Natural Solution to Our Ant Problem


It's a lazy Sunday afternoon here...everyone is napping now before some of our well loved friends arrive for a visit. But I thought I'd take a moment to post that our ants are gone! I received so many wonderful tips and ideas as to how get rid of them - thanks! Let me tell you what I ended up doing...it was so simple!

There are a lot of things, it seems, that ants just don't like, and citrus is one of them! So I just sprayed a cloth with some Orange Glow (it's a wood cleaner that contains natural orange oil...you can find it at Wal-mart) and wiped down all the cabinets and countertops. It's funny, the next day I saw a few ants congregating in one spot that I missed (a corner of the crown moulding) - but they wouldn't go anywhere near where I had cleaned with the Orange Glo. So I hit that area (it kills on contact) and now they are nowhere to be found. It smells so nice, plus it cleans really well...so I was able to get rid of the ants, add a nice clean glow to our cabinets, and deodorize the kitchen in one fell swoop! Sure beats using Raid!

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There is officially less than a month left before the Cottage Charm giveaway ends, but still plenty of time to sign up for mine and other giveaways if you haven't already. Or if you are interested in having your own Cottage Charm giveaway, here are the details. There are several of us so far with new participants joining daily! Check out who joined in the last couple of days!

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New Old-Fashioned Blogs



Love This Chair
Originally uploaded by Treasured Heirlooms.
I just love discovering great sources of inspiration! Here are a few new or new to me blogs for you to check out. I know you'll like them as much as I do!

My Indulgences
Niesz Vintage Home
Tag Sale Tales
Roses Petite Maison
Isabella's Closet
Okie Cottage Bliss

The old chair photo was found at Flickr. You should see all the beautiful photos in Treasured Heirlooms' gallery...So sweet!





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There is still plenty
of time to sign up for my Cottage Charm giveaway and others if you haven't already. Or if you are interested in having your own Cottage Charm giveaway, here are the details. There are several of us so far! Thanks to everyone!

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A Few Cottage Doors Installed and Accessorized


Ever so slowly, we're chipping away at our long renovation list of things to do. As I've mentioned before, we stay very busy with life outside of remodeling so that means every little thing we do here is a small victory. Installing three of our new pine doors this weekend called for a happy dance, to be sure. I just couldn't stop opening and closing the newly installed doors - Hubs did such a great job and not a creak to be heard! I'm so pleased with the new hardware, too, because I love the oil rubbed bronze finish. These new knobs were just 9.99 at Southeastern Salvage (and pine doors were only $98 each!).

Though we have a long way to go, our currently scary hallway aready feels nicer. There is just something about those big heavy doors that makes the house feel a little more substantial and old-fashioned. I can only imagine after we do the rest of the work including painting the doors, raising the ceiling, adding tung and groove boards like those in the kitchen, crown moulding, beadboard, and trim (oh yeah, and flooring) - what it's going to feel like then. Oh, I can't wait! Installing the doors is just the first step, but the other hallway projects will come later when we get more of the kitchen projects behind us.

I wanted to add a little more cottage charm to the doors so I'll be adding wooden appliques to the fronts and backs. The first one came out nice, I think. It's just an inexpensive little touch that you can add to just about anything...(I put them on the false fronts of our kitchen cabinets, too!) You can buy this particular applique at Lowe's for about $4 or search online for a bigger selection.



Speaking of the kitchen, I had someone come out and give me an estimate on installing the brick for the backsplash. He gave me a good deal and will hopefully he will be able to have time in May to come and do the install. I'll be taking care of the grouting and painting, though, just because I'm so persnickety. Also kitchen related - we have ants. I can't figure out where they are coming from and I hate the thought of just spraying chemicals all willy-nilly. I tried the Borax/sugar solution but it didn't work. Ugh! Any tips?

I'm in the throws of cleaning out closets now. You should see my living room now where the sorting and throwing away process is in full swing. I hope to be done by the weekend! My goal is to keep only the necessities and things that we actually use or are truly special.

So back to work I go!

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There is still plenty of time to sign up for my Cottage Charm giveaway and others if you haven't already. Or if you are interested in having your own Cottage Charm giveaway, here are the details. There are several of us so far! Thanks to everyone!

