Sunday Fun-day! I guess I’m on a DIY kick! Once I start I just can’t seem to stop, it’s addictive. This is the piece of chicken wire I found on the side of the road a few weeks ago turned lantern. It was really quite easy to make once my hubby hooked me up with some heavy duty wire cutters. I cut the fencing to the length I wanted the lantern to be, you can see in the first picture […]
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Anything sounds cute when you put the word cottage in front of it – roadkill or cottage roadkill. Hee hee! I’ll take one cottage roadkill please. So I’m doing a little house hunting with my mom when she yells out “Stop! Back up!” So I do and behold, we have stumbled upon the most charming little pieces of vintage chicken wire. Why is it that even the chicken wire was cuter back then? One unexpected bonus to living in an […]
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My daughter and I have been out back picking flowers. This bouquet is hydrangea and mountain mint and is headed to my parents to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
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One of my very favorite things about summer vacation is the long leisurely suppers by the pool or on a picnic table in the woods, wherever we happen to go that year. Nothing fancy, we usually order takeout or cookout on the grill. But along with some melon or strawberries and a bottle of wine, you have something special and reminiscent of those sweet summer days. Well its not quite summer, and we have no travel plans this weekend so […]
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We inherited a never ending shrub and flower bed with our new to us home. Apparently one of her previous owners had one heck of a green thumb! We are slowly working on getting our yard back under control, but those weeds just keep popping back up. The peonies look lovely in the garden, or cut and brought inside.
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