A m I think only person who gets more excited about wrapping presents than buying or giving them? I’ve always loved wrapping presents and a big part of the fun is coming up with new ideas every year. Often my “theme” follows a color trend I’m particularly into at the time, but sometimes it flows from a paper I just ...
I ‘m more than a little in love with these succulent wreaths, featured yesterday at Apartment Therapy. If I had time I’d make one now, but I think this would be an equally great summer project.
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S ometimes it’s the simplest things that make the best accessories, and this is one of my favorites. My friend Jill collects sand. She’s not able to travel much so she asks friends to bring sand for her collection. She says her goal is to someday return it all to where it came from. I LOVE that collection. I try ...
What is with your obsession with sectional sofas? Sometimes the room is just not big enough for a sectional with a chaise end. Help me understand.
I ‘ve been doing some shopping this weekend. This is not necessarily a good thing, but sometimes a deal comes along and you know you only get one shot at it, so you better take it. I’ve been planning to put banquette seating in my kitchen. Although I love the round table that came with the house (it has ...
T he house at the end of our road is undergoing a major landscape renovation that is nothing short of spectacular. Hopefully I’ll get permission to snap a few pictures next summer. But I did snap a picture of the most spectacular stacked stone wall that serves as the entrance to their property. The wall has been there for a ...
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A quick note before I get into Friday Finds: Next week I’m going to be doing a giveaway EVERY DAY. I’ve assembled some of my very favorite gardening items (most of which you’ll find I’ve written about before) and I’m giving them away to you. Although I didn’t plan it this way, it happens to […]
Friday Finds is coming later but first I wanted to share an update with you. Remember the bulb container I planted in fall? I kept it in the (unheated) garage all winter and brought it out maybe six weeks ago or so, putting it in a warm and sunny spot on the patio. And for […]
I started more things from seed this year than I ever have and I’m so happy I did. More than just the satisfaction of growing from seeds and the fact that I’ll have a well-stocked garden for pennies, it kept me busy during those hardest months for gardeners. It was lovely to tend to something […]
Next week I’ll touch base on the progress on all the seeds I’ve been starting this year, but thanks to this new mini greenhouse, I’ll be able to get most of the plants out of the back room this weekend. For about $130 this was gardening money very well spent. Great. First I wanted pygmy […]
After one of the more challenging weeks of my working career, I was absolutely spent going into the weekend. I desperately needed to just stop thinking about everything for awhile. Thank goodness Mother Nature cooperated and presented two nearly perfect spring days for me to get lost in the garden. And that’s exactly what I […]
New House New Home photo Heather is looking back at springs past. I will absolutely be making these cocktails this spring. Would you ever paint your house black? Look how cute this one is. I do love dahlias and I’m not the only one. I will be potting up dozens of them this weekend to […]
I’ve never been known to whip through projects quickly, but adding a pergola to our garage certainly took longer than most. Although I first mentioned adding a pergola (among other changes) on the blog way back in October 2013, we didn’t start actually building it until last fall. We used this article from This Old […]
If you’re hear to read about the garage pergola (like I promised you would in this space last Friday), I’m sorry. It’s been a crazy week at work and it just didn’t happen. But it will. Next week. I promise. We’re hosting Easter at our house. I like having Easter because it’s a low-pressure holiday. […]
The results of the soil tests of the skinny bed next to the house and what I call the main garden just off the patio came were not what I would call earth-shattering, but ironically the one thing I thought I knew is probably what I was most wrong about. One of the reasons I wanted […]
What are the components of a great trip? Great people, a beautiful garden, amazing food and an exciting and completely charming city are good places to start. Throw in some power tools and you’ve got a fantastic experience and one that I was fortunate to have earlier this month when I ventured to Charleston, South […]
It’s Friday Finds time, but unfortunately it has been a busy week and I’ve not had much time to spend on the Interwebs. So rather than send you in the direction of some great things to read, I’m going to tease up a few posts I’m working on for next week because there are some […]
I’m starting most of my seeds a new way this year and I’m absolutely loving it. Last fall I invested in a soil blocker and I’ve been using it for all but the largest seeds I’ve sown this year. The concept of a soil blocker is that you grow seedlings potless, which restricts […]
Before you add anything to your soil or plant anything in your garden this year, answer one question: When was the last time you had a soil analysis done? Five years ago? Ten? Never? Soil analysis tests are an investment—usually $10 to $15—but I can almost guarantee that you will recoup that money several times […]
I know that a lot of gardeners don’t necessarily care to get into vegetable gardening. I know that because until about seven years ago, I was one of them. And while I think that vegetable gardening can be one of the most satisfying things a human being can do, I also get that it’s not […]
