My House & Gardens ~ Part I

I know for my followers that it seems as if I have fallen off the face of the Earth.

I promise you that I am still here and feeling a bit guilty for not posting.

So what have I been doing?

I have been spending as much time as possible with my new granddaughter...


and doing a ton of my favorite thing...YardWork!

Can you believe that I love it? Well it shows and I thought I would share the

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The Re-Roofing of my Cupola

Remember seeing this beauty?







Well, two things happened.


1) After a couple of years with this plastic tinlook sheets that I used for roofing, began to fade and crack!


And 2) My birthday rolled around again. What that means is my Hubby does not give me gifts, he gives me himself for the day. I get to ask him to do whatever I want and he does it. So I asked him if we could re-roof the

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Glimpse of my patio and yard

It has been brought to my attention that you have not seen much of my yard and gardens this summer.


 
 So with that in mind, you can get a glimpse of the yard while I am showing you our new patio furniture.



 Once I sat in them at Sam's Club, I was hooked! We waited for them to go on sale and then bought them. I don't regret a minute of this decision.



The furniture is so comfortable and

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From Fountain to Pond

Remember this homemade bubbler fountain,

 right off our back patio?...





I made it by sinking a huge plastic tote in the ground, covering it with three barbecue grill grates and topping it off with rock and a rock-looking fiberglass form. 




That was after plumbing a hose connecting a fountain pump in the water. It was a nice sound but I longed for something louder, bigger...



Enter a

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For the love of pavers!

When something gets in



 my Hubby's head,



It's got to be done!



Whatever IT is!!





He has an attraction to old street pavers...









Hubby has been collecting these old pavers with words on them for a few years. His plan, to use them to build a patio. We have a cement patio, so no, not there. He was thinking out at the back of our yard under a tree where we have a swing on an

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Lavender Harvest

If you are like me, you love the smell of Lavender! I have one plant that has grown very large next to my driveway...


I cut it back and get loads of this...




Some for bundles, and some just loose buds...



Ahhhhh, the lovely smell!





These parties I love to link up to or check out my Blog Parties tab
Monday
Party Time @ It's So Very Cheri
Metamorphosis Monday @ Between Naps On The

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Garden Whimsy & Fairy Garden

Sit back and enjoy a bit of my 2013 garden whimsy!





Hen in the work boots is about to bloom!




 









Birdcage full of succulents







Vintage bicycle basket filled with greenery and an old dish




My little Fairy garden




See the chair, tiny birdbath and the watering can?







Unused Roller Skates get planted






These parties I love to link up to or check out my Blog

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Garden Teacup Chandy

Do you remember this teacup CANDLEIER that I made and did a post on last year? No?




I had stripped the old electric wires out of it, added these lovely teacups after painting the chandelier. I thought it came out lovely and put it in my antique mall booth.



And it didn't sell. I figured that people want electrified ones, since those sell in my booth. So I brought this one home.


I hung it

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Watermelon Slice Anyone?

I found a great piece to go with my famously painted Watermelon Propane Tank...


The lady that I paid $1 to for this watermelon slice said that, in 1970, a Sycamore tree was cut down and she kept this slice and painted it to look like a watermelon. Isn't it perfect in front of my propane tank?




These parties I love to link up to or check out my Blog Parties tab
Party Time @ It's So Very

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A Living Fence!

Several years ago, we planted some honeysuckle next to our back fence row. We purchased it from Lowes and it's called Hall's Honeysuckle and it's known for it's wonderful old-fashioned smell.






Hubby has made it his stress-releaving hobby to guide the vines in each direction.


And even built a way for the honeysuckle to arch over a gate and cute log cabin.


It smells so good when the

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Lavender and A Cardinal

It's harvest time here for my Lavender!


Dried and wrapped in old songbook pages!If you study this picture below, you will see a yellow painted birdcage hanging from a hook by our swing. As I was sitting out on the patio, I spied a red cardinal sitting on the hook and it just struck me as funny since it was by the birdcage. I was able to snap a quick picture.


These parties I love to link up

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Circle Garden Seating

If you haven't noticed...I have been gone from my blog, on vacation to Kansas and Oklahoma to see my son, and two of my sisters, one has a winery! But I am back now and thought that you might enjoy this...
I enjoy my yard so much. I love to be out in it when the days are warm and sunny. I like to see how many of the flowers are blooming, how green the weed-free grass is and I even love to mow

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