Planter Box

 I am sorry I have been a little MIA lately but wow the past couple of weeks have been a little crazy.  We have been on a hunt for some new property, headed out for our first camping trip of the year, had a year end concert, and started our first season of football spring training.  Man I think I am just tired writing it, lol. 

So thank you all for sticking around and being patient.  

Today I figured I should get going on some projects, I have a few on the go but can't post some of them just yet.  

This was an easy one to do.  I used 6x6 boards cut to size and then with a little glue, nail gun and some good old paint. A simple and easy planter box filled with pretty flowers.

Just wanted to share with you a little snippet of my busy week.  Keegan decided to give football this year, he was a little bit worried about getting hit.  But after 5 practices he has come home after each tackling day and says he loves it the most, go figure. 

Also tomorrow I am going to be having my first ever give away so keep an eye out for that.

What A Great Long Weekend

While many were packing up their trailers and heading out for a weekend of camping we like to hang around home for May long weekend and avoid the crazyness of everyone going out.  

May Long for me means visiting the greenhouses, planting flowers and getting the yard ready for the season. 

I am loving how it is starting to look so far but have only got about half of the flowers planted, so maybe one more trip back to the greenhouse and we should be set.  

This week my Favorite finds has feature my Gardening Tool Boxes which always makes me smile when someone likes my projects.

  

I hope everyone had a great weekend as well

Gardening Tool Box

For every good Birthday Party you have to have a good party favor bag

Every year I try to come up with something a little different, something that the kids can use and personalize them.

This year for my sons buggy party I decided to make these fun Gardening tool Boxes.  Each tool box included a gardening shovel, bag of dirt, a pot and a package of seeds.

For this I got all the kids involved helping me.  Makai helped get me the wood to cut, then we would pass them over to Keegan who would sand all the edges and last we would hand them off to Chase where he would stand them up together and let me know how many more pieces we needed.

If you want to make your own here is what we did.

We used 

1x6 cut at 12" for the bottom

2 - 1x6 cut at 9" for the side.  I then measured 2" down and cut on a 45' 

2 - 1x4 cut at 12" for the sides

1 - 5/8" dowel cut to fit I believe this worked out to 13.5" long.  

Once I had all the pieces it was just a little wood glue and an air nailer to put it all together. 

Each one of the boxes were painted.  I decided on Brown for the boys and Pink for the girls and then finished off with their names stenciled on the front. 

The next day my kids got right to work putting their seeds into the pots and are waiting for them to grow.