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…
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,…
Whenever families or friends gather here there is typically food involved. That often means cooking while trying to look presentable. One really simply way to keep neat and tidy is having an assortment of nice pretty DIY aprons. Two things about me, I am both very organized and a slob. If I don’t keep my…
Terra Cotta Flower Pot Lantern Lately, I have been concentrating on larger projects, like the DIY wired laundry basket and the floating shelves in the bathroom. So for today’s post, I am sharing a super easy terra cotta pot craft idea that you can make in less than half an hour with an extra hour…
DIY Ironing Board Hanger for the Laundry Room A couple of weeks ago I finally made a pretty DIY wire laundry basket, so today’s post is about a matching DIY Ironing Board Hanger that matches it. I was actually willing to purchase a simple ironing board hanger but they wouldn’t mount on our walls correctly,…
