What do you do when you’ve completely given up on mowing your lawn? You plant a sign. Or at least that is what I did.
Beeees
I’ve got an absolute hatred of mowing the tiny bit of garden that I have. Weeds grow really quickly, there’s barely any real grass to speak off, and it’s just misery. I also feel like the majority of the gardens that I can see from my house are very minimal and not particularly insect friendly. So I combined the two problems. I was going to not mow the yard but also indicate to people that this was a deliberate decision (pre-empting some peer pressure here). I chucked in some more flower seeds and got to work.
Planted sign
I found a nice font, wrote my message (Bee strip, deliberately unmowed), copied a picture of a bee on and then mangled the same picture of a bee to show it in a different orientation. The combination was resized to fit the piece of wood (a tiny bamboo cutting board) I bought for it. The collage was printed and then I used some carbon paper (the stash delivered) to get the image onto my wood. The wood burning tool came out of a box and was used to permanently mark the cutting board – only one finger burn! Once it was finished, I went outside and MacGyvered a stick to the back. It’s been up for a week now and still standing, even through a pretty decent storm. Until the stick breaks, I’m calling it a win!