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My First Word Stone - "Simplicity"



his morning I was very much in the mood to go and pick out a few plants for the dresser that is soon to go on our front porch. Goodness, we have so many empty landscaping beds around here, just brimming with potential, but at the moment, I'm finding them all a bit overwhelming. "Start small", I thought this morning..."a few colorful potted arrangements for the front porch is what I'll focus on today, and I'll go from there". I even had a friend babysit for me so that all my mental energy, hehe, could go into choosing just the right plants. But by the time I got to the point of picking the plants themselves, it was very cold and windy and gloomy out. I had already lost my motivation and stood there most of the time utterly confused as to what to buy! I kept gravitating back toward the herbs(which I wasn't going to buy today but plan to one of these days) and sniffing them all. Ahhh, glorious! Especially the lemon balm! This is going to be a busy weekend, anyway, with out of state friends visiting, so I'm not sure where I'd find the time to plant...so I left emptyhanded. I have some gardening books filled with ideas, so I think I need to study them some more and return a little more prepared (and when the weather feels like spring!).

I made my very first word stone a couple of nights ago! I loved how it turned out and I can't wait to make many more. I think next time I'll position a ruler below the letters, though, to make them a little straighter, but for my first one, I think it came out pretty well! Can you imagine lots of these with different words spread throughout a garden, or painted white and used even in the house propped upright here and there?


Oh, and here's is a photo of the finished dresser for the front porch. It still needs knobs for the top...I checked at Lowes and Home Depot today for something that would work but couldn't really find anything that I liked. Everything just seemed too "new". I think I'll poke around on Ebay for some old ones. We'll move the dresser in place this weekend, but alas, no plants in which to adorn it yet - *sniff*.

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There is still plenty of time to sign up for my Cottage Charm giveaway and others if you haven't already. Or if you are interested in having your own Cottage Charm giveaway, here are the details. There are several of us so far with new participants joining daily! Thanks to everyone!

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From My Cottage to Yours! Cottage Charm Give Away


May 26 - Update! The winner is...Debbie!!!! (please check out my latest entry for details...) Debbie, you wrote, "Please enter me in your give-away. I love your blog and read it every day." Thank you so much for entering in this little drawing and for coming by to visit daily...I hope you enjoy my personal gift to you! I'll get it mailed out this week!

I can't tell you how excited I am to be doing this giveaway. I wish that I could do one every week! One of the reasons I wanted to do this is to show my appreciation to all the visitors, old and new, who pop in to see our progress with our projects. Thank you so much! Also, I wanted to celebrate the fact that, after all these years, I've finally come up with a name for our little cottage-in-the-making - The Twice Remembered Cottage:)



So from my cottage to yours, I've put together a little something that will go to one of you. Please don't hesitate to sign up for this drawing - even if you've never commented here before...don't be shy! This drawing is for anyone who wants to be included.

In my giveaway, I'm including two old silver small spoon and fork magnets, a (mismatched) teacup and saucer, three glass bottles, an old plate, a decorative wooden box, chippy and colorful clothespins (for decorative use only), and a hardcover copy of one of best books ever - Mrs. Dunwoody's Excellent Instructions for Homekeeping . Please click on the photos for much larger images. Here are a few more details....

I think these magnets are so sweet and have had them on my own fridge (don't worry - I plan on making more for myself!). It just adds a sweet little nostalgic touch to the kitchen.


These were little syrup bottles but I've altered the lids to make them decorative (or functional) items.



I love the shape of this dainty brown teacup. I bought it while I was out thrifting and it didn't come with a saucer, so I've matched with another old scalloped edged saucer.


These clothespins have been painted, distressed, and antiqued for that charming, chippy look we all love. These are for decorative use only, though:) You get two each of red, pink, white, green, blue, yellow, brown, and tan. The old plate (that matches the saucer above) is included in the giveaway as well.


Please excuse me while I go on and on about this little wooden box. I'm not sure if it is "old" old, but it's far from new. I found it frail and very "gold" at a thrift store quite a while ago, just knowing it could be something special. Even with the old mirror and oddly placed nails holding it together, I thought it had potential. I strengthened it with some wood glue and painted it this pretty robin's egg blue. After distressing and aging it, decorative papers were added to the top, bottom, and inside (the papers match the glass bottle tops). So here are a few photos...










And I saved the best for last! This book, Mrs. Dunwoody's Excellent Instructions for Homekeeping, is my personal copy (found thrifting, where else?!) but I've enjoyed it so much that I've ordered another copy just for this giveaway. Even if you don't win the drawing, you must order a copy for yourself! Mrs. Dunwoody is actually a fictional person of the 1800's but she sure comes to life in this book! At another time, I plan on writing another whole entry about all the reasons why every homemaker needs a copy, hehe, but for now, I'll try to keep it brief. "Mrs. Dunwoody's advice and words of wisdom were meant to be passed down to each generation of women as they married and took up housekeeping...or "homekeeping" as she called it." You won't believe how much is packed into this one book - please click on the link to take a sneak peak inside at Amazon.com. From the art of bed making to the art of letter writing - this book has it all! And it's funny, too! If I gave away only one thing, this would be it:)



So, just comment below to enter your name into this drawing to be held on May 26th. Please enter just once and provide some way for me to contact you (via your blog address where I'll notify you through a comment or your email address). If you don't have a blog (and you certainly don't need to have one for this drawing) and you don't want to post your email address in public, please email it to me. I regret that I cannot enter anyone's name who doesn't give me a way to contact them - I'm sorry about that...

