Goodbye Rocks!

I decided to change over my previous blog to this blog. You can still find me over at twodaisiesandanelephant.blogspot.com. However, most of my blog posts from there will be transferred over to this one. So, at times you may see the "twodaisiesandanelephant" logo going across many of the photos. No worries, it is me. I promise.

Okay, so I don't know if the previous owners put these out and created this little area. However, this girl likes to go barefoot and walking over these rocks gets a little old. Plus, they go everywhere. I mean end up at the end of the sidewalk, everywhere.

It even had this weird bumper around it to define the area. I wasn't feeling that either. So, my husband pulled it up and took it to the dump. Then, we were left with rocks. Lovely rocks.

With the fact that it was continuously raining or we were busy with Baby E, we never really got around to it. Until... I pick the hottest day to rake rocks. Even with that, it still looks better.

I had to rake them into piles, but that's okay. It still looks a lot better than what it did.

Now, to just get a wheel barrow. Scoop them up and take them out front. I'm just going to add them to the random hole in the driveway.

It just looks so much better. All I have to do now is figure out how to get the remainder of the rocks up. You know the ones that are stuck under the mounds and mounds of dirt.





Even the sidewalk, that seemed to gather the rocks on it as well. I honestly still haven't figured out how the sidewalk accumulated that many rocks. Here's a before and after shot.

        

 

Easy Flag Holder for the Front Door

I've always been at a loss how I could hang up some of my extra flags for holidays when I don't have a wreath. So, as I was walking around the yard I noticed the umpteen thousand sticks in the yard just lying around - they would be extremely useful instead of just hanging around the yard. 

When it finally dawned on me that I could use one of them to hang my extra flags up... I grabbed as many as I could. I then laid them on my kitchen counter to see which one would work perfectly... at least lengthwise. 

Now, your probably thinking okay... this is a Halloween flag and we're in July. Well, as I've started this blog I've gone back through majority of my pictures and have found ones that I've done and just want to share with everyone :).

Anyways, after figuring out which stick would work perfectly with my flag I placed the flag onto the stick and tried to center it the best that I could. Once, it was centered to my liking I grabbed some balloon ribbon and tied it to both ends of the stick. I then lightly tied it on one end and to the door knocker. This way I could easily interchange when I wanted to.
It gives our door a little simplistic feel especially when I don't have a wreath to place on my door. Plus, it lets me make use of all my other flags that I love without having to remember to keep interchanging everything or figure out which one I really want to put out.