My Kalanchoe Reblooms!

Content submitted by: Barbara Weiner

Kalanchoe is the first re-blooming plant among all those I'd bought so far. I'm so thrilled because my boyfriend always said I had a black thumb instead of a green one.  I followed the instruction from the video I saw on this blog and cut back the plant after the flowers from the last bloom were wasted.  I then added more potting mix to the pot, water once or twice a week as the video advised.  I also fertilized it once a week.  Since I don't have any plant fertilizer other than the orchid plant food mist that I bought a while back in a failed attempt to resuscitate  my dead orchid gift, I just used the leftover mist to spray feed my Kalanchoe to save money on buying new fertilizer. My Kalanchoe seems to accept this orchid food mist and is now forming new flower buds to bloom again. The following photo was from a few days ago before the flower shows up today.

Kalanchoe is such a hardy and low-maintenance plant, I really love it.  I can't really explain the tremendous satisfaction that I'm having when I see a plant re-bloom.

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Why Does This White Bathroom Look So Chic And Mine Is An Eye Sore?

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This white bathroom from Restoration Hardware is just so chic!

If only I own my bathroom instead of renting, I can make it look chic like that.  But since my landlord who obviously has very poor taste doesn't care,  I'm brainstorming on how I can improve my bathroom with my limited authority to make it look less dated. I strongly feel that my bathroom's 50+ years old vanity mirror just have to go....Do you have any idea?

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Bathroom With A Simple But Charming Design

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Erica Heather Adds A Little Living Color To My 50+ Years Old Rental Bathroom

Content submitted by: Barbara Weiner

As a renter, it's not about the rent that bugs me or whether I'm missing out on investing in real estate that makes me feel envious of the homeowners. I think the biggest con for renting is that I am always stuck with an old bathroom that I don't like.  Bathrooms in rentals always look so generic, as if they are trapped in a time warp in the 60s.  I'm only guessing because my current rental was built in the 60s and my current bathroom doesn't look any different from all the other bathrooms that I had in my previous rentals elsewhere.  I have no idea of what bathrooms in the 60s really looked like since it was an era that was so beyond my generation.  Just my landlord told me my current bathroom fixtures were all original from the 60s (except for the shower door;  and the lights above the vanity).  

I always hate the old and tarnished original vanity  mirror (which I have no authority in changing). Then there is this odd vibe the entire color/decor scheme gives me, which I can't quite figure out what specifically it is that bugs me.  I feel like I have an eye sore and yet I can't pinpoint what it is that gives me the sore.  If you know what exactly is wrong in my bathroom that bugs me so, please let me know!! In the meantime, I try to add a dash of living color with the fragrant Erica Heather that I snipped off from a luscious bloom I bought from Trader Joe's for $4.49.

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Decorate Your Entrance For Health, Peace And Prosperity

What Will Happen If Dandelions Are Not Weeded

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I found a single small dandelion in my tiny patio this morning, which is the only single flower there because I haven't planted anything there or put any plants there.  I just can't find the time to get to that part of my rental apartment.  I hear that dandelion is a perennial weed.  But what harm will it do to my patio if I just leave it alone??  In my case, I won't mind if the dandelion completely takes over my patio because I think the dainty yellow flower is pretty.  It's better to have a patio filled with yellow dandelions than unruly ugly weed grass, no?  I just think it's nice to have flowers in my patio without me watering or doing anything.  

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Multifunctional Bedroom

This is such a cool ideal to maximize the use of a small space!