Category Archives: Tutorials

Daddy’s Homemade Earth Day Hummingbird Nectar

My pops is a total green-thumb, and anything garden related is instinctual for him.  I guess that trait skips a generation though, because I have a habit of loving my plants to death.  I either drown them by overwatering, or … Continue reading

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Plastic Spoon & Bottle Hummingbird Feeder

As I’ve perused the blogosphere over the past few months, I’ve been seriously inspired by all the imaginative, creative people that turn the old into something new and beautiful.  (Seriously, just visit my “Reinvented & Repurposed” Pinterest board  if you want … Continue reading

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Trash to Treasure Shell & Beach Glass Lampshade

As I mentioned in my first post ever, I have a trash-digging obsession habit thing.  If I see something old and mangled that I consider to have “good bones”, I just can’t help myself – I’ll rescue the poor thing and … Continue reading

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Green Taste Testing

St. Patrick’s Day in Southern California was wet, dreary, and dark this year. That completely obliterated my plans of an outdoor Leprechaun hunt, as well as a family picnic on the new spring grass. The hubs and I tried to … Continue reading

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I-Spy Tube Toy

We have a new morning routine in the Wright household: “The Morning Art Kick Start”.  Yeah, I like to rhyme.  I’m corny like that.  In all honesty, I’m the queen of corn.  ^_^ Every morning from 7 to 10am, Maddy … Continue reading

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