Hill-Scaping

I was tired of nothing growing on the hill out back. A couple years ago we lugged new dirt and seeded and even got mats to hold the seeds on the hill. Grass came up for a season and then here we are with a desert again. I saw a bush garden in a magazine and they had a path through the woods and I thought that would be nice out back. We created this bush garden and paths and we found a cute arbor at Lowes (on clearance already!).

Unfortunately, when we were finally done with the big part of the hill, the part that had already been done for years looked awful. I weeded it and trimmed and got a few new plants for the area. There are still a couple left to be put in, but I had to get the proper place for sun/shade first. When we finished sprucing that up, the area above it looked terrible. We got more bushes and did a strip above it.

That's it for this year, aside for a few more things in the old rock area and some spreading Juniper bushes for the very steep end at the far right of the picture. Please notice that every rock, huge in the middle and small outlining everything (except for the rock area that was already done), was dug out of each hole that we had to put a plant in by Hubby. There were even extra that I thew into the woods to make it look neater. He's the best rock hunter!

New Decor and A Stitch

I recently got this country trio.

I got the mason jars and holders too. They had tea light candles inside, but I don't use them since they don't last very long on the batteries. I put rag balls inside instead.

I loved this simple picture so I got it on sale for the Summer.

This is my latest cross stitch. I wrapped the mat with the red fabric. I will be making a little tree one soon and I will wrap the mat to match. I hope I can find places to put them at Christmas.

New Lights

I got these cute lights for outside. They were listed under nautical style and it goes well with the gray siding. It reminds me of Cape Cod.

Some Recent Projects

My first attempt at knitting was a lap blanket for the computer chair. I had my Mom crochet a scalloped border on it because that was a little too advanced for me.

I saw a wreath like this in a magazine and I made my own with a clearance wreath I bought.

Spring Cleaning

I just got this cute bunny gourd.

I loosely followed the New Year's cleaning challenge from organized home. I couldn't use their order for rooms because it was still Winter here and I couldn't do the outside or the windows (until last week). I'm doing the last room today. All I have left is to clean the porch and clean up the yard.

New Shelf

I saw the idea for a shelf over a door in a magazine and I liked it, but I wasn't sure where to put it. I decided over the living room doorway in the hall would be good since it doesn't have a frame or door on it and if I stained the shelf to match the other woodwork it would balance out the hallway. We made this shelf from scrap wood from the mud room project. Hubby even cut stars out of the ends for me. It probably should have been a little more narrow, but that's the size the wood was and I didn't want to add more cutting to the project.

Some New Things

It was finally warm enough to wash windows last week so I did and I noticed the bathroom curtain was a little faded and in need of something new. I had blue curtains in the living room and I moved the valance to the bathroom and I ordered these flower valances for the living room for the Summer.

I got a new spare toilet paper caddy for the upstairs bath.

I used to have this quilt pinned to the wall by itself, but I thought a quilt shelf would make it look nicer so I got one.