A vast improvement

The front garden has finally been finished. It's taken since the week that Jacob was born to do it but we have managed it.







The garden was a mess of plants. This is once we had removed half of them (the big bare patch of earth!) but still loads to go and also this was before the new path had been put down so you can see how difficult it would be to get the wheelie bins out of the side of the house.





Finally we have light into the lounge and something that is easy to maintain and looks nice. We have my Dad, father-in-law and uncle to thank for helping.





BUT Oh what a difference it makes. Gone are the plants that hide the street from view. The holly bush that scratched you as you came to do the door. The flowers that come summer made it impossible to walk past without getting pollen on your legs. Although I will miss some of the spring bulbs it's going to take so much less time to make it look nice.

The final finished garden

Scrapbooking......

Well my aim this year is to have 12 scrapbooking pages done. I so far have managed one - but then the garden has taken up a lot of my time. But I'm really pleased with it. It's my first ever paper layout.

Mind you there was some great inspiration - Jacob's birth and his first picture. I'm about to start on my 2nd and 3rd pages have everything collected to do them. One will be on our first zoo trip which was in November for my mother-in-laws birthday, and the other Jacob's first Easter. I have such a cute picture of him unwrapping his first ever present. He was way to young at Christmas to do it so it was the first time.

The pond has gone

So we have made a decision the pond that we spent a weekend in february clearing out and getting the pump working again is going.

In fact today it is half way gone already!

It's Easter weekend which means garden work - so the front garden is being finished - a lawn laid, gravel beds created and it leveled. The spare earth is being used to fill in the pond. Once that has been filled in and the front garden sorted we will start on the back garden design.

It's mad doing up the house over the last 2 and a half years has meant that the gardens have gone to pieces, so it's a jungle out there and means almost starting from scratch.