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BARN QUILT PRINTABLE
FREEBIE FRIDAY Barn Quilt Printable! Did you bring your coffee? Please don’t spit it out! Yes, you read that right! Today’s freebie is a 5″x5″ barn star that is printable up to 10″x10″ in size. Just right click and save and you can print this beautiful star on your home printer or send to a photo lab of your choice and print for your home. Here is this beautiful barn star displayed on the front of my home. I just love this piece. I had my star printed at Smallwoods and I just love it. I hope you will save and print this star, and let me know if you…
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DIY BOARD & BATTEN
What do you think? I hope you think it is as beautiful as I do! Board and Batten is a fabulous way to take an awkward space and make it pop! I added it to 2 places in my home, here in the entryway; and also in my kitchen by the stove. That was the most awkward space, but now it has some charming board and batten and it adds a nice layer of texture! Doing board and batten yourself if so easy! It’s actually a great first time DIY project all you need is a saw, some 1×4 boards, some 1×3 boards (and a couple 1×2’s if you want…
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CABBAGE ROLLS
Let me tell you a secret, I don’t like cooked cabbage. Ok, thats a broad statement, I like egg rolls, and I like raw cabbage but cooked, no thanks. It stinks….BUT…. have you ever made cabbage rolls? Friend, let me say, I loved them! The cabbage is essentially tasteless, I guess that’s because they didn’t boil with the meat? I don’t know, but I know this, they are yummy and I’ve made them more than once already! Look how beautiful these are, yes, so good! I have the recipe right here, my sister in law is and amazing cook and she makes some delightful things, so here ya go friends!…
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LAUNDRY ROOM REFRESH
So, we did a thing! We put up some tile! We got a wet saw and put some subway tile under the cabinetry, and I think it made such a difference! Our first time with tile, mortar, and grout. It was a learning curve and I think we did a good job! How boring is that before! Let’s take a peek at what we used!!! We used mortar and grout and subway tile that was on a grid which meant no spacing needed! The wet saw was fun! My hubby got pretty soaked, but it was a small and quick learning curve. Putting it up was easier than we thought….…
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HALLOWEEN BOOK PAGE FREE PRINTABLE
Are you ready for some FREE home decor? Something that I’ve always enjoyed doing is digital design. Art comes easy to me and I love making all the things, I have often shared free printables so I thought I would share some of the things I create for my home. This book page printable can be printed on a home printer using regular printer paper or cardstock. The file is a JPEG so it will be easy to save and print from my blog. You can also print via an outside lab such as MPIX, or ordered from a sign making company like Smallwoods (tap for link). Their prices are…
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MICROWAVE FLOWER DRYING
My family experienced a great loss this past September when my Aunt Rita passed away. At her funeral, my uncle got her the most beautiful spray of yellow roses. At the end of the service, as is tradition, I took one of the flowers covering her casket and brought it home. I had it in a vase for several days, it was so beautiful. I knew I wanted to find a way to preserve it. I decided I would try a new method of flower drying, using a microwave. Boy, did it work well! I couldn’t believe that one minute this rose was in a vase and literally 10 minutes…
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BBQ RIBS
Making the best, tender, fall off the bone BBQ ribs is easier than you might think. All you have to do is let go of how you “think” you are supposed to make a dish and just do what you can with what you have and make it easy peasy along the way! Do you want to make these amazingly delicious and tender ribs? Grab you Instant pot and join me! I know, you can’t make crispy on the outside and tender on the inside ribs with the good old IP. But you CAN combo cook. I promise you, it’s so much nicer to use the IP and the oven…
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CHANGING SEASONS ON THE HOMESTEAD
The joys abound around the homestead in the last days of summer and early Autumn. Our apple tree is giving up her fruit, the garden is sharing the last bounties to harvest. My favorite harvest this season was the potatoes! I’ve never planted or harvested potatoes and it was so fun, it’s really like digging for treasure! I got the last of the jalapeños and chili peppers and made jalapeño salt and Hawaiian pepper water! So hot, it burnt my eyes to cook those chili peppers! I dried my jalapeños out in the food hydrator and it turned out awesome. We mowed down the corn stalks and weeds that were…
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BOTTLE GARLAND CANDLE CENTERPIECE
DIY inspired Bottle Garland Beam with cadles
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APPLE ORCHARD DAY DATE WITH HOMEMADE APPLESAUCE
Can you believe how quickly these seasons are fleeting? Every Autumn my husband and I like to visit the local apple orchard and farmers market to get some delicious apples and beautiful pumpkins. Then you know what happens, right? Applesauce, apple butter, and apple pie filling! I love the kitchen aroma when I’m cooking apples! I thought I would share our day with you. We visit Stuckey Farm Apple Orchard which is a local, family owned farm, you can visit their website HERE. We’ve been visiting for over 20 years, and our kids grew up making annual trips with us to Stuckey’s. I think that no matter how old I…
