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Vintage Bicycle Garden Art

7/29/2014

I have been dreaming of a vintage bicycle with a flower basket, ever since I saw that very first one years ago. I am a huge fan of whoever that first person was to use a bicycle for yard art? Finally . . . . . . . .

I found that special one! A junk yard full of everything junky that a person like me loves on Highway 44 in Sarcoxie, Missouri. I spent more on gasoline than I spent on the bike in finding this beauty. (Sarcasm)

My husband straighten out the handle bars, took off the basket that we did try to salvage, but was just to twisted and took off the tires. Yes, I know what the meaning is for a white bike, but I love white. So several cans of white spray enamel paint for outdoors later . . . . . . .

She was done and placed in the rose garden. I love her!
I had a sign made with my website information and also put in a solar light near the sign to illuminate the sign and bicycle at night.

Look at this unusual cogwheel. Stars, quite unique.

A basket that can be changed out seasonally was filled with vinca, sweet potato vine and cypress vine. I have boards on Pinterest and Hometalk of the type of bicycles I admire, I would love for you to check out!

I wanted to share a new Facebook friend, Rochelle Rodger McCall from Wakeeney, KS, vintage bike and cute, cute display. I especially love the suitcase and the funnel on the tree.

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Summer Fresh Peach Cobbler

7/22/2014

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What a yummy way to enjoy fresh summer peaches. My family loves this cobbler.

Layer of crescent rolls

Layer of fresh peaches

Ready to go into oven

Let's Eat

Fresh Peach Cobbler Recipe
3 cans crescent rolls
6-8 fresh peaches, peeled and sliced
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
1 can Sprite
1 tsp. cinnamon

Grease 9" x 12" pan
Place 1 1/2 cans of crescent rolls on the bottom of pan
Place peaches on top of bottom layer of crescent rolls
Shake cinnamon on top of peaches
Melt butter and mix with sugar, heat mixture in microwave for 2 minutes
Pour 1/2 of the butter/sugar mixture on layer of peaches
Place the other 1 1/2 cans of crescents on the top of the last layer
Pour the rest of the butter/sugar mixture on the last layer of crescents (make sure all of the crescents are covered with mixture)
Pour can of Sprite over all the mixture (the mixture will be soupy and I always take precautions for the possibility that the cobbler may run over the edge while baking

Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes or until center is bubbling. I do put a loose piece of foil on top of the cobbler until about the last 20 minutes, that way the cobbler doesn't get so brown. Serves 10-12.

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Container Garden Featuring Swiss Chard

7/18/2014

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I love the combination of flowers my daughter used in her old tin container. My husband said his mother had one similar to this and she used it to boil water in to wash clothes.

Kristin has used Swiss chard for height and then purple ornamental pepper and moss ross in the front, I'm not sure but I think the lavender flower is a pinta flower. The use of the purple ornamental pepper and lavender flower on either side of the Swiss chard was perfect.

The choice of the flowers has done very well where this container sets as it gets direct Kansas sun in the afternoon. The perfect choice for her front porch!

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For the Love of Gardening

7/15/2014

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Discovery. Yes, that is why I love gardening. There is something new everyday in a garden, like this little impatient that came up all by itself through a crack in a concrete leaf, that leaf has set in this same spot for several years.

The European Ginger that surrounds the back of this concrete leaf, which is under the steps from an upper deck has a story all its own also. The ginger was ordered more than twenty-five years ago from a garden catalog, planted in western Kansas (and actually flourished) where we raised our children in a Victorian home and then moved to a garden spot in another garden in the same town, until we built our home here in the Ozarks. Then another move here to the Ozarks.

Or, the discovery of a grasshopper that reminded me of Jimmie Cricket on a bog planting of lemon grass.

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Steampunk Yard Art

7/11/2014

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My definition of Steampunk Art: Adventurous Spirit, Steam Power, Gears, Whimsical, Inventive. A contraption of gadgets and gears all in a manner of assorted nonsense that intertwine to create a machine that is not only functional and practical, but unique and striking.

This contraption that a friend of my husband's family made years ago is the ultimate steampunk art. My husband said he and his brothers loved playing with this car for hours.

And whatever it takes to hold the whole thing together . . . . . .

Is now used for yard art!

I filled a vintage colander with Vinca and placed on the seat.

A hyper tufa container that I made several years ago, filled with chives sits on the front of the car. The car itself sits on a rock shelf just outside one of my gardens.

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Queen Anne's Lace and Poppy Mallow

7/8/2014

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Queen Anne's Lace, just the name sounds enchanting to me. I can just imagine a bridal bouquet made with only them.

Light, airy, and so delicate looking, with little flowers making up each part of the bigger flower. Beautiful white, alas, though they don't last long once picked, only a couple of days in a vase.

Poppy Mallow, adding that little bit of color to the white of Queen Anne's Lace.

Five petals of jagged edge color along roadsides and meadows.

Beautiful wildflowers in a depression glass vase for our home. The Perfect Shabby Chic Flower!

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Sweet Summer Coffee

7/6/2014

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Sweet summertime in the beautiful Ozarks. I love mornings, the faint night sounds can still be heard, the coolness of the morning, dappled shade and coffee. A shabby chic tablecloth from my collection of tablecloths, and . . . . .

A fresh picked hydrangea, a sprig of ivy in a little bottle and my granddaughter who loves mornings and coffee too.

We must include her doll!

Sweet Memories to cherish!

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Container Gardening Ideas

7/2/2014

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Container gardening is so popular today. What makes it so interesting is anyone can have that little bit of sunshine even on a small scale, large scale and planted in anything you can find for a container. How awesome is that! I tend to go for any vintage or junk container and love to see other ideas from awesome sites on the internet, just driving in neighborhoods and in the country to see what other people have used for container gardening.

But what about Silver Dollar City Theme Park, near Branson, Missouri. Yes, my kids, grandkids and my husband are roller coaster addicts, but me, no I go for the beautiful gardens. The gardens are so well groomed and colorful, I enjoy walking around the park and enjoying all the beauty. The funnel cakes and a bench are pretty awesome, too.

Combination of several different plants in containers.