Garden Time!!

This is my favorite time of year. Time to get planting! But first, it's time to spruce up the gear.
I painted this plant stand in checks with some black and white Indoor/Outdoor acrylic paints.

Then it was time to do something about those BORING planters.

Welcome to fairy land!

Gaston! why are you always sleeping when there's work to be done?!

Garden Gnomes Galore!

OHMYGOSH! These were so much fun to make.

 I cut some pretty basic shapes out of colored paper (rectangle, half circle, triangles, etc) and glued together.

But where do you see gnomes but in gardens?

 So I decided to make him into a plant stake (translation: I needed to make him a little more durable).

Mod Podge to the rescue! Yes, my Mod Podge bottle has a superhero cape but that's another story...

Next up: get one of those handy, multi purpose wooden skewers (or you could use real plant stakes, but who does that?) and tape the cute little guy to it.  Tape on the backside.

Bah! Who can help but love this?! They are going to snazz up all the planters in my new apartment!