Repurposing Junk for the Garden

June 14, 2017

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How many times can you look at a piece of "junk" and think about your garden space? I have long loved looking at long forgotten pieces that have been thrown by the wayside and wonder how I can reinvent it for my garden. So, grab your favorite drink and take a virtual walk around the flower garden with me by visiting Gardening Know How.

Garden Repurposing and Upcycling Junk Garden

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Hi, I'm Sarah. I live in a small town in rural Missouri with my husband and four children. We are living the simple country life while remodeling our modulat home.

I write about country living, home remodeling, cooking from scratch and decorating on a budget. I hope to inspire you to simplify your life and appreciate each and every moment.

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Sometimes, I just run out of house decor photos to share but the flower garden is blooming wildly! Happy Wednesday!

Behind the glass doors in my hutch is our everyday dishes. The plates we eat off, the cups we drink out of, the bowls I serve our food out of and the dishes I store our leftovers in. I switched a long time ago from the plastic storage containers but really disliked the glass ones with plastic lids as well. So, I went thrifting and started gathering up vintage refrigerator glass dishes with glass lids. I have found three so far because it seems like when I want to find something particular, it becomes elusive. Do you ever feel like that happens to you? So, the hunt continues for more.

But my parents understood that the world that they made within the walls of our house was what constituted home. So I grew up in spaces framed by art and color, filled with candlelight, marked by beauty. I grew up within a rhythm of time made sacred by family devotions in the morning and long conversations in the evening. I grew up with the sense of our daily life as a feast and delight; a soup-and-bread dinner by the fire, Celtic music lilting in the shadows, and the laughter of my siblings gave me a sense of the blessedness of love, of God's life made tangible in the food and touch and air of our home.
It was a fight for my parents, I know. Every day was a battle to bring order to mess, peace to stressful situations, beauty to the chaos wrought by four young children. But that's the reality of incarnation as it invades a fallen world....What my parents-bless them-knew...is that to make a home right in the midst of the fallen world is to craft out a space of human flesh and existence in which eternity rises up in time, in which the kingdom comes, in which we may taste and see the goodness of God.
Sally Clarkson

Sometimes, we will fail to show the entire picture because it is less than perfect. Yet, amongst the unfinished parts of home, there is beauty to be found and that is what I choose to dwell on, making each space beautiful as we go. I hope you find the beauty in whatever is around you today.

I have waited all summer long for the day I could gather a bouquet like this from my garden. I planted all white zinnias, phlox and gladiolus. I think they look gorgeous together. I share a lot of flower gardening tips on several posts throughout my blog. rockyhedgefarm.com

Decorating outside is as much of a passion for me as decorating inside. An old ladder and some terra-cotta pots add a pretty visual element to the garden. More details on the blog. rockyhedgefarm.com

I love old clay pots and in fact I have an entire board on Pinterest dedicated to them. So, the other day, I got a text from a friend who said I could come get what they had laying in their yard. I showed up, and there were so many! So, now they are all laying at the base of this ladder waiting to be set up. Hopefully, today I can get them washed off and set up.
As much as I love decorating and remodeling, I also love creating a beautiful garden area. I love creating beautiful spaces anywhere I can because it gives me hope of what it can be someday.
Happy Monday!

My weekly Sunday Saves feature is up on the blog! I think it one you will love because it features three very talented ladies! And, I want to know, who inspires you on Instagram? Whose home or lifestyle is one that you enjoy following?
📷 @megan.d.miller

When I get frustrated with how long a cash only remodel can take, it helps to look back at how far we have come. The before photos show what our modular home look liked after we ripped out the blue carpets and hauled out bags and bags of trash. I shiplapped the wall, added hardwood flooring and we installed new lights. I love having a hutch in the diningroom but there was very little space to pull out the chairs and sit down. So, I decided to flip the table the other direction and move it where the kitchen island used to be. This opened up the entire floor plan, left space for a hutch and about 6 feet of walk space between the hutch and table. There has been a couple of paint transformations in these photos but just these few changes have made such a difference.

A morning in the garden, a day of cleaning, listening to Ella Fitzgerald, making a summer stove top potpourri and an afternoon at the creek. An evening spent geocaching for our date night and a movie at home. I am on a mission for more free date night ideas. What do you all do?

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Hi, I'm Sarah. I live in a small town in rural Missouri with my husband and four children. We are living the simple country life while remodeling our modular home.

I write about country living, home remodeling, cooking from scratch and decorating on a budget. I hope to inspire you to simplify your life and appreciate each and every moment.

Thanks so much for stopping by, I'd love for you to subscribe so that we can stay in touch!