huffingtonpost TV Stand Makeover - At Home with The Barkers I’ll admit, I wasn’t sure what I was going to do at first but as soon as I saw my inspiration piece I knew I was doing a TV Stand Makeover! It’s themed furniture makeover day! If you remember last month I did a decoupaged vanity for my daughter. This month’s theme was two toned. All of my DIY girls will have their projects linked up at the bottom! If you have seen any of my room tours on the blog you saw my dresser turned TV stand in those pictures. I had already painted it with mindful gray and glazed with gauntlet. THEN I saw this picture from Dear Lillie Blog and I fell in love with this furniture piece… It is so gorgeous! I knew I could mix some paint to get a similar color and that is exactly what I did. I had Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Arles. You can see as I was applying the yellow paint the color is not exactly right BUT I know what dark wax does this color. Now for the wax…fyi, it’s not easy taking a one handed iphone picture while the other hand waxes! Just a Girl and her blog
Comfort In Any Climate Warmth If you want heat, you admit the sun. The sun heats the mass, the mass stores the heat and the insulation won't let it escape. The more mass, the more storage capacity. When there is no sun, the heat stored in the mass radiates into the space, for heat travels to the cooler direction. Coolness If you want coolness, you admit the cooler earth temperature and block the sun. Insulation & Thermal Mass In recent years humans have recognized the fact that insulation can help keep temperature in a shelter. Good insulation has millions of tiny air spaces. Dense mass both collects and stores temperature like a jar holds marbles. The people made shelter by assembling pieces one at a time. We are simply adapting our needs to the already existing activities of the planet. Why pipe water long distances from a centralized community water system, or from an expensive well that needs significant electrical power, depletes aquifers and lowers the water table, when water fall from the sky?
Crowds Sing John Lennon's 'Imagine' in Brussels Following Attacks - Inside Edition Hundreds of people gathered on the streets of Brussels in an act of solidarity to condemn the terror attacks that happened at the city’s airport earlier in the day by singing John Lennon’s “Imagine.” Read: Adele Condemns Brussels Attackers: 'We're Better Than Them F***ers' The attacks, which killed 30 and wounded over 200, brought the city to a standstill. As the sunset on Tuesday to bring the dark day to a close, citizens gathered in the streets to light candles and sing Lennon’s hit. University of Leuven, Belgium’s oldest institute of higher learning, let their cathedral bells chime to “Imagine” as well. Read: Read: Brussels' Defiant Residents Cover Sidewalks With Chalk Messages as Tributes Pour In Citizens in the streets of the country’s capital wrote in chalk on the pavement to send messages of love and denounce hate. Watch: Madonna Honors Victims of Paris Massacre By Singing 'Imagine' In the Streets
Charm Bracelet Diva {at Home}: Easter Decorating with Wheat Grass and Other Natural Elements I haven't done much in the way of Easter decorating this year, probably because we still have things in boxes from when the house was on the market. I did find a few decorations to place around the house, but right now my favorite Easter decoration is the mossy basket I recently put together. One nice thing about Easter decorating is that it lends itself to the use of natural elements such as moss, bird's nests, eggs, fresh flowers and wheat grass, just to name a few. use right away whenever the Easter decorating spirit strikes us. Here are just a few examples. I told you all about my grand plans to fill my DIY mossy basket, but my best laid plans went awry. on YouTube -- to grow wheat grass in egg shells. basket with those eggs. years ago seem to have "expired" because many of them just did not want to sprout at all. As you can see, it seems that there were just as many seeds that didn't sprout as ones that did. I was really disappointed, since my daughter and I went to all the trouble of grass?
