Archives for October 2006

I didn’t know that gourds could be painted

Published on 29 Oct 2006 at 6:23 pm. 4 Comments.
Filed under Projects to Make, Fall Decor, Drieds, Baskets.

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For years, I have bought gourds as part of my fall decor. And every year, I try to dry those gourds so that I can keep them from year to year. I’ve had one for almost fifteen years.
Those first years of drying were not all that […]

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Growing Fall Decor

Published on 22 Oct 2006 at 2:29 pm. No Comments.
Filed under Garden Ideas, Fall Decor, Crates.

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One of the things I have never grown well before, until this year, are chinese lanterns. I had plantd them from seed, and they didn’t do well at all. They grew, but only about six or eight inches high, and they had few lanterns on them. […]

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Fall is here - So are some new fall designs

Published on 15 Oct 2006 at 1:52 pm. No Comments.
Filed under Projects to Make, Fall Decor.

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I love seeing what decorating projects other people are designing. All the projects pictured in this blog entry were sent to me by Kathy Pfaff, of Erie, Pa. Click on any of the pictures to get a bigger view of each of them.
The first one is a wooden […]

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Shingles Revisisted

Published on 7 Oct 2006 at 2:00 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under Projects to Make, Garden Ideas.

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You may remember a previous blog post about the shingled pathway I made into the woods from my yard (picture on the left), and a walkway I made inside my vegetable garden (picture on the right). The instructions on how I did these are on this blog […]

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