Halloween – Garden Chick

Spooktacular Garden Decor

October 22, 2015 By Karen Creel

I have never been a “Halloween” person. Even when my boys were young, the decorations consisted mainly of a carved pumpkin. But, when challenged by Terri at The Good Life to join a group of bloggers posting on outside Halloween décor, I wanted to have some fun with it. How can you resist a skeleton flamingo? …

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…

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.