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…
Leather Plant Hangers I originally came across this style of plant hanger on Pinterest and knew I was going to make it! The planter is based on the art of Kirigami, which is a variation of origami that includes cutting of paper. It’s similar to cutting paper snowflakes; fold a piece of paper in 6 ths and…