My artichoke harvest is so plentiful I always leave some for the honey bees to enjoy.

First try - beige paint with brown sponge paint (too splotchy)

Second try - sand (too bland)

Third try - sand with trellis stencil (thought I would like it but not so much on the whole wall)

Fourth try - sand with brown and metallic gold on split sponge roller and rag rolled to blend (I doubled the amount of recommended glaze this time).

Had hunny drill holes in bottom of boots for drainage. Stuffed toes w/plastic shopping bags, Cut the fingers off leaky kitchen gloves (glad I had PINK) Tied bottom of gloves w/cable tie. Filled w/potting soil and dug up a couple of Impatiens that came up all by themselves from last year's flowers & plunked them in the boots. (glad they were Pink too) WOH LAH!!

#1) Wreath from 2005 - Pastels

#2) 2012 Wreath Re-Do. ...»

Take a tour of a sleeping porch done on a budget.

After spending the summer breaking up and hauling away 4 1/2 tons of blacktop, bringing in 2 tons of topsoil, building a fence, installing an arbor, landscaping, and brick laying, we were ...»

My downstairs bathroom lacked character so this weekend I gave it a little TLC. This entire makeover cost me about $85 and it was worth every penny. Check out all of the details liveprettyonapenny.blogpspot.com

A couple of weeks ago Jeanette (Homa Style) posted how to instantly age new wood and turn it into beautiful aged grey barn wood look. Well, I tried it and it worked!!

Our first harvest yielded 44 pounds!