Happy Halloween 2013!
Happy Halloween to your home from ours! We had so much fun over the weekend at our annual Halloween party! Here are some photos from the party. Joe and I went as Officer Mendez (AKA Pornstache!) and I went as Alex Vause from the Netflix series Orange is...
Dead and Breakfast
For the annual DIY addition to our Hallowe’en collection, we were inspired by a post on BHG for a “Dead and Breakfast” sign. However, we were fresh out of “vintage freestanding signposts”, so we had to improvise. Fortunately, we happened...
Halloween decorating
We’ve started the Halloween decorating, but we’re only just beginning! It’s a scary site so come on inside for some Halloween fright! The Halloween garland I purchased from Home Goods last year adorns our kid’s art hanging area....
Red Candy Apples
What do I do when it’s Halloween time and I have too many apples in my fridge? I make scary red candy apples of course. While my son found some good hardy sticks in our yard I whipped up the candy mixture. The recipe is below and the original idea is...
BATS!
Halloween is going to soar in on bat’s wings this year thanks to my new cut out bats. I had the same thing last year, but this year my bats are even better. Last year the bats were cut from black construction paper. This year, I got smart and...
Is it October yet?
Walking around in the stores lately is really putting me in the Halloween spirit. Is it Halloween time yet? I literally can’t wait. Literally. I was feeling so inspired by a pin on Pinterest that I actually saw last year but never got around to making it...
DIY Rock Candy
We are nerds at heart and had to try this fun science experiment with the kids. It took a lot of patience waiting for this to happen, but I think they were pretty excited to see the crystals forming on our rock candy. They got to watch it over a period of about a week...
Dreaming of my next home
Things around here have been on hold lately in the “decoration,” “remodel,” and a “fix-things” way due to an uncertainty of where we’ll be in the next year or so. My husband is on the search for a position in academia...
Where’s the crust Pizza
Here’s the dilemma in my house (of many food dilemma’s when trying to eat differently from the rest of your family.) Every Friday around 3 PM I start pizza dough in our bread maker to make fresh pizza that evening. It takes about 2 hours in the bread...
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Follow two DIYers as we decorate, redecorate, design, beautify, demo, install, fix, and remodel the interior and exterior of our second home. We've learned a lot from remodeling our first home and now we are applying this know-how to our second home. Hope you enjoy our site!
xo, Cathy
