My how your garden grows
Wanted to give you a little update on how our garden is doing since we made this trellis back in the spring. Can’t believe how big our tomatoes, lemon cucumber, and pepper have grown! We have the drip system on the ground which really helped...
French toast kind of morning
This morning, after a long night of having fun, I made myself a yummy french toast breakfast with veggie sausage links. This is a breakfast to get you started! Here is the recipe. Ingredients 7 thick slices of bread 2 eggs 2/3 cup milk 1/4 teaspoon ground...
All girls have secrets
I bet that title caught your interest. 🙂 Don’t worry it’s nothing huge, but wait until you see the disaster that lies within this drawer. Yeah it’s bad. What is supposed to be my hair accessories, is more of big drawer of receipts. Overflowing...
Cutie Patootie
My mother-in-law lives in Hawaii, has a full time job and manages to whip up the cutest dress for my daughter. My daughter wanted to try it on herself. Don’t mind the look on her face, I think she just wanted a snack. Checking out the new duds. 🙂 She...
Removing old gutters
We replaced the gutters over our front porch years ago, but left the back porch gutters alone. They appeared to do the job well enough, even with pine needles catching in the gutter guard. However, the sight of brown stains behind the gutters on the fascia clued us...
DIY Christmas wreaths
A few years ago I made pine cone wreaths for pretty much everyone in my family. I used real pine cones right from my North Carolina yard. I think they liked them. Now I’m obsessed with some less organic, but home made wreaths for Christmas. I could make...
Living Room makeover complete!
Forgive me, but I have been remiss in sharing the end results of our living room makeover! We finished up week’s ago and you got to see the paint go up and the rug, but I think the photos ended there. So alas, I’m here to show you the progress of our...
White yarn wreath
My cute new yellow door really needed something to spruce it up so what better way than to hang a white wreath. I found some cute inspiration on Etsy and Pinterest so decided to make my own white yarn wreath with some floral felt accents. I went to my...
New house colors!
Here is the way our house looked a few weeks ago. It desperately needed some new paint. The existing paint, even when cleaned was fading and had patches all over it from rot that we fixed on the siding. The white trim and railing was dingy so it cried...
Hi, welcome to our pad!
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
