A little bit of elbow grease

With a little elbow grease you can turn this

(technically my neighbors front yard but ours looked almost exactly the same)

**********************Into this!*********************

I know it's nothing too special, I really just pulled out a lot of crappy weeds and molding roots but it's so much nicer. We are only renting but dare I say we have the nicest tiny patch of mulch and primrose planted front yard? It makes me happy to walk in front of my house and see colour ! (yes I spell colour the way I was taught to and the way "English" people spell it) We still don't have the best weather, these babies have had a few frosty mornings but they are tiny green troopers bringing in Spring.

We also have this piece of work:

There is a long embarrassing story behind this armoire. Starting with purchasing it from Lakenheath yardsales.com bringing it home in the dark and hating that we had bought a piece of crap and ending with the previous owner saying she had been called swear words and calling the cops saying it was us. Totally not us! So now we have a project to complete. In the end I hope it will be in the kitchen holding our food storage, but it might never make it there. Dave and I tried to paint it the other day when it was about 37F and the paint started to freeze. What we wanted to be cranberry red was drying a bubble gum pink. We decided to leave it in the garage until a warmer day. Finished pictures will hopefully come soon.