My May Flowers

Today is such a beautiful day in Alabama. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the flowers blooming and the evidence of God is all around me.

I turned this fountain into a planter, it was just to hard to keep the leaves and debri out, it already had a drain hole where the pump electrical cord came through. 

The top part has trailing baby tears and impatiens and sweet potato vine in the lower part.

It's positioned right next to an old Pecan tree.

My pink impatiens are filling out nicely, they greet you as you come up the steps to my front door.

I found this 'Believe' garden flag at Lowes, yes I believe in your Goodness Lord, I believe in your loving kindness towards us.

The Asparagus Fern is overflowing the little wooden wheelbarrow, I tucked a Verbenia in with it for some color.

Looking out towards the chicken coops.

 Little clay pots serve as garden edging around this bed planted with Hostas, Bleeding Heart ,ferns, moss and Coleus.

An old garden plow and little ceramic mushrooms add some interest.

I like to sit here and look at the plants while visiting with the chickens. A copper bird fountain provides water for the birds and squirrels and the little angel holds bird seed.

Another old wheelbarrow holds some lirope and petunias over by the picnic table.

I love to just sit outside on days like this and just enjoy being alive, we have so many blessings in this beautiful country of ours and I try never to forget that.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree, yielding fruit after it's kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth, and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after it's kind and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself after its' kind, and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day. Genesis 1:11-13

Skies over Alabama

The Heavens declare the glory of God and the sky proclaims the works of His Hands. Psalm 19:1

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No Mirror? No Problem

I recently found a cute little antique vanity that was missing a mirror. That was okay with me because I had other plans for it. Here it is with the missing mirror.
[Warning, lots of pics ahead]

It is replacing the piece below which I felt was't right for this area.

It went to another area of the house, dang, it seems like I change furniture more often than underwear, ahem, just kidding.

Originally the mirror frame area was much taller, about twice as high, sorry no before pic. In the next picture you can see where we cut it down right above the side curve areas. DH also had to add the little curved part that was missing on the right side, he's so talented :) I'll be touching all of that up so hopefully it won't show.

This piece is in my dining room so I thought revising the frame part would make it look less like a vanity and more like, well.....a cute little piece of furniture. 

So anyway, I had my DH cut a piece of beadboard to fit inside where the mirror would normally go and I added a pretty basket of flowers applique.

I painted it all with Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint in Linen.

I added some glazing to give definition to the basket of flowers but it just looked muddied instead, so I just went with the all linen look.

I added these pretty glass knobs from Hobby Lobby.

Then I just duct taped the insert in place (dang I love that stuff)  and here's the final look.

I love putting appliques on furniture, you can make it 'all yours' by doing that.

 
 This little iron birdie is waiting for the 'bookworm' I think.

I love these two little birdies, the basket is wire and so cute.

Yep, I think I like it. This little vanity repurpose also has wheels, you can kind of see the one on the back leg.

The coffee filter wreath which I made a year or so ago will get a special treatment too. So stay tuned for that.

 My wonderful Eulalie (Miss Mustard Seed named her's Eulalie so I'm goin' with it)  Cow Picture (God Bless Cindy for her wonderful talent) got a new home on a larger wall and that wall is getting some love too next week. Eulalie was just too grand to be squeezed onto this small wall, she said she needed to spread out a bit!

Have a day blessed by God, Teresa
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Pots of Posies

The weather has been gorgeous lately in Alabama, bright red cardinals everywhere, baby squirrels scampering about and leaves budding on the Pecan trees. 

So naturally I want to be out there planting flowers and enjoying the sunshine.

My daughter gave me an old antique dolly and I knew I wanted to make some kind of yard art with it. Well my sweet and talented husband made a couple of flowers boxes and attached it to the dolly. I leaned it up against one of our Pecan trees and went to town with some perennials and annuals

.I also hung a chicken feeder from a shepherds hook and put a trailing plant in it. 

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These Impatiens brighten the view by the steps.

  

These pansies lasted all through the Fall and Winter and they are blooming like crazy now.

This little wheelbarrow was another flea market find.
I've got a long way to go towards fixing up the front yard, maybe sod or just some ground cover with stepping stones, I'm not sure yet.

