Here is the last installment of my Video Home Tour series (for the time being).  I’ve had a really great time compiling all of these for (hopefully) your viewing pleasure. 🙂  This one is 10 minutes long and I take you on a short tour of the main level giving you different views of the accent lighting and at the end, you’ll get a good view of the pups and the patio while we go through our nightly routine. 🙂

Thank you all for your wonderful comments on all of my posts, here on my blogs and on Facebook when I put my links in there as well.  Y’all are awesome!!!

All right, here is that link…

~Until next time, y’all take good care! ❤

~Arlynn ❤

Continuing on with my video home tour, in this my 4th installment, I show y’all our “Mud Room” which is my little catch-all room and the one we breeze through when entering through the garage.  I then move on out into the garage for a bit of commentary–I don’t linger too long in either place. 🙂  Then I move on out to the backyard patio.  I explain a bit about the patio in the video, but, I wanted to share with y’all the original design drawing that we were given–the patio was created exactly to these dimensions and matches this design except that we opted to only have one exit off of the patio as opposed to the two that you see depicted in this picture.  

If you’d like to read about the entire process and see pictures of this patio in its varying stages of construction, here is my Backyard Patio entry.  Also, in the video I speak about how we hosted a family reunion here; I thought I’d give you a link to my Family Reunion Decor and Craft Projects  blog entry–My colors were red and white accenting with red and white gingham, gerber daisies, and mason jars. 🙂

Also, you’ll see our sweet Gracie at the end of this video, and I tell you that she had to have a procedure done on one of her eyes.  Let me lament a little further on that statement here.  She had been diagnosed with Glaucoma in her left eye and we had been aggressively treating it with several different eye drops–meant to reduce the pressure in her eye. I’d been taking her to the vet for regular eye pressure checks and despite all of the eye drops, her eye pressure was still up pretty high; she was not acting as if she was in pain, and even though she was on daily pain medication for her arthritis, she still *might* have been feeling poorly (research likens the pain of Glaucoma in dogs to the pain one might feel from a migraine…As a migraine sufferer, I know first hand how that feels and I didn’t want her to have that pain daily). So, we decided on a procedure called “Chemical Ablation of the Cilary Body” (instead of having her eye removed). This procedure involved a Gentomycin injection into the affect eye that required mild sedation.  Gentomycin is toxic to the ciliary body and it in effect ‘kills’ the eye, which in turn decreased the intraocular eye pressure thus taking any pain that she might have been feeling completely away and it resolved the glaucoma.  Gracie did beautifully through the procedure and we now know that she is no longer in any pain, her eye may look a little funny, and she is definitely blind in that eye, but, she gets around wonderfully well and is such a blessing to us. 🙂 ❤

Here she is before that procedure, you can see that her left eye is quite swollen and bulgy. 😥

And here she is now-a-days, I took this picture a couple of weeks ago, her eye is much less swollen–As you can see, she is a happy girl and we now know for sure that she isn’t in any pain because of Glaucoma. ❤

ANYway <~~~Another one of the words that I use A LOT in my videos..erg…haha, here is my little home tour video, I managed to stay comfortably under 15 minutes with this one. 🙂

Until next time, y’all take good care! ❤

~Arlynn ❤

**Here is a link to the next installment**:

Video Home Tour:  Master Bedroom, Upstairs Landing, and 3 Guest Bedrooms

When I am out and about shopping, I always keep my eyes open for good deals and man oh man did I find one a couple of weeks ago.  As I’ll tell you in my little video tutorial below, I found a huge, heavy bowl for 90% off (!!!) at Hobby Lobby, it just so happened that it had a bit of purple on it and well, my mind started to whirl wondering if there was *something* that I could do with that find.  First, I knew that it would look really pretty in our “Purple” guest bedroom that is made up with that most beautiful of colors. And, second, I knew that I had a bit of a bare spot on the bottom of a table shelf that needed a little something. *Even* if I hadn’t have had a spot with which to utilize that bowl, I’d find one!  So, I snatched that bowl right on up and I will now show you how I put together an easy centerpiece to add to that room’s decor.

