Our busy weekend project
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Topic: Our busy weekend project
Posted By: mum2paris
Subject: Our busy weekend project
Date Posted: 23 July 2006 at 3:43pm
Right i will try and write this as quickly as i can before being logged out (might copy and save it just in case too )
Our new place is covered with gardens - we have a pretty decent sized yard both front and back and the people who own it put in huge amounts of gardens! but then, they got a little overgrown, so when we moved in we thought "oh great...." 
However, mike has been working hard and yesterday me and paris got our bottoms into gear and spent the day working on our special project together after daddy had finished clearing all the old scoady overgrown plants that were there. We are now looking at a few other bits of garden that could do with brightening. Paris and me, went to the garden centre, and got $1 plants, in lots of bright colours - she chose them, and we got her a small spade and a little watering can, and we both decided how we wanted to set them out and then we planted them. she thought it was great and i'm so glad we found some little kid-sized garden gloves which she thinks are just neat... and were only $3 so nice and cheap. We put in a few of the ferns that had been pot plants that me and mike had since we were flatting (and are now pretty large), and a couple of plaster of paris white plaques that paris made with shells in them. I think we might go and grab a few more plants to fill out the gaps next weekend, but for now we are both very proud of our efforts and thought i would share. The cleared off piece of garden... http://www.MyonlineImages.com"> 
Paris with her gloves - half way through planting http://www.MyonlineImages.com"> 
The finished garden (well almost.. just needs a few more plants) http://www.MyonlineImages.com"> 
Our teddy-bears picnic http://www.MyonlineImages.com"> 
Our garden gnome! http://www.MyonlineImages.com"> 
Paris watering her flowers http://www.MyonlineImages.com"> 
The large piece of dirt in this pic - is where the 'garden' originally went to... but we have halved it and planted grass so that the kids can have their slide and swing their after xmas. Overall was a neat day - finally sunny, which we have been waiting for for ages, and we spent some nice time together, and it only cost us about $30 all up. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 23 July 2006 at 4:16pm
wow what cutre wee graden what a great idae may need to steal that one for when james gets bigger but on the outher hand i,ll get hiss nana to help him  paris looks so pround of her self well done ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 23 July 2006 at 4:26pm
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I'm not really much of a gardener myself - which is why we are pretty happy with the results. I do remember i used to love helping my mum plant her gardens, but she used to like flower where you plant bulbs andi was always dissapointed cos you didn't see results straight away. We are just personalising our gardens and making them more bright and cheery, (and low maintenance) ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: nicola86
Date Posted: 23 July 2006 at 4:44pm
| Very cute i love the garden!! |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 23 July 2006 at 4:50pm
That's what we have been doing all weekend every weekend at the moment. We have massive amounts of garden here but the owners who use to be here really sucked at gardening so they wrecked it so we are redoing the whole lot 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 23 July 2006 at 7:02pm
| what alovely garden. We made some potplants for some herbs, Jake enjoys that too, biut insists on watering them five times a day. poor plants. Hope Paris is more sensible! |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 23 July 2006 at 8:14pm
All Hannah wants to water, when we get the watering can out, is her own head 
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 23 July 2006 at 8:15pm
| Anyway, the garden looks lovely!!! So cool that you have so much outdoor space. Our lawn is about 2 x 2m. Ok... maybe an exaggeration... but it's tiny. (But then this is Wellington... bloody lucky to have any grass!) |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 23 July 2006 at 8:37pm
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yeah we are just making the most of having a yard cos we lived in an upstairs appartment with only a balcony for the last 4 and a half years. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 12:04pm
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lol, paris has taken her gardening gloves to daycare for news today! ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 1:16pm
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very cute garden....what a neat way to keep kids occupied and still get some work done. Good idea Janine!!
Well done Paris! and where was miss Ayja?? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 1:54pm
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she was outside with us for a while before being put into her highchair for a snack to eat and watching us while we finished ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 26 July 2006 at 3:47pm
Wow!! Looks great! Well done busy bees!!  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 26 July 2006 at 4:37pm
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Looks great! Well done Janine and Paris! ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 27 July 2006 at 2:59pm
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what a cool garden! i love the teddy bear picnic, very cute! ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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