And please, please, please check out all the other great cottage charm giveaways being held from now until May 26th! If you want details on participating yourself, you can read details here. Don't have a blog to host your own giveaway but would like to? You can set one up easily and fast at Blogger.com. It's free and takes 5 minutes!

It will probably be a while before I can write again since there is so much "spring" stuff to do around here, cleaning, landscaping, oh - and remodeling. I will be busy, though, keeping the Cottage Charm Giveaway list updated daily (and signing up for a few giveaways myself!) You all have fun and start entering your names below, and in the other wonderful giveaways taking place!


"Cottage Charm Give Away" Participant List - To Be Updated until May 25th


(Have a giveaway for Cottage Charm Give Away Day? Click here!)

1) Midwest Neurotica
2) Rags to Riches
3) Hearth and Home
4) Like Merchant Ships
5) Hidden Haven Homestead
6) Niesz Vintage Home
7) Ivy and Lace Cottage
8) One Woman's Cottage Life
9) Home Made Simplicity
10) Nonie Mae's Shabby Shack
11) My Indulgences
12) Princess Nimble-Thimble
13) Bella-Enchanted
14) Mother and Child
15) Trinkets and Treasures
16) Casa Amada
17) Ric Rac
18) From the Pines
19) Little Penpen
20) Artistic Creations
21) Karla's Cottage
22) The Bunnies' Bungalow
23) Serious Mumbo Jumbo
24) Ancient One's Place
25) Coasting Along
26) Cottage Magpie
27) Petit Pois
28) Life at Number 17
29) Lallee's Cottage
30) Creativity in Progress
31) Digi Scribbles
32) Day in the Life
33) Pretty Petals
34) Paintin Patti
35) I♥Upstate
36) Simply Me
37)Honeysuckle Lane
38) Nestled in the Singing Woods
39) Painter of the Past
40) A Day in the Country with Farmer Di

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Sign Up for the Cottage Charm Give Away Day - May 26




(Click here or scroll down to view the "Cottage Charm Give Away" Participant List - Updated Daily Until May 25th)

Wouldn't it be be delightful to have a 'blogwide' cottage themed giveaway?! I've been wanting to do my own little blog giveaway for quite a while now, but I thought others might enjoy doing the same...so let's do it! How about a "Cottage Charm Give Away Day" on May 26, 2007?!!!

It's simple. You have until Friday, May 25th, 2007 to post your "Cottage Charm" giveaway offering on your site. Then let me know so that I can link to your giveaway right here in this entry. Remember, people respond well to photos and good item descriptions. Others are encouraged to enter their names (on your site) for a drawing (by you) to win your charming cottage themed giveaway. To keep things simple, you choose your own sign up and drawing methods, how many cottage charm giveaways to offer, shipping details, etc., ...I'm just getting the ball rolling here:)

Use your own definition of "Cottage Charm" for this giveaway- the possibilities are endless! You can give away books, your own crafts, thrift store finds, new items, yummy treats, recipes, vintage goodies...goodness, I could go on forever! Just have fun with it!

At some point on Saturday, May 26, everyone participating will hopefully be able to post the winners of their giveaways. So the more participants (givers and receivers!), the better! I know May 26th seems forever away, but I wanted to give plenty of time for everyone to hear about this special "Cottage Charm Give Away Day" and to come up with something special to give to their readers. Also, this allows plenty of time for everyone to enter their names in the giveaways of their choosing.

How to Participate:
All that I ask is that you:
(1)let me know when your giveaway item is listed on your site by posting a comment with your giveaway link right under this post. You are encouraged to describe your giveaway and post photos if at all possible (more folks tend to sign up when they can see what they may be winning).

and

(2)link back to this post so that others may have an opportunity to learn about and participate in this giveaway. You can just copy and paste the coding (below) to your giveaway post or preferably somewhere on the side of your blog. If you prefer a text link, that's ok, too:)

After you've created your giveaway offering post and have added a link back to this page, I'll add your giveaway link right here in this entry so that more folks will find you and your fabulous giveaway. If you know you're going to participate but aren't yet ready to write about or post photos of your giveaway, please feel free to first go ahead and add the Cottage Charm banner code or link to your blog so that we can quickly get the word out. Thanks so much!

