Lots of cute things to see at Mary's house.
Lots of pretty things too.
You just never know what you'll find :)
Lots of cute things to see at Mary's house.
Lots of pretty things too.
You just never know what you'll find :)
What a fantastic holiday vacation I had! Managed to squeeze in oodles of fun. Unfortunately, I didn't photograph much of it since I was too busy having fun :)
There were lots of cute treasures here!
And the town was pretty as a picture.
I was so sad when the Old Buggy Factory closed down a couple of years ago. It was my favorite antique mall.
But I discovered this cool new one, The Shops at the IceHouse Underground, in Madison, Georgia that is crammed with groovy stuff. And they even had a friendly kitty greeter outside.
Part of the challenge of antiquing is to not buy every single thing that is cute. I left these sweet glasses behind! Ugh.
I adore this pretty setup.
I visited this shop before last year. Can't wait for another old junque shopping day out!
Happy New Year!
Took a quick trip out to Bartram Forest in Milledgeville this weekend.
The doggies enjoyed it a lot.
I loved the forest.
The dogs loved running around.
And the beautiful blue skies were really that blue.
Last year I wrote about the labyrinth out at the forest. Oodles more pictures of this trip over here.
Had a great time at the show!
Thanks to everyone who came by to say hi and take home their very own Fluffy Flowers creature.
I enjoyed meeting you all :)
If you weren't able to attend then head on over to my online shop where I'm having a huge Buy one Get One Free Sale.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the United States.
We're getting ready with oodles of food and fun. Happy Thanksgiving!
Come see the Fluffy Flowers creatures in person tomorrow at:
This was my booth from last year. Check out some of last year's vendor's here. And here is a complete list of who will be there this year. Y'all stop by and say hey and meet me and the creatures!
I can't believe it's nearly Thanksgiving.
The year has gone so quickly.
And we're still wearing short sleeves here.
But I imagine all that will change soon.
It feels like a change is coming.
I meant to tell y'all a while ago that I put some really cute Twirly Girls in my shop.
Each one is unique and has a colorful, pretty skirt.
I just love how cute they are!
It was a beautiful fall weekend. I spent nearly the entire time building my kitty cat army. I'm exhausted from it! I'll try to snap a photo of them today before they get packed up and ready for the Indie Craft Experience show. How was your weekend?
Y'all know I'm new to this gardening stuff, right? I barely know how to get a plant into the ground. Well, last year about this time we were visiting my mother in law in Dublin, Georgia and I saw the most beautiful blooming plant ever.
It had white and pink blooms on the same beautiful bush! Amazing.
"What is it?" I asked my mother in law.
"Confederate Rose" she responded.
"Wow" said I.
Wow, indeed. "I have to have some of that plant!" I screamed.
My mother in law is a kind and generous woman. She took me at my word and, on a visit a couple of months later, I found three long sticks in a five gallon bucket of water to take home. Three sticks. In a bucket of water. I thanked her profusely and dutifully carried the sticks home where I promptly stuck them on the back porch for about, oh, six weeks or so. I did add water to the bucket periodically.
You see, I had no earthly idea what to do with those darn sticks. How exactly does one deal with three long sticks in a bucket of water? She told me to plant them in the ground but somehow my brain just couldn't process that information. I mean, come on, how do I plant them in the ground? They're sticks! How deep? Where? Then what? You've probably figured out by the myriad of questions that ran through my mind that I was paralyzed with fear. I had no idea what to do!
Y'all can probably guess what happened next. Eventually my mother in law came for a visit to my house and there those sticks were, still in the bucket. I wasn't home at the time, but I heard from my sweetheart that she was none too pleased. Those sticks had to go into the ground. Soon!
Somehow I managed to gather my strength and resolve, along with a spade and that bucket of sticks, and get them planted in the ground. As I stood back to observe my handy work all I could think was, "this can't possibly work". But I spent the rest of the summer dutifully putting water on those jokers every single day. I was determined to make them live but if they did die I certainly didn't want to be faulted for lack of watering.
And then an amazing thing happened. Those sticks started to sprout! Eventually those sprouts turned into beautiful green leaves! It was a miracle I tell ya. Through out all of this sprouting period I dared not hope that the sticks would produce blooms. In fact, I chastised myself every time that stray hope wandered through my brain. Until one day while shopping the semiannual Master Gardener's Plant sale a couple of months ago I got to chatting with a lady about my sticks. She disagreed with me when I mentioned that I figured they wouldn't bloom this year. She told me to go home and look for buds.
Well folks, I'm here to tell ya I started to get a little hopeful and a wee tad excited. The next day I got out there with that lady's words ringing through my head and checked out each nook and cranny of those sticks and their sprouts. And lo and behold, I found flower buds. Wow! I was out there every day after that, marveling as bud after bud appeared on all three sticks. The dark cloud of doubt still hung over me as I watched those buds mature and realized that I would be out of town for a few days very soon. Would I miss the first bloom?!
Turns out that I didn't miss it at all. The first bloom popped out the day before I headed out of town. And what followed upon my return was a flush of plump, beautiful fluffy flowers that were beyond all of my hopes and dreams. It was nothing short of a miracle, I tell ya. And I am so utterly amazed by this entire wondrous process called gardening.