Plastic bags are bad for the environment, but they exist. Let’s try and mitigate the damage by using plastic grocery bags as many times as you can before disposing/recycling. Here are 15 ways you may not have considered. Continue Reading
Dearest Reader, Three years ago (this week), we launched Fun Things To Do While You’re Waiting. A lot has happened in the intervening years and keeping the blog going has been no small feat. Our back catalog now numbers into the 560’s.… Continue Reading
Although Summer is technically still 20 days away, June in Georgia might as well be Summer. As Coralie mentioned last Friday, the fruits and veggies are already out in full force. Which is why, when I saw a helpful info-graphic… Continue Reading
If you read this blog with even the loosest regularity, you’ll know two of several things about me. One, that I LOVE to re-use items– like almost to an obsessive point. You will also know that I have a complicated relationship with plants. Today’s… Continue Reading
Fans of the blog will know by now that I have not a green thumb; despite wanting one so bad. My history with plants has been less than exemplary and I had almost given up hope. Until now. A scant $10 impulse purchase… Continue Reading
I think it is very safe to say that both Leigh & I are big fans of Pinterest. I mean, we have an entire section of this blog devoted to projects and recipes inspired by what we have found on… Continue Reading
Yep. That pretty much describes it. Even my succulents are looking pretty puny. Maybe it’s the light (or lack thereof) in my apartment. Or… maybe it’s just me. It’s probably me. My glorious first pass at multiple plant ownership was a fail.… Continue Reading
I have to be honest, Leigh’s pinterest experiment mod-podging boxes made me remember how much I enjoy doing decoupage myself. I was at an arts and crafts show a couple weeks ago when I saw these awesome, awesome flower pots. The… Continue Reading
Can you hear that? What?! You don’t hear the trumpets?! You can’t see the confetti?! Well, let me tell you… it’s a veritable Carnivale over here at FTTDWYW. Cause, you know what? This week is our one-year blogaversary! Fun Things To Do… Continue Reading
The word “hummingbird” takes me immediately to my grandmother’s kitchen in the summertime. I spent a lot of time with my Georgia grandparents growing up. And I love the memory I have of stirring the sugar and water together in a pot over the… Continue Reading
I’m in this weird place right now where things are coming together. Projects that have languished (some for years) are being completed. Lots of things are getting checked off my to-do list, and wheels are in motion on a lot… Continue Reading
I would like to offer my apology to (apparently) everyone in the Northern Hemisphere who isn’t in Southern California. I’m so sincerely sorry. Between Polar Vortexes and Winter Storm Leon, things are looking pretty chilly for most of the people in… Continue Reading
Can you imagine a world where avocados just grew on trees? Where you could walk out to your yard and pick a lemon for your Aviator cocktail. Or, grab a lime to squeeze over your watermelon. It’s a shame places… Continue Reading
I love succulent plants. Well, I kinda love all plants but I have a very special place in my heart for succulent plants. I had a few on my own and thanks to my friend Nan, I have a few… Continue Reading
Now that things are making their way out of boxes and back into our lives, I am in awe of two things. The first is the amount of things that I had completely forgotten about… the things that when they are… Continue Reading
Under no circumstance am I an advanced gardener! It is only in the last six or seven years that I have even discovered that I like plants. For a majority of my life it was all I could do to… Continue Reading
Our Chicago apartment was on the 14th floor. All my dreams of freshly-grown herbs were always dashed as wind chimes and window boxes are things that just cannot exist successfully on a 14th- floor Chicago balcony. Now that we are… Continue Reading
I have been a member of the Pinterest community for several years now. I go in spurts where I just troll it all the time and then I will not even visit it for days and weeks at a time.… Continue Reading
The lovely Megan Henry is a friend that Coralie and I both know from high school. She lives with her beautiful family outside of Auburn, Alabama. She has been a strong supporter of FTTDWYW from the get-go and we are so… Continue Reading
I don’t have kids. I don’t have pets. I do, however, have two plants. I have a beautiful peace lily named “Robert Plant” and then this cool thing to the left that I bought at Trader Joes. Anybody know what… Continue Reading