… is what my friend Trace always says. Something about Jurassic Park, or something. She has a uniquely ad-hoc style of gardening as a result, simply chucking handfuls of annual seeds around the flowerbed and letting nature do it’s stuff. If it grows, it grows – if it doesn’t, it doesn’t. It works though. Sure, sometimes things die and others get out of hand but the result is a bit like manicured nature. Clouds of pretty things left to their own devices.
It was her birthday last week, so mum decided to make her a plaque for her garden.
After choosing a gardeny font, mum printed it out to the appropriate size.
The base of the plaque is an old drawer front, taken from our (ever growing) stash of Interesting Things.
Mum placed the print out over the drawer front, holding it up to the light to make sure the lettering was in the right place, and used a pen to draw over the letters making sure she pushed into the wood slightly.
This created a template that she simply filled with white acrylic paint. It’s a lot easier if you work from left to right, doing all the letters on the left before moving over. Use a tiny brush and don’t overload it (mum says). She also says curves come out better if you move the wood, rather than the brush.
Two suitably old screws were added to the top to attach a bit of wire for hanging and it was done!
Doesn’t it look great?
I’ll show you what I made tomorrow,
Beccy
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