in the garden....

Our garden is blooming!  I am especially in love with the sunflowers..big old floppy heads, so cheerful!  The one in the pic above is about 9 ft tall!

This one has lots of flowers!  I am going to plant a whole row of sunflowers in my garden next year

because they are super easy to grow and I just love them.

Catnip on the right....cats can't wait till this is dried...this was a little quart sized plant about a month ago...has grown tremendously!

Knock out roses...love em!

My cilantro has gone to seed....I could eat this with anything!

Mints gone wild!

Cucumbers are starting to grow...gonna make a big old pickle jar!

These little guys somehow ended up in my deck flowerbeds.  I let them be and just pick em as I need them.  LOL

Growing alongside the tomatoes....

The kittens....from Monkey....our adopted stray who came with the house!

One of the pure white kittens has a blue and a green eye.  I think she's deaf. 

I had an identical cat as a child, and he was deaf.  I think it's a genetic thing.

They are so funny...they climb the trees and live in the shed and frolic around in the woods.

What's growing in your garden?

xoxo

sue

BYH

Glad I saw Stephanie's post over at her blog today.  Time for a bit of soul searching and truth to my heart.  Here's what's been on my mind :)

a.  Met with the pastor earlier this week.  Still a bit confused about the faith.  Still confused about where I'm at, if I've been truly saved.  Sometime's I just feel like I'm doing it wrong, or only partially participating.  I prayed for the first time in public today.  With my kids before breakfast at IHOP.  I will just continue on and lead me where God takes me. 

b.  I feel ready to burst with creativity when I see these wonderful magazine pics and posts on line.  I ache to find the time to scrapbook, or work on altered art.  I never seem to be able to find the time.  I need to make the time though.  Being creative is me. 

c.  I've completely been slacking with my on line classes.  I have to re-visit why I began them anyway.  I know partially because I was at a sucky job that I made me want to quit nursing all together.  Now, though, I'm in a better place with good people.  I guess my reasons have changed, but I still need to finish it.  I'm halfway there.  It was alot of money and I feel like a jerk if I waste it and don't finish. 

d.  As much as I love the competition of "blogging and scrapping", it's tiring sometimes.  Keeping up with posts and "forcing" myself to create.  I agree, it's time to revisit why I began scrapbooking before.  It was for my kids.  Sam barely has any pages, and Madi has less.  I've begun their school books though, so I'm proud of that.

e.  I'm working on being a less judgemental person, letting go of anger and resentment.  It is really wonderful.  And patience.  Always workingon that.

f.  My kids are driving me crazy.  Or am I doing that myself.  When am I going to let go and give myself theok, to have a messy house.  What's the use of having a craft room if you don't craft and get messy in it?  LOL

whew...that's enuff

linking back to Stephanie...follow along...unload your heart too!
Just me, my soldier and our four little chicks

xoxo

sue

My Top 5

I stumbled upon Anna over at My Life and Kids one afternoon and laughed at the Finding the Funny posts until I nearly peed myself. I even contributed some of my own funny posts (mostly about Sam's poop and How my husband nearly let me die of vertigo). Today I offer to you my favorite 5 posts from this weeks "Finding the Funny".....so without further adeiu, here they are!

1. You show your ass, I'll show mineI
(because I'd do this to my kids)
2. Exploding Pants and my Bagel Belly
(It really does look like a bagel!)
3. My neighbors might be cannibals
(I swore my neighbor had bodies in his basement, and Polish prostitutes in his attic)
4. Suggestions for men
(because they need all the suggestions they can get!)
5. Mrs. Ventura when nature calls
(because I can just visualize him doing it)

Please visit Anna and Kelly over at Finding the Funny every Wednesday. Share your own bad parenting moments, oddities and hellacious neighbor stories. To see the total list of this weeks Finding the Funny, click here!


Thank you Anna and Kelly for keeping it real!

xoxo

Sue

Altered paint storage

Another Goodwill find...a wooden spice rack....

Add a little turquoise paint

(can you guess it's my fav right now?)

Sand it up a little bit and add some more paint

and embossing powders!

I'm using the little drawers to store my flocking powders...they fit

perfectly!

Repurpose!

xoxo

sue

A trip to Goodwill

I went looking for a bookcare for the family room, and found these instead.

Heavy wood magazine/book holder.  I will repaint this one to a more modern look :)

What a cute little chair for Madison!

Not sure if I'll repaint or not.  I love the little bear at the top :)

Vintage books...love them.  In the Treasure Island book we found a handmade bookmarker fro a little girl named Miranda.  In the Brownie book, the little girl Kathy H. wrote her name and the date of her joining the Brownies....1968!  The back page has a library like card taped there and it's stamped with I am assuming her dad's name from the military.  Always a pleasant little surprise to find some link to the past :)

Happy thrifting to you!

xoxo

sue

SIT

I have three chairs at my kitchen counter that are just about tore up from the kids shoes and just general wear and tea.  If you know me, you know I love all things old, chippy and distressed so I decided to give my chairs that look too.  I figured if they already look distressed and worn, the kids can't do much more damage right?  LOL.

What's the "s" for you ask?  Well, since there's three chairs, I'm going to put an "I" and a "T" on the other two to spell out "sit".  My husband doesn't get it.  Lol, it's all about creativity honey!

xoxo

sue

Ottoman re-do

Our living room furniture is old and worn, but it still works for us.  The ottoman in particular is really stained from the kids antics and spills.  I've been meaning to work on it and yesterday I found some pretty fabric at Wally-world!


This is the old, worn out raggedy looking ottoman....

two yards of fabric and some ribbon and voila!

Brand new!

Gotta love a simple sewing project :)

xoxo

sue