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How to Create a French Potager Garden: Design a Beautiful Kitchen Vegetable Garden
Are you familiar with the term French Potager? The traditional potager (pronounced po-tah-zhay) garden is a seasonal kitchen garden with vegetables, fruit, herbs, and flowers for cutting. The potagers or kitchen gardens can be large or small, but the key to a French potager garden is the design and intention behind it. A French potager garden treats the garden as a living work of art.
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How to Decorate a Vintage Goat Cart for Easter
Do you decorate the outside of your home for Easter? The antique cart on the front porch is one of my favorite pieces to decorate. Today I’m sharing how I decorate the goat cart for Easter with a few simple seasonal accents. The old goat cart has provincial roots, which lends itself to rustic and organic decor.
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decorating | easter | gardening | spring
How to Style a Vintage Spring Basket
Are you looking for a pretty and easy way to decorate a basket for Spring? Baskets are full of charm on their own, but with delightful seasonal intention they become an incredible decor accent to brighten any space. Join me as we style a basket for the spring season three different ways.
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decorating | easter | gardening | spring
Spring Bulb Lantern Decor Ideas
Are you ready for Spring? It’s never too soon to start preparing for the next upcoming season or holiday. Today I am sharing how to style decorative lanterns for the spring season using Spring bulbs. Whether the Spring bulbs are forced, faux, potted doesn’t matter, since there’s a way to style them with different looks.
Outdoor Spaces
Here you’ll find essential content on mastering the art of maximizing the use of our outdoor spaces..
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queen bee decor vignette in the vegetable garden
The United Nations designated May 20th as World Bee day. I kicked off the month honoring these great creatures {honoring the iconic bee symbol}. Today I am sharing a queen bee decor vignette in the vegetable garden to keep promoting the bee awareness.
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decorating | furniture | gardening | life | remodeling | summer
The Church Pew Bench
For those who have been here awhile, you have seen the vintage bench outside on my front porch. For those who are new, let me introduce you to my Church pew bench {wink}.
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front yard remodel updates
We recently added more plantings to our front yard landscaping. We inserted more structure to the overall front yard remodel design, and are excited to share the current design updates.
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why you should have a water feature in outdoor spaces
We just added a water fountain to our sitting area in out front yard remodel. Water features have so many benefits and beauty too add…
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Front Yard Sitting Area
Hello Friends! Last month I showed you the {front yard remodel}. Today I want to share more of the progress we have done in the front yard sitting area.
Gardening Techniques
Here you’ll find essential content on mastering the art of gardening around your own property.
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How to Prep your Home Vegetable Garden
It’s that time of year! It’s time to prep and plant our veggie garden in the backyard. Here are all the steps we take to prep our home vegetable garden for the season. We enjoy having our own vegetable garden, which we harvest and benefit from throughout the season.
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More Front yard Design Details
Hi there! Today I am sharing the updates we made to the front yard design this year. We added more hardscape and plantings, which has really brought the whole space together. We are super happy about how it looks, and I am excited to hare it with you today.
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Prepping and Planting the Vegetable Garden for the Season
All signs of spring have finally arrived here in Northern California. The rain has finally subsided, and we have started planting in the garden. One of our main projects at home every spring is to plant the vegetable garden. The veggies are settled into the raised planting beds and the vegetable garden area has been prepped and primed for enjoyment all season long.
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summer garden updates
Summer gardens are in full bloom around here. Please come take a peek as I share our summer garden and how we sprinkle gardening inspiration throughput our home.
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front yard remodel updates
We recently added more plantings to our front yard landscaping. We inserted more structure to the overall front yard remodel design, and are excited to share the current design updates.
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bon appetite | family | gardening | summer
Vegetable Garden Mid-summer Update
We recently got back home to California from a family vacation to the East Coast. Our vegetable garden has blossomed while we were gone and we are now literally enjoying the fruits of our labor. Also, before we left we started some updates in the garden and today we want to share the fun vegetable garden update.
Outdoor Living
Here you’ll find essential content on mastering the art of embracing and fully enjoying outdoor living.
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Outdoor Table Stylings Inspiration
Now that the Memorial Day holiday is behind us, the unofficial start of the summer season is upon us and that means dining al fresco. I love eating outside whether it’s at an exotic resort or at a local restaurant or in our own back yard. Today I am sharing outdoor table stylings ideas to get us all in the mood to dine outdoors.
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shades of green tablescape in the veggie garden
Hello friends. The table is set in the veggie garden ready for us to take a moment and enjoy this spot a little bit longer. I want to share how the table is set in all sorts of shades of green (my favorite color!) in the veggie garden, blending right into the setting. I love all the details of this green garden tablescape.
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thrifted pewter goodies on a garden table design
Thrifting is a great treasure hunt if you enjoy the thrill of the hunt. I love to hunt for thrifted goodies for home goods, and pewter is one of those things that always catches my eye while thrift shopping. I set this garden tables cape with thrifted pewter pieces I have found along the way, and I love how all the pieces came together.
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summer front porch blog hop
Our front porches are the first impressions to the world of our home. It’s all about curb appeal. Front porch styling is key to how guests feel about our homes before they even step inside.
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decorating | family | life | remodeling
a new dutch door front entry
I am so pleased to share our new front door today. We replaced our traditional front door with a new Dutch door for our front entry. Here are all the details and why we chose a Dutch door style for our entry way.
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christmas | decorating | entertaining | gardening | life | winter
a vintage door & a petite Christmas tree
I am sharing a little bit of Christmas magic on the back patio. The weather has been fantastic here in Northern California; perfect for sprinkling a bit of Christmas fairy dust outside. Over the summer I shared how we painted the house a light French Gray by Sherwin Williams {the church pew bench}. Previous to…