My vegetable garden is in raised containers this year, so much easier to deal with.

So what are you planting this year?

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Cutest Bathroom Ever

Well, at least the cutest I've ever seen at a store/gas station stop.

While on our way back from Cali we made a pit stop. You know the routine. Get gas, clean the windshield, buy munchies, go potty, buy soda so you can stop 30 minutes down the road to go potty again. 

And let me tell you I HATE having to use a toilet that has been used by thousands of others. I'm crazy about that stuff. I'm one of those people who's behind NEVER touches one of those toilets. My thighs get a....ahem.. squatting workout hovering just inches above the toilet, if you know what I mean. Yep I'm also the one who flushes with my elbow or I've even been known to use my shoed foot in some cases depending on the level of bathroom grossness. And yes, I open the door to leave by using  a paper towel in case some yucky person didn't wash their hands and touched the doorknob with that yucky hand. 

Anyway, now that i have thoroughly grossed you out let me tell you about this adorable bathroom.....the store was like any other when you walked in, nothing special. I made a beeline to the restroom as it had been at least 30 minutes and one cup of coffee, a bottled water and a soda since I last made a similar beeline just up the road a bit. Opening the door I expected to see the usual, standard yucky toilet, maybe toilet paper, or not, sink, no soap most likely and some kind of mechanism to dry my hands. Imagine my delight when I opened the door to this......

It was an I LOVE LUCY bathroom!!!

Isn't that just the cutest and most unexpected thing you would ever see in pitstop bathroom? 

And that wasn't all, there's more......

For your viewing pleasure while 'visiting' the powder room there were pictures and posters of Lucy everywhere!

She really was a very beautiful lady and one of the funniest in my opinion. I still watch the reruns whenever they come on.

 And of course who could forget Ethel, Lucy's partner in crime....I loved those two!

Tucked away in a corner was this cute little 'Lucy' pocket book.

I'm sure the person knocking on the restroom door was wondering what in the heck I was doing in there so long, why taking pictures of course! lol. And just so you know how long you ARE in there they provided a Lucy clock!

Oh and for the record, it was one of the cleanest restrooms I had ever had the pleasure of 'powdering my nose in', ahem. 

So I'm glad to be back from vacation, missed y'all. I'm workin' on that mirror so stay tuned.

That's all folks........Teresa

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A Table Got In The Way

Well I was hoping to post some pics of the mirror I have been working on.

But we got an order for a Farmhouse Table so the mirror got put on hold. 

After we made our Heart Pine Farmhouse Table

 we got a couple of orders for tables just by word of mouth, woo hoo!

Here's the one we just finished.

We have decided to start making them on a regular basis and sell them. This one turned out so pretty! I love the lighter stained top and I painted and recovered the chairs.

 It's an eight foot table and bench with four chairs. I really stress over the process, I don't know why. My hubs says it's because I'm a perfectionist, not a fun or good thing to be. 

So anyway it will probably be another two weeks before the mirror gets done because I'm taking a trip to California. My grandson is graduating from Marine Corp Boot Camp, Hoo rah!

Take Care, Teresa

What I'm Up To....

I've taken a few days to putter around the house and scheming about what piece of furniture is either going to be reupholstered, cut down to size, re purposed or painted next. nothing is safe around here! So out of the corner of my eye I spied this......by the way this mirror is no longer hanging in this spot, Eulalie the Cow now resides in the place of honor! So sad little mirror needs some lovin' so she's not feeling neglected.

 Yes, my pretty, you have been long overdue for a makeover. 

 I don't think you've seen a stitch of make-up since well, since forever!

Your pretty little details are just not living up to their full potential, so we need to fix that!

And here's what I pulled out of the make up bag to make you look like a new woman!

A little bit of blush  chalk paint......

Some wrinkle reducer producer, just trust me.

A little dab of that

And a touch of this

Just wait til you look in the mirror, wait, can mirrors look into mirrors? Oh well, like they say on Biggest Loser, "next time you see me America, I'm gonna be one hot momma!" 

Til Then.....Teresa