Decorating Your Garden: A Bouquet of Beautiful and Useful Craft Projects to Make & Enjoy

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If you can't stop crafting cute things, and your house is already full, the logical next step is to start sprinkling your creations throughout the garden. Good step-by-step instructions demonstrate a variety of country-style projects using paint, stamps, stencils, terra-cotta pots, and occasionally an existing structure like a fence or cement patio floor or piece of wooden furniture. Except for a very few items requiring basic woodworking skills, and perhaps a few necessitating a bit of decorative painting practice, most projects are easily accomplished by the novice crafter. --Amy Handy


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“As backyards and gardens become living spaces, it’s only natural to want to decorate them...details 30 projects involving outdoor furniture; fence, sign and patio painting; flowerpot decorations; birdhouses; and mosaics. Detailed instructions.”—Atlanta Journal Constitution.



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You wouldn't think of leaving your home bare and undecorated, so why should you ignore your garden? After all, it's an extension of your house and deserves equal attention and love. With just a few basic techniques--and a lot of creativity--you can add beauty and interest by making your own garden art. These 30 projects, seen in full-color photographs, feature outdoor furniture; fence, sign, and patio painting; flowerpot decorations; birdhouses; and mosaics. Among the ideas, you'll find: a swimming pool transformed into a garden pond, underneath a canopy of treetops and fences turned into "walls" to hang planters and signs. Embellish wood furniture, birdbaths, plaques, and terra-cotta pots with mosaics. See how to paint on a variety of surfaces--wood, metal, cement--and add depth, dimension, and color to a plain fence with a trompe l'oeil design. Scatter pretty glazed and decorated chairs throughout the grounds. You'll soon have a garden so lovely and inviting you'll never want to go indoors again! The author lives in Decatur, GA. 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 11. NEW IN PAPERBACK.


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