Saturday, June 22, 2013

Chicken coop renovations


So last year my husband built me a chicken coop.  We never finished it and it was just a practical thing.  A place for the chickens to lay eggs.

However, Pinterest has shown me that a chicken coop does not only have to be practical, it HAS ( yes HAS) to be pretty too.

So my sweet husband offered to work on it this summer and finish it.  We are making the pen area bigger for the chickens, we are also going to paint and add some trim to the actual coop.

This is the before picture.  Notice hot husband on right  :).


Monday, June 17, 2013

Chickens!

My chickens are getting a chicken coop makeover this week! 



We built our chicken coop last spring but we never painted it.  Then this spring we realized that the chickens learned out to get out since we never put a door in the pen area.  So we are re doing the pen area giving them more room, and yesterday I picked up some red barn paint for the coop!  I'm excited!
I will post pictures when it's all done.  Maybe I will do a before and after shot!

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Coffee Quote DIY

I have a lot of free time it seems right now.  So I'm just working on all the little crafts I have started, or bought material for.

This little craft has been painted for a while, and I was searching for a good coffee quote, but really it does not need to be simpler than this.  I say this every morning to kids, husband, and dogs.

I used my Cricut Machine to cut out the vinyl words and painted it a warm yellow to match my kitchen decor.
This is also available for sale on my Etsy page! 


Monday, June 10, 2013

DIY Wreath


So this weekend I convinced the hubby to take a trip up to the mall and visit my favorite store ever: Michael's. 
I had a discount coupon so I picked up this wreath,  I had the letter A for our last name and I found this little pot with flowers at the dollar store the other day for a dollar so I picked it up.
I cut out all the flowers from the pot and just glued them to the wreath.  For the hanger I just cut out a small strip of burlap and ta daa!  Nothing too complicated!

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Signs for garden -DIY pallets

Still on the garden subject,  I'm trying to make some lawn ornaments on the cheap.  I had some left over pallets and I wanted to use them outside.  

I will post a picture when it's outside in the garden!


Plant Signs DIY

Hello!   I have not had the time to update my blog with school, work, and my child!  I have some crafts that I have worked on, especially for our yard that I will be posting!  So look out for them!

I did this one today.  My sweet husband built me a planter for my herbs for the deck, (which still needs to be painted) and I thought it would be cute to add a couple of plant signs in fun colors to spice things up!  What do you think?