Showing posts from June, 2016

A Junk Garden Path Can Be A Work Of Art

June 28, 2016
If you have followed my blog for long, you will recall the whimsical garden paths created by my sister in law, Kris.  Garden path 2016 has a geometric design, with bricks aligned inside rectangular rusty metal industrial frames.  


Garden Inspiration from the Homeroad Blog!

June 25, 2016
Recently, Susan from the Homeroad blog, had a fun garden sign made with spindle legs.  When I found spindles at a garage sale for $1 last weekend, I quickly stenciled a sign on a weathered red piece of barn wood siding using a stencil from the  Old Sign Stencil Extension package.


Junk Garden (Hen and) Chick Starters

June 23, 2016
My first chick starter project started out with the top part from a Hudson chicken feeder that I purchased for $3.75.


Updated Junk Garden Container Photos

June 20, 2016
This frame used to hold my "almost" famous  framed lobelia.   But this year I gave the frame a whitewashing, and planted an annual baby's breath instead of a lobelia.  Here it is at planting on May 18th.


I Bought a "Thingamajig" for my Junk Garden

June 19, 2016
When you are a junk gardener you must not only find great annuals and perennials to fill your gardens, you MUST find great junk to plant flowers in and unusual pieces to place in your garden.


Two New Additions to my Junk Garden

June 14, 2016
The first new addition was this little wooden wheelbarrow that I purchased garage sale-ing for $1.  


More Garden Projects with Funky Junk Interiors' Old Sign Stencils

June 07, 2016
I purchased this old wooden tool box last week. It had a taped handle.  The tape was almost disintegrated from age, but I pulled it all off, and glued the many cracks with wood glue and used zip ties to hold the handle together until the glue was set.