DIY Seed Tape -- It worked!!!!!!!
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Comments (22)You guys are awesome. I feel so empowered. I don't have the wall space for the barn-style door, but I agree that no door is better than the cafe doors. I like the idea of staining the vanities dark instead of painting them. I have a good tile setter who has done work for me in my previous home. And I love brushed nickel for the fixtures - I think it will look great with the color scheme we seem to be developing. Here are some photos of the master bedroom. I just moved into this house in June and my old bedroom was yellow & white stripes with blue accents, etc. You can see the holdovers from that scheme, comforter, etc, plus some of the chairs were in completely different rooms, as this bedroom is significantly roomier than my old one, so that green one for instance needs to be either gotten rid of or reupholstered. I am changing to black accents but that is only partially accomplished....See MoreHelp me pick my Subway Tile Kitchen Backsplash Please
Comments (21)Hi Natalie! No my heart isn't set on herring bone behind the stove, but I do feel like I need a picture frame with something in it and I can't figure out what to put in it. I want to keep it real simple and classic - so I was thinking another white pattern (as opposed to a fancy mosaic). I originally thought I figured it out with a 1.5" hex shape of New Calcutta Marble, but realized I shouldn't do marble because of staining (and I don't want to feel the pressure of living in a museum like environment where I have to rush to clean up every splatter from cooking). So I just don't know what else they can do with the 3x12" other than possibly cutting it and do a herring bone. I even thought having the same 3x12" subway in the same pattern that would be everywhere else (staggered, horizontal) inside the picture frame, however I realized that would look "off" because the tiles outside the picture frame would not line up with the ones inside, because the pencil frame would throw them off (hopefully you know what I'm trying to explain with that). I'm going to check one more time about seeing if it comes in any other size, shape - but they already told me once it only comes in 3x12'' and the pencil. Thank You :)...See MoreIs white furniture too feminine for a guy's room??
Comments (62)Darzy...great price there! I wish it wasn't a platform bed though. Not a big fan of them just based on the ones I have slept on in the past. I like a box spring :) So far, still no progress on purchasing. I have a couple weeks left till the big move though. I have (UNFORTUNATELY) fallen quite in love with Magnussen's River Ridge dresser. The price is breaking my heart. I didn't want to spend a grand on a dresser alone. But, if I love the piece I feel like I should go for it. I think a white/cream/tan bed with the look of that pinstripe duvet and some white sheets would look great. Night stand is up in the air but I am still leaning towards the Sarnath metal one. If I go the opposite route I could get the Homeglance Soren bedroom set (Excluding the bed-it's a platform!! Booo!!) which would include two dressers and a nightstand at close to the same price as the River Ridge and the bed I like combined. I just wish I was more drawn to mid century cherry finished furniture. :\...See Moreneed ideas for a lifesized (children) fairy garden/enchanted forest.
Comments (7)What a great idea! It is hard to teach children not to trammel plants and beds, but my parents' garden (and houseplants on the winter windowsill) is where my siblings and I learned much. We started with the names of colors, and over time where our food came from, about seasonality and, as we grew older, the difference between annuals, biennials, perennials, cuttings for propagation, planting seeds, the difference between bulbs and corms and tubers, digging and storing these. Perhaps most of all, we learned about patience. We pressed colored autumn leaves and grasses between wax paper (waxy sides inward) and taped them in the kitchen windows. When older, we kids figured how to dry flowers. My mother bought one of those Four Season's salad dressing bottles (or was it Seven Seas?) and threw away the flavoring packet. We'd fill it to the lines marked for vinegar and oil, and she'd let us choose what herbs we liked from the herb garden. I imagine we had some odd combinations! When my father brought in lettuce from the garden, and it had been washed, we kids loved swinging it in one of the those french wire baskets to get the water out. That was before salad spinners. You've hit on a rich vein! But you didn't want sentimental recollections; you wanted ideas. Raised beds, pots and flower boxes will help the trampling issue. A calendar and schedule and a quart kitchen pitcher for watering will teach useful skills including measuring volumes and some beginning math. For fun, consider a winding tunnel of hoops with vines trained over it. Crawking height will be high enough, but have an exit at the half-way point for kids who loose their nerve. Consider a teepee of poles with vines on them. Scarlet runner beans and purple hyacinth beans provide showy flowers as well as beans. Be aware that any enclosure like these needs to have a clear view into them for you to keep track of the kids, and for kids to see you for a sense of security. Maybe a friend can cast concrete disks for a garden path, with numbers inscribed on them. Or the alphabet letters in them along with images of leaves, flowers, fruits, birds, insects, animals with names that start with that letter. Then you can develop counting and word games around them. Gift shops can probably find for you those stones with engraved words on them that you can tuck around the garden for kids who may be ready to sound out their first written words, or you can invent your own versions of with paint. You can look up online every plant you use to find out ahead of time whether it is toxic. It will be useful to search by the binomial Latin name. Water can be an insurance and liability issue, and a maintenance task. But if you think it through carefully, there are safe ways to use it. For example water that flows down a verticle surface and through a surface grate into an inaccessible trough for recirculation. Anything where water gets no deeper than 1/4 inch. Kids will love to stick their finger against the sheet of water it to watch the pattern in the flow change. Pretty tiles from the local kitchen store can give it visual appeal. Don't forget the idea of an indoor fish tank on a sturdy surface up at kid's eye-level, and with nothing to climb on that would give them access to the top. There are plenty of interesting insects to learn about. If you have one of those do-it-yourself ceramic shops near you, and you have some artistic talent, you might make tiles with familiar insects on them to place around the garden. There are some children's rhymes that go with these: Itsy bitsy spider; lady bug lady bug... there are websites full of such rhymes and folk sayings. Pressing leaves with a hot iron is definitely not for little kids. But it is something you may want to have kids watch you do (put the waxy sides toward one another). It is a great chance to ask them to compare and notice the different kinds of profiles and veins. They can be posted in your windows, or cut up and sent home with the kids (in which case it might help to tape the edges shut). For rainy days, you can have kids cut out and tape (or staple together) three dimensional flowers of their own invention, if their motor skills are far enough along. That might be for older kids, but I'll never forget the teacher who had us put all of them together on a the bulletin board in a big bouquet that cheered us through March! Or the kids can shape them from PlayDo while you read aloud to them. If you have a fenced yard -- you probably will -- there are some thornless roses with a sprawling habit that can be trained horizontally across the top of the fence (which encourages bloom). Rose hips (fruits) are non-toxic, rich in Vitamin C, and so sour the kids won't eat more than one! But they can be used in little bouquets in autumn and winter. As for fairy gardens, what great miniature project, if the kids' handskills are up to it. Bark, twigs, lichen, dried grass, moss can make a pretty effect. Maybe an indoor rainy-day tabletop project. And there must be reading aloud opportunities to go with that, or a chance for the kids to make up stories to go with it. If you plant trees, do your research to locate ones with pretty flowers and pretty fall color. If deciduous, you can add twinkle lights to cheer the scene when days grow short. If you live in a snowy climate -- or even if you don't -- don't forget that childhood favorite of making paper snowflakes with ordinary printing paper and scissors. But around the holidays you can get shiny foil papers, which kids like working with. The first thing kids learn to write is their name, even before they know their alphabet. Signing art projects gives them a use for writing their name, and if you decorate with their work, it helps you sort things out when it is time to take them home. A lot of these ideas may be too old for the age level you'll be caring for, but you are the expert and can sort that ideas. I hope this gets the creative juices flowing. Have a great time with it!...See Moreaubade
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