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.
Hope you are having a Wonderful Weekend!
Please leave a comment and tell me what you're up to!