It’s easy to make a stunning teal pinecone ornament! Painted pinecone ornaments can be matched to your Christmas decor in any color you wish using metallic craft paint. Glue on a bead and add string for a pretty handmade ornament! Easy DIY with helpful images. Painted pinecones become more and more popular every year it seems....

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The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing Bulbs is a great gardening book. With botanical illustrations and photos, it covers 66 different bulbs. I bought this book, and here is my own review. The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing Bulbs is a great little book to have. And it’s also a great book for gift-giving to...

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What do you give a gardener? Today I have six gifts for gardeners they will love. I personally purchased each one of these, and would love to receive any of these as a gift! I hope my six gift ideas will help you out when it comes to finding a gift for a gardener in...

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Here is the best plant tag solution to keep your tags all in one place and easily available when you need them! Gardeners: never lose your plant tags again! This week, our Xyron Design Team is sharing different ways you can use Xyron’s laminate cartridges for crafts, storage solutions, organizing and DIYs. Xyron makes a...

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How to make weathered fairy garden beach chairs — because even fairies need a break from their gardens! Wait until you see how easy this is to do! Where do fairies go when they want to take a break from their gardens? They hit the beach. A magical, private beach just for them. This fun craft...

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Use painted magnolia leaves for Fall decor and weddings with my simple tutorial. I added my painted leaves to a simple Fall centerpiece tray — an easy do-it-yourself project! Our home has teal accent colors sprinkled throughout, and whenever possible I like to include that color in seasonal decorations. I also have been wanting to paint...

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I just taught myself how to harvest Lavender the easy way! I didn’t follow any expert instructions, but it still worked. Now I have multiple mason jars full of dried Lavender ready for DIY projects! Here’s how I did it… Last Summer, our Lavender in our front gardens was growing quite nicely and at the end...

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You can make your own miniature fairy garden mushrooms using acorn caps and twigs from your yard! I was inspired by the new book Crafting with Nature, which is my new favorite gardening and crafting book. The first thing I did was to gather acorn caps and twigs from our backyard. We had a crazy amount...

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I treated myself to the book Bulb by Anna Pavord. And what a great treat it has been! This book is heavy, literally and figuratively, because of the content as well as the wonderful paper the text and photos are printed on. How heavy? I weighed the book and – according to my bathroom scale which...

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I’m a passionate gardener, and passionate about vintage images. Combine the two and I’m in heaven! Displayed in our library are a few of my favorite things . . . A vintage book about flowers with pansies on the front…and a cat-themed porcelain box (also with pansies) that my husband gave to me by Rosina...

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