{garden craft}

Well hello there blogger friends:)
Wow.....thanks for all the comments on my give-away!!! woohoo!! I was extremely happy to have so many nice people leave a comment!
I look forward to seeing who wins..

Just be......
I have such a hard time with this...
I find that I always have to be doing something.
Since it's just plain crummy here in good ol' Indiana ..... and I am chilled to the bone:(
I turned the heat on {shhhh...don't tell my husband}
and got busy making a cute and simple little craft!

Do you remember this garden area last year???

I felt like it was just way to messy even for my standards:)
I do like things a little chaotic....or should I say cottagey~
But this was too much.

Last autumn I dug out all the plants and replanted them all around my yard.
Then just about 2 or 3 weeks ago my husband built me raised beds:) Right now it sure doesn't look like much.....but once everything grows in I think it's going to look super cute and were going to add a little fence and arbor at some point:)

I built a cute little path out of bricks that we had laying around...


and we put in beach pebbles to help keep the weeds down:)

Now if only Ruby would stop eating all my plants! She's already taken out all of my broccoli plants....darn dog:)

And here's the little herb bed!I can't wait to see how it all looks late in the summer.

Anywho.......

I needed a cute little way to mark my herbs....oh and did I say that cooking with fresh herbs is simply the best!

Well.....enter polymer clay.....

I had never used polymer clay but thought I would give it whirl.

Plus this was ridiculously inexpensive.

Get some clay and read how to work with it here......
roll it out flat...
cut it into a rectangle with fancy scissors....
stamp whatever you want onto it with regular paper stamps....
and bake it.....
after it's done paint it with craft paint and make sure to get it into the letters etc....
then wipe it off so it looks sort of vintage or something like that:)

I just tied mine onto thick gauge wire with embroidery floss and there you have it:)
I love them.....but if I had to do it again.....I would make them a little thicker! Just a hint!

Like how I added the starfish!?!!? So cute:)

See sometimes not being able to just be.....can be a good thing!! At least I get around to making fun things!!!

Hope your week is going great....talk to you soon!

"There are only three things you need to let go of: judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child." ~ Hugh Prather