Lately, I have been on a mission to create a Family Command Center to help with organizing family events and for the mounds and mounds of paperwork my children bring home from school each day. Seriously…..lots of paper. If you are a parent with a school aged child ( particularly the elementary years) you totally…
Truth be told before we moved out to the country and built Duke Manor, my husband and I were not the DIY types. Not even close. We were fortunate to hire the professionals to do the landscape, clean the windows and paint the house. Then we moved and things began to change. Then, instead of…
As they say in the South….Howdy! I am so glad that you stopped by today. I have been waiting for you on the front porch with a large glass of iced tea ready to show you around Duke Manor. Sweet or unsweetened? Ahhh Iced Tea……It’s pretty much the southern staple around here, along with some bug…
I interrupt your regularly scheduled Christmas project posts to bring you something much more, well entertaining to say the least. With 3 dogs, 2 cats, 1 pony, 3 gold fish and 2 donkeys, oh and 3 kids, there’s no denying that I love my animals EXCEPT for those fury little flying rodents called Squirrels. All week I…
In case you missed my favorite room of the house over at Kim’s Favorite Room Series a few weeks ago, I wanted to share my Keeping Room, aka “Mom’s Zone”. Keeping Rooms are generally located right off the kitchen and back in the day it was used to gather the family and keep them warm,…
As I mentioned here, my husband and I accidentally became non-certified, “not” professional masons. We enjoy a good DIY challenge and laying stone happens to be one of them. This particular project was unfinished steps in our backyard and was hanging around a little too long on the honey-do list for me. Unfortunately one 100…
Yes, you heard me correctly. Mason or “Brickie” if you are British. A skill that I don’t talk about unless I have to. A skill that I possess without even realizing it. Don’t ask me how or why, but I do. Take the project that got me started. My husband and I built a walkway to…
If you knock at the door and I don’t answer that’s because I am probably right here in the backyard, so come on back and join me Don’t worry there’s plenty of room for you and your cousins We can sit here drinking Cherry Kool-aid and listen to the water trickle in the pond or look at…
If you have a green thumb, don’t have a problem dividing and planting and can grow perennials effortlessly this post is NOT for you ( but you can read along anyways). It’s for everyone else, and you know who you are Don’t be ashamed, I use to be just like you. I had no idea…