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over the last couple months i've totally devoted myself to transforming my physical spaces and
preparing my land and garden for the summer weeds and kale had completely taken over my garden this
winter and so i had a lot of preparing to do before i could plant him hi you're so beautiful
as i've worked on all my projects designing a new reality for myself i revealed parts
of myself that had been hidden away it began to feel like i was entering a new era of my growth
at the same time i worked on my enchanted forest
clearing dead wood planting wildflowers and preparing it for ceremonies and rituals
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then one day i inadvertently opened a can of worms and there was no turning back
so i've been doing a lot of projects a lot of projects in the house around the house outside
the house and yesterday i was leading the front garden and then i just decided to pull up these
like shingle type things that were on my steps i should have known that i was opening a can
of worms when i pulled up those mats there was these chips of paint and chips of those
parts of the shingles left behind and i essentially couldn't leave it like that i
had to i had to forge forward it wasn't a simple peel and go situation so i spent all last night
chipping away because i don't have a pressure washer so i had to chip away with a metal scraper
and a metal brush and i cleaned it the best that i possibly could now i'm going to paint it
and so i'm actually really excited i'm going to paint it purple
and also this color is called petunia and that's harry potter's aunt's name so it's a magical color
got purple footprints all throughout my lilacs are already dying
so i got this no slip compound to sprinkle over the spots where i'm
gonna step on so that the paint on the concrete doesn't get really slippery
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so kind of having a moment right now where i'm wondering if i like the purple
winnie what do you think
i don't know should i have done green
so this is another area i need to do the garden all under here
i dumped all these out last night so they could drain so i need to weed
all of that and i also have these stairs here and i'm thinking i'll paint those too
do i did love the petunia color but it was feeling a bit too much for the space
i was really eager to change the color but i had to wait a week for the purple to cure
the weight forced me to embrace a patience that didn't feel so natural to me
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as my process with the steps was tested i really had to shift my mindset and let go
of the internalized pressure i was putting on myself to get my projects done
quickly so i allowed myself to take my time leave behind perfection and enjoy the process
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so i've done one coat here and my deck actually needs to be replaced it's in really bad condition
like
so i'm thinking that i'll just slap one coat of the green
on the whole deck because it'll just make it look a lot nicer and since it's getting replaced i
don't have to worry about precision or anything and if it doesn't work out then that's okay
this bird just hit my door
i know are you okay
hello
so i'm done my front steps and the back steps and the back deck
it feels so good it's actually been i think over a month since since i started um
we've had a lot of rain and it's been challenging to finish up because i had to do a couple coats on
here and i needed to wait a lot of time in between each coat but i'm really glad that i
changed it from the purple to the green because it just blends in more and the purple was so bright
on my eyes and so i just kind of switched it up and so now it's green and i painted my planters
the purple color the kind of periwinkle color and it looks so good with my lavender
and my sage and all the purple hair it just looks really great and i'm really happy and i'm
really proud of myself because it was a pretty big commitment and it was a lot of work i'm finishing
this video at the exact same time as i'm finishing a vlog about my garden and so at the beginning of
this video you saw that i was weeding and working on the garden and i've totally finished that and i
finished all my planting so that's my next video and so i'm not gonna show you what it looks like
now you'll have to wait until next week before we go to the back i just wanted to show you what my
color inspiration was and it's these little pinch dishes from a brand called wicked wanda and uh
i think it looks pretty similar it looks pretty good i love it i think it worked out perfectly
so it does not look perfect back here i'm not even gonna sugarcoat it and i'm not going to
try and perfect it for this video because this is the way it looks so so here's the back
obviously this whole spot looks a million times better but
my gutter is broken
and so it's been raining a lot and it rains right here and it pushes all of the dirt out of the way
and sprays on the house and so there's really nothing that i can do about it until i get the
gutter fixed and so that's what it looks like but it looks better than what it looked like before
and i also need a weed whacker to kind of trim all of this i had some other spots and i used
scissors but i'm really not into that right this second so this is what the back garden
looks like and the stairs this looks really good i'm really happy with this because i love sitting
back here in the mornings and i just think it looks really beautiful you're such a good boy
look how cute this fox glove is it's sprouted like a whole new flower
it feels really good back here it feels a lot cleaner which feels really nice for spending
time back here and i've got all my plants which are deer proof and uh yeah it just feels a lot
brighter and cleaner back here and of course i put a slab slab slap i put some paint on the deck
and it made a huge difference like i mentioned i'm hopefully getting a new deck next year but
um this just makes it look so much better so there she is the deck she's all done
so thank you so much for coming along on this project journey with me and also for coming
on my other project journeys with me i've been working really hard on transforming my spaces
it's a form of manifestation uh for myself taking that action and even though i want my space um to
eventually be different this is the space that i have now and taking ownership over that and making
it my own and making it sacred to myself is a form of um that action is a form of manifestation for
me and so i'm taking the action to love the space that i have right now in whatever way
i can and so that is what i'm doing so thanks so much for watching i will see you in the garden bye
you