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i went to school for interior design but realize my house will never look like it. we live in what i call a shoe box, throw in a 6 year old girl and it's a recipe for stuff. lots and lots of stuff. so i feed my inner design goddess through the intrawebs. there are so many blogs along my stop that it's amazing i'm still not sitting at my desk come dinner time. pinterest has been a wealth of information and visual eye candy for me. i try very hard to limit my time on the web. (yeah right.)  starting our garden has been so much fun for me, now i not only reach for design magazines but now i have started reaching for garden mags and have been enjoying the latest issue of organic gardening magazine. who knew i had it in me! 
but going back to pinterest - i found the ultimate inspiration for our little garden. the center jewel in our vegetable crown will be our herb garden. when we first inherited this 150 square foot plot, it had four (4) raised beds. we decided that 4 beds took up far too much precious real estate. i had remembered seeing a very cool painted bed on pinterest and suggested we just keep one of the boxes for our herb garden and paint it, wait for it..................turquoise! i love turquoise. so last weekend the painting began and i am so pleased with the results. i know our space is small but it's turning into such a sweet garden. pinterest gave us the inspiration to paint with chalkboard paint the wooden paint stirring sticks you get at the paint store. do they have a name? mixing sticks? regardless, annie and i painted them and after they dried annie labeled each one. isn't her handwriting awesome for a 6 year old?!! she even painted some found bricks with chalkboard paint and decorated them with annie hieroglyphics. i'm pretty sure the eye + heart + little girl = i love annie!
you can check out my pinterest boards here - i'm always pinning. xo