Last week I showed you the chippy metal toolbox that I bought at the farm sale.
I didn’t really know what I was going to do with it when I bought it, but I knew it probably wouldn’t be for its original purpose.
I spruced it up a little bit with some yummy hydrangea.
And I found some ornamental kale on clearance for $1.00 each. Or is it cabbage?
I’m not good with my vegetables.
The pumpkin that came with the toolbox came in handy. Maybe Sears should run that promo – Buy a toolbox, get a pumpkin.
Why I never worked in marketing, I will never know. The marketing gurus know, I just don’t know.
I am pretty sure my husband will think this is an embarrassingly girly way to use a toolbox, but hey, it’s fall and I’m in a chippy toolbox frame of mind.
What do you think, should I chuck the flowers and just throw some wrenches and pliers in it?
Happier Than a Pig in Mud
Very pretty! I love the color of your hydrangea with the cabbage Pam-enjoy! (At least I think it’s cabbage, but this has been one of those days… so I’m questioning everything:@)
AntiqueChase
Gorgeous!!
NanaDiana
Much prettier with the flowers instead of the having a Wrench Box. You could call it a WENCH box seeing as you are using it yourself…just sayin…. OH..BTW-Your photos are gorgeous. If our hydrangea looked like that in late season I would leave it go too…ours goes from white to green to rust. xo Diana
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NO! I love the tool caddy as is, looks so pretty Pam!
Cottage and Broome
Love the combo, the hydrangeas are still so pretty. The deer ate all my kale! Laura, Cottage and Broome
Polly
so pretty!
Pat
Very nice. I like the different textures and colors.
Tricia @ A Rosy Note
Oh Pam, I love it! The colors all work so well together. It’s just the right amount of pretty and rustic.
andrea
Those colors are rich! [email protected]
Pamela
Just gorgeous Pam!!
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The colors of the cabbage and the hydrangeas go so well together. Love your autumn display in the tool box.
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Cabbage or kale…it’s beautiful! Love your tool box!
Debbie
Honey at 2805
The tool box is precious! The hydrangas and cabbage/kale look wonderful in your vignette!
Honey at 2805
The tool box is precious! The hydrangas and cabbage/kale look wonderful in your vignette!
All That Glitters
Oooh! That looks so pretty! Our hubs should no by now we do weird things! lol!
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I think it’s gorgeous!!! And looks super-adorable the way it is!
I have a wooden tool caddy like that; I actually MADE it myself in 7th grade wood shop. Yes. I still have my tool caddy project from grade 7. I use it to carry my gardening tools and gardening gloves around when I’m outside. It looks way cooler that way. LOL!
Debby
The flowers are so beautiful. SO are your pictures. Make sure and sign up for my giveways.
Kim K.
It’s DIVINE!
Amber Lyon Ferguson
Love it!
Elisa
Love it! I think if it fits in a tool box then there has to be a way to make it look good in there! Great photography too!
Linda
Pam, that is the most stunning color combination…I am in love…
Heather
Oh, you definitely have to keep the flower arrangement, because it is absolutely beautiful! I just love the kale!
Robin
I never seen a better way to use a toolbox! Poor hubby will just have to adjust! LOL.
It looks amazing Pam. I like the mix of plants you used. It all looks so good together and very unique.
Babs
Love your colors and plant combination. I think kale is a form of cabbage, so anyway you say it should be right. I think kale just doesn’t form a head. There’s the garden lesson for today. 🙂
Great looking tool box, too.Tools or flowers in the tools box? If you put tools in it, you may never see it again…at least as a decorative element.
The Quintessential Magpie
This is GORGEOUS! Love the colors SO much.
XO,
Sheila
The Summer Kitchen Girls
Kale…Cabbage – whatever it is – it’s CUTE! Love the colors, and we think it’s the perfect way to show off a tool box 🙂
Shirley
Para nada, está genial así, me fascina como se ven las hortensias.
LizlovesVintage
No, wrench monkeys 🙂
This looks so beautiful!
xxx Liz
LizlovesVintage
No, wrench monkeys 🙂
This looks so beautiful!
xxx Liz
Pam of Eastlake Victorian
I like “Buy a toolbox, get a pumpkin.” It’s manly enough, no? I love the hydrangeas… what a nice color! Mine are pretty brown already (I never cut them off).
-Pam
Erin of Salvaged Whimsy
SOOOO Pretty…I love your Sears promotional idea – it made me chuckle out loud, which is pretty impressive at 6:30am! I have 3 or 4 old tool boxes – thanks for the beautiful idea! I also like when people plant succulents in them too.
Kristin @ My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia
Everything is so pretty! I love those cabbage plants, just gorgeous, thank you for linking up!
XO
Kristin