Flowers

How beautiful are these?  These were given to me for hosting lunch on Sat.  I have the bestest friends!

Karen

Summer Stuff

Today was the first day I noticed the tadpoles are now sitting on top of the lily pads, which means they are turning into frogs!

 You can't see it here, but his tail is still pretty long.

I picked some sweet peas and a cosmos today and put them into my small beaker.  I love them!

 The sweet peas smell so good!  I have them in two shades of purple and two shades of pink.  The cosmos I have in tons of colors!

Now the other tadfrog has shown up!

Happy Mother's Day!

A local greenhouse had these for sale.  I couldn't resist it for my Mom!  She loved it.  You'd think I spent a million dollars on it!  

Happy Mother's Day!

Garden Flowers!

I love this time of the year! All the colors to be seen. Here's just a few of my flowers.Isn't this fun? It starts out as a tight bud and then pops open! Kids love these because you can squeeze them to help them open! This is what it looks like once it pops open.

These are new to me this year and I'm in love! Great to bring into the house as cut flowers, they really last long and the ones that weren't open, did open while in the house!

The photos don't do them justice! You should see the insides of them!

This one shocked me! It's way too early for these but this one was ready! Just a beautiful calla lily!

Photo Challenge!

I've issued a challenge to anyone that wants to try it. The challenge is to go out to your backyard and use something from your yard for a listing. You can bring the item indoors if you want.

You can click on the underlined shop name to be taken directly to the shops!

The first one submitted is this beauty from VintageEmbellishment! You can visit her shop to see the actual listing. N is for NEST! Oh, so pretty!The next three photos were submitted by Timeless Journey! Her barn wood creations are wonderful and so are her photos! I love this photo, it looks like the white flowers are a print inside the frame!

It would have been smarter on my end to wait to issue a challenge until I had more items in bloom! But NO, I wanted to do it now. So, I don't have many items I can use outside. You can see my listings at VintageStation.

Isn't this a neat idea! Comes from ircrafty.



From countrysoapsbymarlen come the next three photos!Blooming Tulip Soap!From Peppercorns2. Um, are those apples real?The following two photos come from PaintedMemoriesByRos! They are her lilacs and bleeding hearts from her yard!From MySeriousSide is this wonderful flower frog! You do know you can use flower frogs for place cards at your next party, right Martha?The next three photos are from JustJanesThings!

Flowers

With summer winding down, I wanted to get a few more photos of my flowers before they are gone. The first ones are balloon flowers, they start out looking like little puffs and then open up to these wonderful flowers! I have them in white, pink, blue and double blooms. They are fun to squeeze a little and help them open! Kids love them!

Sunchokes. They are very pretty and goldfinch love them. Me, not so much anymore, they multiply like crazy.

These wonderful little flowers are toad lilies. These things work so hard to grow! They have to grow with the sunchokes and always poke through!

These are pond lilies. I only have one lily but it blooms one color, last for three days and each day it's a different color bloom. I have two blooming at the same time and you can see the difference in colors! But yes, it's the same plant.

Flowers Part II - Osteospermums

These are annuals that I cannot do without every year. I think I want to get nothing but perinnials but that never happens.

I love the above photo! You can see how colorful these are and they do come in many colors. Each flower itself has so many colors in them and even the underneath has another color!

I purchased this wonderful flower called Stock in vintage peach, made a hanging basket with the peach osteospermums, vintage peach stock and sunset wizard coleus, it looks awesome! Here's a photo of the vintage peach Stock:

More Osteospermums to follow! I purchased peach, purple and white!

Flowers Part I

I think this is one of the prettiest Iris I've ever seen! It's called Chasing Rainbows and the colors are so pretty.

This isn't the best photo, but it's my other Iris. Purple is my favorite color so of course, I needed a purple Iris!It's such a rich, deep purple!

Finally!!

After three attempts, I finally got a bag/purse that I'm happy with the results! Remember the market tote? That was just okay, but I made a major mistake that I couldn't fix because I didn't realize it until after it was felted and the seams gave me grief.

Then, there was the purse I attempted that I won't even show anyone. Again, the seams were hideous. But the yarn didn't felt like I had hoped.

FINALLY! I did yet another purse and got advice on how to do the seams. Success! It's a bit on the small size, but I still love it!

These are the before photos above. Just about 12 inches wide! Now, let's see it after it was felted:

Now, it's about 8 inches wide! Here's where I need some advice. I received these beautiful felted flowers from Valerie at http://www.valeriesgallery.etsy.com/ I'd like to add these to the purse but am not sure where or how many to add. Any suggestions?

There's four flowers to pick from, two purples, a yellow and deep yellow. Give me some thoughts!

And, this was strange, when I went to get the flowers that I keep in the bowl that Valerie sent me, I realized the bowl and purse are just about identical in color! Wonder if we used the same yarn!