By the way, I will add links to this page right up until noon, Central time on May 25th. But hopefully you'll have your item(s) listed well before then.




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If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.

I would like to only add the link to your actual giveaway post containing instructions, descriptions and/or photos of what you are giving away. This will cut down on confusion when readers are looking for what you are offering.

You might be interested in perusing a little "catalog" (below) of all the give away items being offered. If you see something you like but haven't signed up for as of yet, just click on the item to be taken to the individual site where you'll sign up. Remember, some bloggers are offering multiple items but request that you only sign up once, so be sure you follow their participation rules. See the list below the catalog for all the sites participating...



"Cottage Charm Give Away" Participant List - To Be Updated until May 25th


1) Midwest Neurotica
2) Rags to Riches
3) Hearth and Home
4) Like Merchant Ships
5) Hidden Haven Homestead
6) Niesz Vintage Home
7) Ivy and Lace Cottage
8) One Woman's Cottage Life
9) Home Made Simplicity
10) Nonie Mae's Shabby Shack
11) My Indulgences
12) Princess Nimble-Thimble
13) Bella-Enchanted
14) Mother and Child
15) Trinkets and Treasures
16) Casa Amada
17) Ric Rac
18) From the Pines
19) Little Penpen
20) Artistic Creations
21) Karla's Cottage
22) The Bunnies' Bungalow
23) Serious Mumbo Jumbo
24) Ancient One's Place
25) Coasting Along
26) Cottage Magpie
27) Petit Pois
28) Life at Number 17
29) Lallee's Cottage
30) Creativity in Progress
31) Digi Scribbles
32) Day in the Life
33) Pretty Petals
34) Paintin Patti
35) I♥Upstate
36) Simply Me
37)Honeysuckle Lane
38) Nestled in the Singing Woods
39) Painter of the Past
40) A Day in the Country with Farmer Di

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A Few Cottage Finds at Goodwill


Have I ever shared a photo of our parakeet, Skyler? If not, here he is admiring himself in the mirror. Actually, he thinks that's another bird. He's constantly smooching on his reflection and I'm constantly cleaning Skyler slobber off the mirror:)


I haven't posted any Goodwill bargains in quite a while, so I thought I'd do that today. First of all, I've found a spot for that little white flea market table (for now...who knows where it will migrate in the future!). I put it in the kitchen, of all places. Until we put food pantry in there, we'll have room for the table. Everything is so transitory during a remodel anyway, and I may be crazy for trying to "decorate" an unfinished kitchen just a bit - but that's ok.



Oh how I love the colors red and white!


This is a very old silverplated coffee (tea?) pitcher. The cream and sugar are missing the lids but I really liked the antique look of the set. I never plan to clean them up:)


An old scalloped edge bowl - perfect for the apples that won't fit in the fridge!


Someone made this simple little memo/photo board. It's covered in a pretty cotton plaid and ribbons were attached with upholstery tacks. So simple that I might try to make one myself sometimes. I purchased the photo frame at Goodwill, too, and as you can see, I still need to find a picture to put in it:)


This stack of old scalloped edged plates and saucers was just $4.99. I searched and searched for any bowls or cups that went with the set, but to no avail. These old plates are very lightweight and delicate, have plenty of craze marks and have been well used (and probably loved!) for decades.




Ah, and here is our little man Sky again. He loves to perch at the top of the kitchen cabinets for a birdseye view of the place. Hmm, seeing this photo makes me really wish our crown moulding was up already, lol. But I'm sure Skyler doesn't mind:)


I want to say thanks for Dawn for tagging me for the Thinking Bloggers Award! Wow! It's time for me to tag some Thinking Bloggers and I'll get to that soon.... Thanks again!

On the remodeling front, that pesky dining wall is now sanded and primed (again). It's not perfect, but much better than the first time around (remember I wrote about the ways and dips?). I don't think anyone will be able to tell that there was once a door on the that particular wall. I'm making my peace and moving on:)

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Unexpected Cottage Furniture for Front Porch


Renovation work has been slow for the last couple of weeks. We've either been busy with other things, or sick. The only thing, really, that was accomplished this weekend was shoveling a couple of big loads of dirt into one of our landscaping beds. Last week, I did paint an old ladderback chair red and it turned out great. I may add some antiquing glaze to tone the red down a bit, but we'll see. I have another old chair that needs to be painted red, too, and it will join this one on the front porch.

