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1. Dream it! Make it! Bake it! Shake it!:  Mini garden Jubilee  |
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Bonnie Ellis
True Blue Farmgirl
2474 Posts
Bonnie
Minneapolis
Minnesota
USA
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 Posted - Mar 19 2015 : 6:26:58 PM
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How about we celebrate the jubilee with a "fairy" garden. Miniature banners, barns, animals, etc. These gardens are really hot in our area and it will remind me how much fun MJF is to us. Anyone interested in the idea?
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Ladybek9756
True Blue Farmgirl
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Rebecca
Linneus
Maine
USA
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Posted - Mar 19 2015 : 7:10:34 PM
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Bonnie,
It is funny that you should mention this idea. I am actually creating a complete village around the front part of my trailer with a village which includes: Houses, Roads, Horse drawn carriages, fairies, gnomes, farm animals, and a small little village as well as the outskirts of a town. I just bought all the fixings of clay to create some of the accessories and people and will be making the outskirt houses from mother nature.
Becky
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callene
True Blue Farmgirl
214 Posts
Callene
Atlanta
Georgia
USA
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Posted - Mar 19 2015 : 7:52:57 PM
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I have a small knome garden already.Would that count?
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Bonnie Ellis
True Blue Farmgirl
2474 Posts
Bonnie
Minneapolis
Minnesota
USA
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Posted - Mar 19 2015 : 8:10:35 PM
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Callene: absolutely your gnome garden would count but you have to dress it up for jubilee. I wasn't really thinking fairies but more another place to decorate. Mini should be fun.
Rebecca: your village sounds like fun. Please post pictures.
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hudsonsinaf
True Blue Farmgirl
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Shannon
Rozet
Wyoming
USA
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Posted - Mar 20 2015 : 05:34:46 AM
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Love love love this idea! My girls have been working on a fairy garden and my boys feel "left out" (fairies are for girls, lol). So a farm garden would be fantastic. And we could decorate both for the jubilee!
~ Shannon
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Marilyn Hartman Sullivan
True Blue Farmgirl
1138 Posts
Marilyn
Oxford
PA
USA
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Posted - Mar 20 2015 : 06:23:30 AM
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His Dudeness has set aside the base of one of the big trees just outside our bedroom for my fairy garden. We had a new deck built last year and a bunch of outdoor remodeling, so I am anxious for the weather to warm up enough to get out and get to work on it. I love the idea of dressing up the fairy garden for jubilee! I bet we could shrink the banner down on a good copier to make a banner for the garden.
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
6797 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Mar 20 2015 : 07:01:07 AM
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Listening to you girls talk about your mini-gardens has gotten me excited about making one too. Will do it in a small flowerbed I can see from my computer. Now to gather things up to make it. Next trip to Salvation Army I will look for mini-items. In the meantime I will work on adapting a birdhouse for the farmhouse; My garden will be small: a farmhouse; maybe a barn; chicken coop; flowerbeds & veg garden; can't forget a mini clothesline with wee aprons.
Sara
FarmGirl Sister #6034 Aug 25, 2014
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.
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MaryJane
Queen Bee
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MaryJane
Moscow
Idaho
USA
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Posted - Mar 20 2015 : 07:14:53 AM
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Now this is a fun idea. His dudeness? Love it!!!
MaryJane, Farmgirl #1 Plowin' Thru ~ giving aprons a good wrap for 45 years and counting ~
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ceridwen
True Blue Farmgirl
899 Posts
Carole
New York
USA
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Posted - Mar 20 2015 : 07:31:23 AM
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Oh what a great idea! I have this beautiful magestic old oak tree in my back yard. Gosh it must be over 200 years old (my home is over 150 yrs old). Sometimes I sit quietly on the swing and listen to the stories it has to tell. Anyway, I am convince we have fairies that live there!  I sure they won't mind if I do a bit of decorating around their entrance!
Carole
Farmgirl Sister 3610
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
6797 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Mar 20 2015 : 07:47:08 AM
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Been thinking about how to make wee-aprons to survive the weather ~ I have old cloth backed plastic tablecloths in different prints. Should work just fine.
It's like playing with dolls and it feels so good to be a 'farmkid at heart' again.
Sara
FarmGirl Sister #6034 Aug 25, 2014
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.
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Bonnie Ellis
True Blue Farmgirl
2474 Posts
Bonnie
Minneapolis
Minnesota
USA
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Posted - Mar 20 2015 : 08:58:04 AM
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Sara: You're a hoot. Dudeness indeed. But the mini clothesline and aprons are a great idea. Oilcloth would be just great as they can take the rain.
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Bonnie Ellis
True Blue Farmgirl
2474 Posts
Bonnie
Minneapolis
Minnesota
USA
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Posted - Mar 20 2015 : 09:02:25 AM
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Let's not forget to post pictures as these Jubilee mini gardens become reality. I know kids love these because our nurseries have free classes to make them and my hubby and I each made one, his a bonsai tray complete with bridge and mine a camping trailer in a pot filled with sand and cactus. Even our 93 year old aunt wanted to make one. Have fun gals.
