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Outdoors & Gardening
DIY Projects to improve your home’s curb appeal and to create a magical exterior to enjoy with your family. Learn how to install a pond or build planters. Learn how to make your garden more successful. Add a small barn or a coop to keep goats, chickens, or ducks to provide your family with food.
These projects include things you can build, sew, craft, or grow!
The Great Outdoors (Our Yard), Part VIII: Filling the Raised Beds
Now that I had these great raised garden beds, I wanted a way to fill them as cheaply as possible. Part of this is just because we wanted to save some money and the rest was that our car couldn’t fit many bags of soil so we were trying to save some trips back and … Read more
The Great Outdoors (Our Yard), Part VII: Raised Garden Beds
These are the wonderful raised garden beds that Daddy B and my brother got me for Mother’s Day. They went to the store and picked out the materials to make some themselves, but found these at the store… my brother thought it might be close to the same price and easier to get these. They … Read more
Outdoor Deck Baby Gate
How to convert an indoor baby gate to use outdoors on a deck. This was much cheaper and easier than having a deck company install one. We had a nice deck installed, but didn’t have the foresight to have a gate added. Baby G and the dogs really need that gate, something I didn’t figure … Read more
The Great Outdoors (Our Yard), Part III: Deck
We also opted to have someone do our deck. Too many permits required and inspections, and it was just less complicated to have it done. We’d like to do a patio beside it ourselves when we have the time/money. Long Fence did our deck. Baby G spent a lot of time waving to the guys … Read more