Minty Fresh

Just completed a fun freelance job today - designing a mint tin for a translation company.

I did the illustrations and layout.

It came out pretty cute and will appear on a mint tin about the size of an Altoids box.

A couple thoughts

I've been enjoying this blog: indexed.blogspot.com and was recently inspired to create a few of my own:

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Brick drain/retaining wall

Sometimes you can't start one project without doing another project first...

We've had an issue with drainage behind the garage ever since we had the gutters installed. There is no place for the water to go. After having tried a couple years of a ditch with plastic and pebbles on top (into which washed a lot of soil from the neighboring garden) I've decided to lay a brick path.

What I really wanted to do was sand and paint the back side of the garage, but as you can see in the pics we have a mud splashing issue and until that is resolved I couldn't see the point of painting. I'll use the bricks to make a retaining wall kind of thing to keep the soil back too.

Porch finished!

We refinished the steps with the same stain we used on the trellis since the polyurethane wasn't wearing very well. The bullnose is on and the porch is finished! Finally! Just in time for the snow we are supposed to get this Thursday.