Showing posts with label backyard decor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label backyard decor. Show all posts
Monday, June 17, 2013
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Come On Baby, Light My Fire!
Sorry for the corny post title, but I just couldn't help it. We finally got to use our fire pit! Whoo hoo!
It's still not 100% done (even phase 1 still needs a few finishing touches, and it will be a while before phase 2 happens and we go back and put down paver stones or flagstones on the surface area), but it's finally a usable space.
We went from this three weeks ago:
To this on Sunday:
Just go ahead and ignore that big pile of dirt in the background. And the tree stump. The dirt pile will be going away (or leveled out and covered with leaves), and we're going to turn the tree stump into a little side table, once our supplies arrive in the mail.
It's still not 100% done (even phase 1 still needs a few finishing touches, and it will be a while before phase 2 happens and we go back and put down paver stones or flagstones on the surface area), but it's finally a usable space.
We went from this three weeks ago:
To this on Sunday:
Just go ahead and ignore that big pile of dirt in the background. And the tree stump. The dirt pile will be going away (or leveled out and covered with leaves), and we're going to turn the tree stump into a little side table, once our supplies arrive in the mail.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
A Birthday Backyard Baby Deer
Recently I won a $50 gift card to Home Goods, and with all of that money burning a hole in my pocket, I decided that on my birthday this week, I would go spend it on something for our new house that we completely didn't need. Hey, free money has no rules, right?
So I wandered up and down the aisles of Home Goods for a solid 45 minutes, weighing my options. $50 bucks can either go a long way, or not even cover half of one item in that store, and you just never know what you'll find. And with no real idea of what I wanted, it took looking at everything they had to make my decision. I was just waiting for something (or multiple somethings) to jump out and grab me.
At first I lingered near the entrance, drooling over pretty vases for the many built in shelves in our new house. But when I wandered by the garden section, this little guy definitely jumped out at me.
Introducing Bernard, our new little stone carved baby deer, so we'll always have a deer in our backyard!
So I wandered up and down the aisles of Home Goods for a solid 45 minutes, weighing my options. $50 bucks can either go a long way, or not even cover half of one item in that store, and you just never know what you'll find. And with no real idea of what I wanted, it took looking at everything they had to make my decision. I was just waiting for something (or multiple somethings) to jump out and grab me.
At first I lingered near the entrance, drooling over pretty vases for the many built in shelves in our new house. But when I wandered by the garden section, this little guy definitely jumped out at me.
Introducing Bernard, our new little stone carved baby deer, so we'll always have a deer in our backyard!
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