Pretty things around the house...

Wildflowers in the kitchen window

 A little angel on the front porch

This one has broken wings, but I can't bear to throw her away so she just sits in a wire basket on the front porch.

Beautiful flowers

Another broken angel. She used to sit in my kitchen window, but had fallen several times and broken her legs. We glued them at least twice. I moved her to a shelf in my dining room and the whole shelf fell and broke her legs again. So.... now she sits in dirt in a potted plant with her broken legs covered. I think she likes her new home.

Rusted = Pretty

Trying to get a close up of a snail

More  rusted goodness!

Country livin' in Texas......








~ Home Sweet Home ~

My life in the past few months

I finally got a USB cord to download about a million pictures from my camera. Since I haven't been posting blogs  for the past SEVERAL months, here's what I've been doing.....




My son got married!

One of my daughters went to college!

My grand-son turned 2!

 Runny nose and chocolate mouth :)

My youngest, who is 13, is almost as tall as me!






My other daughter is graduating in May and going to the same college as her sister!

Spent time with family! 

Me and my kids (the youngest is missing)

My bird, who I named Blu, turned green! :) 






I've been working on cleaning up my storage building and packing things away... hoping to sell our house soon!







I've been buying pretty things....  (love, love, love this owl bowl from HomeGoods)

....and thrifting (I'm in the process of spraying him red!)






and always taking pictures of pretty flowers/plants/trees!

(another pretty cup from HomeGoods)

I'm still here...

....just busy with life!

I got a Canon Rebel! Finally! I said one day I would have one and now I do. My husband gave it to me for Christmas. I'm still learning and experimenting with it.

Here are some random pics I've taken.   I played with some of them in PicMonkey

My daughter, Lydia, and my grand-son (her nephew), Bentley.

 My son, Ty, and his son.

Playing with bubbles.

 My son and his cute, little family :o)

Standing on my "birth stone" that my dad made for me.

He made one for all of his kids and grand-kids.



Maybe it won't take me 6 months to post again.

Goodwill Goodies

Here are some of my most recent goodwill finds....

Isn't he cute? My daughter has started collecting elephants. He was $2.00. I didn't realize it till I brought him home.... he's an Avon perfume bottle. The gold part is the lid... comes right off.  

 

This is for me. I thought it would look good in my laundry/mud room. ($2.)

... fits right in.

This little shelf was only $2 too. It had holes in the middle of each shelf so I filled them in and sanded them down. Now all I have to do is decide what color to paint it. I'm thinking a coat of turquoise and then a coat of white so the turquoise will show thru when I distress it.

Sneak peeks and mums....

The weather was so nice this morning so I got up and went straight to work....

for about an hour

and then it was hot.

So, I headed inside and did a little cleaning and watched "The Pioneer Woman" cooking show on the Food Network... love it!

I decided to do a little painting inside the house.

More sneaky peeks...

I picked up a little pot of purple mums from Wal-Mart for .99 ...



... dreaming of fall

so I can buy more cute little mums AND paint outside!