~ Winner of my 5th Etsy Anniversary Celebration Giveaway ~

I would like to thank everyone for visiting my Etsy shop,
and to welcome all of my new friends following my blog, facebook and on Etsy.
Thank you all for your kind words and lovely compliments on my work.
They are very much appreciated :)

I am pleased to announce,
The winner of my 5th Etsy Anniversary Celebration Giveaway is
julie cavender ~ Congratulations!

Thank you to everyone who participated!
Hope you all have a Wonderful Holiday Season!
Julie

~Winner of my Summer Solstice Giveaway ~

I would like to thank everyone for visiting my Etsy Shop, and to welcome all of my new friends following my blog and on facebook.

Thank you all for your kind words and lovely compliments on my work. They are Very Much Appreciated :)

I am pleased to announce, The winner of my Summer Solstice Giveaway is

MaryLee ~ Congratulations!

Thank you to everyone who participated!

More giveaways to come ~

Hope you all have a Wonderful Summer!

Julie

In Celebration of The Summer Solstice ~ Giveaway

I will be giving away this Stained Glass Moon Ornament, "Moon Shine", June 21, 2011, The First Day of Summer

Sorry this giveaway has ended

~ Wouldn't this Moon shine nicely in your Moon Garden ~

All you need to do is simply

#1 ~ Visit my gardens in my etsy shop

See if there is something you like, then post the name of the piece here.

Thanks for stopping by!

http://gardenjewels.etsy.com/

For extra chances to win ~ Please ~ include in the "same post altogether" that you are.

#2 ~ A follower of my blog

#3~ A Fan of me on my facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jewels-In-The-Garden/122250003658

Open to the US and Canada, First Class Shipping included.

The contest ends midnight June 20

The winner will be chosen at random on June 21 and will be contacted and announced here on my blog.
Good Luck to all and hoping you have a Beautiful Summer! Julie

Children in the Garden

This Spring introduce your children to the wonderful and rewarding art of gardening ~
Get them outdoors and enjoying nature ~
Help them to create their own special space to experiment with plants and garden art. This can be a fun and simple project to do over a weekend.
Keeping them busy every year tending and adding to it.
Bringing them hours of enjoyment and accomplishment.

My children had gardens growing up and had so much fun creating them along the years and were very proud of them. Showing them off by giving garden tours to everyone who visited. They filled them with not only plants and love, but garden art and crafts they created.
20 years later their gardens are still there. A bit overgrown and sadly forgotten. But ready to embrace a new generation of caretakers, "Their Children" How fun that will be to do all over again when they come to visit Grandmama!

~ My son's garden was a collection of plants found right on our land. A woodland garden. Full of elderberry bushes, moss, ferns, wild daffodils, rocks and fossils he'd collected from our all of our travels. He used wild strawberries he found for the ground cover. He picked these every year and ate them with his cherrios :)

~ My daughter's was a fairy garden. Early spring it exploded with crocus, tulips and daffodils. Our cat loved to hide in them and popped out to scare her quite often :) Followed by double daylilies in the summer with gorgeous primrose for the ground cover. She made little paths of tiny pebbles that lead in all directions in her garden. Tiny fairy statues adorned the paths with Fairy houses made of mud and moss.
I smile every time I pass by them.

My Granddaughters fairy garden. We work on it every time she visits.

A simple garden journal is a good way to start.
Map out their garden ideas on paper as to what they envision their garden to become. Keep a garden chore chart along with the journal. With stickers to mark when garden chores are done. When to water, weed, flick those flower eating bugs into a can, dead head the old blossoms and mulching. This reinforces their organizational skills and a sense of responsibility.
Help them work and fertilize the soil to get them going. Maybe encourage them with their own set of children's garden tools.
Then its off to your local nursery or an adventure on your property to gather some plants
and watch the fun grow!

Summer Solstice Celebration Sale

Happy Summer Everyone ~

Come sit and relax a bit in my gardens ~

I'm having a SALE in my Etsy shop ~
http://www.etsy.com/shop/gardenjewels

Thanks for stopping by ~ Enjoy your Summer!

Happy Spring Everyone! ~ SALE ~

Take a walk through my gardens ~

I'm having a SALE in my Etsy shop ~

http://www.etsy.com/shop/gardenjewels

Thanks for stopping by!