blog party – Garden Chick

Cucumber Blog Party

August 11, 2010 By Karen Creel

The last blog party was a lot of fun with recipes on using all those zucchinis. Now we are on to Cucumbers! Heres my post for what to do with your excess cucumbers. Cucumber Dill Sauce 1 cup water1 cup sugar1 T salt1/3 cup white vinegarcucumber, peeled, seeded, and diced1 cup sour cream1 T fresh…

Share Your Creative Space at Where Bloggers Create

June 18, 2010 By Karen Creel

The 2nd Annual Blog Party to Share Your Creative Spaces! Check out my blog June 19th to see where all my Gardenchick products (as well as myother artistic endeavors occur). I will be posting along with over 400 bloggers, my “creative space”. Head over to http://www.mydesertcottage.blogspot.com/ on June 19th to peruse all the great blogs…

Gardenchick is a place for gardeners, flea market fanatics, lovers of the farmhouse look, and purveyors of all things rusty!

I’m not sure when my fascination with junk began, but gardening was in my blood from an early age. I remember my grandmother could throw a few seeds out and have the prettiest flowers. Sweet peas were rampant beside the front porch. I can see her now, bent over pulling weeds, and I find myself doing the same thing anytime I’m in the yard. My dad was raised on a large farm, and even though he moved away, and we always lived in the city, he had a garden. He had me help him plant a garden in May before he died in August. So you can see, gardening just comes naturally to me.

I can’t explain the love of rusty and all things chippy, but I have dug through more barns and sheds than I would like to admit to bring out a rusty wagon or old chicken feeder.

So, I hope you will follow along, and we can learn a few things together. I’ll be sharing gardening ideas, my flea market finds, and thrifty ways to repurpose.