Potato Chip Taste Test: Fun and Easy Labor Day Party Idea
BBQing with friends soon? Conducting a Potato Chip Taste Test is a fun and easy Labor Day party idea. No joke, the hardest part of this entire activity is deciding which chip tastes the best. I learned this when our family did a potato chip taste test just a few weeks ago, and we are still surprised by the results. The best thing about the taste test is that I didn’t have to make any extra food. Plus, the setup only took about 60 seconds, and this was a blast for teens, octogenarians, and everyone in between. Here’s how the Potato Chip Taste Test went down, and tips for how…
Happy List: #447
Hi! Welcome to this week’s Happy List. You sure are a sight for sore eyes. I’m glad you are here. This week on the blog, I shared the dice bag charm that I made using wooden dice. If you watched my Instagram stories this week (It’s always a good time there!), you’ll know that the bag charm lasted approximately five minutes before I put it to use as a key chain for our tiny barn key. Reality, you know? I also shared, like the proud plant mama I am, the geraniums on our front porch and what I plan to do with them the rest of the year. The Happy…
A Hot Geranium Summer
In recent culture, we’ve had Hot Girl Summer, Hot Vax Summer, and now I give you Hot Geranium Summer. Catchy, right? No? Well, I admit it could use a little finessing. I’ll work on. It has been the summer of the geranium on my front porch, though. There are geraniums as far as the porch is long. How many geraniums are too many geraniums for one house? Is it five? I hope it’s not five because I now have five planters filled with geraniums. I’m not talking about a cute little planter you can fit in your windowsill. I’m talking about the type of planter that is so big it…
How to Make a Dice Bag Charm
Bag charms seem to be everywhere these days. One version I have not seen, until now, is a dice bag charm. If I’m going to jump on a craft trend, I’m at least going to give it my own spin roll of the dice. I used wooden dice to make my bag charm, but the beauty of this craft is that dice beads come in a rainbow of colors. Let’s get into how to make a dice bag charm. What you need to make a dice bag charm: dice beads (like these or these) round beads (I used these and colored them with a permanent marker.) optional: drill and tiny…
Happy List: #446
Hello! Welcome to this week’s Happy List. It makes my day to have you visit. This week on the blog, I shared the new “parking spot” we installed at our house. It’s for horse parking only. Check it out here. I also revealed my first fall craft of the season. To be fair, it might be my only fall craft. You can take a peek at my creation here. The Happy List is meant to be a good time for all and is filled with things that inspired me or piqued my curiosity this week. As always, if you’d like to reach out, and I hope you do, please comment…
How To: Fall-Themed Resin Tray With Wood Leaf Cutouts
If you have a tray you’d like to fall-ify to make it festive for the autumn season, you’ve come to the right place. Today, I’m going to show you how to make a fall-themed resin tray using wood leaf cutouts. It sounds way harder than it is to make. This was my first time using resin, so if I can branch out into new craft mediums, you can too! Let’s get fall into it. Items You’ll Need: resin epoxy kit for crafts tray with a lip or sides mini wood leaf cutouts permanent markers in colors of your choice glue stick mixing container for the resin Directions: Assemble your supplies…
Hold Your Horses: Bringing Back the Original “Parking Spot”
The only thing related to transportation that has not changed since our home was built in the 1780s is probably a kid asking, “Are we there yet?” Everything else, of course, from how we get places to where we park, has. A 1780s “parking spot” would have been a hitching post to tie up a horse. The hitching posts and the horses are long gone from here, but we decided to pay homage to this home’s original parking spot and install an antique cast-iron hitching post next to our Carriage House. Specifically, we chose an antique hitching post with a horse head. These were popular in the 1800s, and I…
Happy List: #445
Hi! Welcome to this week’s Happy List. If it’s your first time here or if you’re a regular reader, I’m glad to see you! This week on the blog, we got stuff done! We replaced some rotten trim on our Carriage House and installed a new mailbox. That much productivity means I’m taking next week off from the blog to sleep in and laze around. However, I didn’t laze around when it comes to this week’s Happy List. It is meant to be a good time for all and is filled with things that inspired me or piqued my curiosity this week. As always, if you’d like to reach…
Out With the Sad Mailbox In With the New Mailbox
Goodbye, sad mailbox. Hello, new mailbox that is the best-looking one on the block. Not that it’s a competition. It’s not. But if it were… Our old mailbox was competing for the worst one on the block. Here it is after it made its acquaintance with a snowplow. There was no coming back from this. That door never opened or closed well after that unfortunate encounter. Who needs dry junk mail anyway? We’ve been working on reducing our curb appall and maximizing our curb appeal by restoring the low stone walls that run along the front of our property facing the road. It seemed natural to include a new mailbox…
Finally Fixed the Carriage House Rotten Window Trim
Ready your party horns because we finally fixed the rotten window trim on one of our most prominent Carriage House windows. One of the three windows we see every single day. It only took us seven years. What DO we do with our time? Here is the window in question. You can see the rotten trim on the bottom left-hand corner of the window. The window trim also doesn’t match the trim on this side of this building, and was likely installed when the storm window was added. So, this task should be pretty straightforward, right? Take off the old trim. Cut, nail, and paint the new trim. Bada-bing, bada-boom.…
