GARDEN FAIRIES

Working on this fairy project now…old cigar box…I have a few of these hanging around…I sprayed it black…you can paint it any color you want….right click on the pic’s to get a better look.
I used an old children's fairy book pages for the back ground and the edges….I can not remember what it was...click on this pic to see those sweet little bunnie fairys...
On the edges I cut the paper and put some puffy paint between. Either I am out of practice or I am getting old…was a little shaky trying to get a straight line. Used decopodge to do all the papers.
Here is some of the fairy related items I have gathered up to do this project. I need more!! I am going to make some faires using pic of vintage people women and kids mostly and put some butterfly wings on them… from an old butterfly book…to make more fairies. After looking around I got so many ideas to make these boxes using trays, printer trays, cigar boxes…looking for other ideas on things I could use instead of the trays and boxes…they are getting hard to find.

Here is amost finished sewing box. There is a lot more you could put in here…when selling these I have to come up with some way to tell people what they can do with them….Haven’t worked on much this week…had one of the RVWomen gals come to visit. She stayed at Wickham Park campground and I went over during the day and we had fun doing a few things and doing a lot of yaking. Her dog is a small dog with the name “Maggie” lol…that was fun…Been think about my trip north this year…besides working on the house and doc appointments…there are a few other things I want to do…hope I can get it all done…
all for now thanks for looking and come back soon
blessings donna

VTT,ANTIQUE SHOW & CACHE OF THE DAY

ANTIQUE SHOW

VINTAGE ENAMEL PINS

VINTAGE RHINESTONE PINS

CACHE AREA

THE CACHE BISON TUBE WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FLORIDA: Temp 65 lot of nasty storms last nite. But nice today sun/clouds and breezy.

Went to an antique show last Friday, and found some vintage pins to show for my VTT. They are not mine but I am pretty much vintage items, might have a few more in PA. I will find them this summer when I clean out. I did find some pic's on my puter of some vintage that I sold on ebay a few years ago so I will use those also. I am trying to clean up my puter for more disk space and found them. So back to the pins, this lady (Lori) had such neat vintage stuff. When I seen how she had the pins displayed I just had to ask if I could take some pic's for my blog. She is not into blog so I told her about them and how to find this blog on google. The first pic is of enamel pins displayed on a denim jacket. The jacket made the perfect display! You can click in the pic to make them bigger. The second one is vintage rhinestone pins displayed on a black jacket, I think it might have been velvet not sure. Very nice lady and she had some great stuff.

The show was nice, high end antique show with high prices. I often wonder how much they sell at the shows now days. I did see some sales being made but not many. Even tho there was lot of peeps there.

Made me miss my store. :(

The geocache of the day we found a while ago. Was pretty easy, the hint was something about diamonds, so when I pulled up to the site, was not hard to figure out. Click on the pic and see the diamonds close up. Walked up to then and it was just hanging there. The end of a dead end road.

Yesterday I worked on my altered art. Trying some new technique's. I tried to do a gel medium transfer, I got the technique down right but it did not come out to good. I started a page in my learning journal. No pic's yet not enough done on it. Will show you soon.

Maggie is acting strange again I don't know what it is with her, other than she is a sensitive and emotional puppy. People say dogs cant be like that, but believe me they can, they don't know the Papillon Princess Maggie!!

Forgot to redo my AAA so did that today, and went to Tractor Supply got Maggie her Front Line Plus, it is $20 cheaper there than Pet Smart. Went to my new bank down here, made a deposit.

I put myself on a budget, so I can start saving some $$ I still have expenses to pay in PA like house stuff, so I need to be care full, and besides that I need a new puter and printer. So need to save for that.

The tomato plants took a big hit with the cold weather even tho they were covered. So I ask dad if he was going to plant more, he said no, that he never did for the summer. Well I said its a long way to summer so I thought I would buy a couple of larger plants already started. Mr. Tight Wad said they cost to much , I says I'm not buy a bunch (like he has planted now) just a few. I said with the frame you have for your frost covers, I could put up something to use to shade them when it gets hot here. So low and behold didn't he come dragging a tomato pot home the other day.

I said I thought you said they cost to much.....he lol and said this pot had two in it so I got it. Like 1/2 price. LOL I am going to get a couple more.

