Create Your Dream Garden 
When Inspiration Strikes…
First year gardens aren’t so gratifying to me. In fact, I’m a little bored. I’ve already planted the plants- and there they just… sit. So I need to find satisfaction in other areas of my yard…
So, as I’ve mentioned before, my garage bi-sects my yard in an odd way and I’m always seeking ideas to dress it up.
I’ve had this old, rotting swing that the previous inhabitants left me and I just couldn’t bare to send it to a landfill, in all it’s lead-painted glory….
So, what to do?
Nearly a year later, inspiration strikes while catching up with one of my favorite thrifting/junking blogs.
All the photos in this post on Vintage Rescue Squad SPEAK to me but the 3rd from the bottom really had me thinking….
So I just stuck my eyesore swing on the wall. Now I really need to do some work on it to make it so that things actually STAY on the “shelf” but for now… it’ll do.
Area under construction!
Two questions:
1) How do you keep everything from falling off the swing? Super glue?
2) How can I get myself one of those giraffes?
And you DO rock in the tag cloud department. But we always knew that about you anyway.
How sweet of you, Theresa, to notice my tag cloud excellence.
1. Everything is just perched up there, er, at least it was last time I looked
2. The giraffe is one of my most treasured possessions. Her name is Trixie.
The rooms are great, and so is the blog. If P Allen Smith saw that wall he would say: “Hey, that’s neat Amanda!”
Miss R says hi howdy how R U and kneels at the garden altar of vintage things and lost objects. That’s why the nun is is there isn’t it?
Susan! What are these “new jersey orchids” mentioned in the tag cloud at right? If anyone knows, I figured you’d know.
More importantly, you RAWK the tag cloud. Q&A got nothin’ on you. As it should be…
I’m obsessed with getting Star Wars and Zombies in the tag cloud…
I was going to say that same thing! And woe to tiny “hydrangea.” And “year-round interest.” They do not have a prayer.
“South Carolina” is sort of random, eh?
At first I read it “watering weeds,” and I was like, “Amanda would TOTALLY water weeds! Wait…”
I increasingly think of tag clouds as a type of art. Machines in dialogue with humans as art. Yup.
Woot! You won!
*shakes fist at MN for being first poster*
I love that the swing is in perpetual suspension. Is it frozen? Did something stop it at the point of impact? It’s like a poem. Or a riddle.
OMG! Is that a nun up there? A flying nun?
It IS a nun. It’s a nun yard ornament. I’d have sent you one for Christmas but I can’t find them anymore.
I’m going through the same problems with my new garden after the move in June. It makes me crazy.