7 Creative DIY Plant Tag & Markers

7 Creative DIY Plant Tag & Markers

Here are 7 DIY projects to create your own plant markers and tags.

For more, also see creative garden art ideas.

7 Creative DIY Plant Tag and Marker Ideas for your garden using household items including wooden spoons, fly swatters, metal washers, and stones at empressofdirt.net

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Here’s some creative ideas for DIY plant tags and markers

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I purchased these chalkboard plant tags but you could also make them using tiny picture frames spray-painted with chalkboard paint.

Get a wood burning tool and make some plant tags and garden art! Stephanie of Garden Therapy created these fun plant markers. You could make some sweet, wood-burned garden signs as well.

3. Fly Swatter Plant Tags | Our Fairfield Home & Garden

This one made me laugh when I first saw it: fun idea! Barb of Our Fairfield Home and Garden created these plant markers with fly swatters and canning jar lids as part of a challenge to come up with garden art made from kitchen utensils. I’m sure the flies will agree that this is a fine project.

Rock painting is contagious! Once you get into it, there’s so many things to create including these charming plant markers from Garden Therapy.

Lynne at Sensible Gardening has a daylily farm/business so tagging plants is essential. She recommends these copper tags for a good-looking, long-lasting plant markers.

Once you get a metal stamp kit, you’ll want to be stamping everything! Stephanie of Garden Therapy made these cute and functional tags from washers. It’s a great way to mark things like grafted fruit tree branches.

A super simple way to mark plants is to simply write the names on wooden spoons. You could also paint and decorate them if you’re a crafter.

~Melissa the Empress of Dirt ♛

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7 Crafty Projects for a Weekend Afternoon

7 Crafty Projects for a Weekend Afternoon

Have you got a creative itch to scratch? These seven projects are the perfect remedy when you have a few hours on a weekend afternoon.

To see the entire treasure trove of maker ideas, dive in here.

Have you got a creative itch to scratch? These seven projects are the perfect remedy when you have a few hours on a weekend afternoon.

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7 Crafty Projects for a Weekend Afternoon

There is only one cure for creative urges: make something! Have a look at these project ideas and use them as a launching point for your own crafty projects. Whether you want to paint, design, or build, the ideas here should get you started.

1 Get Crafty with Rocks and Stones

These delightful painted stones are by artist Sehnaz Bac, author of the new book, The Art of Stone Painting: 30 Designs to Spark Your Creativity. Click the buttons (below) for tutorials from the book, reprinted with permission from the publisher.

Paint rocks and stone to create animated garden art

2 Turn Terracotta Pots into Art & Decor

Clay pots are inexpensive and suitable for endless crafts and DIY projects. Whether you want garden art, a fairy garden, or decor, there are lots of ideas.

Creative clay pot project ideas

3 Print Your Photos and Turn Them Into Art

Learn how to print your favourite photos and turn them into art by transferring them to artist’s canvas. Great idea for unique gifts.

How to transfer photos and images to wood or canvas

4 Create Giant Blooms

I love over-sized garden art. I have a giant bird’s nest, complete with eggs, on top of my garden shed. These giant alliums look perfect in the flower garden. Can you guess what they are made with?

DIY garden art alliums

5 Delight the Butterflies

One of the best things you can do for a garden is provide fresh water. Life depends on it! This simple water feeder is a favourite feeding spot for butterflies, bees, birds, small mammals, and all those nameless insect pollinators.

Birds, bees, and butterflies need fresh water every day. Make this DIY water feeder from household items. It takes just minutes to make and it's easy to wash!

6 Give Your Plants Pretty Protection

A quick trip to the thrift shop or Re-Store is all you need for these pretty hose guards. I rely on them to keep my garden hose from crushing plants, plus, they just look sweet.

How to make garden art hose guards

7 Plant a Flower Arch

If you love nature-inspired garden art, the book Gardening on a Shoestring by Alex Mitchell is an essential resource. I love this book. This sweet pea garden arch tutorial was provided with permission from the publisher. The book is filled with gorgeous outdoor projects for the garden and patio.

Create a sweet pea garden arch

Ok. That should get your creative juices flowing. Go grab your supplies, get messy, and have fun.

~Melissa the Empress of Dirt ♛

Have you got a creative itch to scratch? These seven projects are the perfect remedy when you have a few hours on a weekend afternoon.

Original article and pictures take empressofdirt.net site

60+ Ways to Carve a Pumpkin

60+ Ways to Carve a Pumpkin

It’s pumpkin season! Why is that so exciting to me? Because the pumpkin is the ultimate creative muse for the season. I absolutely loved carving pumpkins for Halloween when I was a young Trick-or-Treater. From the gooey feel of the pumpkin guts to the toothy grin that glowed from candlelight, it was pure fall crafting heaven. Please join me on a tour of the 65 (!) most fabulous pumpkins that have ever been carved, decorated or created, including a few squash cousins and faux pumpkin friends.

Starting Small

• Janit from Two Green Thumbs shows us how to make a Miniature Pumpkin House that’s easy, quick, and fun.
• She also wrote a tutorial on How to Carve a Miniature Pumpkin into tiny jack-o-lanterns!

