Garden Dreaming

Have you caught the Spring fever yet? I have...I am so ready to get busy outside. This year it is gonna require more than buying a few flats of flowers. Those Pics above are front last Summer. Our new back yard is mostly bear...which is good in a way, I like to work with a clean slate. We plan to build a workshop, put in a lot of wood fence and...and well the list is long. So in the mean time I will dream and plan. These are some great places of inspiration...ENJOY!


Dream Garden
Back in Thyme

Twigs Prim Garden

Primkarlee

Amylea

Buttermilkcupboard

Sweet Annie and More!

I am trying a new way I found to preserve my Sweet Annie. I used to cut it and dry it upside down...but it sheds and just does not look as good as other peoples.
So, you stick it in a solution of mineral oil and citric acid for 3-4 days....

...and then hang it up to dry for a few weeks. Have any of you tried this or something else? I'll see how this works out.


Here's a few things I have made in the last few days...

Prairie Clutch Dolls, I made three & already sold one!

Hoot the owl, some big candy corn ornies and two candles I grudged like I did the pumpkin last week. *when doing this you don't have to use beeswax, use paraffin or melt old candles

And some Primitive farm animals!


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Now I have to get ready to go to Golsboro...my son still has to get a bookbag and he needs a haircut! I already warned Mary-Kate not to even look at anything to wear or anything for that matter....she has gotten PLENTY!
Well maybe I will get by my thrift stores and I always need something from Michaels!
Have a great Monday!

My Bottle Tree

When I discovered that this tree was dead,I mentioned to my husband that I wanted to make it a bottle tree. He said, "what do you mean, a bottle tree"? I explained that you hang empty bottles in the tree, and I showed him a picture in a magazine. He said in his most manly voice "YOU ARE NOT PUTTING BOTTLES IN THE TREE"! Well, I guess you see how that turned out.
In case you are wondering why anybody would ever start putting bottles in trees...
it seems that it all started with people believing they could capture evil spirits and "haints" in the bottles. So there you have it...they look pretty,make use of a dead tree, recycling bottles and from time to time I might catch a "haint" before it can even get up my driveway.