Button Treasures

 Hey all,  Just a quick check in again, it was the keyboard doing the interrupting.  Yep the batteries must have been going out.   Hubby switched our keyboards so mine plugs in so we'll see how this will work out. :)     Thought I would share a pic of the button keepsake tin.   It's rather messy with all kinds of buttons, but this was always my favorite thing to do when I was a child to go through my mom's button tin!    Since mom was born in the twenties and raised up during the depression, she learned from early on how to save all kinds of things, so when clothing wore out clip the buttons, zippers anything that could be used in another type of clothing that was sewn by hand or on the machine.    My mom tried her best to show me how to sew, but I guess it just never caught on with me.   I did have sewing classes in school, but trying to figure out patterns frustrated me.   So, my learning didn't go very far, I know how to hem up pants or slacks, but I really don't pull out the sewing machine that often.    That's why I enjoy drawing, and working on crafting.   I do recall my mother saying she enjoyed drawing when she was very young, designing her own dresses.  :)   I guess that's where I get my love for drawing.    This is just one tin I do have another one.  

Here's my pretty Iris.  Just had to snap a pic before they all were spent. :)   Anyway the night is late, today went by so fast, took me forever to get in the mood to craft.   Tomorrow starts another round of work.   I was off for 3 days which was very nice.   Okay, I will end my post for now, hope you have a great weekend, while you're here leave a comment!     Thanks, Hugs Mary

Crafty cute & Keepsake

Hello to all,  Just thought I would stop in for a little while to let you see my new crafty cute project.   As you all know I love to shop at Reneabouquets.com to find all things cute and dainty.   Here is a photo to show what I made.   The cute pale was found at a flea market,  I have two but only decorated the one first to see how it would turn out.   As you can see in the photos, top one shows the inside,  tickets from Tim Holtz, 2 buttons pink and clear, from my keepsake button tin - (used to be my mother's), the purple flower is from a bouquet that belonged to my mother.  The rosettes are Renea Bouquet, and in the bottom photo, you will see a cute little hummingbird that is from her shop as well,  I fastened a tiny green wire to the back so the bird would look as if it were hovering around the flowers.  The pretty lace, butterflies, are all found in her shop.   I used cottage white chalk paint with a brush to get the effect.   I am really impressed how it all turned out.   Been thinking about my mother and wanted to create something that reminded me of her,  I really think she would have loved this.  :)

 Lets take a walk to see how the container garden is doing.  :)   I see buds on the tomato plant.   Second photo shows the beans, they're coming along nicely.   Third photo shows my yellow bell peppers. Fourth photo is Bella.   She was busy looking up into the tree to see if squirrels were present.    Today we had very gusty winds, blew some of my plants and flowers around, and tree branches were blown from our tree in the back, not too many though.   My hubby and I have noticed when first planting our seeds, that squirrels had dug into the dirt pulling up the tiny seedlings.  The seedlings were fine.  Okay, well something is going on with me trying to write this post, I've been interrupted several times.   Hugs to all,  Mary    Leave a comment if you wish.   

Hello

 Hi, to all my crafty friends,   I have been away for a time,  work has been keeping me busy these last few days.   I was informed that several cashiers decided to quit with little notice, leaving the rest of us to fill in the "holes", my schedule looks pretty busy for the next several days.   But hey, I'm not really complaining, I can always use a better paycheck to help with groceries and with these current gas prices WOW!!    Hubby said, that just in our area of town the local gas station has the price of over 4.00 a gallon.    That isn't all that surprising to me.     Anyway, that is all I want to say about that mess.  Let's change the subject.    We have already gotten a small start to our garden this past week.   After learning quite a bit from watching a heaping helping of videos on You Tube about container gardening, we thought it might be a good idea instead of spending hours of digging and cultivating the fallow ground to make a garden.    At the start of the year we did buy lots of seeds, thinking of a larger garden, but that is all been swept under the rug with the knowledge of growing food in totes.   So far we have one tomato plant, and 4 sweet yellow pepper plants, these are in separate totes or containers as we like to refer to them.  :)   I thought I would try green onions, but so far the seeds I've planted have done nothing and its already been several days, they should have germinated.   And surprisingly enough, the marigold seeds that positively stated that should not be started outside, (which by the way I decided not to go by the directions),  I placed those dainty seeds into the container next to the tomato plant, and I would like to say they are indeed sprouting!    I'm more of a impatient gardener.   Yes, I did buy those little "green house" things but have yet to even use it, at least I had good intentions.   Well,  I've missed being on my blog, and miss reading your comments... so thought I would take a bit of time before getting off to sleep to say hello and hope all is well with you.   Drop a comment would love to hear from you.

Hugs, Mary ♥