My Garden Cottage

I see that today is Show Off Your Cottage Monday.

So when I think of my "cottage" I think of my garden shed I had buildt for my gardening antiques and a place to hang out. It must be comfortable because even my next door neighbor comes over in the morning to drink her coffee there! It is a mess right now, because some of the furniture has gone to live at 1515. But in the fall I decorate it for Christmas. A few years ago, our house was on a Holiday House Tour. We had cookies and hot chocolate set up in the shed by the fireplace.

This is the outside of the shed. I love the old shutters I found and a garden antique show. The bench on the porch was my mother in law's. It sat in their breakfast room to put the "boys" on, their are 6 of them!

Here is the inside ready for a Christmas visitor. Too bad I don't have a close up of the cloche I made to look like a snow globe on the mantle. The picture above the mantle is my Grandmother and mother in front of my Great Grandmother's giant hollyhocks. The place is full of antique watering cans and pots from the 50's and 60's.

The chalk board I use in the summer to write down when some seeds are planted. In the rt hand corner is a old shopping cart full of antique childrens gardening tools.

Why don't you come over and sit for awhile!