Is it Old or New?....

Hi it's been a few days.

I've been spending alot of time in our yard

sprucing it up and making it more fun and inviting

to be in.  I have recycled a few older things

and added a couple new things.

I'd like to share them with you....

 Here's a little of both....

the only new thing here is this little

wheelbarrow planter, I bought it recently at

JoAnn Fabric's during their 60% off sale.

I have had the Welcome picket fence for

probably about 5 yrs now, notice the E is missing

a little something, need to fix that still.

 My basket liners have all pretty much fallen apart.

I have 4 of these hanging in various spots in our backyard

and have made 3 of the coco liners work using the 4th 

for those.  So I just picked up one new one for this basket.

 This is the birdhouse that got me started

sprucing up the "yard art" I have had around

for years.  I had the birdhouse on a fence post, 

it had no bottom so I just capped the post with it.

The cup and saucer use to be on a wooden stake 

but that kept falling, so I had my hubby put a bottom

on the birdhouse and the cup and saucer on the chimney.

I painted it with bright pops of color and I put bird food in the cup.

Now I am thinking I will paint that metal stand it's on Red....

like I did my old big wheelbarrow from a few posts ago.

 This bird house was boring grey....

it was screaming to be painted

bright Red!

 This guy as you can see was in poor shape.

I think he has been in our basement for the last few years.

Since I was in sprucing up mode I brought him out of hiding

and went at it.  He used to have ceramic eyes and a ceramic nose.

Nowhere to be found....

So I painted him with a fresh coat and purchased

some silly eyes and hung him outside.

 Looks like he's happy now....

 Hope he doesn't scare the birds away....

Ha, ha!

But, this next project I really had fun with.

I purchased her about 4 yrs ago at TJ Maxx.....

it was Love at first sight!  The first couple of years I brought 

her in at the end of the season.  But, sadly the last few I did not!

:0(

Hope she can forgive me!

 I took a picture of her parts so I could look back 

to try and paint them as close as possible to how they were.

Love her Smile!

 Some of her charm....

real metal pieces

 Some of her garden tools....

see the strings?  She use to have gloves that hung

waiting for her if needed.

 I decided to leave a few of her parts Rusty

it's part of her charm.  But, I really had fun painting the other pieces.

Oh Yeah.....  

 I found some miniature garden gloves online

and ordered them, they are about 3 1/2 inches.

Not perfect in dimension....

but, she doesn't seem to mind!

(My girls really think I'm losing it now! ha,ha)

 But, she's back and Lovin' her new self!

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Last year I purchased 2 new umbrellas for our tables.

Within a few days one of them broke,

they were the crank and tilt kind,

so I returned them and they replaced them both.

(I originally bought brown, but they didn't have more so had to get green)

Anywho,

this year when we put them out, within a couple days of each other

those umbrellas broke.  I bought them locally so I went back to the

place and explained my story.  Just so happened the owner of the

store and the manager where there at the same time.
Lucky for me the owner said bring them back

and I will refund you the money!!!

So I did and....

 Waa Laa....

I went to another BIG BOX kinda place

and purchased 2 new

~Pulley~

Umbrellas and had $40 left over!

Then I found a Great Deal for me

on a point and shoot digital camera 

and it arrived a couple days ago. I'm still learning

about it, but so far I Love it!

 and it came with these two CD's....

I still need to watch them.

If any of you out there happen to have this camera

and want to share any info, I'd love to read what you have to say.

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to read my post.

I know it's a long one.

I'm also joining this fun party....
http://sunnysimplelife.blogspot.com/2012/06/welcome-to-sunny-simple-sundays.html
go take a look!

Hope you are having a Wonderful Weekend!

Please leave a comment and tell me what you're up to!