After the international excitement of the kids' drawings, thanks to Archie's mum, (K- would you like a job in PR for the blog? Might help pay for your phone bill!) I must at least show you the drawings in situ:
The purple stick was chosen (after a quick zoom round the gardens with a hair-raising display of light-sabre skills) (by Archie, not me) (although the idea is quite appealing) and knocked into place. I held the hammer… you know, just in case. And, lest you think that I've got my seed packets in a muddle, the carrot seeds were sprinkled in between the onions. I'm testing to see if the smell will confuse the carrot fly.
So two celebrity tips there - stick idea a là Sarah Raven (as seen at Perch Hill); companion planting as mentioned by Alys Fowler in The Edible Garden (Wed, 8.00 p.m. BBC).
And for the blog's newest international fan, Archie digging holes with his mum's bulb planter (there's no curbing that boy's enthusiasm!):
Showing posts with label Garden crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garden crafts. Show all posts
30 Apr 2010
11 Dec 2009
Show off your garden photos! 2010 calendars
Here's one I made earlier … (fits into CD case)
First up, the Photoframe calendar 0013. This downloads as an A4 (or US letter, you choose) page-per-month calendar. Print onto card or photo paper and glue on your photos (it will take up to 7"x 5"). Better still, open in Photoshop (or similar) and drag your photo from another file onto the calendar and print. I did the latter, changing the black border for a cheerier colour and also put a white fill over the Canon logo to erase it (ooh, cheeky!) and replaced with my blog address. Here's a screen grab of my work-in-progress:
I like this one because there's room to write in reminders and birthdays. Once printed, hold together with a bulldog clip and hang on a hook - or use a magnetic bulldog clip and display on your fridge, filing cabinet or wall if you have magnetic paint! (Not as silly as it sounds, believe me!) Another option would be to hole punch two holes through all 12 sheets, tie with ribbon or string and hang. If you use a big bulldog clip and stuff a pencil through the top, you could hang this one in your allotment shed and note down when you sowed your seeds, planted stuff out, or list jobs to be done.
If you have access to an empty CD jewel case, this next one would make a nice stocking filler: again from Canon, the Photoframe Calendar 016. This time, you download a folder of 6 pages as there are 2 months to each printed page; you crop the edges and cut in two - once you've added your photos as above. The photo size needed here is 4.75" x 2.75". I also added some stripes at the side of my photos - a) because I like stripes and b) I was then able to keep the proportion of my images.
Here's my January and February ready for the chop:
And here's the finished calendar, sitting prettily next to my kitchen Sage:
With this one, I like that it's economical with paper. But if you want this size with a cover page, and don't mind printing out 12 pages and
P.S. If you groan at the thought of trawling back through your digital photo archives, here's how I do it: I have a separate folder sitting on my computer desktop. When I get a photo I really like, I make a copy of the original and pop the copy into the "specials" folder. That way all my best gardening photos are kept to hand. Same goes for family snaps. Simple.
I hope to be putting up my tree and dragging out the baubles this weekend - and enjoying plenty of mince pies and Bailey's as a reward. Wishing you all a great weekend friends!
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