Month: July 2012
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The Purple Frames
On a blog I posted July 10 I told you about a solution for Sweet Amanda’s kitchen, and a fix for her purple addiction. Sometimes Hoarding Pays Off- Empty Frame Art The Country Wedding took up my free time for a while so I put this project on hold. When Sweet Amanda told me that she had […]
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Making Room for a Dining Area at Star Hill
I LOVE this table and the benches! When we bought Star Hill the one area we did not think about was a place to eat. There was a small, narrow space at the end of the kitchen area in front of a set of patio doors and we thought it would work. We were wrong. The space was WAY […]
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Making Jelly
Over the years at Star Hill we have added plants that produce fruit, nuts or berries. This year we have added thornless blackberries to our crops and we have muscadine grapes that produce tart grapes. Three weeks ago we planted a peach tree which was another gift. Baby boy gave me two grapevines about three years […]
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A Busy Weekend at Star Hill
This weekend we were going to take it a little easy. The plan was to get the frames for Sweet Amanda’s wall painted and sort out some of the stuff we ended up with that is not ours from the wedding. We also hoped we could get out on the water and enjoy the lake. We know that other […]
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Resale Shopping
I LOVE going to resale shops and garage sales. I mean they really are like a box of chocolates… you never know what you will find until you go inside. Here are a few of my tips for navigating resale/garage shopping. I will never claim to be an expert shopper but I think I can […]
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The Weekend Country Wedding
Well the big day has come and gone for Baby Boy and Sweet Amanda. I now officially have a daughter-in-law and I couldn’t be prouder. My daughter the southern bell and her fiancee were also able to be at Star Hill for the weekend. The wedding was beautiful. Sweet Amanda was stunning in her gown. […]
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Epoxy Day
We love two part epoxy at Star Hill. My family is so in love with that stuff that Baby Boy put it on his gift registry…no lie. The thing about epoxy is that it is really only good for one use in my experience. We try to group up our epoxy projects so that we […]
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DIY Framed Chalkboard
Project number two from the weekend was to turn a frame that Sweet Amanda and her mom found at a thrift store into a chalkboard. That girl is quite the thrifter! She found an amazing gilded frame in the trash that will make an appearance at the wedding and I think she paid $3.00 for […]
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Project Weekend
Whew! We are back from Star Hill. We had a VERY productive weekend. Over the next few days I will show you the projects we got accomplished in spite of the rain and a sick hubby. Everything at Star Hill is green and beautiful right now. We spent almost every minute outside under the porches. […]
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Weekend Projects
It looks like we are going to have a rainy weekend at Star Hill. I just love working four day weeks during the summer because I get to be a weekend country girl for three days! The wedding is just over a week away so we are going to use our time working on projects […]
The Weekend Country Girl 