Room Service Please!

                        Who doesn’t love room ser­vice? When I think of relax­ation and some­thing spe­cial, I think room ser­vice. While wait­ing to have a nice hot meal deliv­ered to your door, you can be watch­ing re-runs of Sein­feld on your dreamy bed. It’s my love […]

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What Is A Plantsphere?

                          A plantsphere (yes, I made that word up) is my lat­est cre­ation. I love this mod­ern twist on a ter­rar­ium.  My inspi­ra­tion for this DIY project comes from designer Shane Pow­ers and his Hang­ing Glass Bub­ble Col­lec­tion at West Elm. You can […]

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Does the Fork go on the Left or the Right?

                      I apol­o­gize that my post is going to be short and sweet. I fell and injured my right arm and shoul­der, (I’ll be fine in a week, just a sprain) there­fore I am lim­ited on my typ­ing, photo tak­ing, etc… Many peo­ple won­der how to […]

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Breakfast In A Box

  Break­fast in a box, the per­fect party favor! Imag­ine going to someone’s home for din­ner, a cock­tail party or per­haps a beau­ti­ful wed­ding and get­ting to leave with break­fast for the morn­ing. I’d say that is hos­pi­tal­ity at it’s finest! The ideas are end­less, but to get your cre­ative juices started I’ve come up […]

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Repurpose Your Wine Corks

                      This might be my favorite way of repur­pos­ing used wine corks. (besides the wine cork mulch idea) Instead of using pre­dictable store bought charms, name tags or dif­fer­ent col­ored rib­bons, I used dif­fer­ent win­ery corks for my wine tags. The next time you have […]

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To Shade or Not to Shade?

back­yard remodel con­tin­ued.…                 We are com­ing to the end of our mini back­yard remodel just in time to enjoy it a lit­tle before fall arrives. We still have some details to fin­ish such as our per­gola shade. We’ve installed half of the per­gola with shad­ing mate­r­ial. The […]

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Repurpose Your Old Bbq (with style of course)

                              I have been promis­ing for a while now to reveal my not so typ­i­cal herb gar­den. Here it is! Repur­pose your old bbq or fire pit into an herb gar­den. Not only is it prac­ti­cal, it’s got a kitchy vibe […]

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Our $13 Outdoor Rug (more backyard progress)

…back­yard remodel con­tin­ued.     The best time to get deals on out­door fur­ni­ture and acces­sories is now! (most stores are hav­ing their end of sea­son sales) We wanted an out­door rug to make the din­ing room under the per­gola a lit­tle more cozy feel­ing. I found some fab­u­lous rugs with bold col­ors and pat­terns. […]

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Pretty Pavers! (more backyard progress)

We’ve been post­ing a slow pro­gres­sion of our mini back­yard remodel the last few months. First phase Sec­ond phase Third Phase Fourth phase             In the back cor­ner of our yard we had a funky spot under the new per­gola. It’s hid­den and doesn’t get foot traf­fic. Of course we’re […]

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The Table Has Arrived!

                  For those of you who have been fol­low­ing our back­yard remodel, you know we were eagerly wait­ing our table deliv­ery. It finally arrived! The down­side is it came in box that said, “assem­bly required”. Sigh…                       […]

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