Dreaming of Summer!!!!!!!

Here's just a few things that I love about Summer!

P.S.  This is not my new blog yet!  Still working on that!

My Home Goals for 2010

Wow! 2010!  Doesn't the sound of that just sound crazy? I don't know why, it is not that much different than 2009!  It just seems weird to me!

I am making a goal this year to get some stuff done that has been on my mind for quite sometime.  We all have 1,000,000,000 and 1 things we would like to get done in our homes and I am not excluded from those who do.  It seems as though my brain is so full, sometimes I feel as that I am going crazy!  So I am making a list of my goals here and crossing them off as I go.  Maybe this way I will feel a little more saine! 

Here are some of the things that I would like to accomplish:

1.  A little work done in my Master Bedroom

-some new bedding

-maybe some wallpaper (Yes, I did say wallpaper.  A nice Damask?)

-a little molding to dress it up

Maybe something like this for the bedding?

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Molding? Maybe something like this?

Wallpaper? http://www.target.com/

I just got this new bed, so I am trying to decide what would look good with it.  I want a modern/traditional look.

   

I also have a chair that looks just like the ones in this photo

So if I could just pull all of these looks together for this lonely bedroom that would be great! (New bed not pictured)

2.  Some nice patio furniture

I have worked really hard on my yard since we have built this house 3 yrs. ago.  There a quite a few things that I would like to do.  I love to sit out on my back patio and enjoy myself during the summer, but there is one little problem.  I have been doing it on crappy plastic furniture. 

Maybe something like this would be much nicer?!

3.  I would like to try some beadboard in my family room with maybe a coffered ceiling.

Something like this for the ceilings?

And this for the beadboard?

Don't you think this would just add to my Family Room?  It is looking a little plain in these pictures!

4.  I would like to turn my vegetable garden into square foot gardening instead of an overgrown jumbled mess.

Maybe something like this would be manageable?

 

5.  This last one is for my poor little husband

-Organize the garage back to how it was before we finished the room in the basement.  I have a lot of things that I just don't use anymore.  But I just can't get myself to get out into that 20 degree weather to go and spiffy it up!  Maybe when it gets warmer babe! 

I am sure there are more things that will be added as time goes on.  My brain never seems to let me rest!  But this is it for now!

One of my Favorite things

Gardening is one of my favorite things!

I got up this morning before my kids and was able to get one of my goals done for the day!

I know ya'll are jealous of my dead bushes! Well, I wasn't either! So I decided to rip them out of the pots and plant something a little more pleasing to the eye!

This is a picture of the bushes ripped out, but the dirt needs some major help!


Got my good ole' soil pep from the store

Added it to the dirt and mixed it up really good until I got this!

Much better!

I pre-placed the plants so that I would know just where to put them.

Make sure when doing this type of pot project to get plants that are cascading or trailing, so that they will flow over the pots edge once they get a little bigger.

You can not see it here yet because the plants are not mature. It should only take about a month before you are able to see the effect these type of plants should have.

All put into the soil and in front of the house!

I was happy with the results!

Looks much better than those dead bushes, don't ya think!

TIP: Make sure also to water these plants once a day, in the morning and with a every day fertilzer. EX: Fertilome, Miracle Gro, etc. It makes a world of a difference in the growth of the plants!

After I planted my pots, I decided to go and take some pictures of some of my favorite plants in my yard. It is three years in the making and some of it is finally maturing. I have never seen any of my yards mature because I always get to antsy and want to move before then. So I am hoping to stay in this house long enough to see my yard become my vision.

My dog "Titan" had to get in the action on my way to take some pic's!

"Catnip"

"Japanese Maple"

"Hosta"

Here is a picture of my climbing roses I planted last year on my new arbor!

They are growing fatastic!

This is a picture of the arbor last fall right after I finished putting it up.

Here is a semi-after picture I took today. I still have to stain or paint the bird house. I can't decide. And I would like to add a couple more plants. I just planted the purple "Clematis" vine at the bottom of the bird house a couple of days ago. It will climb up the 4x4 the bird house is on hopefully by the end of the summer! I can't wait until my roses are all the way up my arbor!

Here is one of my favorite flowers in the yard and I am really sad to say I don't know the name. I know that they are in the cone family.

Last but not least my "Hanging Geranium Basket"! I get one of these every Mother's Day and it is my absolute most favorite plant in my entire yard! There is something so classic about a Red Geranium. I love them!

Thanks for passing by! I hope this inspires you to get out in that yard and do something spectacular!

I am just dying for spring to come! So I thought I would post some pictures of my yard since I am dying to get out there! This is a picture of an arbor my husband & I built. My neighbor gave me the side pieces from his junk pile. He was going to throw them away, but new that I appreciate other people's junk & would probably love them & I did! I sanded them down, added the top pieces to keep them together, cemented them into the ground and the picture doesn't show, but I painted them dark brown to match my house. I since added climbing roses to the side and still have to add plants to the west side of the arbor which I will do this spring! I also layed pavers to make a path to the yard! I will post some more pictures of it hopefully soon when the weather is nicer. It looks better than these pictures show! P.S Ignore the ugly kennel on our playground! It is temporary!

Plants added to the East side of the arbor!