What I've been up to...

I just realized today that I haven't posted for about nine days so thought I would hop in
here and tell you what I have been up to.

I picked up some acorns on a walk one day... 

...and it turned into a mini photo shoot. Hubby
and I have been walking every other day or rather trying to get it in every other day and I
am loving it...him, not so much! ha! I am amazed at the different kinds of acorns that
we have been finding. Here I thought they were all alike. Not so...maybe I can get
some more pictures taken one of these days. :)

 I  bought this tutorial for these beautiful angel wings from Dawn...

 over at The Feathered Nest and I can't wait to get some made.

{photo above taken by Dawn}

I mailed a package to Indiana because a little sweetie of ours turned FIVE this past week...

My oldest son's daughter.
Her mommy posted the following on facebook and it just brought tears to my eyes.
If all little ones could have a mommy like this , how great our world would be!

"Today my precious girl turns 5...5!!!!! "A whole hand mommy!!" Hard to believe,,
but I am so proud of the smart and beautiful and spunky and energetic and
individualistic girl she has become! She challenges my thinking daily.  I'm so
excited for the next 5 years and beyond! "

I had a photo shoot with my youngest son's family...

I took over 400 photos. They sure took a while to wade through, but we got some goodies. :)

I even had to work with a *little* attitude, but it was still a fun day...

I loved taking photos of my sweeties...

I hopped in the car one day and drove up and down our dirt roads and found some
amazing color...

I ate this delicious donut that my bff brought me...

{but not all at once!}

It was like none I have ever had. From a bakery called Rise and Roll

SO YUMMY...and huge!! 

I about shouted with glee when my bff brought along these beautiful hydrangeas for me...

I thought this shed was a beauty while out cruising the countryside...

I snapped this photo of Annika before she could move again...

I have been a busy beaver, but it has been a fun couple weeks... 

Hope you all are doing well and that your lives are filled with
unexpected blessings daily!

Playing in the potting shed

I have been busy lately playing in my potting shed so I thought I would give you
a few more peeks at what I am doing.

Do you remember this old white shelf that I purchased a few weeks ago? It ended up out here and I
think it is just right for my goodies.

I did add a bit of fake greenery before I got the bright idea {DUH!} to add real plants. :)

My flowers are still doing just wonderful despite the awful heat we had this summer.

I love this chippy green chair. I purchased FOUR of these chairs at an estate sale
years ago for 50 cents each! Everything was cheap at that sale and I was carrying
my baby granddaughter who was living with us at the time so that was about 11 or 12
 years ago. This is the ONLY green one I have left. I have two more that I let set outside
and they lost all of their paint and I sold one in my booth {dumb thing to do I know!}
I am hanging onto this one!

I love real bird nests and this one is a beauty.

Still trying to figure out if this is too much shelving , but it is what it is right now
so it is staying for awhile anyways.

Did you notice what I had hubby do?? This shed does not have interior walls except
on the back wall. It is something we have always intended to do , but just have not
gotten around to it. I was tired of waiting so a week or two ago I grabbed some paint
that we had sitting around and painted the top two thirds of the walls white.
I painted OSB board, I painted old beams...I painted, painted, painted!

Then I had hubby put the fence around the bottom part of the walls! I love how it
turned out, but once again the whole shed is not done, so you are seeing this one
wall! ha! We replaced a few sections of fence this year that were rotting and I
wanted it all to match so we took the above fence down also even though we had
just put it up a year or two ago. I do LOVE to recycle!!

More fake greenery in this cast iron wall vase.

I realized I should have added some gardening gloves and clippers or scissors , but I had already
spent too long taking photos so I opted not to redo it. I don't know how photographers do it!!
It must take them DAYS to do some photo shoots.

I have lots of goodies so I have pottery and all kinds of treasures sitting around in here.

Still lovin' my burlap potting bench skirt. See the slats in the top of my bench?
When hubby made the bench he added a pull out plastic tub underneath the slats so
that after I pot my plants, I can just grab a whisk broom and brush all the soil
 down the holes and right into the tub. Then take it out and dump it and wa-la all
nice and clean! :)

My favorite chair again with my pretty pink impatiens.

Loving my little *GROW* knife that I made last year.

A little nest that I spray painted white. That ends the tour for now. I know it isn't the most perfect
shed in the world , but it is mine and I love it. I decided whatever I did to fix it up this year I was
NOT going to spend any money doing it and I am happy how it turned out. Now on to the other
walls...oh goodness. Woman's work is never done...:)

Lunch with my BFF ~

My bff invited me for lunch at her lovely home

Wednesday and we had the most wonderful time ~

We used to meet at the Coffee Basket for lunch

and we were very bummed when they closed~

But not to worry...we still had the Coffee Basket experience

because bff purchased this chalkboard at their auction

and hung it in her home.

It is very large and sooooo neat !

She wrote our lunch menu on it,

just like it used to be when we walked in the

door of the Coffee Basket~

So thrilled that she purchased this chalkboard because

we can still have the Coffee Basket *experience* ~

She made delicious tortilla soup and grilled basil cheese sandwiches ~

along with

thick and chewy chocolate chip cookies

and

cranberry jumbles ~

everything was soooooo delicious!!

Thank you Peggy!!

I had to whine and coax her to let me take pictures

{with her camera} to share with you because i forgot mine.

I assured her I wouldn't take any of her. lol

This is her gorgeous potting shed ~

love this wreath that she decorated ~ Inside her shed as I looked up. She has quite a collection of watering cans. love them~

Her new fence that her hubby made for her.

I enjoyed my day soooooo much!!!

Blessings~

Calling my name ~

hubby and i took a drive yesterday

in the blustery, snowy weather.

crazy...i know,

but we did it anyway.

on the way home

just around the corner,

we found an abandoned old farm

and it drew me in...

i trudged up the driveway through the snow

to this beautiful old fence.

when I first caught sight of her

my steps quickened...

i couldn't wait to take her picture ~

then my eyes quickly turned to this

gorgeous old shed

standing there so cold and alone ~

i walked around the side and found more beauty.

how could someone just

leave her here to wither away?

i think she is calling my name ~

i would love to load her up and bring her to my house where she would be so loved ~

but, for the moment...we had to leave her

and head towards

home sweet home.

I have listed several antique ornaments

on my Etsy site so if you love old

ornies, be sure and check it out.

Blessings~