Blooms from the garden…

I tend to share the everyday things over on my facebook page and neglect sharing them here, so, if you don’t want to miss anything, I would love to have you join me HERE. I…

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Ideal Home and Garden feature!

Thank you to Reva and staff for this feature in May 2013 Ideal Home and Garden Magazine! What a beautiful story this is and I am seriously honored to be part of it:-)

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Vintage, Southern front porch and a feature…

Last week I shared part of the back porch makeover HERE, now we are heading around to the front porch which also got some low-cost vintage styling. The sign came off the original house of…

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Repurposing a screen door as a porch divider

I posted part of the back porch makeover last week so I thought I would show you all how I repurposed another of my old screen doors.  The back porch is very long and narrow…

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Progress on the back porch

It seems like we have been working on the porches for months.  We had to pressure wash, then I stained the decking and re-painted the back railings. I wanted a more vintage, country kind of…

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Natural landscaping on a budget

Last week I showed some of the porches that we were working on, and it took *all* week to get everything pressure-washed, re-stained and railings painted. We also put out mulch around the house and…

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Spring porches

Even though we have done a lot of clearing brush, etc., this spring, I am behind getting the porches ready for spring–probably because it’s such a big job and we need three days of nice,…

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A mother who is Far Above Rubies

 I could go through each verse of Proverbs 31 starting in verse 10, and show so many examples of how my mother is the epitome of the woman described.  There just aren’t enough words to…

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