Michele Made Me

Lettuce Make Garden Markers!

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Thank you to all who’ve entered the Thousand Thanks Giveaway. Wow, you just amaze me! And if you haven’t yet entered, there’s still plenty of time. Go on over and have a look-see…
I’ve been trying to be consistent in the garden. Weeding hither. Pruning thither. It is looking better. It is slowly recovering from last year’s brush-off. The boy and I decided the vegetable patch needed some garden markers. We made a batch of little signs using an old weathered piece of door trim and some pruned dogwood twigs.
To begin, I cut the door trim into pieces. I didn’t measure. I just went at it like a wild-woman with the hand-saw until I had several rectangles.
Then I drew up our list of vegetables, sat the boy down, and had him write out the veggie names in pencil onto our little wooden rectangles. Truth-be-told, his handwriting puts my boring old chicken-scratch to shame. His has so much more character and richness than mine. It’s absolutely unfair, but what’s a girl to do? I make the best of it by putting it to good use whenever an opportunity strikes. I call it “The Boy Font”.
With my handy-dandy Sharpie, I traced out “The Boy Font” letters on each rectangle…
And painted them in with liquid acrylic paint.
I gathered some teensy nails, a hammer, those lovely cherry-coloured dogwood twigs, and our wooden rectangles.

I set two nails in place in each rectangle, top and bottom…

And hammered them onto the twigs. Yay, job done! I love the look of “The Boy Font” on our rustic garden markers. It’s the sweetest, isn’t it?
Oh, and here’s a whole variety of spiffy garden markers you could make:
You have yourself a fine day now. I’ll be back Friday with the Thousand Thanks Giveaway results, eep!
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  1. nicolette says

    Oh how I wish I had a little veggie garden! The Boy Font is really looking good!

    I have a basket filled with herbs, so I could make some markers to put in there!

  5. BahamaDawn says

    they are great garden markers!! funny to read and hear about people starting their gardens now, while here in the Bahamas our gardens are over until october 🙂 nothing like fresh lettuce!!

  7. Melissa says

    Those are adorable. I love "Boy Font" it is adorable you should get it transcribed into a computer font – I love kid's style fonts.

  12. Michelle L. says

    So cool! The signs are gorgeous and I love how you two collaborate. This is also super duper emotional. You might consider spraying on some clearcoat to save the sweetness of this project for more than a season.

  13. Carol says

    Love your markers, so much nicer than the little white plastic labels the birds like to throw around. Boy font is just perfect.
    Carol xx

  14. Rescued Goods says

    You are SO right on the Boy Font! I wish I could get it on my computer! Looks like lots of fun and I bet the markers look so awesome in your garden.
    Vanessa

  18. whoFilets says

    Hahah, the boy font! How cute! It does look really neat. It looks like I'd see it in a cute store and think, oh I can make it myself. And then my writing, no matter how I tried to copy it, just wouldn't look quite the same.

  20. Anonymous says

    Ecologic and pretty! and useful, of course. tremble tables, coming Michelle! kisses

    bego (baulartesanodebego)

  23. Kara says

    I just started a raised bed garden in my yard this spring. I need some markers. Love yours. And I want access to the boy font too.