First, some changes to the interior:
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| I made a sunburst mirror! |
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| I solved our bathroom towel hanging problem. Our one and only bathroom is definitely a small bathroom which is fine except it isn't set up well to hang up towels. Especially when we have a bigger family someday... My solution to this was to take the door off of the little closet, paint the inside white, and organize the shelves. While you can't see all of the space in the picture, we can now hang towels on hooks below the bottom shelf. The door simply had to come off so that the towels will dry! Problem solved! |
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| I don't know what it is about canopies over beds, but I have always admired them (but not the cost of a canopy bed...). I used curtains that were covering the close in one of the "kids rooms" and used long thumbtacks (found randomly in a tree while landscaping at OSU) to attach it to the ceiling. Voila! Free canopy! I like how it makes our ridiculously giant bedroom look a little bit smaller, too. :) |
Moving on to the outdoors... Outdoor pictures just aren't complete without chicken pictures!
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| Light from heaven streaming onto the lovely chickens. |
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| Awww. Who doesn't want to find Willow on their kitchen stoop? |
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| Three happy, fuzzy chicken butts. |
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| We took out a large swath of sod in the front yard to prepare to put in some raised beds. We're getting ready to build them now! |
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| Here's what used to be half of our driveway! We rented a jackhammer, and then we used the chunks to build these raised beds and put in stepping stones. All that's left is filling in between the stepping stones with pea gravel, filling the beds with good garden soil, and setting up an irrigation system! |
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| Not a great picture, but we also added a contained compost pile in the chicken run. You can find the picture that inspired me here. It'll show what it looks like much better. However, this picture is proof that the chickens go in, each what they want, poop in the pile, and scratch it all up. It's a good system for us, I think! |
That's it for now! I can just see in my mind all of out garden spaces lush and green in the summer with all sorts of deliciousness sprouting up everywhere. SO EXCITED!
