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Home & Garden: mom's corner
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mom's corner

my pond/view from deck

new fire pit
pond stream
new walk and bed
view from road
my pond/view from deck
Is this your project? Can you share instructions or a pattern with the Craftsy community?

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Category: Home & Garden

Type of item: Plant or Flower

For: Garden

Style: Outdoorsy


What was your inspiration?

all those DIY shows! and an imagination thats impossible to turn off.

What are you most proud of?

the fire pit area. it was a project that came completely out of my head. its hard to explain to your husband what your doing when you dont have a picture to show. but he helped, setting the block, and was my "advisor". he helped when i got stuck. but it was so much fun picking out the stone, setting the stone and cutting the stone! it turned out exactly as i envisioned it. i learned alot with this project. and mostly what i learned? is when you see something done on tv? in a single episode? that its not a "weekend" project. this took me almost a month to complete, start to finish. working every day after work. but know what? it was worth every minute.

What advice would you give someone starting this project?

have lots of patience and advil!

 

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Littleone on craftsy.com
Jul 07, 2011    Flag as inappropriate
Thanks for the name and it looks like it makes a great screen.
Littleone on craftsy.com
Jul 01, 2011    Flag as inappropriate
You have a beautiful garden and love your pond and fire pit.What are the tall white plants in the view from the road picture?
zeke on craftsy.com
Jul 07, 2011   Flag as inappropriate
if you are referring to the plants on the right of the photo, they are dappled willow bushes. their leaves turn a pink color in spring. My mother (from wi) suggested them to me. i was looking for some type of "screen"
zeke on craftsy.com
Jul 07, 2011   Flag as inappropriate
oops... i was looking for some type of screen to help block the road while sitting in the fire pit area. unfortunately i cannot plant trees along the edge where the road is, since the town just installed a new water line, so i'm stuck trying to come up with other creative ways to block the view of the road.
Deckfluff on craftsy.com
Jun 04, 2011    Flag as inappropriate
Love the mix of hosta you've used.
zeke on craftsy.com
Jun 07, 2011   Flag as inappropriate
thanks. i'm beginning to like hostas more and more. they seem to be something easy that i cant kill!
mrputerz on craftsy.com
Jun 03, 2011    Flag as inappropriate
Nice - I love it..
zeke on craftsy.com
Jun 07, 2011   Flag as inappropriate
thank you. its a "never ending story"... new stuff gets added every year.
tearsallgone on craftsy.com
Jun 03, 2011    Flag as inappropriate
very pertty...... this is great
zeke on craftsy.com
Jun 07, 2011   Flag as inappropriate
thanks. its my quiet corner in a crazy world!