Create a Beautiful Home On a Budget
Have you dreamed about having a she shed or a guest house? Make that dream a reality!
You could hire a company to build you one, or you can find affordable DIY she shed kits online on Amazon and other sites. This post is full of many different she shed options.
Making something out of upcycled pallets is all the rage. In this post, I’ll show you how I used four pallets to make a DIY pallet deck in just minutes!
Anyone can make a pallet deck — you can usually get pallets for free since people always want to get rid of them.
I did this a few years ago, our backyard looks a lot nicer by now, but here is what our first little deck looked like.
If you have been on Pinterest in the last few years, or read DIY blogs, you have seen how popular DIY pallet projects are.
People make furniture out of pallet wood, or signs, or huge America flags.
We inherited some pallets when we bought our house, and we got more when we did our stone driveway.
My ex-husband wanted to get rid of the pallets, but I had other plans for them.
Meet my DIY pallet deck.
Last summer, it looked like this:
Coloring Easter eggs naturally is a lot of fun and results in beautiful, pastel colors. I’ll also teach you how to make easy, edible alien eggs. The kids will love these!
Do you wonder how to dye Easter eggs naturally and avoid those unhealthy food colors?
Spring is here, and I’m excited to decorate and get ready for Easter although it will be very different this year. There might still not be any Easter egg hunts because of the virus, many of us won’t get together with family or friends.
But we’ll make the best of it, right?
Which brings me to coloring Easter eggs…
I cringe at the sight of bright food dyes probably more than most people because I grew up in Germany without them.
You won’t find much food coloring in Germany — I think they don’t allow it in food.
Food dyes not only make food look unnaturally and unnecessarily colorful, they are plain unhealthy.
Food dyes have been linked to cancer, and hyperactivity, plus more and more kids are allergic to food colors.
I try to not buy anything with food coloring, and I was the mom who scraped off the blue frosting from the birthday cake when my son went to parties when he was little. [Read more…]
