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Tricycle Planted with Pansies

March 17, 2019 By Karen Creel

Do you have a favorite flea market find that you always buy?   Vintage vases, old galvanized buckets, or gardening tools?  Well,  tricycles are my weakness. I currently have 4 or more in my shed, so on a pretty day last week I pulled this tricycle out and planted it with pansies.   Pansies are… 

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Vintage Style Spring Moss Purse

February 25, 2019 By Karen Creel

While trying to organize some of my craft supplies and junk finds, I came across three little moss purses I had purchased a few years ago.  I also found a few doilies for another project, and a pair of vintage flower earrings. These would be cute for a vintage style spring moss purse. Spring is… 

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Dollar Store Farm Animal Pincushions

February 19, 2019 By Karen Creel

I didn’t go into the Dollar Store last week looking for pincushions.  Honestly, I can’t remember what I went for, but as usual, I couldn’t resist going back to the garden department.  I spotted these little ceramic farm animals with the artificial succulents in them.  My initial thought was these would look cute with real… 

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TerraCotta Pot Crafts

February 14, 2019 By Karen Creel

Terracotta pots aren’t just for planting in!  I use for decorating, to put gifts in (lip balm, garden soap, hand balm) scattering around the garden for decorating, and creating some great Terracotta crafts.  Anytime I’m out junking, I look for Terracotta pots and I have amassed quite a few of them.  While at a local… 

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Repurposed Garden Tote

January 14, 2017 By Karen Creel

Tutorial on making your own garden tote

We have had unseasonably warm weather for the last few days.  In fact, it is 73 degrees today, about 20 degrees above normal.  I won’t get fooled into sneaking a few spring seeds into the ground, but it is a perfect day to complete a few projects that have been on my to do list. … 

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Bath Salts Christmas Ornaments

December 8, 2016 By Karen Creel

I was in Michael’s Craft Store a few days ago and saw these clear  Christmas ornaments.  I am going to a Christmas craft show this weekend, and needed some “quick and easy” additions to the other products I am taking.  They were perfect for creating some Bath Salts Christmas Ornaments, and would make great stocking stuffers,… 

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Christmas Herbs: Rosemary

December 5, 2016 By Karen Creel

Rosemary played a role in the Christmas story

When I think of Christmas herbs,  rosemary doesn’t usually come to mind.  Frankincense and myrrh are known by most people as the rare and expensive herbs brought to the Christ child after his birth. But, after reading an article about Rosemary and it’s significance at Christmas I was surprised to find that Rosemary, or the… 

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Cover Crops: Turn a Brown Garden Green

November 26, 2016 By Karen Creel

My garden is now finished, and as a gardener, I’m still looking for reasons to be out in it.  The weather is mild, the garlic still needs to be planted,  and the strawberry and asparagus beds are yet to be cleaned out. Instead of letting the garden lay idle all winter, open to weeds and… 

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Herbal First Aid Salve for Dogs

November 23, 2016 By Karen Creel

Our dogs are not just pets, they are part of our family.  When they get cuts, scrapes, sores, abrasions and hot spots, we want to treat them with a natural product that not only heals, but reduces the risk of infection. After my last dogs, Murphy and Corky died a few years ago, I said… 

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Thanksgiving Chicken Coop

November 22, 2016 By Karen Creel

Finally! Cooler weather, and I’m beginning to get in the Holiday spirit!   Leaves are turning and dropping to the ground, and after moving the chicken coop to the garden area this morning I decided it was due for new chicken coop décor.  I had started painting it a few weeks ago, finished it today, and now, a  makeover for the Thanksgiving holiday…. 

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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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