Etched Monogram Mason Jars DIY

Etched Monogram Mason Jars DIY

 

I wish you lived down the road.

I know I’ve said this before.

But it’s true.

I wish you lived in the white house with the picket fence and the roses and day lilies and the herd of goats in the front yard that are always escaping.

Okay…..maybe just the picket fence without the goats.

And when you stopped by the house to see the roses and drink sweet tea on the back porch and listen to me tell you all about how I made the monogrammed mason jars and listen to my sad tale of woe about  how “nobody”  broke one of the moss-covered urns last weekend…..

….you would bring  a pie.Continue reading

5 DIY Furniture Projects

5 DIY Furniture Projects

Happy Saturday!

I missed you yesterday. :)

We were painting and cleaning and patching and taping and sweeping over at the gatehouse.

And I loved every minute of it.

I can’t wait to show you everything….but in the meantime…..

…..here’s 5 diy furniture projects for the weekend.

Happy day to you!Continue reading

What Happened On the Way To the Locker

What Happened On the Way To the Locker

 

This is where all the stinky socks in our house live.

Along with mud tracks and basketball shoes and drum sets and algebra books and track uniforms.

And plenty of testosterone.

*sigh*

It’s a whole other world.Continue reading

Fold-Up Pallet Desk

Fold-Up Pallet Desk

 

I can’t help it.

I know you’re here to learn about how to to build a fold-up pallet desk.

After all….that’s what the title says….

….and it is an amazing project that you can build in an afternoon (and you don’t even have to take the pallet apart).

But I need to interrupt this regularly scheduled post…..

…..for this.Continue reading

The Gatehouse

The Gatehouse

 

The Gatehouse

Dear lonely, over-looked little house at the end of the driveway,

Welcome to the family.

I just wanted you to know how much I have always adored you.

I’ve driven by you for years.  Every time I turned into the driveway……there you sat.

Patiently waiting.Continue reading

Farmhouse Bedroom

Farmhouse Bedroom

 

A long time ago in a land far, far away….I wrote a post and took a picture of a farmhouse bedroom.

You can click here to see it.

I thought it was the most amazing picture I had ever seen.

I had just gotten my camera and I was so all about myself and my mad photo-taking skills.

Seriously.

I can remember staring at the picture and telling myself what a rock star I was.

I showed it to my mom and my best friend and the book club…..

…..and even pulled it up on my cell phone for a few random people at Wal-Mart.Continue reading

Lemon Lime Bars

Lemon Lime Bars

 

I think I finally figured it out.

The whole baking thing.

Before….in the macaroni and cheese kitchen….nothing I baked ever turned out.

My cookies would run off the baking stone or be solid as a rock and my cake would get done around the edges and be raw in the middle and my pies sometimes sunk like the top of a volcano.

Once….at a party….my brownies were so hard that when I tried to cut them…..the whole brownie sheet flew across the room and landed on the floor.

But the answer to becoming a better baker was there all along…..staring me in the face.

All I had to do…..Continue reading

Spoon Necklace

Spoon Necklace

 

The other day we had a yard sale.

We sold a claw foot bathtub and an old trunk and a Ho Ho Ho pillow and two chairs missing spindles and a bunch of old trophies and a yellow train track set and box full of cassette tapes.

High dollar stuff.

Aren’t you sad you missed it?

And during the frenzy of shopping activity…..

……my mother told everyone about my blog.Continue reading