Patience

We have been working on this house a little at a time. Every project waits until we have the cash
to see it through. So a lot of projects start in phases. I wrote about our vegetable garden, we will have to buy more pea gravel and install.I will buy the decorative items as I find them at a great price!!! I found a garden hose holder in our garage that I bought a couple years ago(with tags still on it).We finally put it up on our house and I just found some cool purple/pink garden hoses to use from Target!!!! The little things make me happy!!!!! Also our outside is looking more "complete". There are still some tweaking to be done but I have learned patience is my new best friend!!!!!

French Garden photos

French garden

 We have been working on beautifying the outside of our house this summer. We finished painting the house( started last summer) added shutters ( last summer).  This year we added upper window boxes and flowers. We started a vegetable garden in a space that was a forgotten zone on our property( behind the garage). We built raised beds for our garden.(last summer). This summer was the icing on the cake!!!! We added the pea gravel to our secret garden . It was very labour intensive, back breaking work!!!!!! We bought 28 bags of pea gravel which turned out to be about 1400 lbs. Also we are in a heat wave here in Kenosha so we really had to work efficiently. The whole family helped.Our youngest was the water boy making sure we had cups of ice water to drink !!!!!  We still need more pea gravel but I can't believe how much better the garden looks!!!!! It looks very French!!!! I will have to buy some lavender to put in garden pots. I LOVE how this turned out. It was so much more enjoyable to water the garden today. I didn't come back in the house all muddy,LOL!!!!! I will post photos later today!!!!