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Beautiful Downpipes
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Beautiful Downpipes
When you are restoring a house, small details are important. They make a huge difference to the overall look and feel of your home. This is particularly the case when you are talking about the outside of a home.
The other day I was looking around the neighborhood and noticed that many of the homes appeared to still have their original downspouts or, as the Brits call them drainpipes. That got me thinking and wondering how that was possible, after all many of these homes are over a hundred years old.
A Brief Guide to Restoring an Old Wooden Door
Posted by LIz
A Brief Guide to Restoring an Old Wooden Door
There are many beautiful, older wooden homes scattered around the country that need nothing more than a little bit of loving to restore the extra shine that they once had in their prime. When undertaking a project like this, restoring an old wooden door is something that you’ll have to learn how to do.
Posted in ads, Decorating, DIY and Other Neighborhoods, Hardware
Tags: door, door locks, hardware, home to cottage, hometocottage, lock shop direct, restoring, wood
I’m Going ‘Coastal’ over these Derek Cardigan Glasses!
Posted by LIz
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Coastal.com for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
I was contacted by Social Spark to write a post about Derek Cardigan Eyeglasses… I thought, sure! Absolutely! No problem! Because I love click here to read the rest of the story…
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Tags: Coastal.com, decorate with a little bit, DecorateWithaLittleBit, Derek Cardigan, eyeglasses, fashion, frames, glasses
Alaska Fish Fertilizer and Another $25 American Express Card Giveaway!
Posted by LIz
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…
Spring Fling Must-Haves
Posted by LIz
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.
Whoo-Hoo!!! This is the first in a 4 part series featuring two great things…
and…. giveaways…
A total of 4 separate $25 American Express gift card giveaways!!!
Yay!! All you have to do is 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! Seriously, how great is that? (the other 3 giveaways are coming up in future posts, so be sure to watch for them)
So this first Spring Fling Must-Have Ironite product is ‘Ironite Plus’. It is a liquid lawn and garden spray. The bottle claims it will not burn, and greens up quickly. That’s good because with as long as this winter was, we are ready for some quick greening.
Want to see an amazing before and after? click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Wet Bar Cabinet Stencil Project
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Right in the middle of painting my new wet-bar cabinets, I was contacted by Royal Design Studio to post a little something about their stencils.
Well, perfect timing! I wanted to add a little bit of something to the two cabinet doors, and they offered me to select one of their lovely stencils…
(yesterday I showed you some details I decorated on the shelf above the wet bar, click here if you missed that post)
I selected the Wicker Stencil because I thought it sort of mimicked the click here to read the rest of the story…
How, Where, When and How I Use Mulch in My Landscape
Posted by LIz
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Scotts Miracle-Gro for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
We have a quite a bit of landscaping at ‘Our House‘, now that the snow has melted, we’re finally celebrating the weather this last week, it’s been a gorgeous mid 60’s and 70’s! Yay!! Last weekend we got 6″ of snow!! I’m not kidding! It’s been a long winter and days like this last weekend are days to celebrate for sure…
All us ‘Northern Wisconsinites’ crawl out of our houses, like bears just waking up from hibernation, rub our eyes, and then do a little ‘jig’ in the lawn when we realize we’re not going to get frostbit or need to snowblow the driveway before we can leave.
Instead, we run to the barn,
push aside the shovels and snowblowers to look for gardening supplies hoping there is something we can do outside, but in reality, the ground is frozen 6″ below the top for a few more weeks, so we’re limited to picking up branches, cutting off last years foliage from the perennials, and one more thing… click here to read the rest of the story…
Would this Moen Kitchen Faucet Style Work in my Kitchen?
Posted by LIz
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Moen, Incorporated for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
I was asked by Moen to write about the Kiran Spot Resist one-handle pulldown kitchen faucet specifically how it would fit into my decorating style. So I’m taking the opportunity to briefly talk about mixing styles in decorating and why I think that keeps it fresh and allows you to be more creative. click here to read the rest of the story…
VIPRE Internet Security Software… My Experiences
Posted by LIz
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Vipre for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
VIPRE Internet Security contacted me through SocialSpark to install their internet securtiy software on my PC and report on that experience.
I gladly accepted their offer and as I started the free 30 day trial download. Read the rest of this entry →
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Tags: anti-virus, computer, internet security, safety, SocialSpark, software, vipre, vipre internet security
Why I Think Quadra-Fire Pellet Stoves Are Awesome!
Posted by LIz
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of QuadraFire for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
First, I want to encourage you to comment below telling us why you like Quadra-Fire and one of you will be selected to win a Quadra-Fire notebook! (deadline: Feb. 24, 2013)
I shared with you a few weeks ago that I’m a big fan of wood heat. At ‘Our House‘ we have an outdoor wood burner, and it easily heats our house.
We own an antique house in town though, that we are hoping to call our home one day, but being in town, an outdoor wood burner would not be allowed. There is a old, inefficient open fireplace in that home that we hope to install a more efficient stove of some sort in. Learning about the QuadraFire Pellet Stoves has me very intrigued to say the least.
In case you missed it last time, here’s a picture of the way the fireplace is in this antique house now:
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Tags: fireplace, pellet stove, Quadra-fire, SocialSpark, stove, wood heat
