A WALK THRU MY BLUE BOTTLE GARDEN

The old yellow wheelbarrow is in the middle of my garden. I love the color and the spray of blue bottles and the little greeting!

I have collected blue bottles for years and enjoy them on trees, rebar stakes and  just laying around.

An artist friend of mine originally from  Australia mention that the Bower Birds would love my garden! Seems they collect stray pieces of blue for their Bower to entice a mate!  So I had to create my own version!

I am drawn to crosses outside and inside!

I love using pieces of broken pottery and colored rocks in the pathways!

This is my SPRING flag. I change with the seasons.

My faeries like blue too!

Blue pans as well as bottles get hung!

I usually select something for my garden from a Garden Center for Mothers Day. This beautiful blue and white pot was one years gift.

I like broken clay pots hid here and there too!

Little surprises here and there! My Wisteria has big buds so won't be long!

"Come sit a spell" Invites the birds to perch!

I hardly ever pass up and old bird house at a garage sale, antique store or thrift store!

The flowers on this stepping stone were originally pink but of course they had to be BLUE in my garden!

I enjoy picking up colorful flower pots and saucers and birds to stack as garden sculptures.

This "FLOWER BED" is run over by Pink Flamingos. I planted a bleeding heart and Columbine plants in there this year, plus Heavenly Blue Morning Glory Seeds. We will see!

These blue bottles are hung by the round table covered with a blue cloth and chairs in a little seating area among the trees!

Of course I had to pick up this little plastic blue children's chair for the garden!

My "Welcome to the Blue Bottle Garden" hangs at the entrance along with the blue stone wind chime given to me by my Secret Sister Sue one year! LIFE IS GOOD IN THE GARDEN  even during a Pandemic! Stay Safe and Well Friends!!

THE STORY OF HOW WE BUILT OUR RANCH HOUSE IN ART JOURNAL FORM!

This May 21st our home will be 44 years old.  I think it's goin' stand!

I've been anxious to get this story told and illustrated in my journal! Finally made it!

And this is how it all come about!

Sister Judy said it is much easier for those that look at my blog on their phones to show the single pages. So that's why I doing this!

I sure didn't do us any favors with this drawing!

I tried to find where I had put our blue prints and couldn't so had to go thru the house and draw them again!

Our cabin was used for a milk barn after we moved down, also a chicken house, had turkeys and pigs too! Then it was cleaned out and disinfected good and finished a little for a bachelor pad for son John when he became disabled and then the best of all it became a Precious Mom's Cottage. Alas the floor is falling in now so I can't use it! And the cabin that was built for Mother & Daddy was later sold and ended up burning to the ground!

As you see we took the wall out between the back bedroom and pool room and now that is my Art Studio/T.V. Room

 Maurice was 39 yr's old, Maurice's Dad was 79 and Uncle Earl his brother was 80 yr's old at this time! P.S. I have correct the journal to say: In the new year of 1975!

I got in on some of those delicious meals sometimes!

I gathered almost all the light fixtures and enough bricks to brick in our entry/hall. Many of them have the brick yard name on them.

I really missed city life for a good while, and still like to go back every now and then. But for now I like the quiet rural living and this beautiful home built with LOVE!

"A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered" C.S. Lewis

44 years May 21, 2020

Home Sweet Home may it ever be so humble, there's no place like Home!

Quarantine Days are just more time to do the things we love!

Walking

Playing the keyboard.

And Piano, solos and duets! Hope your days are full of pleasures too!

HAVING FUN MAKING LITTLE ACCORDIAN BOOKS

Facebook friend Kecia Frazee Devency shared how to make these little accordion books. Mine are 2 1/4" x3" or 2"x3". I have figured out a little simpler way I think. They are so much fun there will a lot more coming I'm sure.

This is the side with some trim on the folds.

The inside pages on one side.

And the other.

Of course I had to do one with my favorite primary colors!

Side view with fold trim.

One side of booklet.

The other side.

Was so pleased to receive this precious book illustrated by my favorite children's author and illustrator Tasha Tudor. one of my faithful blog followers, Marilyn Lynch surprised me with this SPECIAL GIFT!

And as a bonus! It is signed by Tasha Tudor!

Husband snapped this picture of me on the porch doing my Bible readings, Prayer Time and Writing in my Journal.

Duty Calls Rain or Shine in this case in Fog!

Thought you might like to see the  outside of our enclosed back porch.

Did a Vanessa KikKi Johanning style page in my journal. I will write a little bit about her in the blank area.

Did this one about Maurice & I playing Duets. I hope you all are finding some fun things to do during this quarantine time too! Praying for all to stay safe and well!