My Favorite Front Porch Plants

This is a public service announcement about my front porch plants... I just have to share!  
Those of you with a green thumb may think better of this but if you're a little challenged in the plant department like I am, this might be big news. 
We buy this plant for our front porch every year and have for about 5 years now. We actually seek it out and grab 2 as soon as we see them. We buy them at Home Depot and just so you know, I'm not getting paid by them to tell you this. As you can see it is early Spring around here and our beds and stoop have yet to be spruced up.
These plants are a "Drop-N-Decorate" flower called Dipladenia. It has a tall plant in the center too but I don't know the name of that one. According to the directions, you just drop the whole plastic cont…

Spring Nest in an Enamelware Ladle

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…

Upcycled Farmhouse Style Wall Planter

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 …

Repurposed Cabinet Door Garden Chalkboard

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…

Ten Best Easy DIY Garden Ideas

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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Repurposed Cabinet Door Flower Box

A farmhouse styled flower box for Spring!
If you've been following along for a while you may remember the treasure of cabinet doors I found to repurpose and this project is another one of those fabulous free doors.  I began by attaching a wooden box that previously held flowers onto a cabinet door with glue and nails.  I painted the box with Raw Silk by Fusion Mineral Paint. It is my favorite white!
I sanded the edges with a sanding block to distress the cabinet door.  The box that held the flowers luckily also came with floral foam and a plastic box. I covered the floral foam with a sheet of moss then added faux flowers and succulents to the moss.
The plastic dropped right back into the wooden box on the cabinet door. The box could also be filled with pebbles and dirt for fresh flowers.


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