I completely love House Beautiful. Without a doubt EVERY SINGLE TIME I have a design decision to make, it almost always has the answer for me. Take for instance our Vegetable Garden fence. Now we do not have a large garden like this. We do not have a dinner table in the middle of our garden, and we do not live in the Hamptons. Nor do we have deer that...
I can't help but share this. I am so very, very, very behind in posting on our vegetable garden, but I LOVED this little tip and just had to share. A few weeks ago as we were getting our weekend house chores done, and the kids were making very legit mud pies in their sand box, Hubs happened to check his phone and freaked me out all to pieces when...
Time for the real work to begin on the garden. In Part 1, we removed the old garden. Part 2, we marked out where we needed the new boxes and moved out the old plants we were keeping. Part 3 was more of a funny update, as I realized how many of the Little toys we were using in preparing for the new garden! In Part 4, a WHOLE lotta...
I'm a little slow to post the Garden Update, but BOY does it need posting!! If we're not careful, the vegetable garden is going to be growing through our bedroom window... Which I suppose is to be expected when you tear up the side of your yard and then with a half listening ear (it tunes out easily to winy kids and such...) you ear something about "a truck", and...
Just curious how many of you have found multiple uses for your kids things even when they are not around?? We found many multi-tasking items with our little garden project As Hay just pointed out to me (she's sitting on my lap "helping me" write this post). Hayden: "Das Hay-Hay's park Mama!" Yes, it is and it made a mighty fine staging area last weekend. Hayden: "Das Piper's chair!" Yes,...
So this is where we left off in my last garden post with our little project. Kind of left us wondering what we had gotten into when we went to bed that Saturday. But then on Sunday we headed back out to the crime scene. Grabbed a can of marking paint and traced out the new bodies....errr, raised veggie beds, that might fit. (Forgive me, I've watched to many late...
So it has begun. I mentioned back in January that we might be tackling a little gardening project. "WE" to this point mostly means me photographing and Hubs and Grandpa doing A LOT of work ~ while Grandma helps me wrangle in the Littles. FULL team, FULL family effort! This is where we started a few a few weekends ago... Then the Littles helped Hubs bring in a sod cutter...
It's that time of year again. Are you thinking of having a Spring or Summer Vegetable Garden? This is not to say that you can't last minute plant one as a weekend project if you feel like it in say, June. BUT it's kind of fun to start thinking about it now. Last year was our first year attempting a vegetable garden. Totally Novice. Totally Clueless. Totally Winging It. But...
There is so much to a day that can be daunting and mundane....laundry, dishes, errands, work, diapers, cleaning.....blah. That's it's nice to give yourself a little boost here and there, even if that just means looking across the room at something pretty. I like to plant things in our garden that I can cut for inside the house too. We have Hydrangeas, Roses, Sunflowers and Rosemary that can all make...
When you leave your kids and your husband for 3 days, your always a little nervous to what you'll come home to....there is always good and there is always bad. Now the bad wasn't soooo bad as far as the house and kids were concerned... Nothing a little straightening couldn't handle. No broken bones. But the garden had a few hiccups... The Powdery Mildew we've been fighting on the Zucchini...
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Who I am: My name is Shanna Coady. I live in Orange County, California. I’m married to an awesome guy, Mike, and have 3 incredible daughters, Addie 3-1/2 (also known as “Tornaddie”) and Hayden 2-1/2 (or “Giggle Monster”), and our newest addition, Piper 16 months! In my previous life: I was an Interior Designer. I worked for Ralph Lauren Home, Neiman Marcus Visual, owned my own interior design company, and...
