Cheap Window Solution while house in under construction

As you can see from the photo, my house is under construction.  Regardless of the fact that I do not have any walls in my bedroom right now, I need to have some sort of shade or something up.  The problem is that I don't want to hang a shade and curtain up when I am going to have to take it down to put up walls.  I also don't want to put up anything nice until the room is finished.  If I put up something nice right now it would just get ruined. 

So I went to a discount store and bought a towel.  I decided that the towel, if done right could double as a curtain and a shade for right now!

This would also be great for anyone on a tight budget.

SUPPLIES

1 towel big enough for the window

1 spool of wide ribbon

2 tacks

scissors

All I did was cut 2 pieces of ribbon to the length of my towel.  Then I folded the ribbon in half.  I placed  each piece of the ribbon about 1/4 of the way in on the ends of the towel.  Then, I tacked the towel up to my window frame.  One tack on each of the ribbons, and one in the center of the towel. Then I tied a bow in the bottom of each of the ribbons. 

When night comes I let the towel hang down.  When it's daytime, I just roll the towel up and put it through each ribbon. 

It is kind of cute!

                                               

Found A Cure For The Raven Problem

As I posted before, I was having trouble with Ravens getting into my chicken house and taking the chickens eggs and killing my chickens. Well I had enough of them the other day so I decided that it was time to really do something about it.
I made some scarecrows, nothing fancy but they seem to be doing the trick. I screwed a board to the side of each chicken house. I planned it so that the board would be about 7 feet up off of the ground. I wanted the scarecrows to be really intimidating. Then I screwed an old pair of jeans to the chicken house right under the board. I used long wood screws so that is would be sturdy. I tied knots in the bottoms of each leg and stuffed them with shopping bags. Then I put a shirt down over the board. I stapled the back of the shirt to the board with a staple gun. I tucked the bottom of the shirt down into the pant and then nailed it all together to the side of the house. I stuffed the shirt with old shopping bags. I tied a knot in the sleeves and stuffed them with plastic egg crates. Then for the head I used old feed bags. I just bunched them up into a ball, put the ball down on the top of the board and then stapled around the head with a staple gun onto the board. I took a permanent marker and drew a face. I pulled the neck of the shirt up to the head and stapled again. Then I took a bright yellow safety hat and put it on. It looked huge and scary.
Now, it was time for the test. I let my dog outside. She went crazy growling and barking. She thought they were real. It has been two days and no problems yet with the ravens. I see them circle my yard, but then they leave. They want nothing to do with a 7 foot man in a safety hat.

Am I just a housewife?

I am just a housewife some people would say. I am a lot more then that. I am a homeschooling mom, a cook, the cleaning lady, assistant treasurer and Sunday school teacher for teen girls at church, I love to do crafts and most of all, I am famous around this small town for doing weird home projects.

My friends call and ask "So what is today's project?" So I thought why not write a blog about it. Each day I will write about what is going on, what I have done for a project and how it turns out. It should be interesting.

I believe very strongly that there is nothing that a housewife can't do if she wants to. Let me tell you about my biggest project. My house, I bought a house 3 years ago. It was built in the 40's, rumor has it that the mafia built it as a hunting camp. I don't know if that is really true or not. I just know that I loved the house and had to have it. Now this is the crazy part. My house was in horrible shape. It was all moldy and I gutted it out and have been redoing it slowly. I do it as I have time and as my purse will allow. I don't want to go far in debt, I just want to do a daily project until it all gets done. I work on this place so much that I have been mistaken as a contractor in my small town.

My favorite place to go is Home Depot!! That is a project in itself to find what I need and then to load it on the pickup and to unload it when I get home.

A housewife's job is NEVER done!!!

enjoy!