This is a public service announcement about my front porch plants... I just have to share! 

I'm having fun making a vintage decoration for Spring using  an enamelware ladle and a cute little nest. 
I made my own nest by wrapping a little Spanish moss into a circle. I hot glued a few tiny speckled eggs into the center of the nest. This works well and a bag of moss is very inexpensive.
I had a vintage enamelware ladle laying around from a past antique store trip and decided to use it to hold the nest. I made a similar project several years ago using an enamelware ladle and a candleand wanted to update that look for Spring.I attached the ladle to a chippy blue stained boardusing hot glue, then filled the spoon section with the nest. 
I added the word NEST using Scrabble letters and attached it to the wood with hot glue. 
This really is an adorable little Spring project that took ver…

Flowers look beautiful in anything, especially something unexpected! Today I'm repurposing a cabinet door 
for flowers! 
This easy project took less than 30 minutes and looks beautiful! 



I began with another cabinet door from the store closing alert I received a few weeks ago. 

I painted the cabinet door using Coal Blackby Fusion Mineral Paint. Fusion pretty much sticks to everything, goes on smoothly and looks beautiful as you can see from the next photo. 
When the paint dried all there was to do was to screw the enamelware thrift store mail bin to the cabinet door with one screw and a washer. 

I attached 2 D rings to the back and strung a buffalo check ribbon through them for hanging. 

I filled the mail bin with a plastic liner using a thick ziplock bag cut to size. I poked a few holes in …

This project began with another repurposed kitchen 
cabinet door. 
A repurposed cabinet door and a piece of chalkboard I found at Tuesday Morning, a store by me that has a little of everything. 
The first thing I needed to do was to choose a color for my cabinet door and since I love green I decided on a chalky paint by DecoArt that would be the perfect "garden green". 
I stenciled a bee from the DecoArt stencil Americana Decor Collection onto the chalkboard in white so it looked like chalk but would always be there. I then cut the chalkboard to fit the center of the cabinet door and used wood glue to adhere it. 
The bee came in a pack of 2 stencils with a couple of cute bird stencils. 
Once I glued the chalkboard into the center of the cabinet door I added a Scrabble ledge to hold th…

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?

Over the years I've made many DIY garden projects and today I'm sharing them all in one place for you. 
Please click on the links below to be taken to the project. 

1. DIY Garden Sign


2. Garden Tote

3. Repurposed Planter Ideas


4. Vintage Enamelware Chamber Pot for Herbs

5. Vintage Rake Hooks


6. Garden Tool Box


7. Flower Box Window Planter
8. Repurposed Outdoor Garden Table

9. Spruce-up the Garden with Edging and Mulch
10. Free Garden Bench

Thanks for visiting and I hope you've found some inspiration in my DIY garden projects.


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A farmhouse styled flower box for Spring!

I found this cute metal dustpan in the dollar spot at Target and couldn't wait to use it in my next project. 
First, I wanted to attach a wooden crate to the dustpan, I put E6000 glue along one of the slats and the edge of the dustpan.  A heavy iron held the pieces together until the glue dried. 


I attached a DISC plate holder to the back of the dustpan. These are great for hanging things like plates to the wall because it allows them to lay flat against the wall. They are also removable.  I tied a length of jute through the handle and added a DIY enamelware numbered tagto the jute. 
I added small terracotta pots to the crate which can be filled with faux plants or real plants if you hang it outside.  Another cute feature is that the dustpan is metaland therefore magnetic. I added a seed p…

I'm excited to share a new project made
using parts from a project I've made before. 


Several years ago I made an office organizerusing vintage jello cups and an old board. For this project, I began with a very chippy board from my workshop. The chippier the better! 
I found it on the beach a while back, it may have even been part of a boat after the hurricane we had here. 

I love all the chippiness but I wanted to wax the piece so the chips wouldn't get all over my house. I used a white wax by Miss Mustard Seed then buffed it with an old shoe shine brush.  The next step was similar to the speckled egg bowl I made recently. I used a blue spray stain then rubbed it into the white wax to give my chippy board a blueish tint. 
Next, I attach the jello cups to the board by screwing throu…