Remember my post on our Dirty Little Secret where I shared with you the rot that our wood siding and trim had after only 15 years? If not, you can see it HERE.Rot at arrowWe had our young and cute, handy dandy handyman come with his new crew and replace All the wood siding on the upper story with vinyl (Brand: Certainteed; Color: Savannah Wicker). The bottom story is brick. He also cove...
Sunday, 15 July 2012
Thursday, 12 July 2012
Can You Stand ANOTHER One?
If you follow my blog, you will remember that recently, I did two posts on columns that we have and you can see more on that HERE & HERE.So can you really stand an 11th one that we own? Do I have a magnet for these pillars? I don't know, but I do know that when we recently had a huge dumpster at our house because of exterior work being done, one of the workers said that he was going to bring...
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Watermelon Slice Anyone?
I found a great piece to go with my famously painted Watermelon Propane Tank...The lady that I paid $1 to for this watermelon slice said that, in 1970, a Sycamore tree was cut down and she kept this slice and painted it to look like a watermelon. Isn't it perfect in front of my propane tank?These parties I love to link up to or check out my Blog Parties tabParty Time @ It's So Very...
Saturday, 7 July 2012
Mirror Mirror on the Wall
Do people not have vision? Or do they just not like to do the work?I don't know which, but I had picked up an antique oval mirror at a garage sale and basically did nothing to it, but put it in my antique mall booth. No one wanted it after months of being displayed and a priced decline.That told me that I needed to bring it home and give it some love! Here is the before...
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Monday, 2 July 2012
New Mud Room!
I am so excited to show you my New Mud Room.It came about quite by accident. You see, the builder added a walled in room off the original two car garage that has access via a doorway from the garage, a doorway into the house (laundry room) and a doorway to the outside. This room is about 14 feet long by 7 feet wide with very high ceilings. Initially, we used...
Sunday, 1 July 2012
Moving on...
I usually type directly on to my blogger template while composing a post but this post has been written on pieces of paper, crumpled, picked up, re-written, edited on Microsoft Word and finally comes to you in this final form. In a state of mixed feelings I want to share some news with all the lovely...