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Saturday, May 2, 2020

DIY Recycled Plastic Bottle Planter

DIY Recycled Plastic Bottle Planter

These hanging plastic bottle planters is a great project to get kids into gardening and an amazing DIY to make during Spring!  The best thing about these crafts is they can be made using basic supplies that you may already have on hand. You can create different designs but using different shapes recycled bottles such as milk bottles, juice bottles and water bottles.



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* This article was originally published here

DIY Recycled Plastic Bottle Planter

DIY Recycled Plastic Bottle Planter

These hanging plastic bottle planters is a great project to get kids into gardening and an amazing DIY to make during Spring!  The best thing about these crafts is they can be made using basic supplies that you may already have on hand. You can create different designs but using different shapes recycled bottles such as milk bottles, juice bottles and water bottles.



* This article was originally published here

Gardening tips: pick a sunny spot for strawberries

Then plant laid-back lady’s mantle and listen to a lively gardening podcast

Try this Pots of strawberries can be planted now: they need fertile soil to produce juicy berries, so dig some homemade compost or soil improver into the ground first. Choose a sunny, sheltered spot and plant so the growing tip, or crown, is level with the soil surface: plant 40cm apart, with 75cm between rows. ‘Mara des Bois’ is a good choice for flavour-packed fruit.

Plant this Lady’s mantle (Alchemilla mollis) is the Bez of the plant world – so laid-back that you can put it in full sun or deep shade, and it will keep on dancing. Lime-green lacy flowers, that bloom from early to late summer, sit above scalloped leaves. Cut a few to enjoy indoors. Height and spread, 60x60cm.

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L.A. Affairs: That moment when I tell my date about my purity ring

For the first time in my dating history, the lack of a second date had nothing to do with its inevitable lack of sex. So why do I remember Anthony so fondly? He's the boy who reminded me what I was worth, at the moment I desperately needed to hear it.



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* This article was originally published here

Framing the horizon: dwellings that blend with the desert

Part fantasy escape and part futuristic vision, these desirable desert designs are a stunning blend of structure and landscape

Beloved by artists, mystics and hermits, the desert is a place for contemplation and coming face-to-face with oneself; a place to fully detox from the outside world and enjoy the purifying nothingness of a vast, barren, empty space. The desert retreats featured on these pages – the Glass Pavilion in Granada, Spain, and the Desert Courtyard House, the Desert Nomad House and the Levin Residence, all in Arizona – are an invitation to do just that.

These desert retreats are designed to help their inhabitants feel a sense of peace through connection to nature. Situation and design combine to turn the poetic idea of the idyll into reality.

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* This article was originally published here



* This article was originally published here

Framing the horizon: dwellings that blend with the desert

Part fantasy escape and part futuristic vision, these desirable desert designs are a stunning blend of structure and landscape

Beloved by artists, mystics and hermits, the desert is a place for contemplation and coming face-to-face with oneself; a place to fully detox from the outside world and enjoy the purifying nothingness of a vast, barren, empty space. The desert retreats featured on these pages – the Glass Pavilion in Granada, Spain, and the Desert Courtyard House, the Desert Nomad House and the Levin Residence, all in Arizona – are an invitation to do just that.

These desert retreats are designed to help their inhabitants feel a sense of peace through connection to nature. Situation and design combine to turn the poetic idea of the idyll into reality.

Continue reading...

* This article was originally published here

L.A. Affairs: That moment when I tell my date about my purity ring

For the first time in my dating history, the lack of a second date had nothing to do with its inevitable lack of sex. So why do I remember Anthony so fondly? He's the boy who reminded me what I was worth, at the moment I desperately needed to hear it.



* This article was originally published here

Sweet Apple Cross Stitch Patterns

Whether you’re stitching up apples for back to school or just because you love fall, these apple cross stitch patterns look like lots of fu...