1.. Apple picking.

This is the original picture I found on Pinterest, courtesy of the brilliant and talented We Lived Happily Ever After blog..So pretty, right?

The plan was that after all the Christmas decorations were down, we would place a bunch of these throughout the yard for some fun Winter color..The instructions seemed easy enough: Put colored water in some balloons, leave them outside to freeze, and voila!.So away we went, mixing up our colored water.

The time came to pour the water into the balloons and they just wouldn’t stretch out and fill up.When you make water balloons, you need the pressure of the water coming right out of the tap to make them grow.

My taps don’t have colored water coming out of them.

How in the world did they do this???.Nothing spectacular, but it’s fresh and white and clean and didn’t cost an arm and a leg.

Best of all, it’s the same old sofa we know and love and we get to love it for just a little longer now.. Of course, this is how it looks most of the time now:.I’m not scared of letting the animals on it, but the thick wool blanket protects it from any unnecessary paw prints..

I think I’m going to be doing a whole lot of laundry.Subscribe by email to receive free posts straight to your inbox, or follow along using any (or all!)