Pallet planters and trellis

In one of the last posts I shared a picture of our planters and trellis. Here is a little more info and a bunch more pictures!!!!

It started with the above picture.

Jim brought home a couple of these plant pallets.

They were pretty cute as is, but have you known us to take the easy way on things?

NOPE!!!

Those plant pallets were turned into TWO pallet planters!

We filled them with bricks (about halfway) before we added the soil.

We got them positioned. Then we had another idea (imagine!)

Why not connect them and give this part of the yard a feel all its own??

Yep!!! An arbor/trellis...made from pallets!!!

(I'm pretty lucky he loves me right?)

Taking shape!

Putting the pieces on the top.

Do you like the telephone pole looking thing?

This reminds me that I don't think I have shared it with you. :(

All done!

Sitting in, looking out.

On the "outside" looking in!

It really does give the patio/fire pit area the feeling that it is its own room!!!!

Pretty neat looking and all the wood was FREE!!!!

This picture is a few weeks old.

In the planters we planted pole beans and bush beans.

The pole beans are now as tall as the first 'step'

The birds have let us know they approve!!!

I think it needs a sign hanging in the middle of the arbor. That may be a rainy day or a winter time project though. The tomatoes are starting to turn red so we will soon be busy canning away! We will have to remember to take time to sit and enjoy our 'new room.'

I wish those of you that are my bloggy friends lived closer so we could sit out back and catch up!

Hugs!!!

Jen

I'm linking up here:

A bridal shower gift

Holy Moly! It says it has been like 12 days since I've posted! I have thought about you daily, but I was taking advantage of the sunshine and getting some work done outside. Then it rained. I needed the rainy day to catch up on the inside stuff! I love driving myself crazy! Somewhere in there I also went to a bridal shower for a friend of ours. Jim and I both had a hand in the making of the gift! Steph (yep the one I mention often!) was in on the gift too. We decided on what we wanted and sent Jim off to the shop! :) Don't let him fool ya, he loves having his best gal pal in the house, even if we do gang up on him.

We wanted a box our friend, Nicole, could set on her counter and set a cookbook on top of. We also wanted the box to open up. (we don't ask for much right?)

Downstairs he went, sketch in hand. He sorted through the pieces downstairs and found 'the ones' for this project. It turned out FANTASTIC!! So much so, in fact, Jim said he didn't want to see it go! I have that problem often. It turned out great! Let's take a look shall we?

the top

Jim's favorite part is these boards on the top!

the side

the back

the inside

the bottom

felt pieces were added to the bottom so it won't scratch the counter

Awesome isn't it?

We aren't done though. We can't very well gift an empty box can we?

Onward then!

Every girl needs thank you cards, especially a bride!

I pulled out these three stamps from an old Stampin' Up set.

The set is called Flowers.

There were three different designs...

I made a couple 'trial' ones and sent text messages to Steph.

We had preferences, but I still couldn't decide...

So Nicole received a handful of each design.

She can be the one to decide!

All bundled up!

If you have followed my cards, you know I like to put a stamp on the back of my envelopes.

The butterfly in the upper right hand corner was stamped on the back of the envelopes.

Let's take a peek inside the box...

Jim's Mom told me a girl NEEDS to have a napkin drawer.

Nicole's box has plenty of napkins!

Steeler napkins

Coca Cola napkins

Beachy napkins

Paisley napkins

Birthday napkins

She also received measuring cups and spoons.

A flour sack towel {LOVE THEM}

and some stamps for her thank you cards!

Pretty cool gift if you ask me!

What would a gift be without a card?

Nicole's colors are pink and green...

Sometimes it pays to have a paper OBSESSION!

I found pink and green paper!

I used the the new Stampin' Up Take it to Heart set.

This was one of the sets in that big box I told you about awhile back.

I stamped in pink and green.

I used my heart punch on the one that was the same size as the punch

and used scissors to cut the others. Nothing hard or tricky here!

I tied a piece of pink ribbon around the pink and green paper.

Adhered the pink and green paper to the card base.

Added foam dots to the backs of the hearts.

Adhered the hearts to  the card.

Added a sentiment. YIKES! That looks horrible!!!

Take two! 

