Occasionally, the Colb-ster has some pretty impeccable ideas for the blog. Creativity really isn’t his strong suit so when he comes up with some shear creative brilliance, I usually capitalize on that. In this case, we were discussing our gardening projects and suggested that I do a little blog series about our veggie garden throughout the summer and call the series “Garden Hard”, spoofing my latest movie series obsession, Die [...]
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Before I dive into today’s blog post I need to explain the title and the associated Jeanne-ism. Jeanne is one of my co-workers, probably one of the loudest, and one of her top ten phrases is “succa-please”. Succa-Please Passive-aggressive behavior at its most eloquent Colby: Let’s just take one more lap around the Dick’s Sporting Goods hunting department before we go to Sephora. Angie: ”Succa-please!” It’s a phrase that’s used [...]
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While we’re getting back onto the DIY train and working on a few projects (and picking up our uber messy, post wedding, mess of a house), I thought I would share a little veggie tale. And not that veggie tale…this one is about corn. More specifically the corn in our garden and how it keeps getting popped off…one stalk at a time. Seriously…this is our corn: And this is our [...]
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Bad blogger, bad blogger. Back on Sunday I update you with a rustic, hand crafted, and virtually free garden trellis and never revealed to you the finished garden product. For shame! It must be all this invitation assembly that’s going on. My brain appears to be fried…or out to lunch. But anywho…lets get back to the garden along our driveway, shall we. The garden project all started because I needed [...]
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Just about when I decided to start building the ark, the clouds parted and a yellow, glowing orb (more affectionately known as the sun) decided to show it’s face once again, gracing us with its presence. In other words…it stopped raining and the sun came out to play this weekend. Since our indoor projects could wait, we turned to a little gardening and built a trellis, future home of climbing [...]
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It’s safe to say that our veggie garden has officially sprung and we are happy to announce that we will, in fact, have vegetables this year! Last weekend we were taking a walk through the garden, occasionally weeding it (I had to wait a few weeks until I could tell for certain the difference between a weed and one of the veggie plants…I’m still a gardening novice). But one plant [...]
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Last Sunday was our day of rest. No demo, no dust, no mess. Well, no not really. We did do a little insulation installation and sheet rock hanging. But we had to take a bit of a fresh air break. It was way too gorgeous outside not to spend a significant amount of time en plein air. What better way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon than gardening? And I [...]
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Last weekend was absolutely GORE-geous (she says in her best Real Housewives accent) here in Maine. It has proceeded to pour everyday since then to the point where I’m contemplating building an ark so we can ford the river that flows through our driveway. Seriously…it’s a matter of time before Goose gets swept down the street. But anyway…since Colby and I have vowed this summer that outdoor time trumps indoor [...]
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In the recent weeks I’ve alluded to this awesome thing that Colby has been building me. Well hold on to your britches boys and girls because the awesome thing is about to be revealed. It’s done, we think (there may be future tweakages as needed), and fully stocked. Drum roll please……….joy to the world…….drum roll……….introducing my potting bench: It’s tucked right around the corner from the deck on part of [...]
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While we’re diligently staining and polying our hallway floor like good little DIYers, let’s share one of our weekend activities. We try to escape the house as much as possible. Is it sad that these two homebodies literally have to tell ourselves to go out more? For instance, this weekend I said, “Self…we have got to go check out the Bangor Garden Show”. Typically I would have spent my Easter [...]
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Welcome to Angie's Roost (and Colby's Hen House) where you'll find daily posts about our misadventures in DIY home improvement. We bought a 100+ year old home that desperately needed some love and blogged about our entire adventure.
Rolling drywall photo "studio" idea from Little Dog Blog, great for taking Etsy product photos
Rustic Wood Cookbook Stand For The Kitchen, Cutting Board Style, Roostic Etsy Shop, $35
Rustic Wood iPad Stand For The Kitchen, Cutting Board Style, Roostic Etsy Shop, $35
