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 It's Friday!!!  Yay for 3-day-weekends, and yay for football season kicking off.  We have a busy weekend ahead of us with lots of food, friends and football. But before all of my guests arrive, I have a long list of to-do's.  I can check the front porch off the list though. It's done. For now at least.  We have a tiny front porch...I'm not even sure you could really call it a front porch. It's more of a pass through.  It's not big enough to have big beautiful displays like the front porches below:   source unknown source unknown However, it looks barren when nothing is there.  Everything has to be small in scale when decorating this porch because I want my guests to feel welcome at the front door, not claustrophobic.   I couldn't really get a good full scale picture of the porch. The brick wall kind of takes up the picture, but in person it's much more inviting...I promise:o) And, yes, I did just water the plants before taking the shot. It l...

Here is an email I received today. Thought I would share this tips with you all! Enjoy! Hull strawberries easily using a straw. Rubbing a walnut over scratches in your furniture will disguise dings and scrapes.  Rubbing a walnut over scratches in your furniture will disguise dings and scrapes. Remove crayon masterpieces from your TV or computer screen with WD40. Stop cut apples browning in your child’s lunch box by securing with a rubber band. Overhaul your linen cupboard, store bed linen sets inside one of their own pillowcases and there will be no more hunting through piles for a match. Pump up the volume by placing your iPhone & iPod in a bowl.  The concave shape amplifies the music. Re-use a wet-wipes container to store plastic bags. Add this item to your beach bag.  Baby powder gets sand off your skin easily, who knew?! Attach a Velcro strip to the wall to store soft toys. Use wire to make a space to store gift wrap rolls against the ceiling, rather than clutteri...

Fall is approaching, and I have the Mum Bug:o) Are you digging these gorgeous flowers? I went on a planting spree yesterday. I purchased some mums from Lowes. Here's where they found their new home... Slightly unimpressive right now, but give them a few years, and they will be really something. That is one of the things I love about flowers. They surprise you every season. Sometimes not for the better, but usually the surprises are wonderful:o)  There were 4 hosta plants that I planted in the front bed that didn't quite do so well b/c of too much sun, so I moved them to the back bed. Can you see them? They are there:o) Our hose reel broke the other day, so that will be another purchase from Lowes:o)  The two dead looking plants can be explained. At the bottom left is a mum...was a mum. It was at my parents' house, and they dug it up. I think some of the roots were damaged, but it is still showing some life. Going to let it stay thru the winter and see what happens. The stuf...