When I first started gardening, my budget amount was equal to the cost of one meal for 5 at my local family restaurant.  Less than $100 for the entire Gardening Season. ...

First and most important let me say I am thankful for you. For laughing, and showing your support through the 2015 trials, bugs, dirt and many many cuts and bruises. ...

Porch decorated for Fall I freely admit I have restyled this porch over 8 times before I was satisfied. ...

Touring a Garden to showcase the colors of hydrangeas, sedum, bluebeard and a Japanese Maple Tree in Autumn. ...

Backyard DIY Project; How to fix a drainage issue A river rock stone creek bed is where we finished.  A drainage issue in our backyard is where we started. Having too much water being dumped and directed into the backyard. We found out that the previous homeowners had diverted all the water from one of our sump pumps into an old (cleaned out) septic tank. ...

Summer Garden Tour with tons of beautiful color! ...

Yard Art  Trash to treasure. One of my favorite things to do when I am not gardening. Turning something broken into something beautiful. If you have read my blog you know I love lanterns, and living south of Chicago, I have to contend with windy conditions. Wind + lanterns equals broken glass. At least around my house, that is what it equals and this poor thing was on the front porch. The porch is supposed to be a safe zone. Least it was. ...

Well, yesterday was a productive day! I had a weirdo episode (again), LiveWriter finally started working again, (Thank you microsoft! and G+ for working things out) and the sun came out so I could snap some pic's of whats blooming. ...

Gardening tips and tricks to help any gardener. If you ever wanted a beautiful garden out front and your first thought was "That is a lot of work". Well, you're right; but the payoff you get is well worth it! So I decided to share a couple of tips that might help and make life a bit easier and Gardening more enjoyable. ...

Decorating a small front porch certainly has it challenges.  Every time I walk into a store or the garage I see something that I can put outside on the porch. ...

Fall Garden   I finally got some time to do a Fall Garden post showing you some of the colors in the front yard.  I had this post in my head to do it on Friday but what do we say about making plans? Yeah! lol I got hit by that Home Depot breach.... which hit them, then it hit my bank account. Big headache there!  ...

  Turning leftover scrap material into a gorgeous bird feeder that becomes yard art in the garden. ...

Chandelier Makeover   It's that time again for another inspiration filled Yard Art Project for your yard. ...

Garden Maintenance I am going to share my secret for trimming around a massive amount of flower beds...A lot of you know I have about 140 square feet of Garden around my house and Garage.  ...

Let's take a nice quiet stroll and look at some flowerbeds in my front and backyard shall we? ...

Ohhh the things I've seen.... sometimes these things keep me up at night.  Because I wonder... have I had the weirdo magnet all my life? or  have I just gotten "ed-u-ma-cated" enough to finally give it a name? The WEIRDO MAGNET ...

Turning trash to treasure for the garden is a great way to up-cycle old lamps an chandeliers. ...

I finally finished editing all the photos I needed, so now I can give you a tour of the front and backyard flower beds.  ...

I thought you'd appreciate a Garden Tour of a gorgeous Landscape Nursery here in Northwest Indiana. ...

I finally got to spend some time outside porch tweaking... and it didn't involve snow removal.  It involved lanterns, silk flowers, rocker cushions  and most of all......Flip Flops! I have never been so excited to wear a silly pair of sandals then I was today ...