep an eye on cash flow and budgets! But, I am not a trophy wife..{yet} so I am forced encouraged to think differently at how [Read more…]
Front Yard Inspiration | BH&G Here’s a little inspiration for your weekend projects in the weeks ahead. Scroll down the to bottom to see our current nightmare. I call it my Shawshank, because every week, before the trash guys come, I take a couple shovels full of the itty bitty rocks to haul out with [Read more…]
No Soliciting Sign & Free Printable : 2 Minute Tuesday Happy February! Here’s a super easy No Soliciting Sign printable for your front door. It’s a winter them no soliciting sign with a little humor! It prints on 8×11 paper white paper so it’s a low maintenance printable. And, it is a free printable because well.. I’m not [Read more…]
Hi there- how was your weekend? We spent the weekend replacing gates in our backyard for our new puppy, Chloe! It was a birthday gift to me from the family: the puppy, not the gate! It was looking a little tired: both the gate and myself!! Both gates just needed new doors as the posts were [Read more…]
Our front porch has a southern exposure and in Colorado that means sun, sun and more sun. So wicker furniture gets weathered very quickly. Kinda like our skin without sunscreen! I have seen other blog projects on spray painting wicker. I was a little skeptical because there are so many details in anything with the word [Read more…]
A little free time always benefits my dogs, Owen and Tanner ( Big O and Little T). Usually, the free time is in the form of an extra walk, but this week with week of rain I decided to make them homemade dog bones! I did a quick Google search, but some of the ingredients [Read more…]
