Friday, July 27, 2018

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

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


Thursday, July 12, 2018

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!

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

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!