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Backyard Vacation: Transforming Our Yard into a DIY Retreat with Ongoing Projects

On June 14, 2024 By Em D In Garden, Outside Projects, Where Bloggers Live

Welcome to Veranda Beach. Do you have big plans for the summer? I’m hoping ours will involve warm temps and sunshine, both of which have been muy absent for the past week. I actually dragged …

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We have joy, we have fun, we have…

On April 5, 2024 By Em D In Garden, Where Bloggers Live

…seasons in the sun. “Waiter, I’ll have one of those… now, please!” (a season in the sun, that is; not to be demanding or anything). This month, the “Where Bloggers Live” crew is discussing “Favorite …

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Open secret: I am an Aficionado of…

On June 9, 2023 By Em D In Furniture, Garden, Interior Projects, Outside Projects, Paint, Where Bloggers Live

This month’s “Where Bloggers Live” post–on Collectibles– seems like it was tailor made for me. As a “collector,” I have to say that I might be one of the foremost experts in my genre. Allow …

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Weekend? What’s a Weekend?

On April 14, 2023 By Em D In Garden, Interior Projects, Outside Projects, Paint, Where Bloggers Live

Howdy! I’m squeezing in a hasty post today. You know why. It’s a “Where Blogger’s Live” post: “A Day in the Life. Weekend Edition.” Let’s be honest, For me, EVERY day is a weekend. I …

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The Case of the Shiny Penny

On September 9, 2022 By Em D In Curb Appeal Crafts, Furniture, Garden, Interior Projects, Outside Projects, Where Bloggers Live

Bless my friend, Bettye @Fashion Schlub, and the other participant friends of Where Bloggers Live for keeping my space open so I could come back today to enthrall you with “How I Do….” How you …

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The living room, the poem, the bag and the bench

On September 10, 2021 By Em D In Garden, Interior Projects, Life and Family, Where Bloggers Live

Welcome to the time travel post. Today, we’re hopping into the Way Back Machine…to revisit our first home, We’re headed back to a time when the amazingly crafty Carol Duvall was the queen of HGTV… …

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Company is Coming…a Christmas DIY

On December 11, 2020 By Em D In Christmas, Holidays, Outside Projects, Uncategorized

If you’ve ever visited this time of year, you’d know that usually, from late-November to about the second week of January, we don’t really use lamps at our house. We’re entirely lit by Christmas lights. …

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Of Trellises and Empty(ing) Nests…

On June 12, 2020 By Em D In Life and Family, Outside Projects

One of the things I normally love about summer is the peace and quiet of being out in the yard…planting things I’ll forget to water; weeding patches that will have new weeds next week, pretending …

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Eye Candy for Everyone! A Mackenzie-Childs Photo Tour

On July 11, 2018 By Em D In Furniture, Garden, Interior Projects, Other, Paint

Oh, man, am I in trouble! You should never take an easily distracted person on a tour of the Mackenzie-Childs Store and Farmhouse the week before their annual Barn Sale. I’ve never been to the …

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salvia, annuals, annabelle hydrangeas, raspberry garden, begonias, sun and shad plants, pool gardens

Do You Ever Say This?

On July 3, 2018 By Em D In Garden, Outside Projects

“I wish it was three years from now.” There are only two contexts I can think of when I’veĀ everĀ dared utter those “wish-your-life away” words: When I was fifteen. Whenever we make a change to the …

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Hi, I'm Em!
Did you follow the smoke from the garden cart fire?
Yeah...that was me.

I'm all about real-world DIY...
Meaning the "D" usually stands for "do" ... but, hey, sometimes it's a "debacle" that fills the neighborhood with billowing smoke.

So, let's hang out together while I play with home decor, DIY projects, gardening and home improvement.

The nest is empty, but I live with Mr. D & D and two-and-a-half spoiled dogs in a house filled with visiting kiddos, lots of love, occasional bickering, and a little bit of...dust and dog hair.

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You found me!

Hi, I'm Em!
Did you follow the smoke from the garden cart fire?
Yeah...that was me.

I'm all about real-world DIY...
Meaning the "D" usually stands for "do" ... but, hey, sometimes it's a "debacle" that fills the neighborhood with billowing smoke.

So, let's hang out together while I play with home decor, DIY projects, gardening and home improvement.

The nest is empty, but I live with Mr. D & D and two-and-a-half spoiled dogs in a house filled with visiting kiddos, lots of love, occasional bickering, and a little bit of...dust and dog hair.

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