DIY kinda girl: Goodbye 'til January...

Yeah, I know, my blogging has been...well, nonexistent. It's not that I don't have things to share, I do. It's that I've been working my tail off to get all my projects done by the end of the year, the holidays are in full swing, and I've had migraine episodes with greater than normal frequency. All in all, no time to blog. So here's one more project as a grand send off until January...when I'll tell you all about what I've been up to!

This has been a long time coming. I posted on my personal Facebook page the other day..."WELL. We closed on this house February 3rd. I've been planning on painting the garage doors, front door and adding shutters and a windowbox since we made our offer January 4th. And now, December 3rd, it is finally all done. Shutters and windowbox are up. And I totally love it!"

We used cedar fence slats, cut them to size, sanded them down a bit, painted them to match our newly painted garage doors, and screwed them into place. Sounds easier than it was! But either way, it was very inexpensive. It took 3 of the 5.5 inch slats to make the window box...3 @ $1.87=$5.61. 12 total 3.5 inch slats for the shutters (6 per window)...12 @ $1.17=$14.04. Not bad, eh? Now, just because it makes me happy, before (i.e., what it looked like when we bought it) and after:

And with that, have a WONDERFUL holiday season!!!!! I may pop in if I have a holiday related craft that is easy to blog about, but otherwise see y'all in January!

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