It's Not Easy Being Green

My Mom came over while I was feeling sickly this week and brought 2 things.
Some light green mesh ribbon and some pipe cleaners.
I already had an old grapevine wreath.

She showed me how to make something really beautiful.

First you take the pipe cleaners and space them all around.

I think we used 12 of them and have them tucked behind the grapevines and

evenly spaced them around.

Then she took the mesh and started doing this with it.

And then some of this.

And you go around the wreath making one loop point toward the inside and one loop point toward the outside.

And then you go around the wreath one more time doing the opposite that you did before.

See?

It took her hands and mine to hold it down and she did all the fluffing.

And when it's all completed....

Wala! A beautiful spring wreath for the front door!

With this lime green color all the pollen will just blend right in!

Hope you like it!

It makes me smile when I come in the front door!

Jesus is risen!

Downtown

Our town has something pretty cool that happens on every Friday night before an FSU home football game.

The Downtown Get Down.

It's a great place to go for food and fun.

Here are some things I like about it.

Live music.

Jumping houses for the kiddoes.

Snow cones!

Nice for these first ones that are still in the summer heat.

Ohhhh....this booth smells terrific!

My favorite booth of all.

FUNNEL CAKES!

Woo-hoo!

Praise the Lord!

Yes, I ate it.

No, I'm not ashamed.

These things are AWESOME!

There are interviews with people.

These men serve our country in the Navy.

Thank you to them.

Fun give-aways for the little ones and even the not so little ones.

Peppers and onions!

Oh.....smells soooooo good!

Sausage dogs!

Yum!

People that chose to wear strange clothes.

The head football coach of the FSU Seminoles, Jimbo Fisher!

She is holding my prized possesion!

Baby girl gets to play in a giant sand box!

A girl who should be put on restrictions for wearing this out of the house.

Boys playing their music in the park.

Even a mermaid lady was there.

Cool!

And face painting for the kids.

How cute!

Love those painted on big teeth!

And baby girl got a balloon doggie.

And this was the sunset as we left to go home.

Beautiful!

So, if you are in Tally and need something to go on a Friday night.

Go to the Downtown Get Down

and get down, downtown!

You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman

What do you do when you have a yard sprinkler system and it's maybe an eyesore and looks like this and you just want your yard to be "ever so attractive"?

Well, you put a big box like this over it, right?

And then it just blends right in and no one would ever ever in a million years notice it.

NOT!

No, you go to the plastic rock store and you get yourself one of these!!!

Wow!

Or how about one like this?

And this one under the tree.

It just looks like it grew right out of the ground.

Oh so natural. I mean everytime I ride by, I think to myself , "wow...that rock just looks so natural." And then I giggle a little bit.

And a deep apology to all my neighbors for poking fun.

And a deep thank you to them also for making me enjoy my car rides by their homes.

Be Our Guest

I found this old lamp. It was headed for the trash. It's so old that the plug on it won't even fit in to the new house plugs. I was about to dump it and then a light bulb went off in my head. And let me tell you, that just doesn't happen everyday! Ha!

A couple of weeks ago, I was waited to have our pool water tested at Pinch a Penny and I saw these cool pool towel holders that they had for sale. I thought they were so cool! They were made out of PVC pipe and you could have all your towels hanging right there and then I thought,

50 dollars?

50 dollars??

Really?

Needless to say, I didn't get one. I thought to myself, I might could make one somehow. Then I totally forgot about it.

Until..........

This old, heavy brass lamp came into my life.

And I thought, hmmm.......pool towel holder?

Yes!

Pool towel holder!!!!

So, I took out the lamp parts and gave it a few coats of spray paint. And now, we have our very own and it works great, looks great and holds 4 towels.

My Grandprincess was napping while all this transpired and when she woke up and came outside she said..... "Oh, there's Lumiere!"

(You know, the candle stick from Beauty and the Beast.)

I loved it!

Our towel holder has the perfect name.

See him in action? He does his job very well!

So the next time you see something old and junky and are about to trash it, think outside the box a little and you may find something awesome inside there!

Colors of the Wind

With spring coming, the back porch furniture told me they thought they were needing some color. I thought that was a good move. So...the back porch color make-over project began. Funny, it hadn't rained in forever but, about the time we got everything set up to paint. Down came the rain. This was my Grannie Creels front porch furniture and she had it for a long time. Even before I was born. It was white and then when I inherited it, I painted it black. I was in a "spray- paint- everything- that -doesn't- have -legs- black" mood for a while.

Here I am on the front steps of my Grannies house when I was about 18 months old. I am the one in the middle with the cast on her leg. Yep, broke my leg. Still have that cast in storage. I know. Gross. I guess I'm attached to seeing how little I used to be. See the chair in the background? Same one that's about to get some new color.

I don't know who the boys were. Wow, even back then... all the boys just flocked around my sides. Ha! Some things just never change.

Some sanding.

A lot of spray paint. A lot. More than I thought.

And everything looks happy, fresh and new. What do you think?

It makes coming out to sit on the back porch a little more inviting.

Look at my little helper! She loves to sweep!

Now, if we can only stop the cats from pooping in all the plants. They are making it stink out there. Silly cats. Any dirt means a litter box to them.

Here's to spray paint and giving old furniture a new look! Hope you like it!

I really do.