My New Fairy and Gnome Home
@cintol (11261)
United States
May 12, 2020 8:32pm CST
Over 20 yrs ago my dad built this wishing well. He's gone now and the wishing well had seen better days but I bought some siding and new wood and redid it so it looked like it did the day he built it.
We are going to put little doors on the bottom with some fairies and gnomes and it will become their new home. I also planted strawberries in a big pot that I am putting inside so they will grow. I am hoping they will get big enough to vine up the posts. Wish me luck.
Do you have something someone special built that you have restored? This pic looks like its short and stout but I assure you its taller and thinner then this lol
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@wolfgirl569 (105945)
• Marion, Ohio
13 May 20
I have a picnic table that will never go anywhere as my son built it.
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@DaddyEvil (137257)
• United States
27 May 20
Your wishing well is interesting. I bet you get lots of compliments on it, huh?
I remember you talking about the wishing well when I first met you on myLot. (I did think you said a storm had damaged it, though. *shrug* I guess I'm getting old enough my memory isn't quite what it used to be. 
Don't you DARE tell Pretty I admitted I'm getting a bit older! She'd NEVER let me hear the end of that!
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I remember you talking about the wishing well when I first met you on myLot. (I did think you said a storm had damaged it, though. *shrug* I guess I'm getting old enough my memory isn't quite what it used to be. Don't you DARE tell Pretty I admitted I'm getting a bit older! She'd NEVER let me hear the end of that!)1 person likes this
@DaddyEvil (137257)
• United States
6 Jun 20
@cintol Hmmm... I also am the one who collects our mail, both at the house and at the PO Box. I suppose you could ask vanny to pass a message but Pretty always passes those to me without reading them. 
You're welcome. Only in the photo myLot posted on your discussion, not in the real photo. 
You're welcome. Only in the photo myLot posted on your discussion, not in the real photo. 1 person likes this
@cintol (11261)
• United States
27 May 20
Well thanks, not many people see it unless I invite them into my back yard!! This picture made it fat and short, its really not and I have my strawberries in it now so its looking even better.
It has just been weathered being in snow for so many years and then moving it here to this heat gave it more. Its all fixed now and Oh, I will be calling Pretty tomorrow and letting her know!!! 
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
6 Jun 20
@DaddyEvil Hmmm, yes you could but I have other ways to get to her sir and NO, Im not gonna tell you
Well thank you for that advice, it came out short and pudgy instead of the real way didn't it.
Well thank you for that advice, it came out short and pudgy instead of the real way didn't it. 1 person likes this
@FayeHazel (40243)
• United States
22 May 20
How sweet. I love your idea. Sorry about loss of your dad. Mine passed away recently. I treasure the things I have that he made. I don't need to restore, but I have a bookshelf he made.
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
27 May 20
@FayeHazel Im so glad your both well, I am ok, life is always changing here. Husband just got his old job back with his old company so we will be switching things again!!! lol
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@FayeHazel (40243)
• United States
26 May 20
@cintol Thank you so much my friend. Mom and I are alright here... staying busy and keeping healthy. How are you doing?
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
11 Oct 20
@DearAphrodite I just bought a plant to wind up the sides and over the top today, it has cute little flowers that look like mini angel trumpets
@Juliaacv (51098)
• Canada
13 May 20
You've got a great idea here with the strawberries.
About 35 years ago, while my hubby and I were dating, he spied a large table in the basement of my parents home that my Dad asked him to help him take outside-he had plans on burning it as they didn't need it. My husband peeled back some of the layers of paint and asked my Dad if the wood was birch, which it is. My Dad asked him if he wanted it and he thanked him for it. He had the table dipped and stripped of all of that paint. The pedestal was rotted and was removed. He has the leaves and the table, the skirt and the claw feet from the pedestal still. We want to get it rebuilt, but aren't sure if we'd like regular table height or coffee table height. I found a carpentry shop that could do it, not cheaply, but after all of these years we may get that 150 year old table put back together again.
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@RasmaSandra (79714)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13 May 20
It sounds like a very good idea and best of luck to you.
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@sallypup (61000)
• Centralia, Washington
18 May 20
@cintol I love spalted wood. I have a large wooden vase, I guess I could call it, that I found when I visited Canada. I believe one of the locals made it there from local wood. Its V shaped. I store potatoes and such in it- I think it was supposed to be a planter for outside but I just couldn't bear the idea of it getting destroyed by the weather.
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@jobelbojel (35482)
• Philippines
11 Aug 20
This is beautiful. I like the wishing well and the fence.
@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
13 May 20
I lost most of my special things in our house fire but I have memories.
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
18 May 20
Im sorry Belle, that has to hurt to lose your personal treasures like that, do you at least have pics of them?
