The backyard. For some of us, it’s one of our favorite places on Earth. For the rest of us, it’s a thorn of embarrassment stuck in our side. Such a beautiful chunk of space should be the home outside the home, but many of us are lucky if we can get the lawn mowed before…
It’s taken nearly 8 months, but grass is sprouting up in my backyard. When we got the house last December, it was basically dirt, weeds, and a pipe to the sprinklers in the front yard – our brand new house included a front yard, but the backyard was up to us. Over the weekend of…
When the summer comes knocking, it brings along a great deal of problems, such as humidity, heavy showers and huge electricity bills. However, there are positive sides to this season as well, and one of the perks is that you can finally do your repairs and perform a large-scale house cleaning. Check out our ultimate…
What is your place of seclusion? Where do you find your moment of Zen? Is there a corner in your home where you feel safe, secure and at peace? For most people, such a place is their bed, an armchair next to their book shelves or that special corner filled with all their favorite stuff…
When I started working on my backyard it was an untamed chaotic mess filled with chicken wire and corn stalk. After weeks…months of pulling up plants and pavers and cinder blocks I could finally see some improvement. My backyard was beginning to resemble a backyard versus a farm. I had all these mismatched…
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…
As I’m sitting here going through some pictures of my home in a photo album I’m drifting into a state of nostalgia, remembering the summer after I 1st purchased my house. That was a very interesting year, and an even more eventful spring and summer. (OK, this is where in the movies the scene cuts…
It’s that time again, It’s Cent-Sational! Last month was our first month doing the Cent-sational Salvage Challenge. And I’ve gotta admit it was pretty amazing! The competition was steep and everyone did an awesome job producing some fantastic creations using kitchen utensils. This month it’s all about those chairs! So before I reveal my…
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….
