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diy outdoor curtains.

April 16, 2013 by Michelle Hinckley

I recently posted about my love for outdoor curtains. I almost hit “submit order” on these lovelies but was having a hard time justifying $278.00 on curtains for my porch. So instead I surfed some online fabric stores and found an outdoor, black striped material for $9.99/ yard. $59.94 later I had my fabric and was ready to enlist my mom’s sewing machine and expertise to sew up my own outdoor curtains.

My mom made sewed the tabs to hide on the inside, top panel. The rod gets hidden but it still allows them to pleat and hang nicely.

Today it felt like a swag back sort of a day.

The whole set up has been occupying my boys and the neighborhood kids as a happy accident. Apparently the curtains make a great stage scene for an impromptu talent show. We call it our own front yard community theater.

At any rate, I’m really pleased with the result. They make a great addition to summer (even though it snowed most the day today).
Kudos mom!

Outdoor curtains.

March 27, 2013 by Michelle Hinckley

You know those people who leave their Christmas lights and decor up months past the actual holiday? Yeah, THOSE type…lazy people.
That was us this year.
We desert dwellers were too thin-blooded to venture up on a ladder in the frigid temperatures to take it all down (that’s the excuse we’re sticking to anyway).
At any rate, I’m ready to start dressing up my front porch with some summery decor and I’m totally smitten by outdoor curtains as an option.
In most cases, they’re purely decorative as opposed to functional but they give such a sense of warmth and stateliness…I’m sold!

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Are you a fan?
I’ve been searching high and low for some black and white striped curtains and found a few options at some of my favorite stores but ooooo, are they pricey.
So the ~~cheapskate~~ frugalness in me found some outdoor fabric online and I’m making them myself (with maybe a little help from mom).
Stay tuned!

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Container gardening.

July 10, 2014 by Michelle Hinckley

I’ve always been a wanna-be gardener.
Problem is my green thumb is more like a black thumb.
I swear you can hear plants scream when I come around so I pretty much gave up on the whole concept.

On a recent trip to Target, all their planters were 50% off…and they were all so pretty…so I decided to give my gardening skills another try.

I loaded up my trunk, hit up Home Depot for some plants and made my self a front porch container garden.

I even remembered a trick I cataloged in the back of my mind. I think I tend to kill plants, not by neglecting them, but giving them too much TLC. Ice cubes are a perfect solution for someone like me who tends to over-water. You can measure the perfect amount of water plus the plants gets waters slower as the ice cubes melt which means less run-off.
(Listen to me talk like I’m an expert. Ha. This is all in concept mind you).

2 weeks strong and so far so good.

The Mr. also tried his hand at a mini-backyard-farm in the form of two DIY planter boxes.
You may remember this Instagram pic from May:

Fast-forward to July and his experiment is going strong!

He planted about 5 different seeds and only the corn and pumpkins took root.

He’s the cutest farmer I’ve ever seen (although Chris on the Bachelorette is a close contender).
I don’t know what he’s whispering to those plants but he’s saying something…I spied on him the other day.

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