Garden Project - Carpentry

My New Garden

I haven't updated my blog in such a long time :( and I have no real excuse :s

But I have been making various items for my new garden,


I'm not a carpenter as you can see and I had a budget of about £5
I found lots of bits of wood and stones lying around the garden, house and Yard. But I had to buy some nails and screws.

So this is what I have achieved so far:

I needed a partition so that I have 2 distinctive areas to my garden. I made this out of an old pallet and some wood I found in the shed.  I'm growing climbing rose bushes at the sides so they will go all over the arch and make it look pretty, (and hide my carpentry work).

The partition.

The areas of the garden are:

The kiddies play area, this area is quite large so I have added a small flower bed so the kiddies can grow some flowers (this means me of course).

kiddies play garden

   

The flower beds, plus young tree :)  I found some paving stones dotted around the garden and used these to create a border to the flower bed and a border to protect the tree base. I also had to re-seed the grass in this area so its a bit sparse at the moment, but this area is doing better then the actual garden lawn area :s

My baby tree :)

Flower bed

Starting to look nice

Getting there.

In my area there is a vegetable patch, herb planter, flower bed (well it will be) and the patio area.

This is the vegetable patch. Well.. one half of the patch anyway as the other half needs some work.

Vegetable patch

 
I needed a herb step planter, so I could reach my herbs easily. Couldn't afford one at £30 so I made one :D.  This lives near the back door :) I also painted the terracotta plant pots as they were a bit boring these were 50p each in the sales.

Herbs

This is my next task, im planning on this area to be a lovely flower bed, with rose bushes and pansy's and tulips etc.... lots of colour.  I bought a lot of seed packets in the sales for 5p each packet (considering some were £2 a pack, was a bargain).

The messy flower bed to be.

Well thats what I have been doing for the past few months plus various bits in the house.
Its getting there slowly.

Craft - Knitting Dolly

Knitting Dolly/Knitting Nancy/French Knitting

So I found a knitting dolly in a local craft shop and I decided to relive my childhood and buy it :)

when I got home I started to 'knit' with it.

So many memories of doing it when I was a child, I had one when I was about 10 years old, that my father made me from a cotton real and some nails, plus a nail for doing the knitting part :) I loved it. I would make little rugs for my dolls house and necklaces for me and my friends to wear. It was great fun and fairly relaxing. (Still is by the way)

A Knitting Dolly

So I spent about 30 mins doing some, but that time came again, when I had to go and get the tribe from school.

Upon arrival home my eldest daughter saw it on the table and asked what I was doing, so like a good mum I showed her, where upon she popped it out of my hands and started to do it herself. I was really pleased that she took to it so quickly. Until she announced that I should go and buy myself another knitting dolly as the one she was using was now hers :(

Molly (11) Knitting on a Knitting Dolly

So I did, I went out and bought another one for myself.

Then my boy wanted to do it.

Daniel (9) Knitting on a Knitting Dolly

So off I went to the shop again for the third time, for another one, but this time I was sensible and bought 2 as I had a hunch that my youngest daughter would want to have a go aswell.

Well I was right.

Rose (6) Knitting on a Knitting Dolly

I showed her how to do it before school this morning and she has taking to it very fast. She has even taken it to school to show her teacher and friends.

I have finally got round to doing some for myself :D

Mine!

Very proud of my children for taking an interest and actually managing to do it so well. Don't know how long the interest will last but for £3 each plus some old wool, I have had a lovely time teaching them something that I did when I was little.

Happy Proud Mummy :D

Craft - Positivity Jar

So I have found Pinterest and I'm hooked, I can not stop pinning things, I'm loving it.
There is so much great stuff on there, I love the craft section and have found some interesting projects that I will make (at some point).
There was an idea on the site for a children's reward system Jar, that I liked, so I decided to make it myself.  Its called 'Caught Ya'

Front of the Jar

I bought some glass paints and made some cute little creatures and then added googly eyes (so cute). I also added some stickers for the letters on the front. I also wrote my kidlets names on the bottom and the date the jar was completed :)

Back of the Jar

I bought some little pompoms from the works, and I reward the kidlets them when they have been good.  When the jar is full we will have a special day out, all together.

Pompoms

I loved doing this project and im delighted with the outcome, my kidlets love it too :)
lets hope we get some pompoms in it now :s