Craft It Unique

Hello everyone!!

Now that Halloween has passed, it is officially the holiday season for me! Woo hoo! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Holidays! The excitement, the family togetherness, the food, the decorations...ALL OF IT! So this season is also usually my craftiest! And this year, my mom and I decided to make ALL of our decorations! So I will be documenting what we do.

Not only will I be documenting our holiday decorating, but  I will be putting up A LOT of tutorials doing basics that you can customize to make your own holiday season festive! I am officially calling my holiday series...DIY THE HALLS!

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So yeah...long time no hear from. I know, I know. But I had gotten super sick so crafting and blogging were at the very bottom of my to do list. But...I am back now and I have an update on my backyard redo.

IT'S NOT HAPPENING :(

I know, I had such plans. SIGH. Oh. well. I rent and apparently my lease says "No renovations" and now the dream of the awesome back yard I had planned are dead.

I'm still going to do something with it, it just can't be anything permanant. I have to be able to take it with me when I move. I don't know what I'm going to do, but it is butt ugly as it is, so SOMETHING has to be done.

If anyone has any ideas, let me know.

I will post within the next few days with an actual craft blog.

Love, beads, and hot glue!
~Amanda

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Hello again everyone!

I know it has been FOREVER since I posted anything, but I have been super busy, working full time, going to school part time, taking in a bipolar friend, doing charity walks, ect. Wow...just really realized how busy I've been while typing that list. LOL

So anyway, I have decided that it's high time I spruce up my backyard. We have been living in this house for two years and haven't been able to really appreciate the backyard at all! It is mostly empty except for a covered structure with no flooring, an swing set with no swings, and a weird short cage looking thing. Also a crapload of prickly vines grow all over the place. Not really sure what they are, but they are annoying and PAINFUL! (Pictures of the yard coming soon!)

So my to do list for the yard is:

1) Put a flooring of some kind under the covered structure thingy that I am calling a porch. (My mom says that it's more of a gazebo but oh well. It's a porch now :D )
2)  A walkway on our side yard
3) A bar made of cinderblocks
4) A rock garden by the back of the house...with succulents!
5) Decorate the patio in a balinese inspired style
6) Putting in a lot of plants

I am hoping to have all this done by the end of summer and I am doing it all my myself! (Well...myself, my mom, and probably my cousin Nikki.)

What kinds of projects are you getting into this summer?

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