Garage Sale Treasures

Hello everyone.  Last Saturday I went to a garage sale at a storage unit in south Oklahoma City.  Now this is the way to garage sale.  There must have been 40 units that were selling old treasures.  The one thing I learned is to bring a piece of rolling luggage next time to store all the treasures I buy.  Wow, they get heavy.  Here are the items I bought.

The floral tea cup is from Germany and the white tea cup is from England.  2 for $1

I just loved this terra cotta pot.  It actually has a hole in the bottom so I can use it outside as a flower pot.  It was $1.

This is what I call a covered cheese plate. $1

I found 3 quilt books.

These books are brand new.  $1 each...can't beat that.

2 Mikasa crystal candle vases $2

This is a 2 piece flower vase.  Each vile holds a single flower stem, 35 stems total.  $3

This is a beautiful silver tray.  It has a few spots on it but looks great with a doily in the center.  And guess what?  This tray was only $1

So I spent $12 for all of this at the storage unit sale. 

Next my little community was having a city-wide garage sale.  By this time is was around 2pm, a little late in the day for a garage sale.  But there were more treasures to be found.

My daughter LOVES Hello Kitty.  I found this Christmas ornament for her for 75 cents.  Love it!!

6 skeins of yarn $3

4 containers that I will use for quilt projects.  They are big enough to hold the quilt books I bought or the skeins of yarn or several yards of fabric.  $2 for all 4

What a great day. 

Until next time,

 

Kaleidoscope Blooms

I love creating kaleidoscopes.  Here are a few I created using photographs of the flowers in my yard.

Columbines

Daffodils

Rose Buds

Roses

Shasta Daisys with Gazing Ball

Spirea

I think the Shasta Daisys with gazing ball is my favorite.  It looks like something from a science fiction movie.  Which one do you like?

Until next time,

Mosaic Blooms

Hi everyone.  Today I am sharing a few mosaics I created using pictures I took this week in the yard.

Shasta Daisys, Bridal Wreath, Clematis and Weigela

Knockout roses and Miniature roses

Peonies, Columbines and Iris

Until next time,

Rainy Day Garden

Hello from rainy Oklahoma. We are getting a wonderful slow rain today.  It is a good day to snap a few pictures of the yard while the sun is behind the clouds.  I didn't stage any of these pictures so you will see cushion less yard chairs and hoses and a few weeds.  What can I say....it's raining! 

The Front Yard

The Back Yard and Patio Area

This is where I grow my herbs, basil, dill and thyme.  We hope to open the pool around May 15th. 

The trailer is loaded with compost/top soil, ready to be spread when the rain stops. 

The pond is still covered.  I try to keep as many leaves out as possible.  You can see how they stack up around it and I have raked them out once...ugh.

The Potager

I have my vegetables and roses planted in the raised beds.  Flowers area planted in the border around the fence.  It's about time for me to trim the boxwood hedges. 

I took this picture last week.  It is a view through the raised beds of the newly planted tomatoes, peppers and zucchini.  The black tubing is the drip irrigation system that I have weaving all through the beds.  It will be covered with mulch as soon as the rains stop.  

Thanks for visiting.  Until next time,

 

French Fries and Katydid

About a week ago my blogging friend Katydid over at Katydids Kountry Life wrote a post called "I've Been Framed".   She showed a creative way of using a wooden frame.  I thought I would show what I did using an old dresser mirror frame. 

I bought the frame and mirror at an estate sale for $7.  I removed the mirror and hung the frame in my entry way.  In the middle I hung my favorite saying...

You can see Katydids post by clicking here. 

Every spring my daughter will come to the house and say "Mom, you have french fries growing on your house"!!

The french fries are actually seed pods from our maple tree.  They fall this time of year and get caught in the screen on the guttering.  Now I need to get out the ladder and pull all those french fries out. 

The bridal wreath spirea has started blooming this week.

And the fronds from my Cinnamon Fern are starting to open.  This plant will be 3 foot tall and 3 foot wide by the end of the summer.  

This is the first little frog I have seen this year.  He decided to rest on the rim of a pot of hostas. 

Until next time,

New Elephant Exhibit at the OKC Zoo

Around mid-March the Oklahoma City Zoo opened a new exhibit that houses their elephants.  Because of the crowds my mother and I visited the exhibit after it had been opened a few weeks.  Here are a few of the pictures I took using my IPhone.

When you first walk into the pavilion there is a covered seating area and stage where the elephants "perform" once a day.  I snapped my Mothers picture standing at the top of the stadium area.

This is a huge complex.  There is an area where the elephants can be kept inside including a large indoor play area for them.  One of the elephants is pregnant and the baby will be born soon.  It appears they have all the medical equipment needed for the birth.  Everything is accessible by ramps. 

The elephants have a big pond to cool off in during the heat of our summers.

There is a tall water fall that flows down into the pond.  You can see the elephants in the background.  They have a lot of room to roam.

I took this picture in the Oklahoma Trails exhibit.  There is simply a piece of glass between me and the cougar.  It looks like he is walking right through the glass but he is actually turning a corner. 

I am partial but the OKC zoo is a great zoo.  There are so many areas where you are literally standing next to a wild animal.  How often can you get this close to a bear and still be safe?

This is my attempt at a self portrait of me and mother.  We are a little wind blown as it has been terribly windy lately.  So from windy Oklahoma we say "so long for now".

Until next time,

It is already getting hot!!

April 3rd and it is already 90 degrees.  This is not a good sign of what's to come this summer.  Spring is in bloom or starting to bloom.  Here are a few pictures I took in the garden this week.

It is extremely dry here, oh my we need some rain.   I have start running the drip irrigation in the potager.  The peonies are in bud, soon to be in full bloom.

The bleeding heart is blooming.  I just love this flower.

For the last 2-3 weeks the red bud trees have been blooming. 

The chives are starting to bloom. 

This is a Oak leaf Hydrangea that is just starting to leaf out. 

Ajuga is a very low growing perennial ground cover that blooms each spring.

The Japanese Maple leaves are crimson red (Go Sooners) and yes that is frost on the leaves. 

It is amazing a plant can survive when the weather increases or decreases by 40 degrees in 1 day!

Until next time,