Guide for Installing a Rain Barrel Did you know plants need water? And while I love Illinois and it is well and truly home now, something I do not like is the doolally weather, and the stonking hot summers. Also, the price of everything is dumb right now, including basic utilities. So, in an attempt to be a little greener for my raised beds, I started looking into installing a…
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Vertical Pumpkin Gardening – Practical, Not Pretty (yet)
You’ve seen what I’m growing in my raised beds this year, but I wanted to try my hand at growing some pumpkins too. And aside from the starter plants, I’m proud to say that I didn’t buy anything new for this project! I’m most proud of trying to use up the wood pile in our back yard. A couple of years ago, the ash tree in our backyard was struck…
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a sneak peek into My Kitchen Decor Plans
It’s only August, but we are hosting Thanksgiving this year, so I am determined to get my kitchen decorated by then! The ‘bones’ of the kitchen are great, and one of the main reasons why we bought this house was because it needed no major renovations. Having said that, I’ve been using my Room Decorating Planner (btw, you can get a copy of the planner for free! Just sign up…
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How to Make Your Own Bean Bags
Making this Halloween Bean Bag Toss game has been one of the easiest and fun crafty projects to date. I got the idea for it when I was looking for something completely unrelated, and came across this Bluely Bean Bag toss game I just took the idea for this game and added some Halloween to it! It turns out this is a pretty popular game, there are so many fun…
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How to Make Your Own Rangoli Powder (+ Free Printable!)
As much as I am excited about Halloween, I am also super duper excited by another holiday in this season. IT’S DIWALI!! (It will be on Monday 24th October 2022) Diwali is a festival celebrated in many cultures (Hindu, Sikh, Jain, and some Buddhists), and a central theme of the festival is the celebrating the victory of good over evil. There are a lot of fun ways to celebrate Diwali,…
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Make Your Own Witches Broom Window Display
We are lucky enough to have 4 very large trees at the back of our yard but this has also meant we have a lot of rotted logs, broken branches and twigs hanging out back too. So naturally, when cleaning up the yard of the broken branches and twigs, I collected a few to make a Witches Broomstick decor for Halloween. I thought this would end up being an easy…
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