Finishing Our Sandbox Project
Ready for the next chapter of our sandbox project? If you’re not, I can tell you one person who definitely was. Her name rhymes with Blara.…
Outside Ideas and Projects
Here are a bunch of outside ideas for fixing up your home's curb appeal and updating your outdoors! From laying a paver patio and building a deck to adding a pergola around a garage or carport (or redoing your landscaping and painting your front door) there's lots to see.
How To Build A Sandbox
Building the kid a sandbox has been a project that was nearly a year in the making. Just check out this post about her first birthday party…
Clearing A Path To Our Front Door
Let’s do the path (I’m not good at math, but digging up a path, I can do). And John’s good at both. Overachiever, much? Anyway, this is jus…
Planting A River Birch Tree
No? Me either. But it’s coming. Slowly but surely. After tackling the area to the right of the porch, next on the ol’ to-do list was: the a…
Planting A Dwarf Pieris Japonica Variagated Tree
Yup, we’ve been digging. And my arms are sore. But they don’t look like Madonnas yet so it couldn’t have been that bad. We still have a ton…
Planting Blue Hydrangeas
It looked sweet when we finished it last year, especially if you ignored the fact that we had lots of landscaping stuff to attend to behind…
Using A Certified Landscape Designer
Who watches Jersey Shore? Remember when they went camping and Deena stood on that picnic bench and said “the wilderness!”? For some reason …
Decorating The Outside Of Our House For Christmas
This holiday season is full of firsts for us. It’s the first time the kid can shout things like “I love you Santa!” to the inflatables at H…
How To Pick A New Siding Color
Duuude. We painted our house. Clarification: we painted a few tiny test swatches. The creamy color wasn’t exactly hurting our eyes, but the…
Landscaping Around A Mailbox
You know this little online diary of ours is all about keeping you posted on the little stuff along with the big (and the bad and the ugly …
Digging Up A Dated Row Of Bushes
We did it! Over the course of two nice long the kid naps (and with a little help from a friend) we managed to open up our front yard in wha…
A Porch Update: Adding Mums With Our Yellow Door
We’ve done it again! For the second year in a row, we managed to accidentally allow the bushes in our big wooden porch planters to die. Oh …