Winter Decorating At Our Fairfield Home & Garden
December now and time to think of outdoor winter decorations to match the season. I dismantled the fall window boxes, keeping the dried seed pods and flowers for crafting and set the pumpkins and gourds behind the shed for feasting by the squirrels. Cut greens from our property line the base of the new window
Upcycled, recycled and repurposed items along with DIY garden projects give our garden a character of its own. If you are gardening on a budget, you have found your muse!
DIY ~ A Fairy Merry Christmas!
Last year, I started making little fairies from natural materials gathered from our garden and walks around the neighborhood. They have been put to use as present toppers, plant pokes and little gifts for my friends and family up until recently. But ever since I shared my wee folk in a watercolor class I attend,
Upcycled, recycled and repurposed items along with DIY garden projects give our garden a character of its own. If you are gardening on a budget, you have found your muse!
DIY Project ~ A Simple Branch Arbor
When you are pruning tree branches or taking down a tree, don’t haul all those branches to be cut up for the fire pit or fireplace – reuse them in your garden! Last summer, several large branches needed to be trimmed and I used them to make a simple arbor over our back gate. Now,
Upcycled, recycled and repurposed items along with DIY garden projects give our garden a character of its own. If you are gardening on a budget, you have found your muse!
Fall Decorating at Our Fairfield Home & Garden
Decorating for Fall at Our Fairfield Home & Garden means using as many natural materials from the garden as possible and supplementing with seasonal plants and gourds. Window boxes are filled with hay, pumpkins, Indian corn, winter pansies ornamental kale, ivy and dried seed heads and flowers from the garden. A Halloween touch is
Upcycled, recycled and repurposed items along with DIY garden projects give our garden a character of its own. If you are gardening on a budget, you have found your muse!
DIY Project ~ Fairies for Free!
Fall is here, the perfect time for walks in the woods and in your garden. As you stroll along, pay attention! There are natural materials all around you to make your own little fairies for free. This is such a relaxing activity and perfect for creative play with children. (note: I used hot glue.
Upcycled, recycled and repurposed items along with DIY garden projects give our garden a character of its own. If you are gardening on a budget, you have found your muse!
Inspiration Field Trip ~ Terrain
Terrain heads the list of places I visit for garden inspiration. Located in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, Terrain is chock full of every kind of indoor and outdoor plant and garden accent you can think of. If it is a new cultivar, they not only have it, they have it displayed in the most imaginative way
Upcycled, recycled and repurposed items along with DIY garden projects give our garden a character of its own. If you are gardening on a budget, you have found your muse!
12 Charming Gardens ~ Personal Spaces for Inspiration
Let’s go to the “Hop”, a Garden Hop that is! Here’s a secret gardens tour put together with wonderful gardener friends from Pinterest, Hometalk and FaceBook. You won’t believe the creativity, imagination and personal touches shown in these Little Edens. Just seeing each other’s garden pictures got us all ready to go out there and
Upcycled, recycled and repurposed items along with DIY garden projects give our garden a character of its own. If you are gardening on a budget, you have found your muse!
Garden Walk ~ My Summer Garden
Summertime and the living is easy! Well, not really if you are a gardener! Summer is time to weed and dig and plant, tie up vines, turn the compost pile and harvest veggies. Do you see all those cute benches in our garden? I hardly ever get to land on one unless it is to
Upcycled, recycled and repurposed items along with DIY garden projects give our garden a character of its own. If you are gardening on a budget, you have found your muse!
DIY ~ Create Your Own Water Garden In A Container!
What better topic is there on a mid-90 degree day in July than water gardening ? Even though the thermometer was recording 97 degrees, under the pavilion at TheDCH, it seemed cooler because of the lovely sounds of trickling water. Peg and Tiffany of Gateway Garden Center in Hockessin, Delaware (http://www.gatewaygardens.com/) gave us a
Upcycled, recycled and repurposed items along with DIY garden projects give our garden a character of its own. If you are gardening on a budget, you have found your muse!
Our Summer Potting Sink
Can I just tell you how much I love our vintage potting sink? I dress her up for the seasons and special holidays and, as I come down the garden path and she comes into view, I smile every time. You see, my sink is a girl ! Today I took the Americana Fourth
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