This is my boody garden. In the dialect of 19th century Northumberland, ‘boody’ referred to broken china. I discovered this at Tate Britain last year when we went to the exhibition of folk art. Now I have a name for my little garden where my favourite broken pottery and a whole heap of memories are saved.
There is a beautiful old plate, half a tea-pot, a piece of terracotta from a bread crock, half a mug that is the penultimate one left of my Mum’s retirement present when she left teaching deaf children in the unit at Roskear School, Camborne and handles from a beautiful piece of Jane Hamlyn pottery and I just love it, my ‘boody’ garden!
Boody garden 2015
Boody garden 2014
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galeweithers
May 28, 2015 at 2:00 am
Who would have thought! I usually throw my broken china out but now I’m going to have to rethink that for sure. Thanks for sharing your beautiful photos … now it’s off to find some broken china 🙂
mybeautfulthings
May 28, 2015 at 9:55 am
Have fun making your Boody garden. 🙂
babyjill7...Marilyn Griffin
May 27, 2015 at 4:36 pm
you’ve got is going Sally…with your Boody idea…I just hate discarding broken items That I like!…now I won’t have to!
mybeautfulthings
May 27, 2015 at 6:14 pm
Delighted to hear that another Boody Garden is planned! 🙂
flowerpot
May 27, 2015 at 10:50 am
love that idea Sally! X
saymber
May 27, 2015 at 10:49 am
What a great idea to repurpose sentimental objects! Love it.
Words We Women Write
May 26, 2015 at 9:39 pm
I love this! maybe some destruction ahead to achieve this 🙂
mybeautfulthings
May 27, 2015 at 8:34 am
I have been known to help something along when it just has a small chip! Have fun! 🙂
Sharon - creativityandfamily
May 26, 2015 at 9:06 pm
Such a great idea and a great name too!
Grannymar
May 26, 2015 at 8:10 pm
Boody is a new one on me, but I do like that idea of using the pieces in the garden.
mybeautfulthings
May 27, 2015 at 8:35 am
It was new to me too and it appealed greatly – hence my little garden. At the rate things get broken around here, I may need to have another one! 🙂
greenbenchramblings
May 26, 2015 at 6:16 pm
Now that is a new one on me!
Charlie@Seattle Trekker
May 26, 2015 at 4:36 pm
Great suggestion to add interest to the garden…I save everything so it should be pretty easy to find something I can use. I am now anxious to see what this looks like in my garden.
mybeautfulthings
May 26, 2015 at 5:07 pm
Really pleased to hear that, Charlie! Do let me know how it goes. 🙂
jo(e)
May 26, 2015 at 4:19 pm
What a wonderful idea! I’ve always felt sad when I had to discard broken bits of beautiful china.
mybeautfulthings
May 26, 2015 at 5:06 pm
Now you know how to save them! 🙂