Easy! Hanging Mason Jar

  I've been so busy lately, so dreadfully, dreadfully busy, that on the day of my dear, sweet grandmother's birthday, all I had time to do was make her a card. No present. After all the things she's done for me, the things she's given me, the times she gave me M&M's in my crib to make me take a nap, I couldn't give her a birthday present.
  Feeling tremendously guilty, after all the things she's done for me, the next day (Okay, maybe it was two days later), I set out to create a birthday present that would hopefully make up for my lack of preparedness. 

Goal achieved, I think.

Mini-sideways Plant

 My mom, grandmother, and I went to a local garden show this Saturday. And this teeny, tiny flower caught my eye. I asked the lady selling them what kind of plant it was, and she told me. But being the absent minded pe

DIY Hanging Succulent Shelf

 Succulents are all the rage. I went to 4 different garden shops looking for 4 healthy succulents before I found a locally owned shop in town that had the cutest, healthiest little succulents I've ever seen. Yay for small businesses!  

  So what we are going to do is transform a simple crate into a beautiful shelf to hang succulents on!

What you will need:

White and Gray pain (I used a chalky paint I found at Walmart. It worked perfectly.)

4 Screw in Hooks (Hobby Lobby)

2 Hooks for hanging (Shown below) 

4 Small Metal Pails (Hobby Lobby)

1 Wooden unfinished crate (About 32" by 6" in dimensions) (Hobby Lobby -I had to pry a couple planks off the front, but that wasn't an issue)

Twine or thin rope (I used blue twine)

What you will do:

  

 Transplant your succulents into the little pails. 

 Do not sand the crate, leave the rough edges. Lay crate on newspaper, and use an old rag to rub in gray paint. Applying unevenly will give your shelf the rustic, antique look that we're after. 

 Dab rag in white paint and drag across middle or sides of the planks, cover only about 40% of the gray

 Allow time to dry

 Nail in hooks onto back of crate, one on the right and one on the left. 

 Screw in the four hooks an equal distance between each (The crate should be soft enough that they will screw in easily by hand. Press the end of the hook in hard, then twist in.)

 Tie about two inches of twine around each bucket handle and hang each bucket from the hooks. 

 Use large nails and hang shelf anywhere, inside our outdoors! 

DIY 3D Potted Succulent Greeting Cars

  So yesterday was my sister's birthday. And, as always, I put off making a card until an hour before her party. Traditionally, my family makes each other homemade cards. Because they're more personal, and more, let's face it, free. 

Easy Care Rock Garden

 If you're like me you don't have time (Or willpower) to take care of a garden. Yet you have this really ugly dirt patch overgrown with weeds where you once held a garden that Mary the Contrary would even be proud of.
 But that ship has sailed and the weeds have taken root right down the the third layer of the earth. So instead of hours and hours of laborious weeding there is a simpler and more beautiful answer...

DIY Herb/Cactus Garden

  Any meal is better when you use fresh herbs. And every drink is better when you harvest fresh water from a cactus.
  Okay, you may not be able to harvest the cacti, but they look adorable.
  The best part:it's portable. Take it outside, bring it in, put it out in the rain, bring it in for the winter.
  I couldn't believe how light and easy to move it was. And now I have fresh dill for my potato salad! Which I wil also make for you sometime. 

But one thing at a time. Firstly, the herb garden.

What you will need:

• Bucket
• Empty Coffee Grounds Aluminum Container (Take the label off)
• Soil 
• Herbs (I used sweat basil, cilantro, mint, sage, rosemary, dill, and thyme)
• Cacti and/or Succulents 
• 1 Tall Tupperware (Almost the height of the bucket) 
• A Dog 

What you will do...

Take the label off your aluminum container and while you are distracted by admiring it, have your dog tear open a hole in the soil bag. 

Please make sure that the dog rips the hole in the most inconvenient place possible. 

Plant the succulents and cacti in the container. Place on top of tall Tupperware in the center of the bucket. 

 Pack dirt in all around leaving about 4 inches at the top 

Water the soil, place herbs on dirt. Fill in gaps with soil. And there you go!

This funky dude. 

Summer Project

In order to actually stick to this project, I decided to post about it. That way if I don't do it I'll feel like an idot.