My Wish Comes True

Last week while reading my daily FreeCycle  post...someone offered two old bikes...and they weren't to far from here. I had posted something a few months ago asking for old bike rims. I sweet talked Mark into taking the truck for the pick-up because I didn't know what size the bikes were and I didn't want to have to take four car seats out of the van.  Just call me lazy I guess. So we get the bikes and they are pretty well shot.  But not the rims!  They are perfect for my version of something I saw on Pinterest.  Now comes the hard part...what to plant that will vine...vine quickly?  Any ideas?

 

I put the bikes minus the rims out on the curb and by morning they were gone...and it wasn't even trash day!  I love a good FreeCycle.

 

Got a little bit of bad news....last night when Mark, not to in the mood, moved the awesome blue door to the perfect spot in the yard...well, it came apart.  Now we have a door in two pieces.  But he promises me he can fix it with a little wood glue and some nails or screws and maybe even a little bit of pressure from the things that hold things together...vice grips.  I don't know.  All I know is that I am one sad, sad, puppy.  "Jan, it's just a door".

Blackbirds Sitting On A Wire

This is not exactly a trash pickin' treasure but because I don't want to be disowned by my family...I am choosing not to start another blog...Goodwill Goodies...I am posting here.

Sooo, one night, late at night, as it usually is, I was checking out posts on Pinterest.  That P word is going to be the death of me!  I stumbles on something I think is the cutest thing ever!  And you all are going to make some too.  So simple!  And it looks like you are a real pro something or other.  Check it out...

 

 

Told you they were cute.  I went to Goodwill (wish I had waited for Senior Discount Day and then the plates would have cost me about a quarter  piece.  Went  to Hobby Lobby and Michael's in search

of vinyl birds.  Nope didn't have any.  Came home and googled them and got several different sights.  Pick a winner.  The hardest part of the entire process was waiting for the mail to run and bring me my birds.  Simple instructions included.  I have several birds left and I'm thinking maybe I should go get more plates.

 

I can not take any credit for this great idea.  Please click here so you can visit Thistle Woods Farm to see where the idea ccame from and all the instructions.

Jackpot

I love a good garbage pick.  Mark came home for lunch this week.  Busted in the door all excited telling me there was a blue door at the top of the street and I should go look at it.  You know me, I'm out the door faster than you can say jack rabbit.  He promised to watch the yahoos the whole five minutes I am gone. Jumped in the truck and took off up the street and pulled up to the blue door.  Jumped out. Struggled to get it in  the truck and in the process gave myself a little adjustment and my back feels fine. (I had been moaning and groaning around like I was 900 years old for a few months).  And headed for home with idea swirling thru my head.I love it!

 

Don't have the slightest idea where I am going to put it but I do know that something will be growing on chicken wire.

 

Then I got to thinking about all the treasures that I have gathered up over the years.  I have an entire basket of these doorknobs.  So now I need to find an old burlap bag and make a baskets out of it and hang it on the doorknob.  And of course fill it with some really bring flowers.

 

 

FreeCycle From Family

If you have read this blog before you will know that I love to go trash pickin'...love large item pick-up day...love FreeCycle.org...love to reuse, repurpose, and recycle.  So you know that I was thrilled to find treasures in the back of Mark's truck from his latest visit to Huntington to spend time with his Mom and Dad.

Love these little frogs holding hands.  I can just hear them singing. "Kiss The Girl".  I am going to use it as a chipmunk feeder.

He's lookin' pretty life like.

Papaw actually found this in the ocean on vacation at Myrtle Beach.

This big old frog is guarding the two clematis in Sarah Beth's Garden.

A birdbath...and I didn't even have to fill it with water...God did that for me.

FreeCycle Strikes Again!

I love wooden ladders, this kind and the old school kind.  I now am the proud new owner of this little beauty.  I know in my head what it will look like when it it all 'sone up'.  It might not be this year but most definitely next year this little baby will be awesome.  That is if I can keep Mark from putting it in the trash.