Shutter Benches and Checkerboard Patio

Okay...so do you remember awhile back

when I told you all that sweet husband

had come across alot of green shutters?

And I promised to show you what he did with them...

well it took awhile but here it is

He built beautiful benches for the garden with all the shutters

 And then he was sweet enough to build me a
 checkerboard paver and grass patio for them to sit on!

I made pretty white ruffled pillows to go on the benches

 Excuse the overgrown grass...we are waiting as long as we can
for it to fill in before we cut it tomorrow...
just in time for Easter egg hunting!!!

We are so happy with the way it turned out...
I have to admit that I wanted to
spray the benches white..imagine that!
But he said we should leave them the lovely
vintage green that they were. 
And lordy no one tell him this...but he was
absolutely right..they are perfect green!

Here is a look at something else we've

been working on...

an old fountain turned into a tiny

succulent garden

If I don't talk to you all before Sunday...
I hope everyone has a blessed Easter!!!
And that you are surrounded with
the love of your friends and family!