An Easy Scrap Wood Project for the Back Yard It’s a little bit early to use these, the inexpensive herbs and last of the season florals are thankfully three months away. These little herb and flower drying racks began as simple scrap wood projects but were too clunky and boring, so I added the feminine…
How to Make Crepe Paper Peonies and Minimalist Wreath Minimal wreaths are so very elegant and appealing. This blog post has two sections, in the first part, I share a tutorial for how to make the crepe paper flowers. After the flowers are made I have a quick tutorial on how to create the minimalist…
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…
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,…
