The Mix Gal: ~Wordless Wednesday

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Wordless Wednesday....

It's a Dog's Life......notice that she is on my nice Green, Wool Coat! She is so spoiled!

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Wordless Wednesday

This spring has been so busy that my blog posts are even suffering....so I am at least taking the time to put together a few of my favorite things to do/places to go! Hope you enjoy..

Camping - the one and only time we rented an RV - now I want one!

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Wordless Wednesday - 5 Minute Egg

I am the self proclaimed "Queen" of improvise.....soft boiled eggs and no egg cups? Not a problem!

The Dog Can Never Resist the Camera........

No Egg Cups - No Problem, I used Shot Glasses Instead!
We don't drink very much so at least the shot glasses are getting some use!

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Wordless Wednesday - Hubby's Project

The downstairs laundry/bathroom project. The space was not finished when we bought the house (only the framing, wiring and plumbing lines were in). Hubby has been working on it in his spare time......finishing the floor spanned two weekends.

Sub floor installed

Tiles down, spacers in and beer waiting.....

The favorite shoes....not quite so pretty anymore!

Finished!

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Wordless Wednesday - Dirt!

If you have been following me for a while you are probably aware that our back yard is two levels....the last 20 feet of our yard is stepped down from the main yard anywhere from 2 feet to 4 feet.

When we bought our house 3 years ago this whole area was engulfed in blackberry bushes and unbeknown to us - garbage including old bikes, radiators, the remnants of an old bed and other stuff I probably don't want to know about.

Clearing out the bushes and garbage actually made the lower level even lower so we finally were able to get some dirt to fill a little of it back in. I know it looks like a lot of dirt but at least we can level some of the really low patches out and we are hoping to be able to build it up about a foot or so.....

This is the view from our deck looking left (we live in a two story house).

This is the view from our deck looking to the right.

The piles look a little more impressive up close!

I can only hope that the neighborhood kids don't discover our "dirt piles" before we get a chance to spread it out!

Thank you for stopping by The Mix Gal! Comments validate my blogging efforts, so I would love to hear from you. Take care and Keep Life Simple by Mixing It UP!
~♥KerrieLynn

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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Wordless Wednesday - Vintage Style

I love all things vintage and the older the better! I recently ran across a series of Project Gutenberg books which relate to cooking and I was able to pull these images from a variety of books. I love imagining what a typical day in their lives might have been. I am sure in some ways easier than ours, but I am sure that many ways much more difficult than the lives we live today.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Wordless Wednesday - My Retro Apron!

Retro Apron I decided to make (with a couple of modifications)

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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Get Organized with Duct Tape & Vinyl?

I ~~have~~ had a problem ~ paperwork overload from my kid's schools! Papers, papers and more papers which includes calendars, homework schedules, homework, spam from outside sources, fundraisers, book order forms and more! If you are a parent who has kids in our public school system I am sure you can relate! My kitchen island would turn into a stock pile of paperwork and we quite frequently missed deadlines, homework was late, tennis shoes were not worn on P.E. days, the book orders missed the deadline and so on and so on! I was a organizational paperwork failure!

It's not that I haven't tried various systems to make it all work.....I've tried the 3 ring binder - one for each kid, but that requires that you open up the binder to see what is going on or coming up and the binders always made their way into the computer cabinet to clear up counter space and only worked for about a week.

I also tried clear file organizers like these ►

I had one file for each of my kids and one for "Miscellaneous", these worked pretty well if all you wanted to see was the first page of whatever was "filed". Then came the crash........after about 9 months of hanging up (with industrial double sided sticky tape) they came crashing down to the floor! I ended up with a headache and a huge paperwork mess, not to mention the computer cabinet which now boasts sticky tape remnants on the side. Moving forward......I thought to myself, well maybe I could use my refrigerator and attach everything with magnets, pretty soon the fridge was gone and I had a 6 foot tall paperwork cube (at least that is what it looked like)!

My last and quite possibly my most brilliant idea came together when I started thinking clear vinyl, duct tape and the removable 3M sticky tabs (the kind you usually use for their hooks). My first step was to "sketch it out in my head" and then sketch it out on paper, then finally make patterns. Once I determined that the patterns would work, I started on the real deal! One thing to keep in mind is that my day job is working for a sign and awning company so I was able to get clear industrial strength vinyl from my work. I think you could probably get similar clear vinyl at a fabric store and to save on costs the back piece would not have to be vinyl.
Here are the steps:

I cut out one long back piece, one bottom pocket piece slightly taller than the rest, and eight slightly shorter pieces.
The next step was to trim the top of each piece with duct tape, including the top of the long back piece.
Lay out the long back piece on the table and duct tape the bottom of one of the eight shorter pieces onto the back. You will need to utilize some good math skills to make it all work together.
Lay the next of the eight pieces on top of the one you just taped onto the back and tape it at the bottom, I left a 3" gap from the top of one piece to the top of the next. Continue until you are left with the one piece that is slightly larger than the rest - it should now fit flush with the bottom of the backer piece.
Tap the bottom of this piece and then tape the sides of the whole unit.
Attach however many of the 3M removable double stick tabs you think you will need and attach any embellishments to the front.
Remove the paper from the double stick tape and attach the whole thing to the fridge. My unit is so large that I removed the paper from the tape in sections....first I attached the top, then the middle section and finally the bottom.

My unit is rather large so that I can have the bottom piece be the calendar, then I have Monday through Friday spots, one Saturday/Sunday spot, a Future Spot and a Miscellaneous Spot. It may not be the prettiest of designs, but it works and we haven't missed a "deadline yet". I purposely left off the exact dimensions that I used, because

A) I misplaced them and

B) You may not want yours to be as large as mine.....

As long as you create paper patterns first to see how it all works you can just use the patterns!


The unit is designed so that all of the pages will go into their respective slot in landscape mode, the edge of each paper sticks out about three inches to make it easy to grab.