Our Home Away From Home: May 2016

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

OUR BACK PORCH

We are having in Texas one of the most rainy Spring seasons since we moved here eighteen years ago.

Normally at this time of the year we are already in the triple digits with not a cloud in sight.

Not this year. It has literally rained almost every day for months now, so most of our outdoor projects
have been waiting to be finished.

We have our deck almost finished and it will be completed as soon as we can get a couple of dry days in a row,
so, meanwhile, I have been sprucing up our porch a bit.

Monday, May 30, 2016

TUESDAYS AT OUR HOME #164 & FEATURES

WELCOME EVERYONE!

Happy Memorial Day!

I hope you are enjoying the holiday weekend. It is pouring rain in Texas, non stop storming all weekend,
so all of our outdoor activities have been put on hold.

Lets take a look at some of last week most viewed posts.

Linda at Life and Linda put together some beautiful patriotic tables. Great inspiration!

Rhonda at Ramblings of a Southern Girl shared with us her beautiful porch and a very cute story.

Michelle at The Painted Hinge made a clean draining planter box and shared a wonderful tutorial.

Pinky at Designs by Pinky made some beautiful changes in her kitchen.

Shannah at My Suburban Kitchen shared a wonderful collection of no bake desserts.

Another great recipe, this one for mushroom and swiss crockpot burgers was shared by Michele at Just Two Sisters.

Thank you to all who took the time to participate!
I always appreciate your visits and wonderful comments!
If you were featured, please feel free to grab a "featured button" from my sidebar. You will also be able to view all these posts linked directly to the owner's blogs at my new Pinterest page.

Now, lets see what you have been up to this week! You can link up any posts that are home decor, gardening, crafting, painting, sewing, cooking or DIY related. NO Etsy shops or link parties, please. And although there is really no other rules to join, I would love if you start following my blog.

Have fun!

An InLinkz Link-up

Monday, May 23, 2016

TUESDAYS AT OUR HOME #163 & FEATURES

WELCOME TO TUESDAYS AT OUR HOME!

So glad you are here! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Ours was quite for once. :)

Now it is that time again to take a look at some of the wonderful features from last week party.

Brandie at Home Cooking Memories shared a delicious recipe for no bake coffee cheesecakes.

Laura at Inspiration For Moms revealed her gorgeous new living room.

Jenn at Clean & Scentsible shared a beautiful DIY planked wall tutorial.

Jennifer at The Jenny Evolution put together a wonderful collection of Mexican recipes.

Emily at Nap Time Creations shared a super salad fresh dinner recipe.

KC at The Real Thing With The Coake Family taught us how to make reversible placemats.

Brooke at Creative Country Mom's Home & Garden gave us a tour of her gorgeous rose garden.

Jennifer at Decorated Chaos found beautiful dishes at the thrift store and used them as part of her living room decor.

Have fun!

An InLinkz Link-up

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

NEUTRAL COLORS ON THE FRONT PORCH

I think this is my first time ever not using bright colors to decorate the front porch.

Life has been so busy lately and now with all the upcoming repairs that will be done to our home, I know I won't have time to make changes to the porch decor, so I decided to just give it an "everyday look", something that I can carry into Summer if necessary.

TUESDAYS AT OUR HOME #162 & FEATURES

WELCOME EVERYONE!

I had so much fun visiting last week entries. I love how everyone is getting their homes ready for the warmer months. Wonderful inspiration!

I also enjoy all the different recipes posted in the blog party and I like to save them for future reference.

Lets take a look at some of those posts.

Sherry at Savvy Apron made a beautiful wire spool table for her porch.

If you are like me and always enjoy reading a good book, then you will enjoy this collection that
Taylor at Pinkheels Pinktruck put together for us.

Christina at Bird's Party taught us how to make beautiful Spring napkin rings.

I just love, love this anchor pillow! Bev at Flamingo Toes shared a great tutorial so you can make your own.

Sherri at To Simply Inspire shared a great recipe for Italian Chicken Zucchini Boats.

Kit at The Kittchen made a wonderful Rapsberry Lemonade Cocktail.

Rebecca at Lincluden Cottage Life shared the Spring updates in her beautiful kitchen.

Michele at The Scrap Shoppe made a beautiful rustic chalkboard sign.

Have fun!

An InLinkz Link-up

LINEN CLOSET ORGANIZATION

Every year in the Spring is when I try to organize our home, going through closets and storage areas.

It is crazy how many things you can accumulate and how disorganized closets can get.

Last week I finally had the time to give our linen closet a complete makeover.

Monday, May 9, 2016

TUESDAYS AT OUR HOME #161 & FEATURES

WELCOME!

I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day weekend.

Mine was really wonderful. Great family time! My husband and kids spoil me every year. :)

Last week we had a great party. So much inspiration!

Here are a few of those beautiful posts.

Patti at Old Things New turned her outdoor space into a little French courtyard.

Sheila at My Kentucky Living decorated her beautiful bedroom for Spring,

Jenny at Penny Pinche Jenny shared a great recipe for Firework Bundt Cake.
Perfect for the upcoming holidays!

Erin at Delightful E Made shared a yummy recipe for Skinny Starbucks Strawberries and Cream Frappuccino.

Christine at Little Brags changed the look of her family room. It is amazing what a difference paint can make.

Beautiful!

Tracey Lee at Mia Bella Passions shared an amazing recipe for Ginger Peach Mousse.

Have fun!

An InLinkz Link-up

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

STILL SPRING IN OUR KITCHEN

Time is going by so fast that before we know it we will be decorating our home for Summer.

I haven't done much holiday decorating this year. Just too much happening behind the scenes and not enough time

for everything.

I did manage to decorate a bit for Easter and when the bunnies were put away, I just made some small changes

to our kitchen decor.

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

DIY WOOD LABELS

While I wait around for the repairs of our home to start (this is a slow process) I have been keeping myself

busy organizing our home.

Our linen closet is one area I have been wanting to redo for a while, so that was my project last week.

First thing I did was to find some very large baskets and make some wood labels.

Monday, May 2, 2016

TUESDAYS AT OUR HOME #160 & FEATURES

WELCOME TO TUESDAYS AT OUR HOME!

I hope you had a good weekend. Ours was spent doing our annual Spring yard cleaning. That was a lot of work!

With all the rain we have had so far this year, the flower bed on front of our home looked like a jungle.

And six hours later and fourteen trash bags of clippings, this is what it looks like. Much better, right?

Although these old bodies are going to hurt the rest of the week. :)

We still have to pressure wash the stone around the flower bed, but after six hours of work we were exhausted so it will have to wait until next weekend.