How-to: DIY Pallet Garden

Happy Hump Day, everyone! How are you doing? Are you taking time to check-in with yourself and give yourself the care, love, and attention you need? If not, it’s perfectly okay to set aside time for yourself to do whatever you want/need to do during ‘me time.’ If you didn’t get a chance to read yesterday’s blog post - “champagne fizz and fruity cocktails” - you can click right here to read all about how much fun I had catching up with my friend Emily in London! Also, if you didn’t get the chance to cast your free daily vote for me to be the next #MaximCoverGirl, you can click here to vote or click here to read about why it’s important to me (and then vote!). You can vote once every twenty-four hours for free, and I’d be so grateful for your support! I'm still in the running and in the top 10 of my group! Voting for round 3 ends tomorrow night, Thursday June 18th, so I’d love your support to make it through to round 4! Thank you for everything so far!! You’re halfway through the week, and to celebrate accordingly, I wanted to switch up our usual programming and offer a special edition DIY blog for today!
Early on in the pandemic quarantine, I was looking for fun projects to do besides making homemade masks and starting up my blog again with all my European adventures. My boyfriend stumbled across a photo of a pallet garden, and since his yard out front doesn’t have much space for a true ground garden, I decided I was going to figure out how to make a garden one way or another!… which is where this blog post comes into play! I am going to give you links to the step-by-step process of making a pallet garden, which I was able to do with a donated pallet from Mintie Corporation (big thanks to them)! If you're interested in creating your own pallet garden, you can look for shipping pallets at warehouses like an HVAC company or even checking your local Lowe's or Home Depot!
Step 2: Wood Removal! Once your pallet is nicely sanded, you can use a hammer to remove any pieces of wood that you don’t want to use to create separate places for planting. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c74EBuj7l9o)
Step 4: Paint it a Fun Color! Once your coat (or two) of primer has dried, you can paint the pallet any color you choose! I went with pink since it’s my favorite color! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyMl0W-Yzms)
And that's the process! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out! Subscribe in the e-mail submission box below and reach out, follow me on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and reach out to me on the “contact” page. I’m so happy you're here and that I’ve been getting a lot of really great, fun-to-read stories, questions, and feedback from a community all over the globe from all different chapters of my life (and from people I don’t know *yet*)!
Sincerely,
Johny
P.S. - If you want to catch up from the beginning on this series of adventures, here's a cheat sheet to the posts (in order in which they were published):
2. grateful for starbucks and sandymount strand
3. Once Upon a December in the National Gallery
4. plant a smooch for that gift of gab
5. may the 4th be with you: Dingle style
6. cinco de mayo: the best Mexican food in Dublin
8. mussolini’s window and the philosophers’ metro stop
9. father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife
10. it's the vatican, not the vatican't
11. spoiler alert: i did not lose my hand
12. more pizza and gelato and Neptune, oh my
13. craft beer, romper season, and volcano magic
14. bus singalongs and the okey dokey karaoke origin story
15. the beginning of the journey to the land of outlander
16. the boy who lived and the musical rapper
17. oh i just can't wait to be kingggg
18. fudge and haggis, quite the dynamic duo
19. the banshee labyrinth... or, my first time trying buckfast
20. the world's most magical toilet
21. gwyneth paltrow's (improv) sliding doors
22. scottish sombreros and jam, thank you
23. bob seger, a cèilidh, and arthur's seat
24. the next maxim cover girl!! 25. you can vote now!!
26. kindness at… the airport??
27. conversations with strangers and #basic meals
28. aren't gas stations amazing?!
29. not just mac's... supermac's
30. American vs. European Cell Phone Providers
34. a love of Dublin pizza: Manifesto
35. a love of Dublin pizza: Dublin Pizza Company
36. a love of Dublin pizza: with my dad
37. Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness
39. a love of Dublin pizza: and every other pizza
40. ahh-oooooh werewolves of london
41. a special london edition nerd alert
42. defying gravity is a WICKED good time
44. The Cursed Child at the Palace Theatre
45. LA girls love London green juice
46. Super Bowl LII Champs at Wembley
47. champagne fizz and fruity cocktails
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