Last winter when my son was home visiting over the Christmas holiday, we have a few warmer days and he offered to do a little work for me. I don’t think he was extremely thrilled to start disassembling pallet wood skids, but he made the best of it and by the end of the afternoon, I had piles of pallet…
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If you went out to dinner at a restaurant and the waiter put down a flower pot with a loaf of bread baking right out of it, wouldn’t you do a double take? I certainly did when I sat down to dinner with my son last spring at Patti’s Settlement, located just outside of Land Between the Lakes in Grand…
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A cheap card board storage box, painted with a grain sack looking stripe is the first of my LOL (Labor of Love) storage box series. Of course these days we all know what LOL usually means… and that is probably what most of you are doing… at me… right about now, for actually holding a “series” on decorating card board …
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While hiking with my son last spring, down in Kentucky, we had a chance to take a visit to peaceful Hematite Lake and check out the ruins from an early 19th century iron ore mill. If you missed part3 of our trip to LBL, we visited a revived 1800s era homestead and unintendedly crashed a wedding. Hematite Lake is within…
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Plain old straw hat… or decorate it? Wear it to a parade… or hang it on your door in place of a wreath for something different? You might think I’m on a straw hat kick if you’ve seen the garden sign straw hats I made recently. Call it crafty tunnel vision, but I was thinking that some straw hats decorated…
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