Light Hearted

• Sara from Blitz & Giggles used a solar light to make her Solar Light Jack-o-Lantern. Brilliant!
• Sarah from Home-ology created these Starry Night Pumpkin Luminaries complete with comets.
• These Etched Pumpkins really steal the show. See all five designs and print the patterns!

Pumpkin Planters

• Michael from Inspired by Charm turned blue pumpkins, succulents, and spiders into an upscale Halloween Succulent Pumpkin that’s anything but scary.
• Pumpkins also make for a wonderful Thanksgiving table decoration as you can see with this Pumpkin Table Centerpiece with Succulent Pumpkins and these five Pumpkin Flower Arrangements.
• If you do make a pumpkin planter, be sure to read about How to Make Planted Pumpkins Last and check out the gorgeous fall mum planter in that post.

Pumpkin Heads

• Ever since I created my first Jack-o-Plantern I knew it would become an annual thing. I was first inspired by these five Jack-o-Planterns and then I made two of my own and showed the step-by-step to make them.
• Melissa, the Empress of Dirt, came over to the dark side and decorated her pumpkins for fall. You can see her wonderful no-carve pumpkin ideas and get inspired.
• Barb from Our Fairfield Home & Garden’s Junk-o-Lantern also deserves a special mention!
• These silly faces are painted on pumpkins and squash but they have lots of personality! See all 13 Painted Pumpkin Faces here.
• Ashley, from lil blue boo, made these Sugar Scull-Inspired Owl Pumpkins with a sharpie!

Pumpkin Inspired

• This DIY House Vent Pumpkin from Karen, Garden Chick, took a whole lot of paint to cover, but was it ever worth it!
• Shelley from Sow and Dipity made these fun DIY Recycled Wood Pumpkins to spice up her fall flower display.
• Jenn at Clean and Scentsible made this adorable Pumpkin Soap.

That’s a Lot of Pumpkins!

I didn’t include the 75,000 pumpkins, gourds, and squash that the Dallas Arboretum used to decorate their Pumpkin Village, but it’s a sight to see!

See plenty more pumpkin ideas on my Pinterest Pumpkin Board:

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6 Easy Labor Day Hairstyles—No Labor Required

6 Easy Labor Day Hairstyles—No Labor Required

We’re assuming you have grander plans on Labor Day than fiddling with your hair—but that doesn’t mean you have to resort to your go-to messy bun. Keep flipping for six breezy hairstyles perfect for your day-off activities!

This is the french braid that can’t make up its mind—and the effect is simple and stunning. Start french-braiding your hair like normal, then switch to a normal braid for two turns, and then french-braid again. Alternate between the two braids until you reach the end of your hair.

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6 Easy Garden Art Ideas

6 Easy Garden Art Ideas

6 Easy Garden Art Ideas | Ways to add your personal style to your garden without breaking the bank!

6 Easy Garden Art Ideas | Ways to add your personal style to your garden without breaking the bank!

Birds and gardens go together like toast and jam. Because of that, it is perfectly fitting to grace your garden with one (or more) birdhouses. They can be installed in the ground or hung from just about anything. Different types of birdhouses attract different types of birds. There are wren houses, finch houses, houses for sparrows and the list goes on. Personally, I just love to look at them and if a bird makes itself at home, it's an added bonus! This Oct-Avian bird house was a Mother's Day gift and is a recent addition to my garden.

Bird house pictured can be found here: Oct-Avian Bird House .

Garden statuary can be anything from cement geese dressed for the weather to saints and angels. There is a wide choice of sturdy items that will weather nicely and live happily in your garden. I have always had a statue of St. Francis of Assisi in my garden. For some reason, I can't imagine a garden being complete without him. He is the patron saint of Ecology and is best know for "preaching to the birds." Other ideas are cement benches, stepping stones with engraved quotes or small woodland animals.

Click these links for more Garden Art inspiration!

15 Creative Garden Art Angels from Empress of Dirt

Add Some Instant Whimsy to the Garden from Garden Therapy

10 Ways to Turn Junk into Garden Art from Amanda's Cookin'

Make a Musical Terra Cotta Wind Chime from Garden Therapy

14 Garden Art Ideas from the Kitchen from Empress of Dirt

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50+ Festive Do-It-Yourself Christmas Wreath Ideas

50+ Festive Do-It-Yourself Christmas Wreath Ideas

Original article and pictures take clv.h-cdn.co site

50 Haircuts to Copy Right Now

50 Haircuts to Copy Right Now

The new year is upon us, and you know what that means — we’re ready to start fresh and make some changes. Like, RIGHT NOW. So naturally we’re looking to switch things up by researching new haircuts.

If you’re anything like us, you’re probably spending a large portion of your day scouring the internet for brilliant haircut ideas. Search no longer! We’ve rounded up 50 of the most gorgeous haircuts to provide you with endless inspiration. You’ll be scheduling a stylist’s appointment before you can even say “Pixie cut, please.”

MORE: Growing Out Short Hair? Try These Hairstyles!

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