Sunday, June 9, 2013

Sprucing up the Manor

While Poot was busy cultivating our garden, I brought out some paint and decided to spruce things up a bit. Yard work can get expensive, so I wanted to use what we already had on add, but add some special touches to them. First up was our rusty flower pot stand!


I decided my bathroom trash can needed a makeover too. It is amazing what a little spray paint can do:


I love the green color of the stand with my pink flowers!


Next I thought it would be fun to paint some simple designs on old terra cotta pots we had laying around. Now I do not have the painting talent of my mom, AT ALL...but they didn't turn out too bad.



The garden is coming along and we have added some blueberry bushes. I love the idea of going out in my yard to grab fresh blueberries!!

Poot has been working so hard on the flower beds and adding rock pathways!

We just can't seem to get grass to grow in our small front yard, so Poot drew up a design to turn our yard into a cottage garden! I am thrilled!

I will make sure to keep updating our progress as we make headway!

XOXO
Amber

3 comments:

Catherine Holman said...

Your pots and stand turned out great! I can't believe how much bigger your garden is and I love the path!

Dottie and June said...

Loverly!! I can't wait to see all of this in person in just two weeks!!!!!
Hugs

Kerry said...

Food not Lawns!!! YES!!!!!! Someday I'll hire him on to help us do something like this in our yard (once we get one.)