Do you want to attract some hummingbirds? Learn how to make a pretty hummingbird perch with some copper pipe, a small dowel piece and some faux flowers. Love at first sight! This pretty much sums up my feelings for hummingbirds. My first time meeting these beautiful creatures was 6 years ago (when I came to USA for our wedding), and ever since…
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I can’t tell you how happy I am to finally write this post. I’ve been wanting to do it for 2 weeks now. But the things is, the weekends are the best time for me to finish projects and write the posts, and last weekend I had an urgent matter to take care of. To be more specific, on a beautiful Saturday…
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Meet our girls, Penny and Pepper. Penny is the one looking like a sperm whale about to eat a giant squid, and Pepper is the one looking like a Little Red Chewbacca. Like all creatures, they seek comfort and cool in the heat of the summer. In our yard, they used to find cool places in Handan’s gardens, under a hosta…
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You’ve all seen them at tag sales or in thrift stores. Perhaps you even have one in your home. The simple wooden tea cart makes a wonderful makeover project! It doesn’t matter if it’s a new one or a vintage tea cart like mine – a tea cart makeover is a surefire way to breathe new life into an old…
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You’re not getting bored of our garden DIY projects yet, are you? I hope not, because we have some more coming up soon! 😀 But just to give it a little break, we wanted to share some other projects that we were working on in the very little time we had between our garden projects. You probably saw Greg’s latest project where he had an…
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CONTINUED FROM>> About Us >> Handan and I were watching a movie in bed when the first mortar fell on FOB Shindand. We had just come back from eating dinner at the canteen and were relaxing before bed. As we settled into our pillows and lost ourselves in the movie, Taliban fighters loaded a mortar tube in the village of Deh-e Ali Beyg, just across…
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I wanted to do a quick project for the Independence Day holiday – something that delved deeper into the meaning of the day. Red, white and blue cupcakes and the like are all well and good, but I fear the true heart of the holiday beats weaker with each passing year and with each successive generation. I had an idea for something…
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Ever since we started working on the big backyard makeover, I’ve been searching all over for cool-looking garden decor for a reasonable price. I can hear you saying “good luck with that”…and I have to agree, as I found out “cool-looking” and “reasonably-priced” are about as compatible as me and snakes (yikes! Just writing the word gives me the creepies)! So, as…
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CONTINUED FROM>> Look, I know you just want to get to the final reveal pictures, but bear with me a little while longer, so I can walk you through the landscaping. I promise not to yap as much in this post, so you can get right on to those fancy glamour shots. Actually, I promise nothing. Let’s carry on. But…
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