One of the projects last week for week 4 in the Curb Appeal Challenge was to make my house numbers more visible. House Number Visibility Problems Remember my before picture? Can you spot my house numbers? No? Yeah neither can the pizza delivery guy. That’s a big problem! To keep my family fed I need these house numbers easily seen from the…
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DIY Teen Bedroom Makeover
These last few weeks have been a flurry of a DIY projects creating a nautical bedroom makeover for my oldest son. I’m really excited with the final result and can’t wait to show you. This room project is part of the One Room Challenge from Linda at Calling It Home and it’s been a blast to be able to participate. But to be honest, …
Creating a Gnome Garden
How about we build a gnome garden? After all, spring is in the air! Well sort of. This past weekend, we had the most fabulous tease of spring weather. It was absolutely amazing. Oh I know better than to think that snow is over for the season. But I see no need to acknowledge reality here. After all, reality can be…
Coming up in 2016
Happy New Year!!! Wow, did the holiday time fly or what? Oh I know, it does every year. Still I say the same thing, where did the time go as if this was my first holiday ever. Ha! Before we completely move on from the holidays, I have to ask, was your holiday good? I…
Elf and Our Christmas Nonsense
Well we are two days from Christmas and as usual, I’m not ready. I’m not sure if I’m laughing to myself about it or slightly panicking. I think it’s a little of both. This is nothing new. Everyone that knows me is not the least bit phased by my last minute endeavors and general…
DIY Christmas Window Wreaths
I received a couple of questions on how I made my Pottery Barn knockoff Christmas wreaths I used on my house . So I thought I would attempt to go through what I did and pray it makes sense. To start with, making window wreaths for all my windows wasn’t part of the Christmas plan. I’ve thought…