I have love flagstone pathways, but I had always envisioned them in grand landscaping. So the thought of having one in our own yard was quite exciting, but intimidating at the same time. What I learned from laying our own flagstone pathway is…flagstone makes any …
Last week I was so excited to pull out all of my spring decorations from storage. As I stood there staring at what I pulled out, I felt puzzled. I am not sure if it was just because I have so many Christmas decorations and …
Can I just take a minute to jump up and down, we finally made it to woodchips! From the moment we first moved in, three years ago, I wanted to put them down. At this point in our landscape journey, we had the flowerbeds shaped, …
Living in Michigan, there may still be clumps of snow outside…but spring napkins are about to hit inside. Today I am pulling out all the spring decor and starting to think about Easter! Easter is one of my favorite holidays. I love celebrating the death …
Creating clean cut edges for the flowerbeds made a huge difference! Yet before we could throw down the woodchips, we needed to prepare the flowerbeds. We decided not to lay down landscape fabric for a couple of different reasons. First of all, it is difficult …
A couple of years ago I jumped onto the DIY Chalkboard bandwagon. I love the idea of these beautiful chalkboards everywhere, I even thought about making a huge chalkboard wall. However, in realty I wouldn’t keep up on it and the chalk dust would be …
Removing all the unwanted plants and trimming all the overgrown landscape was a huge task. However, with everything removed and trimmed the flowerbeds looked so much better, even if now they were still filled with dirt, rocks and weeds. We knew we were heading in …
Organizing school papers is one of those projects I have always wanted to do, but for some reason or another I never get to it. The weekly papers I can manage, but all the projects and artwork I want to save long term….well that’s another …
I stood there looking at the dirt, and what used to be landscaping…thinking oh just a little wood chips and it will look great. The thought process was correct, but three years later I was standing in the same spot and thinking the same thing. …