Welcome Summer Vacation!!

What I wore to take the dog potty (cause i do fancy stuff like that in the morning):

 We're on STAY-CATION over here... So here's a little tour of my yard....

 This pink rose bush BLEW UP this spring!! Too bad I didn't get a picture before they were all blown out....

 My favorite purple Lupine's!!

 Love the sweet little face of a Pansy :)

 King Tut grass, my new MUST HAVE for porch pots!!

 Another porch pot "must have", I forget the name and I've gotta get breakfast for my kiddo that JUST got up (9:40 AM).

Calla Lily's, truly one of my FAVORITES, but don't ya love how I was playing with my manual camera and only got that back Calla in focus?

Ugh, the Fuchsia just isn't cut out for the sun I have on my porch....

Are you a flower freak? Perennials? Annuals?  Must have flowers? Porch Pots?

We tore out most of our landscaping 2 years ago (in the front of our home), we have about 5 more shrubs to take out this year but the thought doing an entire landscaping re-do on my own.... YIKES! I think we all remember the plaster disaster and the living room re-do...

If you know of any GREAT landscaping sites, let me know!!

Happy Summer Day!! 

Pretty, Pretty easy that is!

I was talking about this with someone lately and they had no idea what I was talking about (it's happened before) so I'm here to share!

This is an easy, fun, and pretty little summer craft:

Dying Queen Anne's Lace!

If you've never done this, give it a try!

It's easy for kids and will keep them entertained for a while.

1. find an assortment of jars and vases.

2. get some food coloring

3. fill the jars with cold water and add the food coloring

We added about 12-16 drops in each jar, darker does work better!

4. Go cut yourself some Queen Anne's lace, you DO have it where you live don't you?

It's everywhere around us, just watch out for it's pal, poison ivy!

5. Trim your stems and stick them in the water, the magic happens pretty quickly...

by the next day you SHOULD see some of the color, remember to trim the ends right before they go into the water even though you just cut them in the yard!

We found we had the best luck with blue!

Try to get the freshest blooms you can, I waited a bit late this year and for some reason, the dead blooms don't suck up the water very well, duh!

Oh yeah, check your flowers OUTSIDE for bugs and spiders!  I found a wormy looking thing and a spider on a stem of mine AFTER they'd been in the house overnight.  I'm not really afraid of bugs but for some reason they startled me and when I pulled that stem out of the vase I did this weird dance/freak-out move that hurt my neck!  It was kind of like Elaine from Seinfeld dancing....

I'm going down to my studio today!!!

Oh, we had a great time with our friends yesterday, didn't get to the beach 'cause we were too busy looking at cute shops!

Darling ALMOST made it home....

Happy Thursday!