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Dee F

Lanesville, IN
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About Me:

love coming up with new ideas for crafts and decorations, gardening, spending time with grandbabies, cooking and entertaining

Favorite area of home improvement:

coming up with new ideas for the outside (5 acres), will be redoing the inside of our home, probably one room at a time


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  • Dee F
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  • am I supposed to trim back some of these twigs? 3
  • how do i get the bushes to fill in around the bottom? 1
  • how do i get the bushes to fill in around the bottom?

Gardening: Pruning Hydrangeas and Encouraging growth around the bottom of my Shrubbery.

1. My Hydrangea is getting it's leaves for the spring. I noticed there are a lot of twigs / branches that don't have leaves yet. Am I supposed to trim back some of these at some point? If ...»
so when and how do I know which ones?

2. May shrubbery looks a little sparse around the bottom - how do i encourage it to fill in?

3. Once everything has finished blooming i'm going to trim it back. I know right now they're much too high and blocking the front of the house / part of the windows. Would you advise trimming back more than 1/3? Would it damage the shrubs?

many thanks!

martine

Martine Resnick @ Martine Louise Design
Martine Resnick @ Martine... Atlanta, GA
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  • Dee F
    Commented on Mar 21, 2012
    @ rai, are you talking about regular laundry blueing?
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Book page decoupaged dresser!

I purchased this vintage dresser for $5 at a garage sale last year. My 20 year old daughter was moving into her apartment and needed furniture. The lowness of this would make a perfect TV ...»
stand and the drawers would be great for storage, but the orange had to go. This was such an easy project because it was actually well painted. I just torn up an old book and decoupaged it right onto the orange drawer fronts. I lightly sanded the edges smooth and put two coats of poly sealer over it. She wanted the same knobs, so I just painted them black. Easy and it works great for her little place. Total cost was $8 and the chest is all wood and very solid!

Terry M
Terry M Quincy, IL
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  • Dee F
    Commented on Mar 15, 2012
    I love this idea Terry! It can be useful to someone who is not very crafty to someone who ...»
    wants to get fancy with it. I have done this several times with old cheap pieces of furniture I got at yardsales and put matching wallpaper or border that are in the room on the drawer fronts. Would love to try the newspaper, especially a great idea for making say, a picture frame with the news announcements from someone's engagement, baby birth, etc.

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