Hope you all have been enjoying your weekend and keeping cool! We are having one hot & muggy summer here! I think garage & yards sales, and flowers are two of my very favorite things about this time of year! Already I am wondering what I will do for fun once summer is over with! Well, I am sure that I'll find lots of things to keep me busy, especially since I have been trying to stockpile
So I thought I would show you what few goodies I did manage to find, as well as some shots of what I have blooming around the yard.
These vintage wooden clothespins are my very favorite find of the week! I was so excited when I found them, and I quickly snatched up all three bundles at only 50 cents per bunch! I don't know what it is about vintage utilitarian stuff that is so appealing to me. I guess I really like how something so simple can be so attractive and charming, too!
I am a sucker for wooden organizers. At $2.00, I couldn't pass this one up! Guess the dust was free (yes, that's dust on top, lots of dust!). I am going to transform this puppy with some paint, a wooden applique, and a new nob.
I found this really neat iron trivet for only 10 cents! And I didn't realize that my toes were in the photo! Ooops :) While nice as is, you know me. I just have to paint it! And glaze it, too! I'm thinking either Heirloom White, or else aqua, not sure yet.
At the same sale, I found this cute garden marker for just a quarter.
I also found this tin planter (for lack of something better to call it) at the same place for only 50 cents.
She's going to get painted & decoupaged, probably with a great image from the Graphics Fairy!
Now for a few of my blooms!
I love daylilies. They are so easy and low maintenance!
Close up of balloon flower. They really are this blue!
I love sweet peas! They make me think of orchids, and look so pretty in little bouquets.
Ok, I am always saying "this is my favorite flower", about nearly all flowers, but purple coneflower really is one of my favorites! Looks like this honey bee loves it, too!
Bee balm. the hummingbirds really love it!
And yet another one of my favorites, black eyed Susan!
Hopefully we will get some much needed rain, soon, as I have been busy hauling the sprinkler around the yard to all of my thirsty plants!
8 comments:
Hi Donna,
You found some great stuff. I didn't do too well this weekend...oh well, there's always next time!
Love you flowers especially the cone flower with the bee!
hugs
Sissie
Your flowers are so pretty! I am going to be a better gardener next year! Great stuff. Love the tin planter!
Never saw a balloon flower before-gorgeous-and that bee balm looks absolutely elecric..you
take some great li'l snaps, Donna!
Let's see..white..aqua..white..aqua..love that wooden organizer!
Wow! I am loving that organizer for $2.00! That was a great find! Beautiful flowers :)
Great finds and low prices! Your flowers are so, so pretty and the colors so vivid, especially the balloon flower which looks like a blue star. You must water a lot as it has been so dry lately and no rain. Maybe tomorrow?!!
You have a beautiful yard and should be so proud of all your hard work. Hope we can send some rain your way we have had enough here in Iowa!
What fun finds and beautiful flowers. That dusty organizer could really use some TLC :).
Lovely finds!
Specially the organizer...
And lovely flowers, too!
DEBBIE MOSS
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