Category: great idea?

Where I find the coolest vases…for cheap!

I find the most amazing vases–at Homegoods or T.J. Maxx. But you do not find them among the vases, you find them with the oils with the sticks…forget what they call that. After the oil disappears, I rinse & then run the glass, the oil came in, in the dishwasher. You cannot find vases like…

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Painting dragons

I found the Hobbit map on the internet & I copied it onto card stock. The dragon–I drew it onto thick card stock & painted it with nail polish. This is a very smelly art project & one I would only recommend for adults, due the nail polish smell. The end result will have people…

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My new baby pink…

Hydrangea. I found this hydrangea at leaf & Petal, on the clearance shelf, this spring. The flowers were starting to brown & it had lost most of it’s leaves. Putting it into the ground was a bit of a gamble, but I figured it was spring & maybe it would know what to do on…

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Even in your imperfection…

You still dazzle me. Cosmos appear so delicate, but they are very tough, very much like a woman. So cover me in cosmos, mostly white, sprinkle Queen Anne’s lace blossoms on me, just enough to make me sneeze them back up in the air, so I can watch them fall like snow flakes.

I am not kidding

He held it just so. My son has a talent, in case he ever wants to run off & join the circus. I don’t like clowns though.

Candy!!!!

but when I got close enough to see the gum balls they had all melted together & it was such a traumatic site, I don’t think I’ll ever look at gum balls the same way again. 🙂

an AMAZING IDEA FOR BLOGGERS

did I get your attention? I learn a lot from bloggers about gardening, cutting fresh flowers, photography etc My desk is a pile of notes EVERYWHERE, post it, pads students have given me. When I write, part of me knows I will never find what I’m looking for & when my desk has not one…

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Living in rural Vermont

When my twin brother & I picked flowers for my mother, it was dandelions, red clover & Queen Ann’s Lace.  On the way back from the lake yesterday, I stopped & cut some flowers from the side of the road for me.