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think: flowers in the attic but in a good way! ideas needed!

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Wearsuncream · 07/08/2012 10:06

I'd love to make some crafty arty things to display in my yard garden (as my green fingers are a bit naff). My daughter aged 4 loves crafting but I lack ideas, skill and ability to execute something to a decent standard.
PLEASE help me! I'd like to make a 'garden' - the best I can come up with is covering flowers from magazines with sticky back plastic which presumably want be rain proof for long...? Help!

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Wearsuncream · 07/08/2012 10:12

P.s i have a horrible concrete wall in my yard that is partly sheltered so any thoughts on that appreciated (can't paint as renting )

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lentilweavinghippy · 17/08/2012 09:48

What about putting big canvases up on the wall? If you painted them with acrylics they would be reasonably weather proof.

Make tealight holders out of old jars, wire & glass paint? Mosaic mirrors? Bunting?

lentilweavinghippy · 17/08/2012 09:50

Oh & you could paint some pebbles to put in flwerbeds, pots etc.

thisisyesterday · 17/08/2012 09:54

anyhting on here?

lentilweavinghippy · 17/08/2012 09:57

Tart up some terracotta pots with paint, glass beads, sequins, 'jewels' etc

rockinhippy · 18/08/2012 19:29

Upcycling plant pots here - fill with easy to grow stuff such as french lavender,

can you paint the wall white & then graffitti that too ??

I'm also working on turning an oil drum into a giant planter, which will be decorated with pink flamingoes & an old round garden table is halfway to being a toadstool

lentilweavinghippy · 20/08/2012 08:08

Your projects sound amazing, would love to see photos when they're finished! The link has inspired me too.Smile

rockinhippy · 20/08/2012 11:30
Grin

Thanks :), I've been having great fun with it, though the damned changeable weather has put the mockers on my finishing the rest of it Hmm, I will be adding it all to the blog when I do, which I'm hoping will be soon(fingers crossed for sun) as I've got DH home for a couple of weeks, so he can muck in with DDGrin

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