That is just the only way to title this post!  I have been busy all day getting ready for the big craft show on Saturday.  This show will be so much fun.  The theme is colonial times, so we’ll be dressed in long dresses and  bonnets, but I’ll still have to have my flip-flops.  That’s where […]

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One of my favorite little plants in the garden is a shamrock that I bought about five years ago.  I was not sure it would even survive the winters here, but it has surprised me by doing really well, year after year.
I went out this morning to walk through the garden and my shamrock was blooming.  […]

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Some of the birdbaths I make are pretty small in size.  I call these smaller mosaic birdbaths “butterfly baths” because they seem to be just right for insects and butterflies.  Yes, butterflies love water in the garden, too!

Actually, I was thrilled this morning to see a large dragonfly in the garden. 
This bath will be grouted tomorrow.

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and that would be salmon from a can.  But it’s okay!  I love salmon patties fried really crunchy.  Yum.  So that is for supper, along with some stir-fried snow peas (thank you to my really nice gardening neighbor for sharing snow peas) and some macaroni and cheese! 

This certainly qualifies as eating more green.
I was reading […]

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It was love at first sight!  I was in one of my favorite stores - GW Boutique (GoodWill ha ha) - and I saw it.  A little end table that someone had primed and painted pink.  I could just picture this table with a mosaic top and sitting at my bedside.  I dragged it to the register and […]

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I finished grouting some of the flower pots today.  I’ll have to do the rest tomorrow.  I was just too tired to do it all today.  Once you see what else I did, you’ll know why! 

You can see the pots on the left are lighter in color than on the right.  As the grout dries […]

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The Fallen Soldier
Consider, my friend, the one who has fallen.
For life and its freedoms to him once were calling.
Now silent he sleeps, his destiny sealed.
He laid down his life on life’s battlefield.
In youth something called him to go and to serve.
His place he embraced with his zeal and his nerve.
Whatever the reason, whatever his claim,
the […]

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I spent several hours this afternoon working on mosaic flower pots.  It was so relaxing.  Doesn’t feel like work!

Above you can see the pots sitting out in the sun where they dried pretty quickly.

After a while, I brought them in from the sun and put them on my potting bench — just in case it […]

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I have challenged myself to eat more green.  If you think about what people ate 200 years ago, I am sure it was not boxed, pre-packaged food full of white flour and refined sugar.  I am sure they would have looked at you like you were from Mars had you offered them some high-fructose corn syrup […]

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