The sun is shining and the weather is sweet, and it makes me want to be out in the garden making it look beautiful! Lately we’ve been collecting pallets wherever we spot them with the intention of doing ‘useful things’ with them, but so far they’ve mainly just been used to prop our chairs up on to reach our too-high cable drum table, which we’re in the process of lowering (post on that when we’re done)! 

Yesterday I decided the time had come to breathe new life into one of them, and pretty up the garden with some colour at the same time. I chose a fairly sturdy one with substantial sides because I wanted the wood to be part of the feature. I’d seen loads of pallet garden ideas on Pinterest, so I decided to make my own version. Here’s the story of how I did it, which I’m…