Garden Art Whimsy

For ages I have been wanting to create something whimsical for my garden. Pinterest has inspired me so much that today I finally decided to do something with my old light fitting and metal garden stake. I looked around in my craft room and found these gorgeous blue glass pebbles. I have now put it in my garden and was thinking it might be lovely as a birdbath.... just not too sure how the birds will perch on the rim. I'll fill it with water anyway......

My Front Porch

This morning, I took a couple of photos of my front porch. This is my favourite place to sit and have coffee, read a book and chat with friends who drop in.

Scrappy Hearts

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Morning Flowers

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It is spring here in Sydney and it is my favourite season of the year. I love walking out into my garden and being constantly delighted by the gorgeous spring flowers. For this card, I colour-washed the background and then collaged a picture to represent the morning flowers.

Polly

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I overprinted some sweet, heart flowers onto an old page out of my Polly book. I then painted a piece of background paper with a soft sage green paint and then put it all together to make a card.

Polly

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This is my second attempt at overprinting on old book pages. I saw this idea on Pinterest and tried it with one of my old books. It is a lot of fun and the design possibilities are endless.

Stencilled Dollhouse

My wonderful dad made a dollhouse for me many years ago to house my collection of miniatures. He started with a pattern but soon changed just about everything! I absolutely love it. He left it plain so I could paint and sponge the roof and stencil the front with climbing flowers. Big girls love to play with it just as much as little girls....