In paper crafting there is almost always a way to cover up a whoops!

(oh shoot, the cat is out of the bag, now nicole will be taking her card apart to see if i am telling the truth)

I had nothing to do with the flowers...BUT!!!!!

Steph did!!!! She's getting her craft on pretty well isn't she?

A look at our lunch choices!

If you really need to know, I had the burger.

It was DELISH!

The bride to be reading the inside of her box.

It was stamped and signed by Jim and signed by Steph and me.

It was a nice time!

Our gift wasn't the only one that rocked, but it was close. (he he he)

It won't be long now Lady!!!

Congratulations again!!!

Partying here:

How does your horseradish grow? another pallet project

Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!! I am sharing another pallet project. We were at a local small business garden sort of place a couple weeks ago and they had horseradish roots for sale. We know horseradish will take over and Jim kinda looked at me. I said, "Why can't we grow it in a bucket?" I got another questionable look because how attractive would a plain 'ol bucket be sitting around. ...don't worry...got that one covered too (literally).

Don't go buying your buckets!!!!! There should be plenty of places that have buckets they are going to throw away. I would start at a bakery. I asked the bakery at our grocery store what they did with their empty buckets. The lady said it just depends but they had two sitting there they were going to throw away. SWEET DEAL!!!! I picked up some groceries AND some buckets. There was no questionable look when I came home with the buckets. I think he almost laughed at me with pity.

Fill the bucket up with dirt, plant the horseradish and move along to the next project. No digging will be necessary when it is time to harvest some of that horseradish, just turn that bucket upside down!!!!

Oh!!! Did you want to see what we did? he he he. Here it is. Jim made a "cover" for the bucket. I was thinking of something we could set the bucket in, but I like his interpretation of the concept much more!!!!

It is cute box huh?

top view

a different angle

Oh but look!!! It hides a bucket!

We think it will look pretty cool when the leaves are growing through the hole!

There will be 4 of these around. There were 4 roots in the bag.

A free bucket and a free pallet = a snazzy looking horseradish root

Here is a link with some history about horseradish

So? What do you think?

Let us know.

See you soon!!!!!

A Pallet wall

Hi Everyone! The weekend went by so quickly, why is that? The sun was out today and it was gorgeous!! I opened the office/computer room/paper crafting room/the room where Jim has only enough room for his computer and himself window and Jynx has spent the day there. She is still there, actually. The windows in this room face west so it is a nice place for a Jynx to be in the afternoons. (oh I do feel bad about Jim's limited space in here, but for now we don't have many other options. There is a whole upstairs waiting for us to do something with it, but...)

I mentioned on the facebook page Jim had completed a project  in the living room! I am going to share it with you. I am still completely blown away by how it changes the whole room! Let's go back in time a little bit though, roughly 3 years. You see this wall has been somewhat of a thorn from the start.

We sanded, primed, painted, decorated, etc.

It looked like this.

this pic was taken LONG before blogging, don't mind the clutter

or that LOVELY front door

If you've been following for awhile you know that I painted the fireplace

on our first Thanksgiving in the house!

Here is the painted fireplace.

See the crock in the above picture? At some point the paint started cracking in the area of the crock. 

I believe this photo was before the paint started cracking, but once it started it was obvious!! and I began decorating around the cracks to conceal them. :)

When I brought the winter/Valentine's stuff down I didn't rush anything else up. The mantel was bare and it was Jim's day off. He decided to check out what I had been hiding and the checking out process quickly turned into this:

Look at that spot to the left of mirror. AWESOME!!!!

This led to conversation, and ideas, and conversation, and ideas...

and then to this:

and then................... to this:

pallet wood to the rescue...

Now lets add some decor shall we?

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This one was taken with my cell phone. Not sure why I didn't take any with the camera when the lights were on. (thank goodness for facebook huh?)

What do you think?

I can't get over how it changes the look.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you will leave a comment!

Linking up here:

Sunday's Best at My 1929 Charmer

Craft-O-Maniac
Pinkapotamus for the Pink Hippo Party
A Bowl Full of Lemons for One Project At a Time
Between Naps on the Porch for Metamorphosis Monday
Coastal Charm for Nifty Thrifty Tuesday