I still haven’t gotten much input on my moss question (see the previous post), anyone have any idea?
I’m off today to help hang pieces in my first art show (see my other blog for info) and so was thinking about art. For those of you who are just into the 50’s house thing, you may [...]
It’s amazing how your weekend can be taken up with just maintenance, not improvement things. I mowed the lawn and trimmed a hedge, but the house looks like brand new! I’d purposely let the grass grow out so that it could stand our little burst of heat. Now it’s got some water and I’ve mowed [...]
Not a lot going on this week. It’s hot, hot, hot and unfortunately we have a bee problem in our backyard. I love honeybees…wouldn’t even think to kill them. UNFORTUNATELY, they’ve taken up home on our flagstone back porch under the top of a sprinkler system junction box. We bought poison, but I just hate [...]
We recovered our footstool over last weekend. This is the before:
This is the after:
It looks like it was easy, but under that slipcover was a poofy footstool with a dust ruffle, so we had to totally take it apart. We removed the casters and put the new legs on. We got the fabric from an [...]
Apparently I’m a bit out of the “circle” on this one, but a bunch of our friends already knew about the guy with one red paperclip – this is a guy who started with a huge red paperclip with the intention of swapping it up until he got to a house. Well he’s done it! [...]
This weekend, I was planning on working outside, however, weather intervened – most of the garden is weeds, there are (believe it or not) three actual garden plants out there. Well, maybe next year! I still have some herbs and strawberries to go in.
Amazing how fast a year goes, eh? It doesn’t seem [...]