Rain, rain, bloody rain

For the second day in a row the rain is falling grrrr!! I know my plants love it but so do the weeds, and this lack of sun is doing nothing for me. I've had to be content with watching gardening programs and picking up tips on the web for our new projects, construct a compost bin and a water barrel. As we rescued some lovely sand coloured slabs from a back lane (its amazing what you can find when your walking the dog), my husband dug out some soil, to level the ground to put down our bench, and its now a patch of wet gunk. Good job the bench hasn't arrived yet! We'll have to be content with making some garden sculptures indoors until the drizzle stops.

Current Projects

Two current projects - just waiting for the sun to shine (grr british weather)

Herb Garden

Planted a few herbs - rosemary, parsley and lemon thyme (bought in the sale 35p each) and the smaller ones are coriander and basil grown from seed. Ive tried growing herbs before, but they've always died on me - so I'm trying again, maybe Ill get lucky this time.

New bench

This is our old bench from last year, made by my husband out of wood from an old bed frame, which I painted red, balanced on bricks which were left behind by an old tenant (a brickie) its held up really well. We are re-using it for outside our backdoor (nothing is ever thrown away). Our new bench (which we will build when the weather gets better) will be made from two old 8ft long 4x4" planks, which had been dumped in a garden a few doors down - (we had them when the tenants moved out - with permission of course!)

Looking Sideways

Hi
Ive created this blog to have somewhere to put all my ideas, creations and whatever else. No more scraps of paper tucked away in books and behind the sofa! A little bit about me: I'm happily married with 2 kids and a dog (labrador). My husband is just as creative as me so I suppose he'll want to muscle in on this lol. At the moment we've both started to grow our own vegetables - even though we've never grown anything before - ever, so that should be interesting!. Any mutant veggies I shall post pics here. We are also clearing out the dump which is our garden, and creating furniture and garden deco out of stuff we find under our rubble and the things that people throw away (some people are so wasteful). We've built our own firepit - pics coming soon, and our next project is building a mini pond out of something out of the ordinary, when I find it I'll let you know. I also take a few snaps so I'll be posting a few here, I'm also a massive sims fan, so Ill be posting a few of my creations, as well as some illustrations and no doubt other things that pop into my brain.
Thanks for visiting - see you soon!
earthgirl