Fabulous House Designs

You know, it really does not take a lot of LED outdoor Christmas lights to make the outside of a home look all Christmas-y.

It also does not take a lot of time and effort to arrange LED outdoor Christmas lights either.

Simple is good; using outdoor LED Christmas lights can be simple as well.

And, as we all know by now, any type of LED lighting uses much, much less electricity than old fashioned incandescent light bulbs.

Placing LED Outdoor Christmas Lights

Take for example my home.

We have shown you the outside of the house many times. The garage is turned 90 degrees so the long garage wall faces the street.

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Tags: Christmas Lights, Lights, Outdoor Christmas, Outdoor Christmas Lights

I always love seeing a space that makes my feminine side swoon with excitement! Full Post…

Tags: Ana Antunes, Antunes

There is a delicate balance between wanting to see nature in the garden, and suffering the consequences of its visits. I am decidedly at the easy end of the spectrum, and all I have to worry about are a few dollops of fox faeces in return for close-up views of an often regal and handsome beast. In other East Dulwich streets they are less welcome, playing havoc with lawns, and digging holes with seemingly malicious abandon, presumably to get at worms, one of their major food items at this time of year.

Elsewhere gardeners fret over a superabundance of magpies, or sparrowhawks, choosing not to celebrate these wonderful birds’ beauty, poise or cunning, instead blaming them for decimating the local populations of blue tits and goldfinches.

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Tags: Garden

Good morning, friends!  Today is Thanksgiving here in the U.S.—a day of reflection and thankfulness. 

I have so much for which to be thankful.  Way too many to list, in fact.  But I did want to take some time to publicly give thanks for two things today.

First, I am thankful for you—those of you who visit me day after day, checking in to see what I’m working on, or what projects I’ve finished, or to give your input when I have no idea which direction to go on a project.  You brighten my day, and you make this whole blogging thing a whole lot of fun.  But most of all, God has used you to provide for Matt and me in a way that you may never fully understand.

You see, at just the right time in our lives, when Matt’s health was suffering greatly due to the M.S.

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