Monogram Door Decor

I decided with my new front yard we needed a new front door "wreath".  But I wanted something natural looking (to go with the new more natural landscaping and not the normal round wreath.  While searching on Pintrest (yes I'm addicted) I found the perfect monogrammed jute letter.  So after a visit to Joann's to purchase a paper mache letter "S", a roll of Jute Twine (located in the jewelry section oddly enough) and some felt for flowers I got out the hot glue gun and started wrapping.

It took about 3 hours total to wrap it all - the curves of the S were really difficult, I had to restart the last curve 3 times.  I decided to let it be and just covered it with the flowers!

Here is the final product.  I'm rather impressed with it - LOVE it!  Hopefully it will weather okay, otherwise I guess I could hang it actually on the front door behind the storm/screen door for more protection rather than on the house next to the door.

I started the S by covering the ends with individual strands of jute - using hot glue gun.The felt flowers we super easy  - there are a ton of tutorials on the web you can use. 

Beauty in Nature

We have been in our home for 12 years now and have done very little to our front yard.  We've been talking about re-doing it, however had no idea where to even begin.  I wanted something naturally occurring, that looked like it belonged, not the red/white rocks or anything fake. 

Enter "Everything Outdoors Landscape & Construction", after several emails, web research on plants suggested, quite a few tweaks we jumped in with both feet.  The dear husband was a bit nervous, not knowing if he was going to like the change.  But as you can see below the results are beautiful. 

The dry creek bed is amazing and all of the plantings are low maintenance including a drip watering system which will cut down on water usage as well.  In the next couple of years the plantings will fill in and it will be even more pretty. 

Now I want the back yard done....honey?

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Going public......

My New Year's Resolution is to keep this blog more updated.  At least weekly.  I really don't think anyone is actually reading it, but I find writing it is a type of therapy for me so I'll keep writing it.  I'm also opening it to the public....that's a big change for me.

First off my road to "going grey gracefully" is about 5 months in and I'm really enjoying it.  I found that changing my hair color so drastically I needed to change my eye makeup a bit too and I can wear colors that before I thought looked too strange - like orange!  I feel a freedom that I'm not used too.

This new year is bringing another change - we've decided to professionally landscape the front yard.  I'll post before & after photos when it's done in a couple of days. 

As well I re-arranged the front "great" room getting rid of (well it's in permanent storage at my friends house) our dining room table, the ugly one that we never used.  So we have two sitting areas now and I'm loving them.  My mom is giving us her chair & a half and I can't wait to incorporate that into our area as well!  Now to just talk the hubby into getting a TV for the area for gaming for the kids....or better yet we can use it for regular TV and the kids can use the current family room TV for gaming.

Updates coming more often I promise!