Y’all have been busy — weddings, halloween preparations, making and arranging beautiful fall decor, furniture redos,developing great recipes, sharing your thoughts on everything from the environment, charity, relationships and family budgets. I’m so glad you take the time to stop by and share your great links each week! Featured from last week: Cookie Dough and […]
Painting progress
We managed to put quite a few gallons of paint on the past several days! The dining room went from deep gold to soft Tradewind (Sherwin Williams). Every wall is so deeply colored that it takes three coats to cover — primer and two coats of color. Every. wall. That is why it is taking […]
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We are under yet another new roof. All that was required this time was living through two days of hammering, house shaking thumps, machinery of all kinds groaning, hissing and banging, piles of supplies and a dumpster in the drive. And people swarming all over doing their jobs quickly, efficiently at all hours of the […]
Changing colors
A peek at the changing colors in the living room. Original colors are bold, deep and rich from Old World Tuscany – rich terra cotta, deep gold, emerald sage, tumeric yellow. The new palette is sunkissed Mediterranean with clean watery blues, sophisticated grays and creams, a bit of smoky orchid. I’m excited to see it […]
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Most of the ceiling is painted, from the front door to the back door! Hurray! And we are legal in that the vehicles have new plates and registration and we are registered to vote. We’ve met most of the very nice neighbors and discovered a neighborhood walking path. The hail damaged roof will be replaced. […]
What’s happening at our house – – –
This summer’s big news from our house is – we changed houses. Just in case you missed it. 🙂 From a two story gray house trimmed in white on the very Eastern end of the Great Plains to a single story house with red stacked rock near the Western end of the Great Plains. […]
Welcome! I’m Charlene. I love to share quick and easy recipes, whatever I’ve learned in our last DIY project – anything that helps make life easier, better and more fun!! I hope you will find inspiration and add a pinch of joy to your day!