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January Project Challenge 2018

It’s January!!!

Remember our Challenge last year?  Well, it was such a huge success that we’re doing it again! We all know how hard it is to get through the winter without much gardening to do. We can do it TOGETHER with this creative January Challenge!

Many of us have a file of garden ideas or have wanted to do a project they’ve seen here on our page.  Look through your file or in our albums and pick one you can do inside or outside in good weather…So..

Announcing a January Project Challenge!

Join us! Read carefully: Step#1 Choose any garden project you’ve wanted to do. Step#2 Decide to do it now and post your intentions, by naming your intended project. Then…. TWO photos Step#3 Sometime THIS month, post a “How to” photo of the materials you’re using. For example…

Charlene Brown project challenge, “Materials for my dragonfly bowling ball”

 

Step#4 Sometime THIS month, post a photo of your Finished project!

Charlene Brown “Here is my finished Fab Feb project dragonfly bowling ball”

 

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Label all your photos “January Project Challenge”

Sooo, first step: Write a post on our Wall OR in the comments here, naming your project AND the words,  “January Project Challenge” Ex: Sue Langley  Purple Painted Birdhouse Ladder,  January Project Challenge OK, I’m off to look through my own idea file!  ~~ Sue Check back here to see who’s doing what!

 

Now,…below in the comments, commit to a January project you have wanted to do, by naming it or describing it in the comments below.  Your name and project will be added here.  Have fun!

Your Projects:  (To be added,…soon!)

Your projects will be listed below:

Name                                         Project

Debbie Avila Newton Recycling/Upcycling old gas heater into decorative solar light

Wanda Rhodes Going to demonstrate how to make a fairy garden to a garden club in Feb.

Margie Ann……project #1 shutter snowman…project #2 garden sign….project #3 crystal and bead hanging sun catcher

Paula Shockley Cotton Boll Wreath

Nancy K. Meyer Something using barn boards, old faucet handles, maybe rusty canning jar , old cheese grater.

Penny Lee A fairy garden with supplies I’ve had for a yr….I’ve even dreamed of making the fairies and furniture from tacky glue and corn starch.

Kathie Cable circles garden wall upcycle

Andi Cacciatore: January Project Challenge: #1 Container fairy garden under a wire dome,, #2 Directional signpost for beaches I’ve visited, #3 Painted stones

Barb Tate Buckley Snowman!

Ammie Crumpton Peters Embroidery Hoop Wreath

Jessie Sam January Project Challenge 2018-
#1 Pruning all my dead flowers from the freeze
#2 repainting all my pallets and doing one over.
#3. I have an old bench and old box trying to decide what to do with it.
#4 Painting my old mailbox

Linda Gladman Beaded windchime

Sandra Gerritsen Hogan A shutter table

Constance Ann McAlpin Winter Angel

Dave Brown Garden cottage

Elaine Laster Bottle/seashell project

Joy S Cope She Shed

Myra Glandon Beaded sun catcher

Bill Ziebarth Garden raisedbed redo

Sue Langley

Sue Langley, a passionate gardener and photographer lives and gardens with her husband and Corgi, Maggie on 7 acres just south of Yosemite, Zone 7 at 3000 feet. She manages the Flea Market Gardening Facebook page and website.

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  • Margie ann says:

    Margie Ann....January project challenge..project #1 shutter snowman...project #2 garden sign....project #3 crystal and bead hanging suncatcher...

    • Sue Langley says:

      OK, Margie, I have you down for this! Yea!

  • Cable circles garden wall upcycle

    • Sue Langley says:

      Great, Kathie! Looking forward to seeing this. Have you down for it!

  • Andi Cacciatore says:

    Andi Cacciatore: January Project Challenge: #1 Container fairy garden under a wire dome,, #2 Directional signpost for beaches I’ve visited, #3 Painted stones

    • Sue Langley says:

      Thanks, Andi! Gotcha down for this! These! Yea!

  • Melissa Hall says:

    Project #1 glass globe blue beer bottle bottom solar lights; paint red all my red tagged objects; put up and renovate birdhouses

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