My Toadstool/Mushroom Garden is Complete!!!

I finally found some more wood bowls to complete my toadstool garden! I found a set of salad bowls (one big and 4 small bowls) at a yard sale for $3!!! I brought them home and painted them different colors. I added the white spots and then polyurethaned them. My husband cut down limbs from dead trees to use as the bases! I love how they look in this spot behind our porch (it has been pretty bare since we built it). My husband bought a bunch of plants on clearance and planted them here as well. Next year, it will be fun to see how this all grows and turns out!

Recycled Salad Bowl to Cutest Toadstool for Yard

 

This was a $1 wood salad bowl I found at a yard sale. I thought it looked like a toadstool when I flipped it over so I had to buy it and take it home! The first thing I did to it was spray paint the entire thing red. 




After the red paint dried, I added white spots all over the bowl using white craft paint.



Lastly, I painted Polyurethane over the entire bowl so that it would hold up in the elements. Then, we had a branch about 5" in diameter fall in the back yard so my husband cut it down to the height of what I thought a toadstool should be (this one was about 1.5') and he just screwed from the top of the bowl into the "stump". I did go back in and cover up the screw with some red paint so it didn't stand out so much. To get it into the ground, we put in on a stake and then put the stake in the ground so the "stump" is actually sitting on the ground. It is the cutest little addition to the yard! I am now on the hunt for a few more wooden salad bowls to make my toadstool garden complete!!!

........found more bowls, painted them some fun colors and repeated the same process as the red one (also changed up the heights of the stumps). I have completed my toadstool garden! This project was so inexpensive, easy and not time consuming (the longest part of it was searching for the bowls, but the hunt is always so much fun). I love a project that comes together easily and makes a HUGE impact! This has added so much to our backyard!

 

    

Rescued Chairs Make Perfect Planters For Yard!

My dad knows that I L-O-V-E refinishing and repurposing old furniture. So, when he saw these four chairs sitting by the curb to be thrown out, he snatched them up for me! 

I spray painted the chairs some fun colors.

 

I removed the seats entirely.

I added some pots that I planted plants in.

These chairs have added a lot of character to our yard!

DIY - Bowling Ball Caterpillar For Your Garden

I took 5 bowling balls that I picked up at yard sales and spray painted them green. I then took different colored paint pens and made spots on each of the balls. I added a face to the front ball and drilled two small holes above the eyes. I bent wire hangers to look like antennaes and spray painted them yellow. I stuck them in the drilled holes (I filled the holes with a little hot glue to help the antennaes stay in place). I laid him in front of some hosta and a little fence we have in the back yard. He has made a fun and colorful addition to our yard! Everyone has loved our new little creature!