Below the little video box, I’ll show you the finished project and where I placed it in the Purple room.

Here is where I placed it:

As you can see, this bedroom has a bathroom attached, it is not very big at all, but it serves its purpose…

I always have a little care package sitting in all of the guest bedrooms so that folks who come to stay will have a little selection of things from which to choose that they might have forgotten…

I made that wreath utilizing one of my daughter’s old Boyd’s Bear Bunnies.

This is the view of the upstairs landing as you exit the purple bedroom…You can see the Turquoise Room to the right, and the Happy Room  to the left <~~~ Links to show you how I put those two rooms together, i.e. bedding, decorations, curtains, decor, etc…And here is a link to the Purple Room‘s blog post.  I also have a blog post here showing you how I put together that little chair and table grouping on the landing.

Here is a peek at the Turquoise Room…

And the Happy Room:

And here is the hall bathroom upstairs, it sits right next to the Happy Room so I kind of brought that same feel into the bathroom…Again, it is a very small bathroom, but it serves its purpose:

And the family room as you look down over the railing:

And the fireplace as you walk down the staircase…haha…:)

All righty, that centerpiece is now in its rightful place and the upstairs is ready for a couple of guests who might just be coming to visit in the coming days. 🙂

Until next time, y’all take good care! ❤

~Arlynn ❤

I’ve been working diligently to make up a few tutorial videos for y’all, in this post, I will highlight how I switched out my Little Red Wagon decor yesterday.  As you will see in the video my wagon is starting to look ‘well used’, ‘rustic’, ‘a bit rough’, but, I love it so much that it looking a wee bit rustic is going to be okie dokie fine with me. When gathering items for this little project, I tried to mimic the Burlap & Birdhouse Wreath that I made for the front door last week.  Okay, I’m not going to yammer on any longer here in the body of this blog post other than to give you a link to my How To Make a Bow tutorial (because I promised I would in the video). 😉 🙂

Here are a few pictures of the finished product and then there will be a link to the tutorial below that:

While I was at it yesterday, I also switched out my decorative flags that I have hanging in our front flower bed and added one Grapevine Wreath creations:

As you’ll notice the Grapevine wreath matches the front porch decor…:)

And I redid the mailbox decor…If you’d like to see an entire post talking about how I change my mailbox decor out Seasonally, click here :

All righty, here is that tutorial:

If y’all have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to leave them in the comments below…

Until next time, y’all take good care! ❤

**In crafting there are no mistakes just unique creations**

~Arlynn ❤

I tried something new today, my hubby got me all set up with a little video camera and I recorded myself while I put this new front door wreath together.  So I don’t have to do a ton of explaining here in words, I’ll tell y’all all about in the video. 🙂  I will list and show a few pictures of the supplies that I gathered to make this wreath.

Here goes:

• 24″ Metal Work Wreath Form
• 2 1/2 Skeins of Burlap Runner
• 1 Bolt of Burlap Ribbon (Wired)
• Scroll’y’ piece
• 3 Cream Sunflowers
• 2 Resin Daisies
• 2 Metal Stars
• Wooden Birdhouse
• Red Berries

You will also need pipe cleaners, a hot glue gun, and a spool of floral wire:

And the hubby got me all set up with our new little video camera and this tripod–It was quite the operation. 😉

Here is the finished wreath and below these pictures will be a link to my tutorial video. I tried really hard not to ramble! lol  I hope that it will help to inspire y’all to try and make one of these for yourself!!!

Here’s that link:

***Update:  Well, I wasn’t completely happy with my wreath, so I did a little work on it today–Here is a little video update for y’all. 🙂

Until next time, y’all take good care! ❤

~Arlynn ❤