Your garden - a fire pit

40 face bricks (R6 each at Cash Build)
5 packets cream coloured crushed stones (R50 each at Builders Warehouse)

R490 total

1. Arrange the 40 bricks in a circle on your lawn (holes in the bricks facing in towards each other)
2. Mark the outer edge of the circle - we cut the grass with a spade
3. Careful dig siren to about 8 cm and remove the grass in chunks that you can replant
4. Dig down the breadth of a brick, plus a bit more
5. You want the bricks be slightly slanted so use some dirty to build up a bit of the outer rim of the circle so it isn't as deep as the inside of the circle
6. Place the bricks
7. Place some soil in the inner circle so the ground slants downward from the brick to the centre of the circle
8. Pour stones between the brick and spread the rest out in the centre of the circle

Your garden - the tree house you always wanted

The original

Being taken down

2017_3_21 transporting it home

2017_3_25 taking out nails

2017_3_2 orgaring the holes

2017_4_5 putting up the platforms

2017_4_7 nailing in the side panels

2017_04_15 putting up the roof

Making your house a home - geological etchings

I found these in the dumpster outside the geological building at work. I can only assume they are brass etchings used to make pictures before the digital era

They look great against a plain black piece of wood. And for those of us with geological backgrounds the variations in textures are also interesting!