Hey there! I hope the New Year has treated you well so far! 🙂 I’m in the middle of making over our master bedroom and I wanted to do something spectacular with my boring old curtain rods without either spending a lot of money or replacing them altogether. The curtain rods had the generic ball-tipped [read more...]

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Hey Friends! White pitchers are the in-thing for Farmhouse decor! I mean, don’t even think about decorating in Farmhouse style without throwing (not literally, ’cause they’d break) a pitcher or two in somewhere. The problem is when something gets popular, it also gets pricey! I don’t like paying a lot of money for something that may eventually go out [read more...]

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Hey Friends! So I’ve been wanting an antique sideboard to re-finish and put in my entryway. My entryway is quite large because we have an open floor plan, and I needed a bigger-than-normal table to fill up the long, empty wall beside the front door. I tried a regular-sized entryway table, but it just looked [read more...]

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Hello there! Are you ready for the weekend? I know I sure am! 🙂 Don’t you just hate it when your nail polish goes bad? It seems like I buy a bottle, use it once (if I’m lucky), and then throw it away a year later because it got all thick and gunky. I know [read more...]

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There’s Two Ultimate Truths about old wine barrels: They’re very cool looking. They fall apart if you look crosseyed at them. Because of this, I have a lot of wine barrel parts lying about which I’ve kept in the hopes of someday finding a way to repurpose them. That someday is today! 🙂 Since it [read more...]

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If you’re like me, you like to collect shiny things. If you’re really like me, you don’t know what to do with the shiny things once you’ve collected them. So my collections end up in one of my cupboards collecting dust.   Antique glass electrical insulators are one of those shiny things I like to collect. I’ve seen [read more...]

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I’ve always wanted water fountain on our upper deck. I finally found one I liked- and it was on sale! It was a cute little faux-stone fiberglass number with faux-carved swirls and flowers and a little faux-spicket. I bought it and took my new acquisition home, dreaming of relaxing in my hammock on my upper [read more...]

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Hey Friends! Long time no see 😉 I like to dry my herbs by hanging them off of shelves in my enclosed pantry because it keeps the dust that gets on the drying herbs to a bare minimum. Unfortunately, when I try to get something off the shelves I inevitably brush against the drying herbs, which causes them to break [read more...]

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Hey Friends! 🙂 I have 4′ x 4′ raised beds in my veggie garden, and no matter what I do, my squash plants always outgrow them and run all over the gravel paths in between the beds. I’ve even planted one right smack in the middle of a bed, and it still outgrew it and ran [read more...]

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Hey all! I’ve been busy trying to get my spring garden in on days that haven’t been crazy windy… nothing like trying to plant seeds while chasing wind-blown seed packets down the orchard! Last week I while picking up plants at our local garden supply I spotted this lovely variegated thyme plant. I already had started some thyme seeds [read more...]

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