If the British, or the French, or the Italians like gardens, so do we; here, in the United States. We're not obsessed with them and we don't usually gossip about who has the best gardens, but we know how to maintain our gardens.
Afternoon tea socials don't play a big part in our social calendars; we prefer to have our gatherings out on our front lawns for that weekly barbecue social and the odd other. This stated, there's still the fact that we do know how to make our gardens, beautiful. Yes, we certainly know how to create beauty.
Now, for those of us who don't own gardens which are as big as our houses and aren't quite as big or large enough to boast about; they remain parts of our houses just the same. It won't hurt us to add some garden decor here and there now, would it? It sure wouldn't hurt and there are many enjoyable ways to do that.
Start making your decorative arrangement out of some stones with flat surfaces. You're going to paint creatively on the faces of the stones. To paint on them, you can have a variety of themes. Here's one theme with some design steps that you can follow.
For this one, you'll not be making use of just one stone, but plenty of them. Now, take one of them and start painting stripes on it: black and yellow like a bee's stripes. When you've painted on the stone's entire surface, get another one and start painting these stripes on it, too. Don't stop painting until you've painted on all the stones you need to make them look like a bumblebee, when they're placed side by side, altogether. Then line the stones up on your garden, in a semi-circular form and arrange them from right to left.
The number of arrangements made of these painted stones depends on you. Keep in mind that they're for your garden and not for your lawn or front yard. Use acrylic paints or spray dyes for this garden decor project. Remember to coat your stones over with varnish in order to seal the paint and protect it from rain.
Your stone decor arrangement can be patterned from this design or you can choose one from the seemingly endless list of choices out there. You can choose a pattern of flowers, or marble colored swirls, curvy waves or even polka dots.
Here's another suggestion. If you'd like your garden decor stones to be extraordinary stand outs, then turn them into conversational pieces. Go to a shop that does photo transfers. Ask their technical staff to transfer prints of your favorite paintings by famous artists, from their computers to your flat stones. Don't like paintings? You can choose your favorites from your picture albums and have these transferred, or pictures of famous personalities; anything that you'd like just as long as it follows a theme of your choice. You can even go without a specific theme.
These photo transfers may not come cheap and are a little bit heavy on the pockets but think of how you'll have a whole lot more to talk about with you neighbors, relatives, and other house guests, once you've finally set up your new garden decorations. Now, that's priceless. - 30228
Afternoon tea socials don't play a big part in our social calendars; we prefer to have our gatherings out on our front lawns for that weekly barbecue social and the odd other. This stated, there's still the fact that we do know how to make our gardens, beautiful. Yes, we certainly know how to create beauty.
Now, for those of us who don't own gardens which are as big as our houses and aren't quite as big or large enough to boast about; they remain parts of our houses just the same. It won't hurt us to add some garden decor here and there now, would it? It sure wouldn't hurt and there are many enjoyable ways to do that.
Start making your decorative arrangement out of some stones with flat surfaces. You're going to paint creatively on the faces of the stones. To paint on them, you can have a variety of themes. Here's one theme with some design steps that you can follow.
For this one, you'll not be making use of just one stone, but plenty of them. Now, take one of them and start painting stripes on it: black and yellow like a bee's stripes. When you've painted on the stone's entire surface, get another one and start painting these stripes on it, too. Don't stop painting until you've painted on all the stones you need to make them look like a bumblebee, when they're placed side by side, altogether. Then line the stones up on your garden, in a semi-circular form and arrange them from right to left.
The number of arrangements made of these painted stones depends on you. Keep in mind that they're for your garden and not for your lawn or front yard. Use acrylic paints or spray dyes for this garden decor project. Remember to coat your stones over with varnish in order to seal the paint and protect it from rain.
Your stone decor arrangement can be patterned from this design or you can choose one from the seemingly endless list of choices out there. You can choose a pattern of flowers, or marble colored swirls, curvy waves or even polka dots.
Here's another suggestion. If you'd like your garden decor stones to be extraordinary stand outs, then turn them into conversational pieces. Go to a shop that does photo transfers. Ask their technical staff to transfer prints of your favorite paintings by famous artists, from their computers to your flat stones. Don't like paintings? You can choose your favorites from your picture albums and have these transferred, or pictures of famous personalities; anything that you'd like just as long as it follows a theme of your choice. You can even go without a specific theme.
These photo transfers may not come cheap and are a little bit heavy on the pockets but think of how you'll have a whole lot more to talk about with you neighbors, relatives, and other house guests, once you've finally set up your new garden decorations. Now, that's priceless. - 30228
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