jug face planter

Wash out your gallon jug, rinse with Vinegar and water cut off bottom, Paint face the eyes are made by cutting a bottle cap in half and glue eyelashes (cheap ones from the dollar store) punch hole by heating a punch and put it through the bottle  add your rope to hang. fill with dirt and your herbs.

Bottle walls

In these times of problems with the overwhelming amount of trash we create lets find more creative ways to reuse items like bottles.

 make a simple frame from 2x4s the bottom board drill a hole to hole a dowel or pipe. I like to use a small copper pipe. take 2 pipes and 2 bottles. cut the bottom of the plastic bottles off. put one bottle on each pipe neck down. this will give you the distance measurement for the holes to be drilled in the bottom board. use the same distance in the top board. make the top hole deeper so when you get your pipe filled you put the top in first lift up slide the bottom of the pipe into the hole and let it drop down. doing one pole at a time the wall will build as you get bottles. just cut the bottom off of the next bottle and put it on the pole neck first down into the first bottle. add color bottles to liven it up.

this is glass bottles and you have to drill a hole in the bottom of each bottle with a special glass drill bit. Keep the bottle  cool as you drill with water.

Doing Dog Sketches

Dog Sketches for friends of ours and their new home.

Did a sketch for a dear friends birthday.

salad bar

 Many years ago we turned an oval hot tub given to us into the Leekin Lena fish pond. so after some time lets put those fish to work for us.

adding a half barrel with a drain back to the pond lots of small gravel and now we have a salad bar. growing our salad with aquaponics. different types of leafy greens and mint.All being watched over by Penny the owl.

fun Pot Man

 I found an old bike on the side of the road put out for trash. So i brought it home and painted it all one color. then I used a bed frame that I also found on the side of the road to stabilize the bike. Then I just needed a rider.. I used a thick wire from the petals to the body pots and then from the handle bars to the body.

A friend donated a wig, a touch of English Ivy that will grow in time and a rider emerged. The pot person has a flatware wind chime as a bell.

Grapevine wreath

This is a follow up. Back on November 13 2015 I added to the blog the making of a grapevine wreath. well now today I added more flowers to this wreath that has hung on our fence behind St Francis for 3 years. the wreath itself shows no sign of rot or weakness.

Plant Markers

Plant Markers

A friend gave me 200 bricks that her husband wanted but never did anything with. I have used them all over but I have had fun with this idea.
 I used a Sharpie marker and then sprayed them with Aqua Net hair spray. I use this for many things in the garden.