Backyard Garden Model Railway

It is cool stuff like this that makes me wish I owned place instead or renting to have a place to put something like this.

This was a third prize winner in Instructables "I Made It Photo Contest" where a man combines his love of trains with his love of gardening, and he indicates they even have two mini snowplows that are used in winter to clear the snow. 

The tutorial is posted here by the man's son, who helped him build it on Instructables for more information and pictures or in case you want to build your own.

CD Garden Border

Photo from Fave Crafts








I spotted this fab idea via Fave Crafts posted by Mary Talalay, a writer for Kiwi Magazine.  One commenter thought it looked tacky, but I think it looks geeky nerdy cool and would be a great way to use up old AOL or other CDs you have lying around.  If you think them being shiny is what would make them tacky, you could spray paint them black or white to make them more sedate and traditional (but not nearly as fun).  

Candyland Board Game Turned Into Real Life Garden

I remember playing the game Candyland as a kid and thinking it would be a cool place to live, and Craftster user KandeeCorner did just that by turning her garden into a real-life Candy Land game!

This was the 2nd runner up entry into this month's Crafter Challenge to of "Total Board Game Revamp" and it is amazing.

It consists of 17 little micro-gardens and she indicates:

"Each little micro garden matches the board game (more or less). They have a theme, smell, color and -where I could a taste made with interspersing herbs (lemon balm in the yellow garden), Licorice in the purple one, etc."