Upgrade your curb appeal by installing solar lighting. In this tutorial, I will demonstrate how to make solar walkway lights that you can customize. This Summer I am revamping my backyard and deck. I started last week by creating these DIY wooden lanterns to accessorize my finished space. This weekend I focused on creating lighting for…
Buying a brand-new house with an unfinished backyard has led me to look into cheap DIY projects. So far, I’ve installed a sprinkler system for 1/6 the cost a contractor quoted, and started gathering ideas involving pallets, which you can get for free or for just a few dollars, and reclaimed wood – usually local…
With the spring around the corner, it is finally time for lawn trimming. It is a process that has to be done several times every year, and every other week during the warmer months. For some some, mowing the lawn is very therapeutic, particularly when it comes to clearing your thoughts. There is nothing better than…
The thing about an herb garden, or any edible garden for that matter, it can be extremely challenging identifying whats growing where. Or if you’re like me, you mistake oregano for parsley. So for practical reasons and to provide a decorative element to my Herb Ladder Garden I made these garden “stakes” to identify my…
It all began on a sunny day while chatting with my neighbor. We were in her garage and I said to her ” why do you still have that old wooden ladder? It looks dangerous.” She replied, “I don’t know. It works.” I say to her why don’t you let me make an herb garden…
Hi ToolBox Divas! I’m Blake Loftus (yes, still a diva, just a unisex first name lol) of Two Hawks Homestead. We moved from the sunny beaches of Florida to the Blue Ridge Mountains of south western Virginia in 2013 where we bought a small sustainable family farm raising miniature laMancha dairy goats, chickens, rabbits, pigs….
