About Me:
Raleigh NC has always been my home - even as I was growing up with my Dad in the Navy and moving arond the southeast every 2-3 years. I moved back to plant MY roots almost 20 years ago. I had a beautiful townhome that I sold Last October for health reasons and moved to Zebulon where my mother grew up, her brother worked at the Zebulon Drug Co. for 62 years and his daughter (we call each other The Twisted Sisters) lives. I bought a cute little Cape cod house on a quiet street downtown and just love it. I'll love it more when I have the 18 Sweetgum trees taken down at the end of summer!
Favorite area of home improvement:
Making the inside of my home a warm, inviting place for friends and family to visit; and gardening - anything that blooms. I have mostly roses, gardenias, peonies and peremials. It's doing pretty good for Season 1.
Recent Activity
Need Lighting? DIY Easy Wall Sconce
Do you have a dark spot in your home that needs a lighting solution? Possibly a reading light above your bed? In five easy steps, you can transform an easy-to-find "wired" wall sconce
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Homemade laundry detergent and why it works so well
Homemade laundry detergent is all the rage these days but do you ever wonder if it really works? I love the idea of homemade laundry detergent, that costs a fraction of the price but I
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Antique Window Signage
Since I have such a huge stash of antique windows and I love super old business buildings, I decided to make some of my windows look like they had come from old businesses. Here are a few
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DIY Custom Pantry Transformation
After two years of struggling with storage space in our existing pantry, we moved the pantry renovation to the top of our "Never ending honey-do-list". We started out with a common
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The Ultimate Seed Starting Guide
Here is a collection of posts from the Garden Therapy Seed Starting Series. Seed Starting 101 covers the basics of starting seeds. We then look at those crafty seed starting containers
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My garden cupola
A friend brought over some old windows knowing that I would do something fun with them. The outcome? This fun large garden cupola over my septic tank! The roof is plastic ceiling tiles.
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