How to make a cotton ball and jingle bell Christmas tree, using a Styrofoam cone, cotton balls, small jingle bells and strong glue. An easy and fun DIY! Today I’m sharing how I made my cotton ball and jingle bell Christmas tree, based on a wonderful craft from my favorite holiday book Creatively Christmas: Inspired Yuletide […]
How to make a beautiful bottle brush tree ornament!
Make a beautiful bottle brush tree ornament with a miniature bottle brush tree, pearl beads for tiny tree ornaments and a rusty fairy garden bucket. This tutorial will guide you step by step with helpful images. Imagine an off-white, miniature bottle brush tree, snow-covered, with small pearl ornament balls. Imagine this little tree is tucked […]
Painted and Glittered Dollar Store Pumpkin Makeover
Painted and Glittered Dollar Store Pumpkin Makeover: Match up glitter paints with similar base color paints for understated elegance! A beautiful tone-on-tone effect perfect for rustic Fall decor! It’s time for another dollar store pumpkin makeover! Ever since I transformed a dollar store jack-o-lantern into something pretty, I’ve wanted to make over more pumpkins. Click […]
Limelight Hydrangea Tree Fall Color
Fall flowers are blooming and the Limelight Hydrangea fading flowers and yellow and green leaves add to the show! Enjoy my Limelight Hydrangea Tree and Little Lime Hydrangea Fall images. I looked out of our breakfast room window yesterday and was blown away by how beautiful our Limelight Hydrangea Tree looks right now. Yes, it’s […]
Teal Fall Decor: Painted Wooden Leaves
Add painted wooden leaves to your Fall home decor. I painted these unfinished chunky wooden leaves which fit in perfectly with my teal Fall decor! Easy DIY! Teal is probably my favorite color, and we have lots of teal accents throughout our home. Fall is no different, and I love to add in teal fall […]
How to Prune Stella D’Oro Daylilies
How to prune Stella D’Oro Daylilies, including spent flowers and seed pods. Also how to remove seed pods and prevent them from developing during the blooming season. Helpful images included. Have you been “hands-deep” in Fall gardening chores like I have? After recently cleaning up our Stella D’Oro daylilies, I felt like I accomplished so […]
I hate garlic chives.
I hate garlic chives. Love them to eat, but hate them in my garden. Alternate title? That time my garden became overwhelmed by garlic chives. I hate garlic chives. There. I said it. Let me clarify . . . I love to eat garlic chives, love the taste, love the scent. But garlic chives in […]
Japanese Anemone Party Dress is my favorite Fall flower!
Japanese Anemone Party Dress is a charming Fall perennial with frilly pink flowers on tall stems that stay upright in bad weather. Blooms September through November. Here’s why all Japanese Anemones are Fall favorites for many gardeners. When most people think of Fall flowers in the garden, they think of Mums, Black-Eyed Susans and Pansies, […]
How to Get Brilliant Fall Color in the Garden
Learn how to get brilliant Fall color in the garden with my six easy tips! Use the existing garden color you already have, then add texture, color and even evergreens! You will love the colorful examples featured in this article. I love Fall gardening! Not only do you get to enjoy an ever-changing color show, […]
Fireworks Goldenrod lights up late Summer and Fall gardens!
Fireworks Goldenrod is an easy-care perennial with yellow flower spikes that shoot out just like fireworks! Perfect late Summer and Fall garden flowers! Bees and butterflies love it too! The title says it all, so I’ll get straight to the point: if you want an easy way to light up your late-Summer and Fall gardens, […]