When I was a little girl nothing was more alluring than finding a place, somewhere hidden in the trees, to build a tiny home for the fairies. Even more than a dollhouse, an outdoor world is built with magic. Stones form the walkway, twigs - a garden gate.
This tiny red bench by Janit Calvo is the perfect addition to your miniature garden. Whimsical, cheery and in that organic, earthy setting an unexpected pop of color.
Customized at Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center studios in Seattle, Washington.
www.TwoGreenThumbs.com
This tiny red bench by Janit Calvo is the perfect addition to your miniature garden. Whimsical, cheery and in that organic, earthy setting an unexpected pop of color.
www.TwoGreenThumbs.com
To enter the giveaway simply become a follower of my blog and leave me a comment telling me your favorite memory of playing outdoors or spending time in a garden and I'll pick a random comment on January 10, 2012.
Comments close at midnight, January 9, 2012. Open to US and Canadian residents only. Make sure you leave me a way to get a hold of you.
Dancing in the garden with torn sheets in the rain :)
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid in the summertime, I would hang a garden hose from a branch in my favorite magnolia tree, stand underneath the water and sing, "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair".
ReplyDeleteFalling off the backyard wall into a neighbor's garden--terrifying, magical, and very exciting to suddenly be inside a place I'd only seen through the pickets in our fence.
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother's garden in very urban area of NJ! As a little girl, it seemed like she grew everything in abundance - so many vegetables and flowers mingled together! I would spend weekends at her house and we would make gallons and gallons of homemade pickles from the cucs, dill and garlic she grew. She taught me that each plant has a smell - from tomatoes, to herbs to flowers! At Easter she would crawl through the dirt to dig up a horse radish root for easter brunch (my grandfather & uncles couldn't eat their pierogies & kielbasa without it!). We kids always had competitions to see who could eat the biggest piece. After Easter, the root would go back in the ground for another year! I haven't thought about this in a long time - thanks for asking for memories!
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As a child my playground was a grove of trees on my grandparents farm. I would spend hours climbing, building, pretending.... Apparently my daughter has inherited my love of outdoor play, we created a wonderful fairy garden together this year.
ReplyDeletei always liked playing hide and go seek outdoors....
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Tiffany Lane
I loved making crowns out of dandelions.
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I liked using green bean leaves as "badges" (they stuck like Velcro). Hydrangea petals were perfect for "painting" our fingernails and honeysuckle flowers had the sweetest "syrup" among other delights in the garden.
ReplyDeleteI follow your blog and remember helping my mom plant seeds in our garden as a child. Beautiful bench:) Thanks!
ReplyDeleteWalking barefoot outside on the grass playing with my friends. I follow via GFC.
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ReplyDeleteI always loved the waterfall and fish pond my dad built. It was a haven in our garden, despite living in the big city!
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Joy
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ReplyDeleteI remember just always being outside as a kid and having fun with all the neighborhood kids!
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Adorable! Playing in the gardens at the Governor's Palace in Historical Williamsburg is my favorite outdoor memory.
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Love it! I remember planting radishes in the front lawn and checking them daily :)
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I can remember swinging on the vines on the lot next to our house. We played "Tarzan" all day long in the summers. Then we would pick muskadine grapes and eat them until we were stuffed.
ReplyDeleteOMG I love that bench. My favorite memory growing up was gardening in our backyard. After that we could make either applesauce or make a salad with all the veggies we picked. I was lucky to be raised on farm land is the suburb. I deff learned what working hard was.
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GFC Follower - Sarah Matos
ReplyDeleteMy favorite memory was splitting the pods to get the peas even though I knew I would never eat them!
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hide and go seek
ReplyDeleteMy country is a garden...named "the country of eternal spring"...all the memories of streets lined up with colorful flowers, bright bright yellows and pinks...so many "exotic" flowers in the jungle...and the smells! the smells is what takes me back to those memories of smiles, colors and family.
ReplyDeletemy favorite was my grandma use to let me and my cousin pick certain things and make pretend soups and such with them had a blast eaglesforjack@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteGFC follower Jules McNubbin
ReplyDeletemy favorite memory was walking in the summer rain and making mud pies after :-)
that bench is SOO cute, I want it!
Thanks for the chance to win. My favorite garden memory is trying to recreate "The Secret Garden" at home.
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I follow you too @nola727
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I'm a follower through GFC.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite memories of outdoors and gardening are from helping my mom in her gardens. She did mostly vegetable gardening and I enjoyed being able to help. Now I have my own vegetable garden for my family :-)
khmorgan_00 [at] yahoo [dot] com
My grandfather was a gardener, and my best childhood memories involve him out in the backyard, harvesting snap peas or corn. I was mesmerized by the magic of nature thanks to him!
ReplyDeleteI remember my dad tying a string to my sister and I so he could make straight rows with this little hand held wheel with a hoe head on it.
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I loved helping my mom in the garden when I was a child. Follow on GFC- J Fortunato
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I Follow GFC as Jody Sisson and my best memories are of helping my Grandmother plant things in her garden.
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When I was young we had so many flowers and different types of trees. I loved spring and would pick tulips, lilacs, forsythia and anything I could find. I just loved the fragrances and the beautiful delicate flowers. I was in my own little world. So long ago.
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I was always catching bugs and lizards.
ReplyDeleteMe and my sister would have a pretend cafe and serve lemonade and cookies, WOW, I hadn't thought about that in years, gotta call my sis!
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My favorite memory of playing outdoors is climbing a tree nearby my house and listening to the wind. It seemed I had a different perspective from up there.
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GFC follower.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite memory of being in a garden is when i was young and my father planted 36 tomato plants. Each of those plants grew so many tomatoes we didn't know what to do with them all!
michedt at yahoo dot com
laura4him@bellsouth.net
ReplyDeleteI follow via gfc as Laura and when I was little I used to spend hours playing beneath a huge cedar tree.
When I was a little girl I would swing and sing... For hours. Those were the carefree days of childhood makes me smile thinking of it.
ReplyDeleteWe used to pick beans and peas out of my grandma's garden (my cousin and I) and snap the peas while sitting in the sun.
ReplyDeleteIt's something we both remember doing. That, and trying not to get caught sneaking the purple grapes grams had growing on vines all around the trellis' of the archway going to the garden. :)
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Oh my! These garden memories have been so much fun to read! Thank you all for your entries and for following my blog. I look forward to bringing you lots of wonderful garden stories and from time to time....a great giveaway. Stay tuned and thank you.
ReplyDeletePlease take a look at todays post for the big (or shall we say, the miniature) winner!