A Good Reason to Send a Card After I posted the DIY Botanical Envelope tutorial earlier in the week, I decided to whip up some pretty, flowery cards. I was inspired by these wonderful watercolor graphics from Angiemakes.com. She graciously offered some of her graphics for free, so I had to make something with them!…
Canning Jar Lid Upcycle If you can your garden’s harvest every year you have this problem: a sizable stack of jar lids. You know what I mean. The lids can only be used once for canning. I always felt bad about tossing the lids once I used them. Sure, I keep them around to use on…
Upcycled Leather Crafts How you heard of Hometalk? It’s a great site where you can find home and garden related DIY tutorials posted by homeowners and bloggers. I was referred to Hometalk by a fellow blogger earlier in the year and fell in love with the site immediately. Unlike Pinterest, Hometalk focuses exclusively on home…
Recycle leather scraps! It’s been awhile since I’ve done a craft here on The Prudent Garden. Since I made the Kirigami Leather Plant holders for my other air plants and houseplants, I have acquired more air plants. They have been sitting on my window sill. That’s not a nice place for these little lovelies to…
A Bitter Goodbye The Summer of 2014 was an exciting time here at The Prudent Garden. This was the most productive vegetable garden we have had so far. It was my first summer being home full-time with the boys…and I survived. Mark and I officially became “garden writers” and we get paid to write about…