New Items

Just a few new items I added in my shop

My Etsy Shop

Trying out different things.

My idea of a perfect day!

My horse has been 

resting from a leg injury and

I was missing riding very

much, so I went to ride

someone else's horse.

After an unbearable heat

wave I was so fortunate that 

on the day I had  off to do

this it was a perfect 75 degrees!

It was just gorgeous with everything 

blooming and butterflies fluttering around.

This day will definitely be

a favorite memory of mine.

This is Carol and these are 2 of her

amazingly trained horses.  

It was such a treat to ride a

horse that is so well trained that the

ride is effortless and you can

just sit back and enjoy everything

around you.

I can't think of a better way to

relax and be happy?

What's your idea of a 

perfect day?

Natascha

My Garden...

My little garden is coming along nicely.
I love Cottage gardens- so I try to emulate
that in my yard. 

These are a few of my 

 favorite things this summer.

These  Zinna's were a surprise.

I have never seen them before

but I planted them from seed.

That's not how they looked on the 

seed packet but I sure like them.

My milk weed has turned into a big bush and

I have been busy finding Monarch eggs and

keeping them safe as they become 

butterflies and releasing them.

This is a cement pipe someone gave me.

I filled it with dirt and flowers for

an unusual container.

Flowers are blooming beautifully!

The gate to my butterfly garden...

I love the sticks we added

to the gate.  Definitely not the

norm in a subdivision but I like it!

I strung up these little pots of flowers on

the arbor with just some

twine I had laying around. 

Aren't they cute?

You can't even see the containers

in the garden that I showed you in Spring

Our goldfish pond is still 

thriving with lucky feeder fish.

They got to grow up to be big!

Those floating guards in the water

seem to keep the Herons from

eating our fish.

I did a little spruce up on the greenhouse.

 I made a little sign to hang above the door.

I gave my shelf a new coat

of paint.

The mirrors were falling out

of this succulent holder .

So I repaired it, gave it a coat

of paint and glued on some

new moss.

I made a little boxwood wreath for 

the door.

These old planters

got a new coat of

spray paint.

Don't be afraid to paint

planters that you find

cheap.  If they don't

match your color scheme.

Spray paint can fix that easily.

That is what I did with the planters 

above.

Cooking herbs grow around my greenhouse.

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I have more pics but I will save them for another

post.  I will end this post with

my favorite pictures of my 

Greenhouse.

It just looks so cute with the 

lights on. I treated myself

one year with this greenhouse when I got

a bonus at work.  I always wanted one

and it is still one of my

favorite things I ever

bought!

Hope you are having a wonderful

summer!

New Creations....

I fired several items I made.

 

 

I meant this to be a bird bath
but I guess it could be a bowl for anything.

 

 

This one was an experiment...it was painted

with acrylics and I wanted to burn them off

to glaze it.  This is how it burnt off.  I'm

not sure if the glaze will stick to this.  Will have to see.

 

 

This one has a butterfly on it.

 

 

This one with a dragon fly

 

 This is my goldfish bird bath

Sadly it cracked underneath.  I
will probably try to fill it with slip and refire
 it and see if that maybe it will fix it
just because I like it.
These will take me a long time to
glaze them all.

 

 

I made these sheep from recycled paper.

I made a pulp and pressed into

chocolate molds.   They are about 7" wide

I painted them to look antique.

I thought they needed something.

 

 

I added some paper roses I ordered on Etsy.

Not sure what I will do with them

but aren't they cute and all from

junk mail!