Backyard

  • Flower Pot Arrangement Tips

    Ready to spruce up your porch for spring?  Get your container pots ready with these flower pot arrangement tips! I can tell that I’ve officially reached adulthood because I now care about landscaping and plants.  My son actually said to me the other day, “Mom, do you love plants the way I love Pokemon?”, I…

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  • Simple Homemade Fairy Garden Ideas

    DIY Fairy Garden Ideas For Kids

    The last few years the boys and I have casually named one of our backyard planters a fairy garden.  In reality it has been an ignored planter that ‘special’ rocks, shells, and various ‘treasures’ are pushed into a pot of dirt.  Occasionally seeds and left over plants will get stuck down in there too.  Last…

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  • How to start composting for beginners

    How to Start Composting for Beginners

    A few years ago I decided I wanted to start composting….and truthfully I was overwhelmed and didn’t how to start composting for beginners.  As it turns out composting is super simple and easy to begin.  Now if you aren’t familiar with composting you may wonder, “what is composting?’.  Composting is simply recycling organic material (food…

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  • camping theme first birthday party ideas

    Camping Theme Birthday Party

    There is something so special when your baby turns one.  For my youngest son’s first birthday I knew we wanted to go with something relaxed and if possible outdoorsy.  A camping theme birthday party fit the bill and remains one of my favorite parties. Since my little H’s birthday is in November I guess I’m…

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  • How to use WD-40 to makeover your plastic outdoor furniture

    Use WD-40 on Plastic Furniture to Make it Look New!

    This may be a post where everyone thinks I’m crazy.  That’s ok, I might be.  I tend to absorb weird information and somewhere along the way I read that there are like a million uses for WD-40.  Click here to explore all the ways you can use WD-40 for yourself. Did you know you can…

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  • COMPLETE GUIDE OF HOME STAGING TIPS

    Spring has sprung!  (Or at least it’s trying to here in the midwest.)  And we know what Spring means – it’s time for houses to go on the market!  Last year I wrote a series of home staging tips so you can get the best price for your house.  I broke each post down by…

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  • How to DIY a Backyard Fire Pit

    DIY Fire Pit Area Round Up & Bonfire Hosting Ideas!

    Does fall having you craving to sit around a bonfire?  Us too, that’s why we hosted this evening with our friends around our DIY fire pit area.  Read on to see details on how to host your own bonfire as well as resources to awesome diy fire pit tutorials! With fall nearly here I think…

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  • Potting bench ideas and decor how to style a potting bench

    Trash to Treasure: Potting Bench Makeover

    If you’ve been following me over on Instagram (and if you haven’t, why not?! Click here to join me!) then you’ve seen that I’ve been working to make over my potting bench.  When I showed the Summer Yard Tour at the beginning of the summer I didn’t show any close ups of the bench, but…

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  • How to naturally kill weeds without harsh chemicals diy weed killer

    DIY All Natural Weed Killer

    Oh my word, y’all.  This summer I’ve had the worst time with weeds sprouting up on our brick patio!  The past few years we’ve had them here and there but this year they were everywhere and they were driving me crazy.  I didn’t want to use harsh chemicals on a space so close to our house,…

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  • Up curb appeal on a budget less than $100 Blogger Summer Yard Tour Midwest

    Summer Yard Tour 2018

    Over the past several years I’ve begun to take a real interest in our outside spaces.  I think it began in our old house when I realized I’d run out of places to spruce up inside 🙂  Our current home has lots of good outside spaces, but also lots that we’d love to do.  This…

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