A Delicious Assortment of No Bake Summer Desserts It’s time for outdoor meals in the sunshine. With that thought in mind, I have curated several amazing no bake desserts to share with you. I chose a variety of different types of no bake summer desserts, pies, rolls, mousse, frozen treats and of course several no…
The outside of our home is two-tone cream with sand coloured rocks. Here’s an old picture of the front of our home, see how the exterior lights just don’t fit in, and they are dirty with very faded black paint. An afternoon of outdoor light painting is going to fix all that. I think its…
No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars Recipe This no bake chocolate peanut butter bar recipe is a simple alternative to the traditional Canadian Nanaimo bar. Several years ago custard powder companies added tartrazine (food colour) which I am violently allergic to, so I came up with this peanut butter bars variation. The peanut butter adds…
DIY Hanging Planter Macrame Design This DIY hanging planter is incredibly simple to make, using only 3 kinds of macrame knots. I built a wood plant hanger to suspend a flower pot and discovered the hanger that came with the flowers was really ugly. The black plastic really stuck out against the cream siding on…
DIY Hanging Planter We have a very large wood stash taking up the rafters, and two corners of the garage. I have decided to use some of the wood for simple projects that I can do myself. I let my outside projects be much more rustic than the indoor projects. The outside projects don’t need…
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Recipe Summer is coming, and with summer comes barbeque and picnic season. An easy to make homemade strawberry rhubarb pie recipe! Fresh sweet strawberries are paired with tart rhubarb and tapioca. A solid rhubarb strawberry pie filling surrounded by a flaky homemade pie crust. You can bake it as a regular pie, or…
An Old Frame becomes a Modern DIY Floating Frame- Farmhouse Hens Blog Hop The older a person gets the more they realize that home decor has very few new ideas. Most new decor takes a vintage idea and adds a new modern twist to it, crown mouldings are a great example. Thank goodness for that,…
Have you noticed an uptick in beautiful vintage linens at thrift shops and antique stores lately? I have been seeing so many lovely vintage pieces, including embroidered tea towels, and I could not resist bringing a few home. One in particular caught my eye with the sweetest little donkey stitched in the corner. Women used…
