☼ Grow A Gnome Home

I wanted to share my gnome home since it's spring and if you're anything like me, you love unique ideas for potting and planting. I love miniatures so this came as a super~exciting idea to me. I had these cute little gnome dudes in my flower pots inside the house.

My husband recently got into woodwork, and I had him build me the flower box and the little 'house' (a bird house would likely work just as well). I gorilla-glued the rocks and got t » READ MORE

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May 04, 2009
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Mobile Home? Yes.Thrift-Store Decor? Oh Yes.

This is sort of a follow up to my "Painting Trailer Walls" blog. I was so scared to paint my walls because I thought they would peel like a dirty bandaid. And nobody had, to share, a personal account of painting them, so I listened to my husband and accepted that it couldn't be done. About five minutes after that, I changed my mind and went to Home Hardware.

For anyone who wants advice for painting those lousy vinyl covered trailer walls w » READ MORE

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April 28, 2009
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ATTENTION Curbly Users! Inspire Me :)

My son is five, almost six. His room is very small, about 100 sq. ft at best, with a teeny tiny closet. As frequent a Googler as I am, I cannot seem to pull any inspiration for decorating a boys room. Girls rooms, SURE! Tons of ideas, color pallettes, and frilly accessories. But it seems like the only way to vamp a boys room is by picking a theme. He loves dinosaurs, creatures and camo. The bedding/curtain set is new and I'd like to work with i » READ MORE

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April 23, 2009
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Tips For Scoring Free Stuff

In all my spare time I have discovered places and people to help me get my thrift fix. I want to share with you a few places you can go in search for those table legs or that sheet of lumber you need to finish your homemade ottoman.

1) Go Binning! Sounds terrible and probably is best left for the bottle-collecter, you say. No! Take a detour throught the alley of a block of apartment buildings. You're almost guarunteed to find a cute chair or an » READ MORE

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April 08, 2009
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Painting Vinyl Trailer Walls And Need Advice!

If walls could talk, mine would say " I hate you, I hate you so much that I ooze ugliness because I like seeing you cringe..."

Well I'm ready to fight back. But I'm not prepared. I heard a few people say that TSP (Trisodium Phosphate) will give the vinyl a good 'tooth' for the paint to adhere to. So I guess I have to invest a good week and a ton of muscle into just scrubbing the entire house down.

But then I don't know which primer to use and wha » READ MORE

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April 05, 2009
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