Yes! It's Easy to Grow Your Own Food

Whether your thumb is green or brown, like mine, you can grow some of your own food.  

Growing up, a lot of my summers were spent at my grandparents' 100-acre farm where my mother would help harvest food from the huge garden.  I remember getting to help pick the strawberries, dig potatoes, or pull ears of corn from the stalks.  To me, it was pretty magical.  My grandparents grew everything...beans, berries, potatoes, okra, tomatoes, corn, onions, and even grapes.  

I guess that's where my gardening bug started.  I've never been able to grow as big or as well as my grandparents but I've had several successes along the way.  Enough to know that it's pretty easy to grow your own food, regardless of the amount of area you have available!  In this post, I'm partnering with Hometalk to curate a list of great tips for growing your own food.  My personal tip on this list is for growing figs...talk about easy, they're pretty much maintenance free.  

Check out the many great tips on this Hometalk board.  You can access it HERE or by clicking on the graphic below!

I hope you click over to Hometalk and check out these 12 easy to grow foods.  Let me know if you grow your own foods or if this will be your first try!  I'd love to hear!

Thanks for stopping by and God bless!
Angie

Inexpensive Outdoor Furniture

I know the holidays are approaching so who's thinking about outdoor furniture, right?  Well, maybe you should be if you like getting a good deal.  I'm not really talking about the end of season discounts.  I'm talking about cheaper than that.  Really!

Did you know that people are looking to get rid of their "old" outdoor furniture this time of year?  Yep.  I found this Martha Stewart Living set for free a few years ago.

Little rust and a few rips from sun damage but nothing a little spray paint and new fabric couldn't fix!

See what I mean!  

So, why am I telling you all this?  Well, because Hometalk.com asked me to curate an outdoor furniture board for their website and you won't believe all the great ideas I found and now is the time to grab some deals.  Check them out!

So many great ideas for outdoor furniture that won't hurt your budget.  AND, if you're on the lookout for some great pieces now, you can simply put them away to work on at your leisure.  You may even have some pieces already around your house (like the microwave cart turned outdoor bar cart!)  So, by spring, you'll be pulling out some swanky new (to you) outdoor furniture.  

While you're checking out the outdoor projects, be sure to look around the Hometalk.com website.  It's loaded with great ideas on almost everything for home and garden.

Thanks for stopping by and God bless!

Angie

A Giveaway to the Atlanta Home Show

Who loves something for free??  Me!  Who loves anything and everything to do with homes??  Me!  Well, this weekend is the Atlanta Home Show at the Cobb Galleria Centre.

The 36th Annual Spring Atlanta Home Show

March 21-23

Cobb Galleria Centre 

Special appearance Saturday by Ahmed Hassan of HGTV's Yard Crashers!  Yeah, how cool is that?!  I always hoped to run in to him in our home improvement store.  I've got a BIG yard that needs BIG help!  

The Atlanta Home Show is being sponsored in part by Hometalk!  Be sure to check them out for tons of great home decorating, gardening, building ideas, and more!

Now, here's your chance to enter!!

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Country Living Fair in Atlanta

This past weekend, my husband, youngest daughter, and I attended the Country Living Fair in Atlanta.  It was held at Stone Mountain Park which is just amazing to see.

                 

Hometalk, where I post (and find great posts!), hosted a blogger meet and greet along with the Country Living Editors.  It was great getting to meet face-to-face with some of the bloggers I follow...Kathy of A Delightsome Life (a fellow homeschooling mom!), Kim of Savvy Southern Style (love her sitting room with the dogs and hunting decor!), Rhoda of Southern Hospitality (who's provided me with a lot of inspiration over the past couple of years!) and Linda of Coastal Charm, and others that I met for the first time at the fair.  Super sweet and really helpful at answering questions for an amateur like me.

These are the wonderful bloggers attending for the Country Living/Hometalk Meet and Greet.  Country Living's Editor-in-Chief, Sarah Miller, is in the center.  She and others from Country Living Magazine as well as the Hometalk crew were so gracious to meet with us.    Borrowed this pic from DIYontheCheap.com (She's the cute one to the right of the sign holding the t-shirt and bag!)

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Cari Cucksey, of HGTV's Cash and Cari, had a booth at the Fair and took a minute to speak with us about her business of repurposing furniture and other items to resell.  Isn't she cute?!  Love the vintage boots.

Stone Mountain on its own is a great place to visit but throw in the Country Living Fair with loads of great vintage, antique, and handmade items PLUS an amazing fall day...that's just icing on the cake!

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Here's a look at just a few of the booths this year.  I'm sorry I didn't get more.  I was like a kid in a candy shop with all the goodies and I kept forgetting to take pictures!

                  
These amazing signs are handmade by Tara of Between You and Me.  I follow her blog but didn't get a chance to speak to her.  Her booth was super busy!

                                     
Loved this snowman!  I have a snowman fetish :)

                                 
One of the adorable campers from Sisters on the Fly.  It's on my bucket list to join them one day!

So, what did I come home with??  Don't laugh.  It's not a lot but it's really cute!

                                 
It's a vintage store sign from Dilley Brand's booth.  They had some GREAT items.  You can check them out here.  I haven't found a place for it yet but I'm thinking it will be somewhere displayed with my vintage aprons!  I'll let you know :)

I hope you enjoyed visiting the Country Living Fair with me.  As always, I appreciate your stopping by and God bless!!

Angie