A Quarter Life Tale

I turn 25 in five days. I have no grand epiphany's or regrets to report of. I bought a puppy last week, and earlier this year I got married and bought a house. It's safe to say I'm fulfilled at the moment. No crisis here! Instead, I'm having a party! A big one. And it will be booze soaked. I planned a 3 day hangover-recovery process. :)

But I digress.

 I decided to pizzazz my backyard up a little, Martha Stewart Style. Home improvement craft time!!

I have a huge space for a backyard that I eventually hope to fill with trees and a fire pit and benches, but for now, I just need something functional. I scoured Pinterest for some ideas and this is what I came up with:

So off to Lowes, went the hubby, and he purchased four, 7ft wood posts and 2 bags of quick cement. It turned out we only needed 1 bag of cement, so now I have extra. Maybe I can use it on the fire pit! I hit up my local Dollar Tree to find some inexpensive buckets for the posts. I found purple plastic buckets and decided to experiment.

The plastice buckets held the cement well and I recommend it to anyone on a budget. After the posts were settled we spray painted them gold to compliment the purple.

(And you might notice our half-mowed lawn, sorry!)

Then I bought hooks to attach to the posts for something to hang the lights off:

Then I bought string lights from Target:

But you'll have to wait until the party to see the finished project! See you there!!