Do It Yourself Distilled Water | Do something With high energy costs and a warming planet that needs cleaner fuel sources, the time has never been better to get involved with solar energy. DIY Solar Projects (Creative Publishing International, 2011) by Eric Smith contains how-to instructions for many achievable, clever projects you can make and install in order to create your own solar lifestyle. Hundreds of people are doing it, and you can too. The following excerpt is taken from the chapter, “Solar Still.” Make your own distilled water from stream or lake water, salt water, or even brackish, dirty water, using these DIY Solar Still Plans. Distilled water is not just for drinking, and it’s always worth keeping a few gallons of it on hand. • Always refill the lead-acid batteries used for solar energy systems or automobiles with distilled water • Water delicate plants like orchids with distilled water; minerals and additives like fluoride or chlorine that are present in most tap water can harm plants Sources: motherearthnews
Lily the Black Bear - Journal Charm Bracelet Diva {at Home}: Easy DIY Mossy Easter Basket I've been loving on those Pottery Barn moss-covered Easter baskets for the past few years and, well, I decided that it's finally time to do something about it. So I went to my local Hobby Lobby (with coupon of course) and picked up a bag of moss. Then all I needed was the right basket. The project is pretty simple to do. You only need four things. Materials: 1. bag of moss 2. basket 3. hot glue gun 4. glue sticks It's that simple. Here's the basket in progress. I started at the top and worked my way around the basket. have to eyeball it and spread the moss where you think the basket needs it most. the entire basket. I chose to leave the handle bare since it would make it easier to pick up, and I liked the look of the rustic grapevine in contrast with the mossy texture. Once you think you're finished, go back and fill in any small bare spots. I also glued some moss all around the top inside of my basket. I thought it gave it a more finished look. So, what should I put in my basket? Here's a clue.
HEMP: Something All Homes Should Be Made Of – Scotland Community Begins Sustainable Housing Project Many people are becoming aware of ways to live that are more harmonious with the planet. It seems that we are transitioning to a very ancient understanding of how to operate here on Earth, with a very advanced ‘know how’ of technologies and methods to begin making that transition. New ways of living are coming to light and although you may not hear about them often, communities all over the world are starting to implement them. A new sustainable housing project in the Northwest of Scotland will use industrial hemp as the main building material. An English housing company that specializes in hemp-based construction called ‘Hemcrete Projects,’ supplied the system. Hemp has many uses, over 50, 000 to be exact. Combined with insulation made from Hemp fibre, Hembuild provides the village in Scotland with houses made from a combination of insulation and thermal inertia. Hempcrete is very versatile as it can be used for wall insulation, flooring, walls, roofing and more. Sources:
Berkley The Bear Cub Loves To Play In Puddles, Flowers At Discovery Wildlife Park Ah, to be young again. Berkley the bear cub, who calls Innisfail, Alta.'s Discovery Wildlife Park home, is clearly making the most of her childhood if recent videos taken by park staff are any indication. A video released on the park's Facebook page last week shows the adorable baby dancing and splashing in a fresh mud puddle. This bear clearly loves water. And how about these flowers? What a great way to start the weekend! Like Us On Facebook Follow Us On Twitter Also on HuffPost: Close Jason Bantle Grizzly bear cubs playing with trash in B.C.'
Repurposed For Life: RE-DOING ANOTHER POPCORN CEILING Well, I finally have one more ceiling that the popcorn has been removed. Yippee! My son in-law came one day and helped me cover it up. Really I helped him. Here's a beautiful before of the popcorn. Don't you just love it? Who invented this stuff? I went up in the attic and found the placement of the ceiling joists. Then my husband helped me mark them with a chalk line. He also took the fan down for me. I used underlayment to cover the ceiling, because it's thin and light weight. I painted all the supplies before we installed them. Here is the first and most important piece. Yeah. After the ceiling was covered with the panels we lined up lattice trim over the seams. We installed the panels and trim to make four foot sections. We were short by one piece. Nothing a trip to Lowes won't fix. After all the trim was installed I had to patch the nail holes and caulk around all the trim. I also gave everything one more coat of paint. At all the intersections of the lattice trim I installed appliques. Don't you?
Multiple Scientists Confirm The Reality of Free Energy – Here’s The Proof Who is benefiting from suppressing scientific research? Whose power and wealth is threatened by access to clean and free energy? Who has the desire to create a system where so few have so much, and so many have so little? It’s become extremely obvious, especially within the past few years, that Earth’s dependence on fossil fuels is not needed at all. Yet we continue to create war, destroy the environment and harm mother Earth so we can continue using the same old techniques that generate trillions of dollars for those at the top of the energy industry. Corporate media continues to push the idea that we are in an energy crisis, that we are approaching a severe problem due to a lack of resources. This seems to be both another fear tactic and another excuse to create conflict. This means that these systems could run for infinity and provide energy to the entire planet without burning fossil fuels. These concepts are currently being discussed at The Breakthrough Energy Movement Conference.