Check out my DIY Hummingbird feeder roundup at Until Wednesday Calls!
Turn those old jeans into a seriously funky container garden!
Photo credit : Jean-etically Modified Plants” by Tom Ballinger
Found via : Garden Stew
Lou Roll Seed Starters | Savings Lifestyle
The seed starter pockets are a great use for the ever growing pile of TP rolls. I have seeds and some dirt I should get to starting them. The trick is inside the space or them inside. The sunflowers are going to be gorgeous!
Jute-webbing fall planter : Lemon Tree Creations
Super simple basket made from jute webbing. It is apparently used in reupholstering but looks just like Captain Awesome aka The Hubby’s ratchet straps. I’ll never look at discarded straps the same again.
Old Window Hothouses
Our Roma tomatoes are so slow to ripen that I am scared the encroaching frost will ruin them. To help the ‘maters along we took old wood frame windows from the Restore and butted them up against the wooden stakes I had my plants tied to make little hot houses. There is between two and four inches at the top of each set to allow for adequate venting. Wish me luck, I have my heart set on a dozen jars of diced tomatoes and at least half that in bruschetta mix.
How to Turn Coffee Tins into a Hanging Herb Garden ยป Curbly
Wow, this just might be the answer to my indoor herb garden dilemma! Check out the great how to over at Curbly!
Garden Rolodex - Martha Stewart Home & Garden
I wish I had found this sooner (read May long weekend). By now most of my tags are missing. Next year I’ll be waiting!
Golf bag turned garden tool caddy makes my day. Hit up your local thrift store to make your garden shed the coolest kid on the block.
Have some vintage tins laying around? Lucky you!
homophileandahalf asked:
I randomly stumbled on your blog, 45 pages later and I’m IN LOVE with your blog. It’s simply WONDERFUL and I want to organize everything in my room now.
I have a million tiny tins and boxes and baskets that I intend for storage and then never know what to put in them. They end up holding a variety of things and I never know where it all is. Do you have any kind of crafty or purposful idea for little bins?
Well shucks! Thanks, I am so happy this blog inspires so many! I once had an empty box collection that took up the top of my closet. I couldn’t part with such perfectly good boxes but alas I had to. So I totally feel you and your collection of little tins and boxes. I pulled a few ideas from my archives and found a few more.
This has to be my favourite. The little tins that are taller than they are wide make great caddies once you add magnets. (Or even nail a few to a board and hang the board.) Full tutorial found at Creature Comforts.
Ever since I found this photo back in January I have been on the hunt for vintage tins to make a tiered organizer for myself. Maybe you’ll have more luck with the ones you already have. The tutorial can be found at Better Homes & Gardens.
Not for organizing but the most wonderful use for an Altoids tin ever! Elizabeth Abernathy is one of my favourite eco-savvy bloggers and this is just one example of why. Read how she did it at her blog Elizabeth Abernathy.
As for your little boxes, if the lids come off, they make great drawer organizers. or your bigger boxes, you could cover them in pretty paper and stack them on shelves.
With baskets, I found they work best placed here i.e. bookends with items placed in them that easy and frequent access is needed such as headphones and remotes close to a stereo Ipod docking station.
When you talk about never being able to find anything I cannot stress how important labels are. In a perfect world we would all have a label maker or a printer with super sticker paper to make all of our labels uniform and sexy but even some chicken scratch on masking tape is better than trying to guess which tin is holding what.
I hope these ideas help you or have inspired you to do something else. Either way, please feel free to send me pictures of your solutions! Cheers,M.
