Gardening | Nest Vintage Modern

February 7, 2010

Taxes, laundry, dirt, and ba-ba-ba.

I sat up last night and did our taxes, alternately grinning and scowling as I watched the Turbo Tax numbers roll up-up-up, then down. Then up, then down, then up. Woohoo! Up is good. So we’ll have a little refund this year, which is awesome because we have a handful of things we really should [...]

Posted in: development, gardening, home, will

March 13, 2010

Front yard “before”

At least, I hope at the end of the summer it looks like a “before”! I need a serious landscaping intervention. Last summer I had big plans, but then it turned out that I was mammoth pregnant and just couldn’t do it. So this—this is the summer when magic will happen in our front yard. [...]

Posted in: gardening, home

March 14, 2010

Landcape intervention via Photoshop

Thanks to Holly! Holly also sent along this great link about gardening for the period of your home’s architecture.

Tagged as: gardening,landcapingPosted in: gardening

March 27, 2010

Sprucing up the front porch

Mid way through. Still on the agenda: bead board the ceiling of the porch and paint it light blue (nod to Galveston porches), put slate tiles over the cement, a more substantial pillar, and a new light fixture. Asleep on the job This guy totally let us down last night. Apparently the deer found my [...]

Posted in: gardening

May 11, 2010

Make a Terrarium: Tuesday night crafty

This evening Fi and I put together a terrarium for our poor, homeless gnome. He’s sheltered by a money tree and flanked with angel plants and live moss we culled from the front yard. We sprinkled some Assyllum seeds in the background, so hopefully we’ll have a little flowered fairy setting when they come in. [...]

Posted in: crafts, gardening, sophia

May 22, 2010

French wire planters

My new favorite things to hunt for are old French wire planters to take home and spray-paint sunny yellow. They must be making a comeback because I’ve been seeing new versions all over the place. But before you drop some cash at your local C&B, check out the antique shops. There are many good finds [...]

Posted in: gardening, home

May 29, 2012

A couple of weekends in Michigan’s harbor country, canning fruit, and gardening

Mother’s Day weekend and this Memorial Day weekend were spent happily skipping up and down the Red Arrow Highway, camping on the lakes, discovering new vintique shops, and enjoying the wonderful company of my little family and very sweet friends. A horribly unflattering pic of me, but the rest of the gang looks cute so [...]

Posted in: cooking, family, flea/junk/antique, gardening, home

June 17, 2012

Vintage wire garden fence &gate

I’ve been in love with vintage wire gates and fences for quite awhile and was lucky enough to score a set recently. My friend Christine called me from the Allegan Antiques Market in Michigan a couple of months ago to let me know she had spotted a gate for me, then I found the fencing [...]

Posted in: decorating, gardening

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