Hey guys! I painted a few terra cotta pots to look aged and to fit my home decor because it sounded like fun. Thats really the only reason why, haha! It would have been way easier to just white wash them but I really liked how they turned out with the texture on them and they really were fun to make!
To achieve this look I used white chalk paint, a warm gray or taupe chalk paint, small stiff paint brush, cloth and spray bottle, and a sealer. I used a glaze to seal mine.
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Hey guys! Todays post is a video where I show you what all I did to get ready for the new puppy. My mom is getting one and I am getting one so we are pretty excited!!!
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I've had some succulents that need repotting and I also got some cute pots at hobby lobby when they had their summer decor 80% off that I was very eager to plant up. In todays video I repotted two cacti, and arranged a few little pots. One of them is with some itty bitty babies that are just so cute!!!
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My veggie garden this year has been doing so much better than last year. Last summer growing in ground was so hard! The soil hadn't been used in years and before only for crab grass which became another issue, and we started out with a horrible earwig problem. This year though, the raised beds solved almost all the issues. I say almost because I think that the fact that we have had very little moisture has contributed to not as many earwigs. I thought that they would be so bad in my garden where the water and food is, but I think because last year was pretty dry too that they aren't as bad now. I mean, I am no earwig expert so I really have no idea. This is all pure speculation on my part.
The plants that I thought would do good in the back bed all died and the ones that I wasn't so sure of are doing awesome! I am going to be having another update soon because we are getting fruit now!!!! I think everything that is left other than the herbs and the sweet potatoes is just fruit. Cucumber, peppers, watermelon, tomatoes, eggplant.... Yep all fruit! No wait! We have some carrots! Woohoo!
Soon I need to start my fall garden crops. Even though we got such a late start, half the bed in the back is free so I can use that to get me started. And things like radishes grow so quickly that I can plant them a little later. I'm guessing that we will have a decently long growing season for the fall garden but I want to do hoop houses around the beds that I can use to keep greens longer. That will be so nice if I can convince my husband of my genius.
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Today I have a tour of my houseplants for this summer. I got a few new ones so I figured a full tour was in order. Also something tragic happens in this video.... And I have a little clip of vivi being adorable :)
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When we bought our house a couple of years ago we were gifted this table. It needed refinished then and it has taken me this long to decide how I wanted to go about it.
My husband wanted it to be all wood still and not painted (I was thinking of painting it teal) but I really wanted a natural finish so I decided just to sand it all down and figure out what to do after that.
I kinda thought that it would be best to do something very durable like a polyurethane (so toxic) but I didn't want to do that for a whole bunch of reasons. So then I thought, well maybe I should do something natural like an oil finish or something, but those aren't particularly very natural either so I just decided that the table isn't even solid wood so who cares if the wax turns out awful and it gets all messed up. So I made the wax and boy am I glad I did!
In the video I show you the steps I took and I give more details on how it has been working out the last few weeks.
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The Wax
30 g of beeswax
90 g of coconut oil
Melt to combine in a double boiler
Apply warm for a deeper saturation or cooled for easy buffing.