Also for the front porch, I'm working on painting an old dresser I bought for $25 over a year ago. This little dresser has been floating around our house, looking rather sad, all this time. It's not in the best of shape...it's missing the mirror, has a hole in the back and a smallish plug taken out of one drawer fronts near the bottom, for some reason- and it's a wee bit rickety. It also needs some hardware for the two top drawers. Originally, I thought I'd patch it up and use it for the kidlet's dresser, but it's just not big enough and they don't have room for two. The dresser itself is a little too fancy to be placed elsewhere in the house (if we even had the room) but I think it's so sweet and want to use it somehow. I thought it would warm up the front porch - it along with the red chairs, so I gave it a good coat of primer and have applied one of two coats of exterior semi-gloss paint. Our front porch is covered but I do want to give the dresser a little added protection. I plan on opening the drawers and inserting various, colorful potted plants, and letting ivy, etc. cascade down and around. At least that's the way it looks in my head:) It will go against some lattice work that we have on the porch and wouldn't it be pretty to have some kind of climbing, blooming vine behind it, perhaps clematis? Here is the progress so far..One more coat of semi-gloss to go.




For the next few weeks, I'll be be decluttering the house and storage areas and getting rid of the things we don't need. My closets (which I've been ignoring forever) need serious attention. This is one reason I've been doing these odd little painting jobs - if I'm not going to put an item into our upcoming yard sale, then I need to be using it, even if that means having to spruce it up a bit first.

I came across this photo online last week and can't get it out of my head. Call me crazy, but my heart skips a beat every time I see it. It's not much of anything and needs just a little bit of TLC, but I can imagine stumbling across it out in the middle of the woods, abandoned and calling out to me to live there. And I would! I would grow a veggie garden, and plenty of herbs and flowers, too... When it rained, I would be lulled to sleep by the pitter-patter on the tin roof:) Ahhhhh!

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Little Mud Pies (or "What Could Happen When You Paint a Chair Red")


If you have kidlets of your own, you may mind this entry entertaining. If you don't yet have any, consider this a "cautionary tale". I try not to write about my little ones on this remodeling blog, but I'll make an exception today...

We had a long but wonderful weekend. We were away at a two day Bible educational assembly. It was very refreshing and though there was a lot of sitting and listening involved, my little ones were all very well behaved. Monday was a very special evening as well because it was the night of our annual memorial of Jesus' death. The kidlets were good, then, too:)

By Tuesday, I was really tired and decided to use the day to mostly rest. I did get out and pull the weeds out of the landscaping beds hubs built for me a few weeks ago. Soon we're going to be filling them with more dirt and some flowers. While I was outside, I was mentally planning what flowers would go where and thinking about what a lovely job hubs did in building the beds. And then I thought about the fact that the little ones had been so good all weekend and how they would love the opportunity to do something out of the ordinary and fun. After school, I asked them..."Wouldn't it be fun for you guys to make mud pies with the old dirt in the flower beds?"

Ooooh, they were so excited! I told them they could use their plastic play dishes for their "pies" and decorate them with pebbles and wild flowers. They were thrilled! The old dirt in the beds was dry so I told them they could use the hose to moisten it a bit because, afterall, who likes a dry pie? While they "baked", I was headed to the backyard to paint one of our old ladderback chairs red - an easy project that I've been meaning to get to for a year now. (We're getting ready to have a big yard sale to get rid of things we don't use, so this chair was one of those use it or lose it items.) "Please rinse your feet and hands with the hose before you go into the house." Those were my only instructions.

It didn't take long to paint the chair...maybe about 20 minutes. As I headed to the other side of the house, imagine my horror surprise when I realized that I didn't have cute little pebble and floral decorated mud pies waiting for me, but a giant, messy MUD POND instead! I'm pretty sure my jaw hit the floor, lol. The kidlets were wading in the landscaping bed and the water was well above their ankles.Mud was *everywhere*...the house, the sidewalk, the window, the sunroom floor. They had apparently been splashing and bellyflopping in their newly created pond, too, from the looks of their clothing.

I admit, I was really irritated. But at the same time, the whole situation was hilarious (unbeknownst to them) and I just had to take photos to remember the day they made "mud pies". Even though I scolded them and they apologized, they told me they had so much fun wading in that flowerbed with the mud squishing between their toes.

And just so none of us will ever forget, I'm going to have this photo printed and framed...I've entitled it Little Mud Pies.


By the way, the pond waters finally receded this morning, thank goodness.

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