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Blessings

G&M

YESTERDAY & CACHE OF THE DAY

DIGGING OUT: Yesterday working out in the back yard. These aloe plants seem to grow wild down here. When dad first moved here 15 years ago he said there were hundreds of these in the back yard. He dug out several hindered and put them out for the trash man. He said some guy in a pick up came along and took them all! I bet he was going to sell them to some nursery. Any way there is still this bunch that keep growing back. This is whats left after I dug out 1/2 of them. I am going to dig a few more out this year. And keep a few. Good thing about digging in Florida is it is all sand! But these guys have big roots like a yucca plant has, you have to cut them with the shovel. If anyone is around I would be glad to give you some. Also started to clean off the patio so we can power wash it and clean the patio furniture. More on the project next post.

SAW YESTERDAY: Saw this guy yesterday when Maggie and I were taking a walk at our local park, I think I have posted pic's of this park in my other blog, I might still post some here. I don't know what he is, but he sure was pretty and cool to see. He would not let me get to close, so with my cheapo camera this is the best I could do. I want a camera like Judy and Emma , not that I could take great pic's like she does!
AT PARK WALKING MAGGIE

ANOTHER PARK FOUND CACHE: This is another one of those parks located all over Melbourne. This one had a cache hiding in a tree. The GPS took us right to the spot all I had to do was locate it. Looked all over down low then looked up and there it was hiding in a tree. I just love these little parks and they all seem to have a cache n them. If it wasn't for geocaching I would never know the were here.

HIDING CACHE

THE CACHE WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FL. Woke up to sunshine and warm this am. Temp 70's. By late after noon clouds started to roll in. Getting storms over nite and into tomorrow.

I still am going to the gym every morning, and trying to watch what I eat. Just going for a week has made a difference in my energy level, I cant believe how good I am feeling already. Now to lose this fat. lol

Well thats all for now thanks for stopping and come back soon.

Blessings to all

Donna & Maggie too.

I see PA is going to get some snow tonite.....sorry ....lol lol

MORE LOOT & CACHE OF THE DAY

OLD ALMANAC'S : Here are a couple of old almanac's I picked up at a flea market this summer in PA. I paid more than I normally would but hope to make my money back selling on Esty and then get to use part of them on my own altered art. I have seen them since for a lot more than I paid so maybe I did get an ok deal. They are from 1912 and 1949. I was looking for one from 1945 the year I was born, but no luck.

WHEELED CART: This is the cart I got at a yard sale the other day. It was only $5 I got a good deal here that's for sure! It has wheels and is in like new condition. It seems like I get a lot of good stuff for $5. Dad always ask me when I get home what did I get for $5 today. lol I got some card board at WM to put on the shelves. They are those boxes that they have under a display of cans, like soup, like these were. I just condense a couple so I can get the box. I said in my last post how I was going to use it. I am really pleased with it!

CART

PARK CACHE

THE CACHE WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FL. Weather today was not so good. Warm 70's but had storms with tornado warnings all afternoon. I think we got about an inch of rain.

The cache today was found last week in one of those parks that seem to be around every Conner here in Melbourne. I love them. You can stop and enjoy them at anytime. This day we went out caching there were 5 caches we found in these 5 little parks. There is one little park by WM that I stop at often just to sit and watch the birds and eat lunch. The other day (didn't have camera again) one brave little Ibis bird jumped right on my hood and was look at me face to face, I think he has a habit of doing this, as he was not afraid at all. He was a little different than the others as he had a lot of brown feathers.

Any way back to the cache this was an easy find, GPS took me right to it, but I had to wait out a couple muggles with kids playing on swings. But it is nice in these parks so Maggie and I walked around checking it out.

I really need to start taking my camera with me all the time. Like this am when taking Maggie out for her business walk, right over the tree tops in front of my face there was a large bird carrying a fish in his claws. Now how often do you see that while walking on your street. Not in Pa that's for sure. I can not tell you what kind of bird it was, 1. I don't know my birds, and 2. I could not see it against the sky that well.

Went to the gym today and really glad I signed up. I only have been going since last Friday and I already like the way I feel. Its great! I only live about 1 mile away so I think will go everyday. I do a 30 min work out that they have set up. Makes it easy you don't have to figure out what machines and what order to use them. It is all laid out for you. I just have to remember how many lbs on which machines.

Well that's all for now thanks for taking a look and come back soon.

Blessings to all

Donna & Maggie too