It’s official, then. Summer break for schools! A number of parties took place today, and tomorrow we’re traveling to San Francisco with some friends to see a favorite performer at Feinsteins and have supper. We’ll be finishing up the bathroom remodel at Grandma’s house on Sunday so we can market the house for sale. Here is the most recent list of top initiatives in the ongoing Best of the Blogosphere series.

Create a wood tropical leaf table with Curbly to decorate your house.

Summertime allows us to spend more time outside relaxing. Using a guide from EHow, tie colored cord to make an macram hammock .

Or create an personal bean bag for your child to wear!

Sarah has a beautiful tutorial about using low voltage landscape lighting to give your yard atmosphere.

With this neatly lined waste bin enclosure project from House*Tweaking, hide your ugly trash cans.

Bricks inside are back, baby! (Has it ever lost its appeal?) Adding brick texture on your wall is easy with Shanty to Chic’s step-by-step guide. Additionally, see the Mandis instruction for AA9 on a wall inside.