Welcome to our home!  Glory Hill Home Decorating will always be adding new painting and crafting ideas, needlepoint, crosstitch and embroidery patterns, home decoration and home improvement tips, organizing suggestions, gardening information, and resources.  Our products can be custom created as shower and wedding favors, combined in gift baskets for house warmings, corporate gifts, or special occasions.  

     The Ruby Red Geranium project is just one of our many painting projects planned for our painting classes.  These beautiful geraniums are also painted on a serving tray that can  be purchased through Our Catalog.

       Our gift shop (catalog) is always open and full of pretty things for you and your home, gifts for friends, as well as an assortment of "do-it-yourself" project kits. 

       Our site and shop are kid friendly, so you don't have to worry what they might come across.  We have ideas and projects geared for little hands, too.  

       Take a look around and check out what's new!

You can use what you already own!

      We believe in "going green!"  Quite a bit of our information centers around recycling and green ideas.  And we also encourage money saving tips to recycle the other "green."   Semi-homemade is a great way to use what you already have and add your touch of personality to create something new without alot of expense.

Get the family and kids involved. 

       Get the kids involved!  We have many simple projects to keep the kids busy and productive - and away from the TV, computer screen and video games.  A little cooking, gardening, crafting, woodworking can all be done together.  But...we also have ideas for independent projects that require very little supervision.  Let them be creative and enhance their home environment, too. 

Resources and more!

            You've seen all those home improvement and decorating tips offered by Martha Stewart, DIY, Semi-homemade by Sarah Lee House & Garden, and even Paula Dean and Rachael Ray.  Oprah has also featured organizational and clean up ideas on her show.  There are millions of ideas, but we can help you adapt those ideas to your home and your family to become more than just something you see on TV or in magazines.  We are always looking for resources to add to for your convenience.   

       Are you ready to get started?  Take a look below for the 

"Tip of the Month"  and the  "Project of the Month"  and get

started today!

       TIP OF THE      MONTH

     Here's an idea to motivate the kids to help in the garden this year.  Get the kids involved in "growing" the garden compost pile by letting them feed their own new pets - worms!

     It may sound kind of gross, but what a wonderful way to get the kids to learn a little science, a little gardening, a little responsibility, (feeding their pet), and then reap the rewards at harvest time.   

     So...Start a compost pile today with whatever scraps of vegetables, eggshells, fruit peels (especially banana peels), grass clippings, leaves and fireplace ashes.  DO NOT PUT MEAT SCRAPS IN THE PILE!   It's never too late to start and your gardens will benefit without chemical enhancement products. 

     And, this is the best part...Take a trip with the children to the bait shop and buy a couple containers of worms.  If you have small children, let each child have their own container of worms.  The worms can be dumped into the compost pile.  Then, when you have a bowl full of scraps, send one of the kids out to dump it and they will have an invested interest - they will be feeding their worms! 

Spring Flowers!

PROJECT OF THE MONTH!

     Now's the time to put up the bird houses.  The pretty little blue birds love to build their nests in houses set at just the right height and in just the right spot.  They are particular.   

     Go to the Project Page to find free patterns for building birdhouses. 

Here are few tips to remember when building any housing for birds (and other animals, too):

• Don't use pressure-treated lumber because it's toxic to animals and humans.

• Don't use spray paint products on the structure, because it's toxic to animals and humans.  (Water based acrylic paint can be used on the exterior.

• Don't paint the interior, because baby birds may pick at the walls and ingest the paint.

• Don't use creosote on the structure, because it's toxic to animals and humans.

• Don't use metal, tin or aluminum, because it can get too hot and "cook" the eggs and baby birds.

• Don't use milk cartons, because the wax is an insulator and it will get too hot inside the house, and baby birds may pick at the wax and get sick.

• Don't forget to drill small drainage holes (about 4-6) in the bottom of the bird house about 1/4" in diameter.

• Don't forget to drill ventilation holes near the top (2 holes on each  side and back walls).

• Be sure to check the size hole opening that each type of bird prefers.  If the hole is too big - they won't use your house to build a nest in.