Outside our back door we have a path leading to our garden and on the left hand side of it is a bit of 'dead space'. It used to have a wheelchair ramp for disabled people to access the back door before we owned the house but now it has wood bark chippings as mulch to cut down on the weeds.
I want to make our back garden a little more interesting this Summer with quirky homemade (preferably!) ornaments and decoration, but something that the boys would appreciate too. So I made these to start off with. I thought they could hide amongst the wood chippings:
(That frog is green not blue in RL))
They are a stone frog and a ladybird made out of gessoed stones painted with acrylic paint. (They still need to be varnished) Maybe add some other friends...
When we bought the wood chipping mulch at the tail end of Summer last year, there was a real frog (or toad?) hiding in amongst it. We still don't know if it had been in it since it was at the Garden Centre. We haven't got a pond but we did have a paddling pool up, which it might have appreciated (I had visions of it having a Pool Party with all its mates late at night but that might be TMI!)
Here is the photo I took of it:
Frog? or Toad?
(Incidently, I was doing the research on the resin jewellery because I fancy trying my hand at that, wondering how easy it would be... )
See you tomorrow,
qwiksave
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