A LITTLE CRAFTING

There was this little table in my storage room.  Wouldn't it be cute painted a funky trendy color?  Maybe lime green.  Here she is after about two weeks of painting and sanding and painting and sanding.  She is kind of cute.

The sides lift up to make a nice big table top to use my computer on.  Just the top was painted and the rest is the original industrial gun metal look.

We have a bumper crop of pine cones in our woods this year, so I used a few to make this wreath and painted it flat white, but I think I will redo it in high gloss for a richer look.  I have a paper mache' reindeer which will be painted white and mounted in the center of the pine cone wreath.  The whole thing will be lightly sprinkled with angel dust for a little glam.  I think it will look nice at Christmas.

STILL ENJOYING FALL

I just couldn't resist sharing a pic of a few of the young bucks in our back yard hiding from those pesky hunters. 

This is the very last of the garden bounty.  We had fried green tomatoes, stuffed peppers and stewed okra and tomatoes last night.  Yum!

I am drying the parsley to use during the winter.  The left over peppers I didn't stuff were chopped and put in the freezer to use later.  Since we'll be on the road for the next few weeks, I had to try to use up all the perishables before we leave. 

We're flying out to Oregon tomorrow and RV'ing back across the country to Mississippi with my sister and her hubby on their way home to Florida.  God willing, my little sister and I will have a great time giggling across the US. 

Enjoy the fall, y'all.

FALL IS FINALLY HERE!

Ahhh, beautiful fall in Mississippi!  Summer was TOUGH this year, but now . . . .

I was just driving along the other day to get some paint at the local Home Depot and there they were - about a gazillion birds on the power lines and it just looked like a Kodak moment. So, I did a whoopee-do and pulled out the trusty camera which stays in my purse most all the time.  Thought they were worthy of sharing.

I like the lone white one.

The shape of the one in the middle of the pic is nice.

The last of the zinnias from my yard.

One morning I was out taking my early morning walk and there were spider webs all over the woods floor - a rather strange phenomenon - lots and lots of them all over the ground.  Maybe they are always there, but not visible because of the dry air.  There was a very heavy fog this particular morning.  Go figure.  Kind of looked like I went to Hob Lob and bought some of that Halloween spider web stuff and spread it all over the place.  

This huge web was hanging between some trees and looked quite spooky with our old shack in the background of the pic.

This one was over in the woods hanging from some trees and was about 7 feet wide and tall.  I almost walked into it.  Ooooooooooh!  I could not find the spider, but I hope she was not sized in proportion to her web.  Double oooooooooooh!!   Pretty neat to look at.

Nice shadows on the secluded leafy path on the back of our property where some of our neighbors ride their four-wheelers and the deer use it to go for their daily drink at the swamp about a quarter of a mile away.

Even though the garden looks like it hasn't been tended to in years, I do check on it almost daily.  The prettiest bell peppers of the season are on the vines right now as well as some nice okra and Sweet 100's tomatoes.  Yum!

 

A great friend and I plan to check out the Canton Flea Market tomorrow and soak up some more of the beautiful fall weather.  Should be a great place to recharge my crafting batteries and catch up on some local news.    

Hey y'all, hope you enjoy fall as much as I do.