Welcome

Hi everyone! This is my blog about my two passions - gardening and making unique handmade things in decoupage technique. They have quite a lot in common - patience, time and hard work required, but the beauty of the result is well worth it!

Watering Can "A Rose Garden"

The most of watering cans I decorate are of small size, less than 3 litre capacity, more suitable for watering houseplants or to use in the conservatory or greenhouse. But sometimes I work with a watering can of proper size!



This is proper 9 litre watering can for a garden. The only problem is that if it's left outside for a too long time especially in cold and rainy weather the decoration could be damaged. I put a lot of effort in protecting it with many layers of hard wearing varnish and still I warn castomers not to leave it outside after use.

Stone Jars

Everyone likes textures and there are plenty of way creating textured surfaces. This is my share!



I worked with two traditional terracotta jars and made them to look like the old stone ones. At least, I hope they look like that!



This is an extra-close up.



Here there is more country style:

Classical Planter

I was away for a week and could not show some latest works that time.



Initially whole this planter was of coppery colour like inside. Very classical feel which I tried to highlight with classical roses images.

A box and a box

I am not good with boxes. They are "not my cup of tea", "not my strong side", "not my line", not me! But! I still have plenty of blanks of different sizes and shapes and want to get rid of them, so here we are - new boxes:



To keep the gardening theme the second one is a seed box:

A few little things

Not exactly "a few", just two, sorry!



This little watering can is going to be the last in the serie because it's my last blank of such type.



The pail is a bit out of season with autumn theme but I like the napkin so much I couldn't help myself!

Missed Trug

Last summer I made quite a few (three actually) trugs and shown some but not all apparently...



This one was left behind and I've found out it just now! So here it is! I am not happy with pictures, but I can't make new ones, all thrugs are long gone...