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    Creating Whimsy In Your Yard & Garden, Part Two

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    Creating Whimsy In Your Yard & Garden, Part Two. Pretty mosquito netting, a reading pad, recliner and pillows out in the grass

    As a child, did you ever find a shady place in your yard to build a tree fort or playhouse? We used old sheets and blankets. It was great fun to create a special hideaway with pretend doors, windows and some furniture. This image evoked all those old memories.

    Now that you’re an adult, do you still desire to create a little getaway in your yard?

    As a continuation of Part One, here are some other simple and clever ideas to think on as spring and summer approach.

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    Colorful, creative and eye-catching ideas for your yard

    Some are feasible, and others are just for fun! Enjoy!

    A cute mailbox planter
    Line with black plastic and four drain holes?
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    Festive porch lighting as party lights
    Colorful shades add a neat touch to an temporary outdoor conversation area

    Mosquito netting may be a solution for staying out if you are near water or it is a buggy area. This appeals to me as an outdoor reading nook.

    mosquito netting over an outdoor conversation area
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    A muddy boot holder, a DIY entryway project
    DIY mud boot tray filled with creek pebbles for the back entry
    Creating Whimsy In Your Backyard & Garden, Part Two. A patio umbrella holder/planter in a shady reading area for outdoor living
    Create a sheltering nook for reading or conversation

     

    Creating Whimsy In Your Backyard & Garden, Part Two. Pathway lights out of an old washtub with candles in garden
    While not a fan of lots of yard ornaments, this by itself is in good taste
    Creating Whimsy In Your Yard & Garden, Part Two. An outdoor room as a temporary shelters
    An idyllic weekend getaway idea…don’t forget the binoculars
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    A shabby chic door pull made out of a trowel
    I have always wanted to do this on a potting shed
    Creating Whimsy In Your Backyard & Garden, Part Two. An old metal headboard,of a bed used as garden gate
    Great use for old headboard in your secret garden, perhaps?

    If you have trees providing some shade to a section of your lawn, this is a very simple and inexpensive idea. Using bamboo stakes (in this photo), it requires lashing with cord at the corners and some support to keep it from leaning.

    Such a billowy and light playshelter that can be taken down quickly.

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    Creating Whimsy In Your Yard & Garden, Part Two. A non-electric hanging lamp of candles in an old egg basket
    Creative recycling for pretty DIY project
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    Do you enjoy ‘feathering your nest’? Do you have several in your family who are also creative souls? Find an idea you love and brainstorm together to see what you can create in your yard.

    It doesn’t really matter what project you pick; doing it together builds heart strings and lasting memories and serves as a jumping off place for more good times together.

    “We are making their memories day by day and year by year, and what they shall be in the future will depend on the home life we are living now. We may make our home a palace, filling it with delights, covering the walls with beautiful pictures, planting flowers to fill the halls and chambers with fragrance, and hanging cages of singing birds everywhere to pour out sweet notes of song; or we may cover the walls with hideous images and ghastly specters to look down upon us, and plant only briers and thorns about the doors to flaunt themselves in our faces when we sit in the gloom of life’s nightfall. We may make the memories of our home so tender, so precious, so sacred, that each life that goes out of our doors shall carry a blessing upon it wherever it moves. Or we may make its memories a perpetual pillow of thorns for our heads, a burden of bitterness and anguish which shall never be lifted or removed.”  ~J.R. Miller, from Home Making

    I always have so much fun dreaming like this!

    What are your favorites?

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    Creating Whimsy In Your Yard & Garden, Part Two. A reading nook or conversation pit out in the yard with a mosquito netting and pillows
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    1. Clint Baker

      March 09, 2012 at 7:15 am

      Love these posts. Thanks for posting them. They give us so many great ideas! God Bless you!

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    2. Lana

      March 09, 2012 at 8:15 am

      Thanks for all the great ideas! I love the headboard gate!

      Reply
    3. Shelby

      March 09, 2012 at 8:54 am

      I LOVE the hanging shades, the plantable mailbox, the headboard gate, the garden tool doorknob, the… oh my.I love everything! Great post!

      Reply
      • m clark

        May 18, 2012 at 10:40 pm

        The mailbox cover is our creation. Hope your bloggers enjoy viewing By the Cottage Door . Nice to be seen!!

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        • Jacqueline

          May 18, 2012 at 11:03 pm

          Dear M. Clark,
          I had originally found your photo on ‘Two Women and A Hoe’s’ photo log. I am glad to know where they found your photo, and I gave your link as the source. Thanks for letting me know 🙂 Blessings!

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    4. Isabella L.

      March 09, 2012 at 1:04 pm

      These photos are definitely going to help me with creative ideas, thanks a lot my friend. Success to you!

      Reply
    5. Élias Sami

      March 09, 2012 at 4:29 pm

      Your work is very appreciated by me, I always read your posts. Thanks!

      Reply
    6. Naomi

      March 09, 2012 at 9:10 pm

      Jacqueline, love, love the ideas you shared. I am tucking some of them away so I can make them work in my backyard. Thank you for sharing. Bless you. :o)

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    7. Far Above Rubies

      March 10, 2012 at 3:08 am

      I love all the ideas, Jacqueline. I especially love the door handle; clever.

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    8. Chara @ Stitching Hearts Together

      March 13, 2012 at 1:38 pm

      I love the headboard gate, but seeing the basket of candles just instantly inspired me! I have a “hanging fruit basket” that has been collecting dust on my porch for too long (ceilings are too high in current kitchen for it) now I know exactly what to do with it- just have to find the right branch to hang it from and the right candles to put in it! 🙂 Yeah summer entertaining- maybe citronella candles would be a good idea. 🙂

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    9. Carla M.

      March 14, 2012 at 8:22 am

      Wow, such interesting ideas. I am loving finding new ways I can use some old things I have just sitting around here. Please keep sharing these things with us!

      Reply
    10. Lori

      November 03, 2012 at 10:54 pm

      Hello,

      Love the ideas! I’m actually looking for a new headboard currently and I was wondering where you got the one in the photo. I’m in love with it!

      Thanks,

      Lori

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      • Jacqueline

        November 03, 2012 at 11:07 pm

        Lori,
        I am sorry that the headboard is just a photo I’ve gathered from around the internet…I know! It is a gorgeous piece. You might call around to some of the architectural supply houses or big antique houses that remove things before an old house it torn down. Maybe they would know of a place that renovates those items 🙂 Thanks for stopping in…come again! Blessings,
        Jacqueline

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