Salutations! Another beautiful day here, blogging in with day two of sunny garden days. Do you remember those delicate, sweet primroses from the toolbox centerpiece? Here they are in the garden along with a bright pink knockout rose bush and our concrete birdbath. The mountain mint is growing tall in the background, that stuff will take over when your not looking!
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Salutations! Okay, I just can’t resist. We are headed into a week of absolutely gorgeous weather. I can’t stand it, it’s so beautiful outside. So I’m celebrating with a week of sunny garden days. It starts today and will run for the next three days featuring the garden and casual floral arrangements using blooms from the garden.
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Can you feel it? The birds are chirping, the sun is shining, and the people are smiling! Ahh … Spring is in the air. And it has made its way into our little cottage.
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Bringing the outdoors in… I brought in these chippy clay pots from the back garden after I finished painting and distressing the dining table. I think they are going to be so fun to have in the dining room, with these violas, maybe paper whites at Christmastime, or cut flowers when the garden starts to bloom. These violas will love it inside until it warms up some outdoors. Until then, the dining room is smelling delicious. Violas can thrive in […]
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I’ve been adding in a touch of Spring even though Spring isn’t quite here. If you can buy a bikini at Target in early March, I think its okay for me to have purple tulips on the mantle.
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Well, I didn’t totally chicken out, only halfway! My original plan for our dining room was to paint the table creamy white and the hutch robins egg blue. I painted and distressed the dining table and even ventured out and had the robins egg blue paint made. In between buying the blue paint and getting around to painting our hutch, I went to an open house in our neighborhood. No, we are not looking to move, but I have no […]
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It’s just paint, right? If I had a dollar for every time those words fell out of my mouth I would be one Etsy shopping lady! I’ve been considering painting the dining room table and the china cabinet, the cabinet possibly the robin’s egg blue color of the candlestick pictured. So I guess you can consider this a before picture, unless I chicken out. Robin’s egg blue is one of those colors I’ve always oohed and aahed over, I’m glad […]
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