My Patio and Yard

I am on a "Staycation" this week and decided to add some curtains to my patio for a little privacy and ambiance and I am loving it that way, although............

since I live in "WINDY" Oklahoma....................

there are only certain days I will enjoy this. The calm days!!! But I love it anyway. Guess I need to sew some metal weights to the bottoms of the curtains. I'll try that. One good thing about the Oklahoma wind though is it deters the mosquitoes which are horrid right now.

I am showing you a few shots of my yard for this post. Hope you enjoy it.

This is a shot from my patio, looking out to my lavender garden.

This would be my pond. The metal thing behind the angel at the back of the pond is part of my Dads combine. Go figure!!! But I love it cause it reminds me of my Dad.

The waterfall which I can hear in my house when I have the windows open. Soooo relaxing.

I used to have two ponds, but this year we decided to fill in the larger one and make it into an above ground vegetable garden. This would be one of my squash plants. Can you see the blooms and little squash on it?

And my red peppers which are still green right now.............

This is a shot of the whole garden. I have eight tomato plants. Hope they bear a lot of tomatoes as I love fresh tomatoes.

The lavender garden, it smells just wonderful.

And finally a resident who lives in my yard. She is a new mother, but I haven't seen the babies yet, just the nest. She is loving her new lawn chair.

Hope you enjoyed this little tour through my yard. See you soon.

Hugs

Ginger

Linking up with:

Pink Saturday

Feathered Nest Friday

Show And Tell Friday

Ephemra Folders

When I want to make a card or some other craft I hate it when I have to search for the appropriate ephemra to go with what I am making so I came up with a great idea, for me anyway!!!

I made these cute little file envelopes to put my ephemra in. I have found I need to make more of them though.

Love ephemra don't you?

I took two pieces of cardstock and sewed them together in an envelope fashion. Then on a piece of wide lace I decorated the lace with little bits of my findings to make it cute, and then I sewed the lace to the envelope.

That way I have two places to stuff in the ephemra.

You can use your imagination and make some for everything you can think of. Wouldn't it be cute for your favorite recipes as a gift?

This one is for my favorite birthday things.

I use this one for vintage ephemra. You've got to love the Grandma card.

Birdies anyone?

I have a lot of bird ephemra so I made two. I keep these in a box standing up so it does not take up a lot of room. Hope you enjoyed this little craft I designed. Have a wonderful weekend. I am starting a staycation this week and hope to get a lot done.

I am linking with :

Pink Saturday

French Country Cottage Feathered Nest

Show and Tell Friday

Hugs

Ginger

Tag Swap and New Booth

I am participating in Karlas Bird Song Tag Swap and our project is to make 7 tags with a bird theme. Then we mail them to Karla and she makes a book out of them and sends us one back with a cover she made for each of them. These are the tags I made and sent to her. To see more about the swap click on the Bird Song link on my side bar.

I always get in a hurry and finish my projects, it's not really due until July.

LOL. Tags are so fun to make, they make a statement and are sooooo easy to make. And there are so many different ways to make them.

On these tags I added musical paper, glitter, spray ink, stamps and bird ephrema. For the hanger I used some yarn that reminds me of what a bird would put in its nest. Which reminds me, I have two morning doves that made a nest in my tree and layed an egg which has already grown into almost a full size dove. You can always tell the babies, they follow the momma around and shake their wings asking for something to eat. So cute. I also have some squirrel babies!!! Spring is full of babies.

I love to make these tags for different holidays and add to a gift or add them to a jar of jelly or any kind of gift sack. I have also printed a recipe on the back of a cute decorated tag.

I hope the ladies that receive one of my tags enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them. Thanks Karla for the opportunity to join in the fun.

As I have posted before I have moved my booth to another store called Dees Hidden Treasures and have been working on getting it spruced up. These are the latest pictures of it.

My daughter Tammy and I share this booth.

I made a picket fence, white washed it and placed it on the back wall so that we can hang things on the wall as the owner will not let us put nails in the wall which I totally understand. It is getting there.

I enjoy making these sweet little bottles, just right for the bathroom vanity or bedroom.

Hoping everyone has a wonderful weekend. I am linking this post to:

Pink Saturday

Show & Tell Friday

French Country Cottage Feathered Nest Friday

Common Ground

Hugs

Ginger

A Cupcake Kitchen

I have been adding pieces to my kitchen the past few months, making it a Cupcake Kitchen. At Christmas time I decorate it in Gingerbread and now I have cupcake decor. My daughter Tammy made this cute wall hanging for me for my birthday. She did such a good job on it.

I ordered this sweet little Cupcake plaque recently, love the roses on it and she even included a little flower on a clothespin I clipped on it. I ordered it from Pink Butter Creme on her Etsy. So cute.

Tammy also gifted me with these cute cupcake salt and pepper shakers and a ceramic cupcake with removable lid. All these gifts were in a basket with all kinds of cupcake goodies. That is a flat balloon the salt and pepper shakers are setting on.

This cute little cookie cutter was also in the basket. She added ribbon to it.

These are some of my colorful sprinkles to decorate the cupcakes I make.

And of course the cupcake wrappers and picks to put in the cupcakes.

I found these great vintage sundae dishes at my local thrift store and also the spoon holder. Had to paint it white, of course.

Tammy made this sweet sprinkles jar and covered the lid with scrapbooking paper and added a cute little cupcake to the top.

Hope you enjoyed seeing all my cupcake goodies. My kitchen is a tiny kitchen, I can stand in the middle of my kitchen, turn north, south, east and west and still be within 3 steps of a cabinet. Very small but it has served me well in the 35 years I have lived here. I have raised two children here and have cooked Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners for 8 family members each year. My daughter and son learned to cook in this kitchen. I would say it is user friendly (for one to two cooks) even though it is small.

Thank you Beverly for hosting Pink Saturday again this week. Hope everyone has a lovely weekend. I appreciate you stopping by to visit me.

I am also linking to Show and Tell Friday.

Hugs

Ginger