Dye your Easter eggs with natural dyes. Here are some natural things you can use to color your Easter eggs this year. Many of them can be grown in your own garden.
Brown- Coffee or Tea
Purple- Beat juice, purple onion skins
Yellow- Saffron
Red- Cranberries or Strawberries
Yellow- Yellow onion skins
Here are a couple videos on adding a fresh […]
I heard about a cool company that crafts flowers out of recycled aluminum. The flowers are handcrafted and handpainted by disabled artists who live in the Appalachian region. The company is called Passion Works Studios, and they collaborate with artists, some with disabilities. The artists create one of a kind artwork such as these beautiful […]
The Lifestyles Network always has some great things for garden minded people. Here are some things I thought you might want to take a look at this week.
Deb at Simply Thrifty encourages you to buy your produce at local farmers markets, and support your local farmers.
Gayla at Super Nanny Rules continues the local theme with […]
I love to wrap my packages in garden or nature themed or inspired wrapping paper when I can find it. I’ve also been known to use a brown paper bag and decorate it with rubber stamps, or leaf rubbings.
I’m always on the lookout for nature related gift tags to put on my packages. Sometimes I […]
I’ve posted bits and pieces of our Christmas tree over the last few weeks. Gayla over at Supernanny Rules shared the McCord family Christmas tree, so I thought I’d share ours.
Here’s a photo of our Christmas tree. I love white Christmas lights on everything but our family tree. It has to have the multi-colored lights. […]
These little cards make great get well, Christmas, just friends, or any occasion cards. They also make great gift package decorations.
A seed card is a card with your favorite garden seeds imbedded in the paper. You can just plant the card directly in the garden in spring.
What you’ll need:
3 or 4 sheets of your favorite […]
I created the Christmas display for my fireplace mantle display this year, with a few dollars and a little help from Mother Nature. I showed you how I made the pine cone topiary a couple weeks ago.
The rest of the display only cost a couple dollars to put together. I purchased the vase from […]
I made this simple little glass ornament a few years ago with some pink strawflowers from my garden. Glass ornaments are easy to dress up. Fill them with your favorite dried flowers, or even seeds, pine needles, or dried greens. I love adding personal touches to ornaments, to give them that handmade feeling.
You can also […]
I love to use dried flowers from my garden in my Christmas ornaments. They don’t store well, so I usually dry new flowers and refill my little baskets each year. I use a small floral Styrofoam ball cut in half, inserted into a small basket. I cover the Styrofoam with sphagnum moss, then insert my […]
I love poinsettias. They’re one of my absolute favorite plants. I get at least one every year to display at Christmas time in memory of loved ones. Many will stay beautiful and keep their color for several months if properly cared for.
When you bring your poinsettia home cover it with a plastic or paper sleeve […]
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