Designing my Future Porch
Share .. am dreaming of sitting on my future porch when it will be sunny again. While dreaming, I’ve accumulated lots of fabulous porch design ideas. Today, I will share my top 5 porch designs with you. Features of the Dream Porch 1. Great place to eat and live, like a luxury outdoor [...]
Recycled Plastic Bottles to Awesome Vertical Vegetable Garden
Share We all must learn to grow vegetables. Whether we live in a small apartment without a balcony, a unit with just a small patio, or a luxury house with lots of land. Don’t you think? Growing veggies is easy & fun, once you know how, particularly with the ingenious plastic bottle vertical gardening system [...]
How to Make a Topiary
Share Lets make a topiary. I will show you how. It is winter and not much creative gardening going on besides making winter veggies and protecting whatever you planted from frost. It is however a time that in Italy, the olive farmers clip their olive trees again, and loads of free branches are to be [...]
Succulent Wreaths
Share Now that all your holiday decoration is gone, does the front door look a bit barren? Not for long, because here’s an idea for you that you wished you’d tried before: year-round colorful succulent wreaths that need next-to-no-attention to good looking. Best of all, the plants on these wreaths are alive! Like a [...]
Rustic Garden Bench: Stone or Wood?
Share : The Cyber Monday Deals in yesterday’s article LAST ALL WEEK. Do check ‘m out. Today’s article is a DIY garden bench project. I enjoyed a delightful Thanksgiving dinner with a lovely family in a gorgeous home in Long Beach, LA, California. The indoor space was tastefully decorated in a timeless contemporary design style. [...]
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Halloween Ghost: Awesome!
Share Pin It Truly spooky!! Just when I publish this article on DIY Halloween ghosts, I come across an even better Halloween host diy. Take a look at this amazingly realistic garden ghost, made out of chicken-wire. Wow. It’s almost poetic, so beautiful and … realistic !!!! Would you believe: all you really need [...]
Fall Landscaping Ideas
Share Remember the ‘Beach in a Pot’- container gardening idea we included in our ‘How to Create a Beach Cottage’-series ? Now, I want to show you three different autumn gardens in a pot. Beautiful landscaping ideas by Sunset, for your garden, patio and balcony. These Fall landscapes in pots are neither Halloween nor [...]
Shell-bejeweled Pots for Beach Cottage
Share Wondering what to do with that ever growing collection of shells? Here’s an idea for the larger ones. Again, simple design idea Found in Paris. Other beach cottage design ideas & DIY tutorials: A Beach in a Pot Waterproof Picnic Blanket for the Beach Bed Sheet with Beach Shell Print – Easy [...]
Cool Recycled Metal Fence
Share A fence like you’ve never seen before, have you?! You gotta go to Carrboro in NC to see this beauty. Artistic and practical. This particular fence does not come with a manual, however, there are however plenty of YouTube tutorials on fence making from which to borrow the design ideas needed to pull [...]
Succulents Shine in Recycled Shoe
Share Great summer craft for kids: make your own succulent garden in that worn pair of shoes that has been the favorite for soooo long and that is just still too ‘precious’ to throw away. Have a pair of those, with soles all worn out and/or now cramping your toes? Perfect. Let’s recycle (upcycle) it!! [...]
Cool Outdoor Shower
Share Here’s a simply DIY solution you can prep this afternoon, to let you cool down in style and ease when the summer heat is smoldering: By snaking this garden hose around tree branches, it transforms into a little crazy outdoor shower, which will become the oasis in your garden. (Images: Studio Dreyer Hensley, [...]
Pallets Around the House
Share You might have recently seen this article with furniture made with pallets whereby we showcase a few indoor ideas on how to use pallets for furniture. And you might have seen Tiffany’s pallet chair \ bench? As the weather is improving, we all want to play outside. What better way than to [...]
Mothers Day LINKY PARTY
Share Joining DIY & Craft LINKY parties are a great way to share your techniques, tips & howto’s and learn new ideas from others. We’re building a collection of CRAFT & DIY LINKY PARTIES around a range of themes. The party that opens this week is THEMED Mothers Day’. We also feature linky parties below [...]
Amy Butler Picnic Blanket Pattern
Share With Amy Butler, it’s always a bit tricky for me to decide why I like her wears so much: is it the gorgeous Amy Butler fabric or is it her design, or both??? Do you face the same, delightful ‘challenge’? Regardless as to why, this picnic blanket is just amazingly gorgeous. And: it’s practical [...]
How to Build a Self-Retaining Garden Wall
Share This is just what we’ll need. Jazzy video shows us in lightning speed how to build a garden wall. It looks so fabulous, and so simple to produce that I want to share it with you all today. This simple retaining wall is useful for a garden, but also as a raised, or [...]
Craft for Earth Day
Share This year, 2011, as every year, Earth Day is April 22. Last year around this time, I made a huge effort to find 50+ environment-friendly craft and DIY projects. All these projects look stunningly great and are made of 100% recycled materials. If you are interested in featuring this list on your [...]
50+ Cool Recycled Crafts – final part
Share Learn here how to make newspaper yarn, or T-shirt yarn…. It’s getting more and more creative! This last part of the series of ’50+ Recycled Crafts’ I’ve dedicated to a special category, i.e. on how to make recycled craft tools and supplies – some special tutorials. Great Recycling Tutorials for Eco Artists [...]
How to Make a Lovely Garden Bench this Spring
Share Spring is here and it’s time to sit outside again. One of the things on our agenda this year was to create some more magical secret spaces in the garden. So, I shopped around for a somewhat regal design garden bench, that we could paint. How to Make a Wooden Garden Bench This [...]
Fall Balcony: Halloween Display
Share This weekend we visited some friends who live in a lovely apartment building downtown Rome. While this is great for catching Saturday night shows and not spending too much time on gardening, it reminded me that high risers need balcony gardening Halloween displays rather than curbside display Halloween ideas. In our country home here, [...]
Summer Crafts: Beach in a Pot
Share Beach Crafts, summer crafts,… what the difference? No matter. These summer beach crafts can help you create that summer breeze into your home, even if you don’t want to transform your entire home into a beach shack. Today I am starting a series of Summer Beach Craft Project Ideas, with Free Tutorials and [...]
