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So…remember the other day I shared a photo of our disaster of a patio? In case you don’t, here are some more photos of it to jog your memory.

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Lovely, right?

Well, the good news is that it got that way mostly due to laziness. So it really was nothing a little elbow grease couldn’t fix.

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But sometimes, elbow grease alone isn’t enough. The dead plants in all our pots screamed neglect. My husband, our resident green thumb (because I am not at all horticulturally inclined) decided we had to remedy that.

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Chirp, chirp…

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Yeah…so you may have noticed that Green Your Decor hasn’t exactly been active lately. I have no excuse. Life just happened. On any given day, I’m working on half a dozen different things, and it doesn’t leave as much time for blogging as I would like. I wish I were writing this to say that I’ll be going back to a daily posting schedule. But the truth is, after about 2 years of infrequent posting, I’ve admitted to myself that’s not going to happen.

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I have a habit of savings thing I “can eventually use.” Wine bottles, corks, cookie tins, strips of ribbon, plastic packaging components — you name it, and I have saved it, promising myself that I’d one day make use of it in some as yet unknown project. Well in honor of Earth Day (yesterday) and my 4-year blogiversary (yes, it crept up on me this year, because it was last week), I decided to finally do something with all that…well…stuff. Or at least some of it.

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Happy Halloween from me and Ja’Naya the peacock! We hope you/your kids got all the candy you/they can eat :) On a side note…

WE NEED YOUR VOTES!

I entered Ja’Naya in 2 costume contests on Facebook, and we’d love to get your votes. If you like her costume, please VOTE HERE (Juan of Words) and VOTE HERE (Children’s Place)!  Thanks in advance!

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A Michelle Kaufmann-designed Breezehouse, by Blu Homes. Do I really need to explain this one? OK. Simply put, it’s green, and it’s freaking gorgeous! Oh yeah. And it’s a house. That we would own. Sure beats an apartment…


EKLA Home Kristina sectional sofa: In the gray fabric shown, NOT bright green, of course. It is made of natural rubber, 100% organic U.S.-grown and -milled wool dyed with fiber reactive low-impact, non-toxic dye, 100% organic cotton barrier cloth, FSC-certified alder frame and legs, recycled steel springs and Safecoat no VOC stain. About as green as it gets.

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