Sud Shack the before

So, this is a combination laundry and bathroom. it was, in the beginning, our only bathroom. yes, it is outdoors and disconnected from our home. there were the occasional nights when it was cold and people probably thought we were crazy but we loved...well, we made it work haha. 

now, it mainly serves as our laundry only since we built our larger home...larger in comparison, but still small. anyway, it was ugly and i hate laundry anyway so i was unmotivated. these pictures are semi-before

i say semi before because i had already put up a chandelier and a support frame for the shower curtain.

obviously, we don't normally have the tools laying on the floor but otherwise everything is as it normally was, a complete mess.

junk everywhere, no organization

the black in that photo is part of the after.

ok, now it is that pipe and all the others that really motivated me to finally tackle the laundry room a.k.a. our Sud Shack.

after pics and story coming soon, as in i just finished it and need to load photos....so, we will just see how quickly i get to that

DIY deck storage benches

we built our deck awhile back and we are finally getting the benches built.well, thats the plan anyway.
we will be starting them, of that i am certain.
so here is the half of the deck we are working on today.

so, there is the before. im just gonna go ahead and post this now so it doesnt stay a draft for the next month. 

hope to bring the results in the next few days

we got a mini

I cant recall if i mentioned that our goats had to be re homed.  it was a sad day when our female, Bella, went to live on a farm with a cousin of mine. We decided that it was best for her to be with "family" so we could still visit. i put family in parenthesis because while we are distantly related we are not close. turns out we haven't been allowed to visit her and it still breaks our hearts. short story with our male. once he didn't have a female he tried to mate with everything. i mean everything and if you know goats then you know the spraying and the smell was just too much.

 let me introduce y'all to Marron.

i will be posting more about Marron soon. plus, the pallet paddock and how we built it. 

till next time, keep it Green, clean, and classy. 

medicine cabinet makeover - ideas

so, that is the before and after of the medicine cabinet makeover

that is the medicine cabinet i found at thrift and i ended up covering it with a vintage map that i had laying around.

i also covered the frame with the map and since then i have kept looking at it thinking "is that too much map?"      i think that the answer might be yes and i have an idea on how to change it without undoing the work i already put into it.
more on that later..
more makeover ideas...

mirrors are just glass with a treatment done to them, you could remove the mirror treatment so that it was just glass again and store your small office supplies in it in cute containers or labeled glass jars.

concrete LadyBug part 2

there it is!!! its finally finished...well the statue is and now i need to landscrape around it, haha.

so, y'all know that this project started with dirt, lots of dirt. 

my brother came by on day two and helped me shape the mold. i had done some shaping on it day one but then the chickens came by and investigated my work and ended up chicken scratching it to a shapeless blob.....thanks chicas

 finally it was shaped and right away we started adding concrete to it. i first put a crocheted shawl on it so the concrete would have something to grip to. ..... I'm giving instructions of what i did, not what you should do. i have zero sculptor/concrete/statue making skills but what i did, did work.

oh yeah, to apply this concrete my brother and i just used our hands which i highly suggest you NOT TO DO. The concrete will chemically burn your hands. 

after, we had it covered half way...we ran out of concrete, my brother stood guard because the chickens kept coming over and trying to get on it and leaving chicken foot prints all over. ugh, sometimes farm life is a pain.

day 3 my brother and i got up early and headed to lowes for even more concrete, this time i got even more than we thought we would need. we got the ladybug covered!!!!! 

day 4 i covered the ladybug with the second coating of concrete and for this i wanted a smooth finish so it wouldn't be all bumpy and scratchy on my baby Z.

now, for this one i didnt use my hands...ok, well i did but that was not making it smooth enough and i had a brilliant idea to use a stick on tile because they are flexible and very smooth

the white heart is where Z put her hand prints in the wet concert. i knew i couldn't make it look realistic so i went with cartoon and added the black border at the bottom to blend it in. i will be putting a circular border around it and filling with mulch

dinner in 15

Hey everyone, so normally if I'm posting a recipe its healthy but this isn't, haha. I'm posting it because its quick and it has been dubbed "delicious" by my husband. my toddler tolerated and that was my main motivator in posting because she is picky picky. 

while the water comes to boil for the pasta i cooked the sausage. my lazy pant method of sausage meatballs is to pinch off meatballish sized pieces and drop them in the pan. i let them brown up, flip'em and cover them with a lid. 

once the pasta is done, drain liquid, then add the tomatoes, and cheese sauce, plus seasoning, top with meatballs..boom, dinner, 15 minutes. 

the seasoning i used is what i always use...goya, fajita, and black pepper. 

serve with a salad (that my husband cut so I'm not adding that in the time)

DIY Sring art

So, my brothers girlfriend asked if i could make some string art (specifically this one  and i knew i could but i hadn't in forever so here is a little refresher course for everyone.

  i started with drawing out an outline of the shape i wanted, or shapes....print them to save yourself more time. for this my shapes were the outlines of the good ole USA and Brazil. my brother is currently in a super long distance relationship, she lives in Brazil. which is why she asked me to make this for him instead of making it herself. its their love from one country to another, how cute right?

 back to the instructions.... get ready for some time to pass as you slowly nail in the nails along the outline. when you are done just rip the paper out

then, weave your string between the nails. i chose to go vertically but it doesn't mater

its a neat project with a cool finished look. 

DIY Chicken Coop from pallets and scrapes

This is truly a from trash to treasure story. From a used and discarded pile of pallets to an adorable chica coop. I will show you how me and my Mr. threw together our chicken coop (built for half a dozen chicks) with just scrapes and salvaged pallets. 

We started with a mountain of pallets (or more accurately two extra large truck loads). Separating all the pallet boards can be a little tricky. 

You need an assistant. This is absolutly a two person job...thankfully I had my Mr. but for all photo purposes Bella will be my assistant today... It doesn't hurt that she is just the cutest thing ever. 

If you have ever heard the saying "you're only as good as your tools" this would be 100% true for this project. You absolutely have to have a saw with a good blade on it for cutting metal. Your only real option is to cut through the nails. You will never get the nails out, it's like the pallet builders have a contest to see who can build them the fastest and at the same time trying to boost the economy with their nail usage. Another tid bit of advice is to pre-drill. The boards from the pallets are nearly rock hard, I'm not joking either they are seriously like half petrified or something. 

This is Red, she isn't shy when it comes time to lay her egg. 

We live in the south with crazy hot days and flares of humidity. To help our chicas we left two slots open for a breeze way. Every opening, including these "windows", got a covering of raccoon/predator proof screening. Ours was scrape from previous predator proofing project, whoa that's kind of a mouthful. 

This is the back. The chica coop banner is a previous DIY post. 

Behind the banner are the hatch doors. Using some scrape hinges and a spare pallet piece as a "latch" of sorts. I'm not trying to keep humans out just those strong little raccoon hands. They may have strength but they don't have intelligence. 

This is the closed/locked position.

A slight turn to the side and it's "unlocked".

I prop it open with a piece of tent pole we had laying around.

There you have it, there it is.

Here's Red again...that must mean she's done doing her job.

She lays greenish blu eggs. The warmer the weather the bluer the egg and the cooler winter season brings more of a Greenish hue to the egg. 

This is the same latch concept as the backdoors. We built the door all the way to the top of the coop so when it is open, all day long, the door becomes a ramp that the chickens can walk up. This is closed.

Turn to open.

Here's our newest members of the flock. They were hatched May 27th and look at the feathers they have already grown. They really do grow up to fast :) 

Hope you enjoyed. As always, sharing is caring and stay classy.