New plants & decor for the courtyard 🙂

Yesterday during our visit to Rüdesheim we wandered by a pretty good wine store called Dr. Nagler. We've bought many bottles of their Reisling over the past few years and also ate at their restaurant over Christmas. Very decent food and not bad prices either,...

Fabulous Farmhouse Searches Vol. 5

nespresso We just got a Nespresso Le Cube and we love it. We have avoided drinking a cup or five of espresso every night but absolutely love the convenience, easy clean up and easy of having a machine like this which uses little coffee tabs. And I think that when...

Inexpensive & creative garden signs

While going through old magazines, I came across this idea which I LOVE: cut pieces of thin wood boards into small pieces, write the names of the herbs, fruits and veggies they will mark, decorate them with twigs or other things if you like (as they do with the...

A decorating idea straight from your garden

Something else to build

Whenever we go to visit Stefan's parents, we get to glance through the various magazines that they have bought in the last month or so. They usually have them in the living room and there are plenty of great gardening and food magazines which I can't resist looking...

Fabulous Farmhouse Searches Vol. 4

Well it's nearly Thursday and Thursday is the day of searches on our blogs. We will be going out of town tomorrow to go see Aerosmith and celebrate Stefan's birthday (his dad, grandmother and my mom also have birthdays this weekend). But I've been having so much fun...

Eureka, the granite man has come!

It is indeed a good day on the farm. Not only do we have blue sky and sunshine just in time for our party tomorrow night, but the granite man, Dino, has come and delivered our countertop. There has been a few weeks of delay and even though Dino called on Wednesday to...

More window frosting

I actually did this little project a few weeks ago but I just kept forgetting to post anything about it. Much like the windows in our downstairs bathroom, we used Amorf Frost frosting foil from IKEA to cover these windows. It's a simple enough process: Scrape the...

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