So I've been waiting to do this post since the day we put an offer on our house. We moved in to our first house in March of this year. It's our "dream house", and we plan on living here for as long as humanly possible, but with all good things there was a down side. I hated my backyard, well I should say I hated the landscaping or lack thereof in my backyard. The house has only been owned by a handful READ MORE So I've been waiting to do this post since the day we put an offer on our house. We moved in to our first house in March of this year. It's our "dream house", and we plan on living here for as long as humanly possible, but with all good things there was a down side. I hated my backyard, well I should say I hated the landscaping or lack thereof in my backyard. The house has only been owned by a handful READ MORE 
This post has been such a long time in the making. It makes me so happy that I might fill this post with overly positive words and phrases. You guys!, six year, that's how long it's been since we moved into this house. Six years ago I was staring at an ugly white house decked out with lots of mint green trim, green stairs, green awnings, and no landscaping to speak of. I swallowed hard when I READ MORE 
Something cool happened at Casa La Allen this weekend, we put our new, improved and revamped fire pit to use! The urban cabin vibes just got turned up to maximum volume!
Now we're not newbies to fire pits, you guys, we've had plenty before. However, this new fire pit situation is much better than the others because we faux built it in to the yard. Get it? It looks built in but it still has READ MORE 
Hey Guys, hop aboard the crazy garden train today with me! I've been thinking a lot about my "hellstrip" lately (aka boulevard garden) (aka the garden between the sidewalk and the street). The weather is still springish 'round these parts. I'm guessing I'll have limited days before the sun starts heating things up and gardening won't seem fun anymore. I need to get started on this boulevard garden READ MORE 
I hope this is the last time I'll be picking up a paint brush for awhile. Not only am I sick of painting, and painting, and painting, but I am also ready to start my outside projects for the summer. I painted the window boxes yesterday so I guess that's an appropriate segue into moving my projects outside.
I do/did love my red window boxes but alas, it was not meant to be. Now that we are READ MORE 
