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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Birthday Flowers. . .

I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date! How could I forget Pink Saturday’s 4th birthday?

Here are some flowers for you dear Pink.

Peonies

rose

Clematis

Foxgloves

Jupiters Beard

Bleeding Heart

Soapwart

Snapdragons

Sea Thrift

And last of all, Pinks!

I have only been sharing with Beverly and Pink Saturday for a year now. so happy to have found her.

These pictures were taken this morning from my garden to say ‘Happy Birthday”!

No matter what shade, shape or form, PINK is just pretty!

Hugs,

Jann

Sharing my Pinks with:

How Sweet the Sound for Pink Saturday's Fourth Birthday

Friday, May 25, 2012

If I have to weed. . .

If I have to weed, let it be in the herb garden!

This picture shows my shade garden with my herb garden starting beyond the tri color beech tree.

After all, weeding is ‘mint’ to be fun.

I really don’t mind weeding, just something about getting my hands into that dirt.

Hubby doesn’t share the same passion. And can’t quite understand mine.

Weeding in the herb garden is an aromatic experience.

Chives, Nepetia (catmint), Thyme, sage, and Comfrey all greet me with a wonderful scent.

I keep my mint in an old mop bucket to keep it from playing havoc in the garden.

Lemon Balm and Marjoram have almost completely buried my old hand plow.

Do you think my Rhubarb is a bit seedy?

Best get busy making a pie or cobbler don’t you think?

Hugs,

Jann

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Share Your Cup Thursday #10

Welcome to ‘Share Your Cup’. The place to share with others what ever it is that makes you happy, (fills your cup).

Sorry that I am late at posting this. My internet was down. You don’t want to know why. lol! (In other words, I accidently pulled the wrong plug in the basement. Thought I was unplugging a saw.)

Each week you amaze me with your incredible talents.

With Memorial weekend approaching my thoughts have been on my beloved family and friends that have passed on.

I wanted to share a picture of two of my Iris that were starts from my dear mother. It was from her that I developed a love of gardening.

This weeks fabulous features:

Wouldn’t you love your kids to have a super teacher like Sweet Bee from Sweet Bee Cottage? Be sure and check out this post and see what other marvelous projects her students made. Wonder if they call her Mrs. Bee?

My new little Swedish friend, Pernilla lives in Australia. She has been RED-ying her house for winter. Yes, it’s winter in Australia. Love her darling vignette. Visit her at Swedish Corner Down Under.

Summer is just around the corner. Look at this cute picnic blanket made by Connie from Hot Flash n Craft n. It is made from a tablecloth and she gives a great tutorial.

Look at this beautiful tea set up by Two Cottage and Tea. It was still too cold to have it outdoors so she sipped by the window. I love this chippy blue chair!

I’m sure that many of you are familiar with this next blog. Courtney from French Country Cottage has been inspiring me for a year now. Her blog was one of the first I discovered when I began blog hopping. She has amazing talent. I love the look she created by removing some of the doors on her kitchen cabinets. Go visit her to see the rest of this gorgeous kitchen.

Thanks everyone for sharing last week and please grab my button if you were featured.

Now I can’t wait to see what filled your cup this week!

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Monday, May 21, 2012

Fancying up my Feeder. . .

Hi friends, do you remember a couple of weeks ago when I showed you this tall chicken feeder I bought from my friend, Dolly’s Aunt Bunny?

She was kind of a plain Jane and I knew she needed something to make her a little bit fancy.

Well look at her now!

One of my favorite magazines is Country Gardens. It’s one of those that you never tire of no matter how old. I never throw an issue away.

It only comes four times a year. Every now and then I pull out back issues and just enjoy. While browsing through an old ‘2008’ issue I saw this. . .

Immediately I thought, that is just like my feeder only fancier. I had to give my girl a make over. I didn’t have a checkered board stencil so I cut a square out of cardstock with my large square punch and it worked great. I wasn’t going for perfection here. In fact, I wanted to be a bit imperfect.

I used what alphabet stencils I had so my lettering is a bit different.

Using stuff I already had around the house this project cost me chicken feed.

And who knew that Purina did more than feed cats and dogs?

I didn’t copy everything that was on the one in the magazine, but I love the new look!

It found a home on my wall behind the pergola next to a few other tin buddies.

What fun projects have you been doing lately?

Hugs,

Jann

I’ll be sharing with:

Coastal Charm for Nifty Thrifty Tuesday

Kathe with an E for You're Gonna Love It Tuesday

Cozy Home Scenes for Cozy Home Party

Knick of Time Tuesday

It's a Very Cherry World for Rednesday

Very Merry Vintage Style for Share the Love Wednesday

Coloradolady for Vintage Thingie Thursday

Brambleberry Cottage for Time Travel Thursday

Happy Hour Projects for Happy Hour Friday

Common Ground for Vintage Inspiration Friday

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Everything is Coming Up Roses!

Ever since Mother’s Day the Olson gardens are seeming to be a bit more rosy.

Last Fall hubby installed a rustic metal fence in the East corner of our yard. Originally I bought the shabby white fence to go behind our pergola. Soon I realized that it was just too much. I thought that I could use it for a vegetable garden.

This is my engineer hubby’s way of rigging it up to stay straight in the concrete.

Well, a girl’s got a right to change her mind.

The more I looked at the area the more I thought, rose garden.

Each of my 5 children gave me a rose bush for Mother’s Day.

I bought 6 more roses and this is the results.

The bushes are small, and there are a lot that haven’t bloomed yet, but oh, how lovely it soon will be. Especially in years to come.

The roses that are blooming are gorgeous! The kids gave me a good variety.

We had an extra piece of fencing so I placed it like an open gate.

I planted Sweet Peas all along it.

Side view of my new rose garden. We installed the two birdhouses last year.

Did you notice that I didn’t totally do away with the vegetable garden idea?

At the end that connects to our rock wall hubby tiered me a couple of levels for vegetables. I also plant some veggies here and there on the rock wall. Aren’t you happy to know that we will still be eating healthy?

Last year with the help of my sister and a friend I made five different concrete and broken glass stepping stones. I placed three of them up the center of the garden and planted some moss to soften them.