Future Projects

I love to find a great deal on items that will become a project for me. Here are two items recently acquired for a whopping $3 total.

The old window was found at a booth at a Herb Festival in Wabash Indiana this summer. Two of my good friends also bought an old window to see what ideas we could come up with to decorate them. Maybe I will attach a window box (like the picture behind my blog title) or maybe I will insert a mirror in the two larger panels. All the glass was intact until we pulled the window from the car trunk and set it against the garage. It was just my luck that a big gust of wind would come along and blow the window over in my concrete driveway!!!!! So out came the broom and dust pan and we played clean up the broken glass. Now the window is resting against the banister in the guest room until I am ready to complete it. The glass in the smaller sections is still there thank goodness.

The wicker table was a FREE find. Driving down my alley, headed to work, I saw it in my neighbors trash. I called my husband, who was off work for the day, and asked him to go retrieve it for me. Being the honest type that he is, he knocked on the neighbors door and asked if he could take it. Their answer? "Why on earth would you want it? It needs painted and the top is not level!!!" So since that was the same as a "yes" the table was in our garage when I got home from work!!!!! I think I will just repaint it white and it will be a cute addition to the white wicker furniture on my front porch. That project won't get done until next spring or summer though.

Dreamy Day

Today is Wednesday, my day off, so I am just relaxing at the moment and dreaming a little. Since I love to decorate I often find pictures on-line of beautious things for the home. Wouldn't this make the best kitchen island?.................Shabby chic and antique looking.

Now that it is Fall and the garden has been put to rest for the long Winter, I am feeling confined to the inside and somewhat bored already. I totally love these greenhouses made from old windows. If I had one I could still be visiting some plant friends. hint hint.......anyone getting their Christmas shopping done and need ideas for their favorite Mandy?????????????????????????

Our Special House

I totally love my big, old house. It was built in 1900 and the most special thing is that this house has been in the family now for 61 years! Chris and I have lived here since 1993. We bought the house from my Mother and my aunt as this is the house they grew up in. My lovely grandparents lived here and took such good care of it. After my beloved Grandmother passed away in 1993, I couldn't even think of anyone moving into this house other than me and my husband. At that time, they had owned the house for 48 years. My grandfather and father installed the beautiful hardwood floors. Isn't that neat? I need to take some picures and will share them in the future. I don't even have a picture of the front of the house so I am sharing the back of the house from the garden.

Here is my 'red toile' kitchen when it was decorated for Christmas. I will also share more inside pictures of our special home soon.

Third Time is the Charm

Yes, I know this is the third post for the same day but I am learning how to do this so bare with me please and thank you. A couple weekends ago I made a dried flower wreath for my front door. All the flowers were grown in my garden. Wreaths are something I really enjoy making for myself and for gifts. Here are some more I have done.

Just Learning

OK.......it is going to take awhile for me to get the hang of this blogging page. The pix seem to go wherever they want and not where I want them. I went to NYC in May and absolutely loved the flea markets. I found this Monet picture at the Hell's Kitchen Flea Market and finally got it framed. The frame is from a yard sale and has been waiting on the perfect piece of art to fill it...........Isn't is pretty?

Blogging Day One

My plan is to share my interests to the world.....I LOVE gardening, interior decorating and rearranging, and making things from my dried herbs.

Every herb garden must have a cat or two and here are "my boys" Gunnar and Grayson.

Here is part of my herb garden also. It is a joy to work in the garden and smell the fragrant herbs.