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.

Not Really Trash, But A Treasure

I love quilting and I love barns.  I love traveling a quilt trail.  Since we are working on our 10 year to clean up and create a garden filled yard...and we are into the 6th year...it is time to create our backyard quilt square.

I am starting with a 4 foot by 4 foot piece of Lowe's plywood.  I've primed both sides (just in case I mess up one side I will be ready to go again on the other). I have always known that I would do an Ohio Star.  But if all goes well, I might just have to make a smaller log cabin square.

I had a little help with color design.  Michael, Luke and I spent one afternoon in the garage with a box of colored pencils.

Mr John taught me a little trick with a chalk line that made things so much easier.

Then I talked to Lizzie at Cedarmore Farm, and she convinced me to use true Amish quilting colors.  Now all I need to do it go to Lowe's and pick them out!

Something Old Will Be New Again...Sorta

On the way out of the subdivision today I spotted this is a neighbors trash.  I have several now that I can hang on the fence...pictures of said fence will come at a later date....as soon as I can get some help hanging them.

Tired Old Windows

I love a good old window.  they look great wherever you put them.  We stuck this one on the fence then added chicken wire for the clematis to climb.  I was walking thru the yard with a load of weeds and say the reflection in the glass and thought it was a pretty cool pic.

So Blessed

You might think I am crazy but we were blessed all over the place today today.  This morning before going out in the yard for a day of good and dirty, hard yard work I checked FreeCycle, as I do every day of the world.  I have been looking for a dresser to make a really cool planter I saw on Pinterest.  Guess what jumped out of the computer screen at me!  And then an added bonus, they were also offering a jump-a-roo...we will be needing those in fall when we add to the bunch. And to add to the joy, on the way home this cool wagon was in some one's garbage. The best thing about that it....the yahoos have been asking me to  get a wagon for about a week.  So today, when it warms up, I am filling a bucket with warm soapy water and the yahoos are going to scrub our new wagon.  It's just the little things that make me smile.

Bottles, Bottles Everywhere!

This post is for myFreeCycle.org friend in Old Milford that saves empty wine bottles for me.  Last year she supplied bottles for our bottle tree and this year enough bottles to line the two raised flower beds and the newest addition to the yard....the blue bottle bush.  I still have an idea for the big bed on the left of the yard that is going to take lots of bottles.  Keep 'em comin'!

Bottle Border

I saw an example of this on Pinterest the other day and decided I might be able to use some wine bottles in our yard.  So our clean up has officially begun.  I participate in a photo challenge the first of every month and I have chosen the 'Park' garden.  Each month I try to stand in the same spot and snap a shot of how it is changing.  So far I have been really embarrassed at how it is looks.  So Saturday I started the big clean up!  I have a few things that Mark is going to have to help me with.  So I enlisted Luke (my helpful neighbor) to help me get the bottles in.  We soaked off tables and then decided where to put the clear bottles.  He cracks me up.  It doesn't look to hard to do but it is time consuming.  It took us all day with a few pauses in construction.

We weeded this bed and added a little tee pee for maybe peas.  So now all I have to do is des-lable about three boxes of empty wine bottles that have taken up residence in the garage.

I can imagine that you night think us to be wino's.  Not even close.  I have found a friend on FreeCycle that work at a Senior Living Facility and she saves all the empty bottles for me.  About once a month or so I get an email saying there are a few boxes on her porch for me to pick up.  I hope she continues to provide me with this service because I have a few other ideas up my sleeve.