Texture Tuesday - Garden Trug

Hello dear friends,

Well, as you know by now, Tuesday is Texture Tuesday.

According to the challenge, this weeks' photo is about gardening. I used to be quite a gardener, planting, digging, pruning to my heart's content, but injury and work committments saw a decline over the years and now, quite truthfully, all I do now is pull a few weeds as I pass and put in a few plants in Spring.

My garden is full... it's a cottage style... it tends to re-seed a lot and often seems to have the uncanny ability to fill in naturally in places where I would have put plants myself, clever garden!
( I must admit that I do also have a very nice gardener who comes fortnightly to mow lawns and cut back where required etc, so that certainly helps to keep it under control, thankyou, Luke)

Anyway, this post is about Textures, right?! Tying to get there...

My trusty little garden holdall, was this lovely TRUG that I fell in love with years ago and just HAD to have. A Trug... I hear you say. What on earth is a trug??!

A Trug is a wooden basket mainly used for gardening. The one I have is a Sussex trug made from thin boards of cricket-bat willow (the body). The handle and rim are made from coppiced sweet chestnut wood.The trug is all hand cut and pieced in a time-honoured style, a fact that I love.
It also sits on little wooden 'feet'.

Over the years this trusty little holdall has not only carried garden tools, seeds etc but has been cleaned up and bought inside my home to hold indoor potted plants and small vases of flowers, too.
Quite a versatile little trug if I do say so!

So, finally, my Texture Tuesday photo is...Ta da! my sweet garden trug.

This is how I achieved this effect - ( using photoshop elements 9)

• High pass sharpening
• KK texture 'stained linen' at soft light 65%
• Hue sat adjustment to tone down the yellow
• KK texture 'stained linen' multiply at 70%
• Layer mask to remove some texture on the trug, seeds, tools and string
• Gaussian blur filter
• slight vignette around edges
• Signature.

Please click on the Texture Tuesday photo on my side bar, or below, to take you to Kim's site and more textured beauties.

NB, this Stained Linen texture  in my photo was a freebie sent by Kim last week, so sign up if you wish to give it a try and you will receive lots of lovely free textures to play with.

Have a great day,

Cheers,