Christmas decorations – Garden Chick

Christmas Display Using Flea Market Finds

December 11, 2015 By Karen Creel

I cleaned up my office and redecorated to get me in the mood for a New Year of moving toward my goal of creating my dream business. (More about that later) I like to be surrounded by the things I love. I gathered up some of my favorite things to create a display on my…

Holiday Decorating Using Vintage Metal Trucks

December 3, 2014 By Karen Creel

It’s funny how certain things catch our eye. Metal toy trucks? I’m not sure where that came from, since I was the type to play with dolls, and I never had a brother or even male cousins! But after seeing one in an antique store filled with little Christmas ornaments, I was hooked. I have…

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.