How to shop nature for Christmas decorating

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I thought I was so smart, and brought out a faux Christmas tree from storage. I tried to cheat and leave the lights on and just poof out the branches, but it looked awful. So I stripped the lights off and did it right… straightened each and every branch one. by. one. It still looked […]

Party Junk 214 – 75+ salvaged junk Christmas trees

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Welcome to Party Junk 214 โ€“ salvaged junk Christmas trees   Home Decor / Gardening Crafts / Sewing / Recipes / Printables / Blog Tips *Theme of the Week *Every Friday noon Pacific thru Sunday *new time due to popular request I normally wait until December to run Christmas themed link parties, however, when I spotted […]

RV winterizing by blowing air through water lines. Easy and safe!

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Learn an easy rv winterizing technique by blowing air through the water lines, leaving your drinking water pipes free of rv antifreeze! Simple, easy and safe! We were backing out of the driveway, taking off into town yesterday when my son piped up, โ€œMom, itโ€™s 1 degree out! Itโ€™s nearly ready to snow, right?!โ€ SCREEEEECH!!!!! […]

Way to prune those trees, yard messin’ Walter!

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Someone’s been messin’ with my yard again. And that would be Walter. Every late fall, Walter pays a visit with his hedge trimmer and clippers and such and prunes my trees into new hairdos. Did you just gasp? Good call! This man does the most gorgeous shrub trimming I’ve ever laid eyes on. I love […]

Fall walking up Majuba hill. Stress free.

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It’s full throttle fall in the west coast of BC. The grapevines against my shed out back were spectacular as was the recent fall retreat I took photos of.  Fall is just flat out amazing!  I just wish I could say I felt the same. Every now and then, I fall into a rut of […]