~MY WISH FOR YOU~

May the wind be always at your back..and may the road rise to meet you...
Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Love ALWAYS,

Mona

~SPRING ISN'T WAITING FOR ME...

Struggling here with the new blogger.  Guess it takes time and never having been great at reading directions, it's becoming obvious I am not the quickest to catch on.  Nothing new there!

Springtime.  It doesn't officially begin until the 20th of March..but it's fun to see everyone getting into the mood.  Such as...

Patient Husband tending the little lemon tree...mowing, weeding, bless his heart!!

..making sure every square inch is watered and fed..see that big Geranium?  $2.00 at a garage sale on Saturday...five gallon can..yep! :)  Isn't it pretty?

...busy as a bee...and all I could do was sit.  No activity for five days..so I couldn't even help him.

I will be back in action next week... (stupid angiogram kept me on the lawn swing temporarily and by the way...those are no fun!!  Thanks for the reassuring words from bj!)

And these two little beauties were fifty cents each...in plastic pots of course.  Not a bad deal..those are really easy to raise though..but I liked them.

The Saturday before I bought this old galvanized bucket full of plants at a garage sale.  They are all so healthy that I couldn't resist it.  Just three dollars!  Worth every cent, don't you think?  One day it will be just gorgeous!

The lady that sold me the large geranium in the big five gallon can also sold me this one.  The two small succulants, this plant of an unknown variety were all just $5.00!!  She had painted the five gallon cans different colors at some time and they were old and I didn't mind one bit.  But...WHAT on earth IS this plant??  The leaves are ..sort of rubbery.  It blooms because you can see evidence of past blooms still.  (Sheesh,  I hope it isn't poison!  :)

See all those little plants? Garage sales! :) Poor little plant needs repotting badly!  Soon!

The chairs...plants, pots..little picket fence hides gardening tools (almost!) ALL from garage sales!

Is that a loose little picket I see???  Hmmmmm?

Coffee table (even with the glass top), froggy, plant with pot..everything..is from garage sales.  Spray paint does wonders, doesn't it? 

Talk about your "second hand rose"...goodness! 

No garage sales this Saturday.  We are expecting a BIG storm all weekend.  *extremely heavy sigh*

:)

Buncha hugs and lotsa love!!

Mona

(are you still here???  lol  Long post, huh.  I sorta got carried away there!)

~BETTER EARLY THAN LATE?~

Right out of my garden!! 
I was just thinking..perhaps I'm a wee early with the Easter header, however I am so inept that I couldn't figure out how to do it myself so I had someone do it for me. 

Its an old Easter header that another blogger did for me a couple of years ago when I first began blogging.  Her name is Debbi and she is at http://cgtreasures.blogspot.com  A very talented lady.

Another neat lady that does headers and is very talented and did my previous one, is Di at The Blue Ridge Gal.  She has done a couple of headers for me and I loved them.  Each has a different style and both are wonderful. 
So..are you tempted to get your Easter bunnies out??  ME TOO!!  I figured it takes me forever to get all decked out so..why not start NOW!! 

All of them were garage sale finds.  All of them came home dirty and wondering where their next meal was coming from!  Ok..maybe it wasn't THAT bad, but they were terribly dirty!  Isn't it amazing what a little soap and water will do?

I found this little lop earred guy in a flower bed covered with mud.  I paid very little for these bunnies and they never get put away.  They are tucked into corners but for Easter they will have be the center of attention.  It is their time to shine!!

???  :)

Anyway...so back to the subject..is it too early or are you one of those that is sick of seeing holiday things by the time the holiday gets here. 
(Never mind Di, I already know your answer!  LOL )

I cannot..believe that tomorrow is another "garage sale" day!! 
On the way home today we stopped at a garage sale and I passed on a big white froggy.  So in the morning..I am going back to see if he is still there.  :)


Have a wonderful weekend..I love ya!
Mona

~NOT A BAD SATURDAY'S SHOPPING TRIP..

Well, of course Saturday was garage sale day but didn't come up with a whole lot. Besides, we were both coming down with colds so it was a very short morning.
Poor Patient Husbands voice was unrecognizable! Would he stay home? NO!!

I did find something a bit interesting and wondered if you might know what it was used for.



It isn't a curtain..but it is fairly long as you can see.

Whatever it is, think it is lovely. It seems to be specially made for something. I thought perhaps an alter cloth? Any idea's? Just a tiny seam is at the oposite end..The plain white fabric is very soft and delicate. Price was $2.00.

Next I found a pair of sconses. Extremely heavy! No glass shades came with them but since I collect shades for such things and have a shelf of them in the garage, it was no problem at all finding a set to fit them. See? A tiny bit of hoarding can be a good thing. Maybe? :)

Sorry these pictures are so bad.

I have no idea what they are made of but they are not silver. They are beautifully made. We had to drill into the morter as I didn't really want to drill into the brick.

I think we hung them a wee high and a wee wide..but that can be fixed...someday. What a pain it was trying to figure out where to put them. They are just too high to suit me...

They cost me $3.00 for the pair. Not bad at all.

This 13 inch tall tin pitcher with an embossed leaf on the side. My favorite butter yellow and so perfect for a spring bouquet. 25 cents.

And last of all, two novels by John Grisham, one of my favorite authors. Price? 25 cents each and I don't think they have ever been opened.

By this time we were ready for our coffee, juice, hotcakes and eggs at our favorite little Lucky Greek restaurant where the owner, Tony, always wants to know what we found, sits with us and chats it up for awhile.

Total for the mornings shopping.. $5.75

And that was our Saturday morning.

Love and hugs,

Mona

*cough *cough and *sniff *sniff.......