Monthly Archives: May 2013
Our House: A Little Bit of Bird Watching
I love birds… now.
When I was younger, I remember my mom and dad getting such a kick out of seeing this bird or that, and I have to admit, I didn’t get it.
But now, click here to read the rest of the story…
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Our House… A Year in the Life of a River
This post has been a whole year in the making.
Really.
I started it last summer, during the dry season, when the grass was crisply waiting for a drink… and the river, still flowing being spring-fed, yet more shallow than normal for lack of the extra fill of runoff from the rain.
Summer 2012
This is the river at the foot of the meadow down the pasture from ‘Our House’.
It is a class 1 trout stream. You can see how closest to the camera, the bottom of the river is visible, it’s only about a foot or two deep there, but that curve to the far right is a deep spot, between 8-10 feet deep, and the ‘sweet spot’ for catching trout.
Then came Autumn… Click here to read the rest of the story…
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Our House: Master Bedroom Eclectic Furniture Finishes
I love a room with a mixture of furniture finishes, painted, distressed, wood grains, all of them. I find that if a room has all the same wood finishes, I get bored to death, and it’s impossible at that point to bring in something different, because it’s the only thing that is different, so it’ll stick out like a sore thumb!
So instead, I constantly mix it up. The key is to figure out how to balance those different finishes within the room. And to balance it with what the room itself has going on.
So for example in our master bedroom, the walls, ceiling, doors and trim are all painted wood. So if all my furniture finishes were painted wood it’d be just as boring to me as those rooms where people have all wood grain finished trim, doors, floors and all their furnishings are wood… (I have friends that have that, and I have a confession to make, when I go to visit them sometimes I get lost imagining painting their trim and some of their furniture!) click here to read the rest of the story…
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Someone Else’s House: Bungalow Living Room
Last time we were in this living room, I showed you the fireplace and mantel area that was transformed with paint and fabric. (click here to see that transformation) I also showed you how the saddle is displayed by the fireplace, and the wonderful sign they made from old fence boards featuring a horse theme with parts of a verse from the book of Job. (click here to see more about that)
On the other side of the living room…
Just like the rest of the darling antique craftsman style house, the ‘after’ pics speak volumes to the click here to read the rest of the story…
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Alaska Fish Fertilizer and Another $25 American Express Card Giveaway!
Disclosure: Post and giveaway sponsored by Central Garden & Pet, but all opinions are my own. Please see below for additional disclosure.
This giveaway is now closed.
This is the 2nd in a series of 4 posts I’m featuring about products from Central Garden & Pet.
(If you missed it, the first post was from the Ironite products line featuring ‘Ironite Plus’, which is a liquid lawn and garden spray.)
And as exciting as it is to learn about fertilizer options for the garden, this 4 part series is doubling exciting due to the $25 American Express gift card giveaways!!!
Yay!!
All you have to do to be entered in this random drawing is be sure to leave a comment below to be entered in the first $25 American Express gift card giveaway. If you ‘liked’ my facebook fan page, followed me on Pinterest, &/or Linky Followers, &/or Bloglovin’ tell me in your comment and for each ‘like’ you’ll get another entry!! Then Central Garden & Pet will send the first winner a $25 American Express gift card!
***In your comment be sure to tell me all the ways you follow me, so you don’t miss extra entries!!
(this giveaway ends Sunday, June 2, 2013) click here to read the rest of the story…
