A lesson learned!

 I made a trip to Home Depot yesterday and found this pretty hanging plant. I fell in love with the planter more then the plant that was in it. I splurged and bought it for $40. Today I had to make a trip to Lowes and while looking around their garden center I saw they sold just the planter, so I went over to take a look. Guess what the price tag said $6.99!!! 

 I could have bought the planter and some flowers, and made my own for under $20! 

 At least I can save this pretty planter and reuse next year. I have this hanging under my back deck.

                     Have a super weekend!!

~Around theYard~

Come take a walk with me and I'll show you what's blooming around our yard. 
These pictures were all taken early this morning with the sun behind me.

 I found this cute little feeder the other day at the nursery and had to have it. I have no idea how my name popped up twice in this pic!

 This was the top of a birdbath that I had for years and after it broke I kept the top part of it. I love  the rusty patina it developed.

This next pic is the garden on the side our house. When we bought this house this area was all grass and my hubby came up with this design. We had the guy that does all our mason work add belgium block at the top near the property line. We did the rest. The three large bushes on the top that have not fully bloomed are crepe myrtles. My husband loves them. Here in the northeast we can only grow them as bushes, but we're happy with that! We have more on our pool deck, with red leaves.

 This is the area at the top part of our side garden, in the front of the house. I am so glad the developers that built this development left a lot of trees and didn't cut them all down when building the houses.

 By mid-summer the mums fill in all around this tree, to the point where you can't see the mulch anymore. It looks so pretty.

 Thanks so much for coming along! Now we can go inside to cool off and have a glass of iced tea:)

 

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A Table's Makeover & A New Painting

 While driving by one of our local antique shops a few weeks ago, I spotted this cute little table outside in the front of the store. Made a quick u-turn (thank goodness there was no cops around) and went to check it out. Don't mind our deck, this was before I stained it.

 Taking a closer look at the table you can see it was in pretty bad shape, but I had a vision and for $20 it came home with me.

 Surprisingly I didn't whip out the paint, instead I used this...

 And turned it into this...

  ...and that's the new painting that I just purchased from Linsey over @ The Farmhouse Porch
Linsey is an AMAZING artist and she has more of her beautiful paintings for sale on her blog.

 I just love my new painting! This one is called "Evening Clearing"

Some night shots.

  Hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!! 
                         Have a great week!

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A Busy Week!

Sorry I haven't made the rounds too much this week, I missed you guys! This was one crazy week with so much going on!! End of the year class trips, field day, the finishing up of state exams for my 2 oldest, it's nice that the kids have a 4 day weekend so we all can relax! Nothing like a pretty bunch of sunflowers to brighten the end of a crazy week.

             

               Have a super holiday weekend!!