Last month I entered a giveaway on The Hot Glue Hangover blog. Lucinde from Lucilight was giving away two postcards from her etsy shop. I had never entered a giveaway before...and I won! I received two beautiful postcards. Thank you, Lucinde. Check out her shop. It's awesome.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/lucilight
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Joyful July!
What a busy month this has been! My brother from Oklahoma surprised us with a week long visit. Then one of our nieces and her husband from Texas came the following week. We had such a good time showing them the beauty of western Washington state and catching up on family news. Now I'm back to the garden art routine, trying to get more glass flowers as well as a few other items made for my etsy shop.
We're still having four legged visitors, too. I found a deer dining on our red twig dogwood. Of course I shot her....with a camera. I stood right there watching her eat my plants and she watched me watch her.
Check out my etsy shop periodically. I hope to create some new types of garden art. My mind is racing, but my body is having trouble keeping up.
We're still having four legged visitors, too. I found a deer dining on our red twig dogwood. Of course I shot her....with a camera. I stood right there watching her eat my plants and she watched me watch her.
Check out my etsy shop periodically. I hope to create some new types of garden art. My mind is racing, but my body is having trouble keeping up.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Birds of a Feather...
Five years ago we moved from a house in the country with a view of the bay and Olympic mountains. We had decided it was time to move into town. We couldn't find a lot to build on that had that wonderful view so we settled for a non-view lot. I do sometimes miss the view we had, but it has been replaced with wonderful wildlife, some of which we didn't have there. We've frequently seen deer around our property and now we have a doe and fawn hanging out in the city property just across the fence from us. For the first time we have a couple of white doves and we've seen mother quail with their babies. It doesn't get much better than this.
Quail surveying his domain
Dove on birdhouse. Great place to perch.
Dove on birdhouse. Great place to perch.
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Something New...Something Blue
I've been so busy creating my garden art and have enjoyed every minute of it....but I've been eager to try a few new projects, too. Here is my newest non-garden art. I want to try my hand at several craft items involving paper in all or part of the creation.
In this wall decor I crumpled tissue paper to use as the background. I glued it to mat board cut to fit two thrift store wood frames that I painted blue. Then I cut six white silk flowers in half and glued them at the tops of the tissue-covered mat board so they appear to be peeking out from under the frame. Tiny rhinestones sparkle as flower centers. I had found two Wedgewood plaques in a local thrift store. I glued each one inside a frame onto the tissue paper covered background. The one in the oval shape frame is off center for a little added interest. Hope that makes sense. I put two screw eyes and picture wire onto the back of each frame and they're ready to hang.
I plan to try lots of other paper crafts when summer is over and there's less demand for garden art so stay tuned.
In this wall decor I crumpled tissue paper to use as the background. I glued it to mat board cut to fit two thrift store wood frames that I painted blue. Then I cut six white silk flowers in half and glued them at the tops of the tissue-covered mat board so they appear to be peeking out from under the frame. Tiny rhinestones sparkle as flower centers. I had found two Wedgewood plaques in a local thrift store. I glued each one inside a frame onto the tissue paper covered background. The one in the oval shape frame is off center for a little added interest. Hope that makes sense. I put two screw eyes and picture wire onto the back of each frame and they're ready to hang.
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Do you remember the hen & chicks/sedum planter that was one of my projects in September, 2011? This is the way it looks now. The wire planter is totally invisible.
As if October, 2012 we will have lived at this location five years. We've been working on landscaping ever since. We're getting old and tired. It's been slow going even though we've made a lot of headway from a bare building site to a yard almost full of shrubs, flowers, flowering trees and fruit trees.
The rhodys are blooming along the driveway,
as well as peonies....
iris....
snowball tree....
and ninebark.
Sometime in the next month I hope to finish a pathway that I've begun and start another one on the other side of the dry river bed. Hubby built a 2' x 16' raised bed adjoining the front porch. We've planted a dwarf rhody, a dwarf nandina, two cinquefoils, an evergreen azaela, two heathers and two geraniums. The geraniums will spend the winter in the garage. The cinquefoils are questionable for that bed. I'll see how they look this winter. I would like to have all, or mostly, evergreen plants there.
More to come so stay posted. Now, please excuse me while I go take a couple of aspirins and rub my sore joints with arthritis salve.
As if October, 2012 we will have lived at this location five years. We've been working on landscaping ever since. We're getting old and tired. It's been slow going even though we've made a lot of headway from a bare building site to a yard almost full of shrubs, flowers, flowering trees and fruit trees.
The rhodys are blooming along the driveway,
as well as peonies....
iris.... snowball tree....
and ninebark.
Sometime in the next month I hope to finish a pathway that I've begun and start another one on the other side of the dry river bed. Hubby built a 2' x 16' raised bed adjoining the front porch. We've planted a dwarf rhody, a dwarf nandina, two cinquefoils, an evergreen azaela, two heathers and two geraniums. The geraniums will spend the winter in the garage. The cinquefoils are questionable for that bed. I'll see how they look this winter. I would like to have all, or mostly, evergreen plants there.
More to come so stay posted. Now, please excuse me while I go take a couple of aspirins and rub my sore joints with arthritis salve.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
We Had Company Today
They've been hanging around here the last couple of days.
Pretty mama
Watch where you're going. There might be a car coming.
Isn't the little one a cutie? Sometimes his mama has a hard time keeping up with him.
Pretty mama
Watch where you're going. There might be a car coming.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Grandma's Sewing Machine
A few weeks ago I wrote about my friend, Greg Hill, who was repurposing my grandmother's antique sewing machine. He is so talented! Here is the final result.
Against the wall in the dining room Above it is an old painting by a Swedish artist. I think it belonged to my other grandmother who was Swedish.
We decided to leave the drawers with the original finish. We just couldn't mess with that wonderful patina.
The ruler across the front to the right of the drawers was originally on the top of the sewing machine at the front edge. Greg was able to save it and put it along the front of the cabinet.
Each number and letter on the ruler was inlaid. Incredible!
He painted the brand of the machine copper. Below it are the letters 'USA'. I'm going to paint them copper also.
Reconstruction by http://gregsresurrectionstore.blogspot.com/
Against the wall in the dining room Above it is an old painting by a Swedish artist. I think it belonged to my other grandmother who was Swedish.
We decided to leave the drawers with the original finish. We just couldn't mess with that wonderful patina.
Each number and letter on the ruler was inlaid. Incredible!
He painted the brand of the machine copper. Below it are the letters 'USA'. I'm going to paint them copper also.
Reconstruction by http://gregsresurrectionstore.blogspot.com/
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