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Using Flea Market Finds In The Garden

July 15, 2019 By Karen Creel

Do you love flea markets as much as I do?  I decorate my house with a lot of my finds, but  what I like even more is using a little creativity and see how I can use my flea market finds in the garden.   I have a few flea market finds that are my favorites. … 

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Filed Under: garden art, garden decor, garden junk Tagged With: flea market, garden design, junk garden

Repurposed Pumpkins

August 23, 2016 By Karen Creel

I know…, it’s at least 90 degrees outside, and I am talking about pumpkins. But, I’m going to a craft show the end of September, so I need to start thinking fall. My repurposed pumpkin is made from the drawer of a little chest I kept in the closet to hold craft supplies. But, after moving… 

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Filed Under: garden decor, garden junk Tagged With: DIY fall garden decor, DIY pumpkins, flea market gardening, Halloween Garden Decor, pumpkins, Repurposed pumpkins

Rusty Bird Cage Garden Decor

August 16, 2016 By Karen Creel

I bought an old rusty bird cage years ago at the 450 mile yard sale. I think I paid $5.00 for it and brought it home. It’s been sitting in my yard, back in the woods where I often store my rusty finds. I found it the other day while I was cleaning around my… 

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Filed Under: garden art, garden decor, garden junk Tagged With: Decorating with flea market finds, Flea market decor, flea market finds, flea market gardening, zinnias

Top 4 Posts in 2014

January 8, 2015 By Karen Creel

I enjoyed writing many posts last year, but here’s four of my reader’s favorites.  Hope you’ll enjoy.   Winter Garden Décor  www.gardenchick.com/winter-garden-decor Tea Cup Winter Wonderland  http://gardenchick.com/teacup-winter-wonderland/ Must Haves for a Flea Market Garden  http://gardenchick.com/flea-market-gardens/ Don’t Throw That Away, I Can Use It in the Garden!  http://gardenchick.com/Don’t-throw-that-away-I-can-use-it-in-the-garden!

Filed Under: garden decor, garden junk, garden themed decorating, handmade christmas gifts Tagged With: flea market finds, flea market gardening, gnome garden, Winter garden decor

Using Ladders in the Garden

October 17, 2014 By Karen Creel

Last spring, one of the local antique shops in town was closing it’s doors.  A half price sale was all I needed to head down and take a look.  This little ladder with the painted, screwed on box, was obviously destined to be used in the bathroom, but not quite my style. But, at 10 dollars… 

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Filed Under: garden junk, Uncategorized Tagged With: garden ladders, garden shed decor, repurposed ladders

Mailbox Planters

October 14, 2014 By Karen Creel

I’ve been looking for one of those large old mailboxes for quite a while.  I was leaving a local junk store, when a friend who has a booth there was unloading her car from a recent estate sale.  I spotted it!  This old black mailbox!  And what a bargain, only $5.00. I grabbed it up, loaded… 

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Filed Under: garden junk, Uncategorized Tagged With: Blanketfowers, Halloween, Halloween Garden Decor, Old Mailboxes

Bicycles in the Garden

September 30, 2014 By Karen Creel

I have this old black bicycle that has been moved everywhere.  That’s not an easy feat considering the tires are flat and rotted!  I paid $15.00 for the bicycle, and it has been painted two or three colors.  I believe it’s current home under the pine tree at the side of my driveway will be… 

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Filed Under: garden junk Tagged With: bicycle planters, decorating with bicycles, fall decor, fall decorating

Must Haves For a Flea Market Garden

September 21, 2014 By Karen Creel

I don’t apologize for liking junk, and yes, I do brake for junk on the side of the road!  What makes us like certain things?  I liked junk before junking was cool.  Magazines with well manicured lawns, and perfectly planned gardens are thrown to the side while I grab the latest Flea Market Garden to… 

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Filed Under: garden junk Tagged With: concrete figures, flea market finds, little wagons, rusty trucks, violas

Don’t Throw That Away, I can Use It In the Garden!

June 4, 2014 By Karen Creel

This bottom of a wheelbarrow was given to me by my friend Sandra, and I screwed the tub on.  Plans were to fill it with lantana, but I have now decided to place a big fern in it, to add interest under an oak tree. I was out in the garden yesterday and I thought… 

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Filed Under: garden junk, junk containers, unusual containers

Garden Thrift Store Finds

May 26, 2010 By Karen Creel

My mother and I go to the Salvation Army Thrift Stores as well as the Goodwill stores about once a week. I love finding a bargain, and look for garden related items each time.  Here are two of my latest finds. The cost $1.00 each.    The book is the 1958 Farm, Ranch, and Home Ford… 

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Filed Under: garden decor, garden junk


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A Quick Note…

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.

 

 

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