A Cultivated Nest

ACN Featured on About.com This Week

Exciting news! A Cultivated Nest is featured on About.com this week. It's their Budget Decorating Blog Of The Week! Go here if you'd like to read the write up. The give away for the Gadanke journals ends tonight (post below) so there's still time to enter and they make great gifts if you're not into journaling yourself. Have a wonderful weekend and don't forget ... Read More about ACN Featured on About.com This Week

This Week In The Garden: Harvest Time

Every morning I go out to see what new menace is trying to eat my veggies! I've battled the squash bugs (hand pick and squish), some little red spidery looking things, some other white spidery looking bug and of course trying to keep the various squash from succumbing to powdery mildew. Even with all that - everything is growing beautifully and looking healthy. Here have a look... These are the ... Read More about This Week In The Garden: Harvest Time

Sowing Seeds

Here are a few ideas to help you cultivate your nest: A playhouse chicken coop via Backyard Chickens You know I've been thinking about getting chickens for quite some time now. Although when I went to walk Maxie yesterday we saw a hawk lift off with a squirrel in our front yard! There have been so many more hawks around these past few years due to all the construction that has destroyed their ... Read More about Sowing Seeds

Captivating Color

Color your world. I color mine! Make it personal. I think you know what colors I love. This color speaks to my heart. What colors speak to your heart? ... Read More about Captivating Color

Doing & Trying New Stuff – WIPs

Works In Progress I thought I'd share some of the projects that I'm currently working on. I usually am outside early morning working on things and then around 12-1pm I have to come inside because it's just so brutally hot and that's when I clean my house and work on indoor projects (I also try to take a nap or at least lay down for 15 mins or so in the afternoon). One indoor thing I'm ... Read More about Doing & Trying New Stuff – WIPs

Re-purposed Chair

When is a chair not a chair? When it's being used as plant stand. Some of you may remember I had a set of chairs I painted various colors which we used to use in the dining area of the screened porch. I sold all of them except this one last year. The seat has a crack but I couldn't let go of that cheery yellow chair. So here it is in my downstairs patio holding my best and biggest ... Read More about Re-purposed Chair