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callene
True Blue Farmgirl
214 Posts
Callene
Atlanta
Georgia
USA
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Posted - Mar 20 2015 : 09:42:53 AM
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Thank you veryn much.Thinking of a Jubilee banner over the main street in my gnome village.Thinking scrapbook paper covered in clear contact paper,for weather resistance.One big problem already has arised for my village.We have cat attacks,think litter box.Any suggestions?I was thinking pepper.Dogs do not like it,works real good on trash.Someone elsesaid mothballs.Any thoughts girls?quote:
Originally posted by Bonnie Ellis
Callene: absolutely your gnome garden would count but you have to dress it up for jubilee. I wasn't really thinking fairies but more another place to decorate. Mini should be fun.
Rebecca: your village sounds like fun. Please post pictures.
grandmother and orphan farmgirl
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
6797 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Mar 20 2015 : 10:00:33 AM
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Callene, I ground up dried cayenne peppers in blender, and heavily sprinkle around herbs to keep neighborhood cats away. Hint: don't breath the air when you take the lid off blender.
Sara
FarmGirl Sister #6034 Aug 25, 2014
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.
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callene
True Blue Farmgirl
214 Posts
Callene
Atlanta
Georgia
USA
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Posted - Mar 20 2015 : 10:07:21 AM
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Thankyou for the tip.Will do on the breathing.Not to sure my asthma would do so good with that.Lol.quote:
Originally posted by YellowRose
Callene, I ground up dried cayenne peppers in blender, and heavily sprinkle around herbs to keep neighborhood cats away. Hint: don't breath the air when you take the lid off blender.
Sara
FarmGirl Sister #6034 Aug 25, 2014
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.
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GinnyM
Farmgirl in Training
32 Posts
Virginia
Eau Claire
Wisconsin
USA
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Posted - Mar 21 2015 : 09:29:48 AM
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Oh, Bonnie!
This is excellent timing! My daughter (17 yrs) and I were just talking last week about refurbishing our fairy garden! What a fun idea! I have some mini gourds that I wasn't sure what to do with them, (they were left over from a mini gourd drum necklace project), they would make great fairy/gnome houses!
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sonshine4u
Chapter Guru
1205 Posts
April
New Prague
MN
USA
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Posted - Mar 21 2015 : 09:41:10 AM
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Now this is an fantastic idea! I think I'll get my youngest in on this fun! We have a beginning of a fairy garden with her succulents she took to the fair last year.
Farmgirl Hugs!
~April
River Valley Farmgirls
Chapter Leader
~Playing in the Sonshine~
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13564 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17023 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
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Posted - Mar 21 2015 : 8:04:07 PM
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The Hobby Lobby store in Mercede, CA., as well as the one in Spokane, WA., has awhole "Fairy Garden" section of goodie sto decorate a garden.. from fairies to gnomes and every thing in between.
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17023 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
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Posted - Mar 22 2015 : 1:34:53 PM
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this is my 'fairy garden' that I started 3 weeks ago,,, not a true fairy garden,,, but it is just a sweet deco element that I placed near my front door.
The bronze casting of the fairy was in the 'Storage Unit' we bought last fall... I had it stashed in the garage with a lot of other stuff that I was planning on yard selling,,, then about 2-3 weeks ago I went to a 'fairy garden/small container gardening' class at our local True Value store,,, got home and remembered my 12" tall bronze fairy,,, thou not true to scale, I don't mind, after all, it's all about the whimsy and making one smile when seeing this...
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
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Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
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Posted - Mar 22 2015 : 1:39:53 PM
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oh and the levels for container gardening are,,,
1- Thriller,
2- Filler
3- Spiller...
something tall/focal point - Thriller
base plants like alyssum or ground cover type plants - Filler
draping/hanging over plants - Spiller
this combo of three makes for a great container garden...now I just need to poke in a few little 'spillers' in my fairy garden.
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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ceridwen
True Blue Farmgirl
899 Posts
Carole
New York
USA
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13564 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
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GinnyM
Farmgirl in Training
32 Posts
Virginia
Eau Claire
Wisconsin
USA
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Posted - Mar 22 2015 : 6:41:48 PM
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| Awesome fairy garden, katmom! I sigh with jealousy because it is too early to plant outdoors here. But never fear! I am starting some chamomille seeds indoors, pretty soon! |
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17023 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
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Posted - Mar 23 2015 : 08:46:31 AM
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I know a young woman who has some major health issues,,, long story short, she mentioned how she misses gardening, so I suggested a 'portable' Fairy Garden. She can use a med size plastic pot/container fill w/potting soil, and add a few alyssums and or cactus plants and then a few little mini deco elements. I told her to get a few interesting shape stones, paint them or write motivational words on them to add to her wee garden... she can set the fairy garden on a small table or on a chair near a window... so when the window is open the scent from the alyssums will waft through her room.
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
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Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
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Posted - Mar 23 2015 : 08:47:58 AM
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CeeJay,,,isn't it almost over whelming all the little fairy garden goodies at H.L...????
One can also go into the miniature/doll house isle for mini stuff for the garden...
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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