Some Of This Weeks Finds

In the past week I've had some unbelievable finds at the secondhand stores and the garage sales on Saturday.  I had time Sunday morning to get quite a few photo's since a family of racoons would not leave my yard so my yard work went on hold.

I saw these statues on the shelf at a local secondhand store as soon as I saw them they were in my basket.  I knew I was going to put them on either side of my white vase.

I arrived later in the day after garage saleing at a local secondhand store who had a good portion of their items on for half price and somehow this paperweight was still on the shelf waiting for me.  It's now in my collection.

The Dahlias are from my yard. I put a flower frog in a Dominion glass wide mouth canning jar.  I think it's a perfect fit.

Mocha and Coco are my boyfriend's cat's their photo's were taken while sitting on our pew in our front  entrance, angels they are not.  The Melmac bowls seen between them I picked up at the secondhand store as back up food dishes.

The 1st picture is of clear bottom nesting bowls, a Pyrex container with a lid in 1960's color and a one cup vintage Pyrex teapot minus the lid with the fleur de lis pattern.
This 2nd picture I believe is a Pyrex cake dish is flamingo pink when I found it; it was minus a lid which I later found at a secondhand store.
The 3rd picture is where the cake dish now sits on a shelf in my Hoosier.

This is a picture of my dad's cousin, I was surprised when I found it.  When I was born she was already middle aged so I would have never guessed this picture existed.

I took my picture of my Dahlias and decided to use picmonkeys Warhol setting to change the picture.  I liked how it turned out so I thought I would add it to this post.


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The Yard

This year has been hard for me and I have had no desire to go out and work in the yard. 
So on Easter weekend we went to a local greenhouse to get some plants.

These are the plants I got.

Above is a before picture.

This is a after picture.

This bird feeder was made by some friends after I found a picture of it.  

I'm going to have to paint it again this year.

I saw this hosta at the flea market and decided to add it to my hosta collection,

the name grabbed me.

My boyfriends cats are indoor cats but this friend comes to visit

and he or she sits on the narrow brick ledge.

These glass watering balls are second hand store finds

 and are going to go into planters to add color.

Linking to:
Funky Junk Interiors

My Romantic Home

The Vintage Farmhouse

A Delightsome Life

A Southern Daydreamer

It's All About the Flowers

I'm waiting patiently for  the sunny type of Spring but all we have is Spring showers.   

This Hydrangea makes me dream of pretty flowers.

The flower paperweight is my Spring and Summer in the house.  I can't have plants in the house because my boyfriend has cats and one of them is stupid enough to eat them.  A vet  bill for over a thousand dollars proved this.  The cats where here first so I'm out of luck.

The green flower frog is green cloudy glass with some fractures in it, made in England around the 1930's.  It's one of my favorites even with it's imperfections.  I got it at a flea market and I almost missed it,  it was on a shelving unit behind other things. 

and here is the reason plants are outside not inside:

Its almost spring - next Tuesday.