Spring Garden

 Verbena, Petunias

 The Snapdragons returned!

My first Double Delight rose

 purple iris

two tone iris

purple iris

my irises

yellow climbing rose bush (Golden Showers)

 Golden Showers rose bush

purple rose bush

 pincushion flowers 

two tone iris

Spring decorations

                                                                             Spring 

I love Subway Art!  I googled Easter Subway Art and found this.  There were many different colors to choose from to match your decor.  It was free online.  The frame is from Walmart.  I think it was only $4 or $5.  

I love lanterns!  They are so easy to decorate seasonally.  I bought these glittered eggs at a local home store.  I'm sure they could easily be made with an egg shaped styrofoam ball.  The moss was from Michaels or AC Moore.  I didn't use much of it for this decoration.  My mother and I got these lanterns from Lowe's after the summer season (at a discount).

I also love decorating vases.  I bought this vase from Michaels for my wedding candy table.  I can't remember where I bought the eggs; I've had them for a while.  

The Live Laugh, Love is my everyday decor.  I do change the candles on top for the fall and Christmas.

The candles are from Celebrating Home.  They no longer have these candles.    

 

My father just happened to be changing out the wooden porch posts...recycling :-).  I asked if he could cut and stain them (with certain dimensions in mind).  I bought these vinyl letters from an Uppercase Living party.  I do have a Cricut that I have made vinyl lettering with.  I have thoughts of other projects similar to this one.     

This is my "green house" that I use inside.  I bought the bird and nest from Simple Elegance in Franklin, NC.  The spring flowers were bought from a Celebrating Home  party.

Signs of Spring

My Snapdragons have reappeared!  They are covering my rose flowerbed.  :-)  

This is my first Iris bloom.  It's not the color I expected it to be but it's beautiful.  

Burlap Peacock Wreath

Mom and I spent a few hours making this wreath and her wreath.  Mom bought burlap fabric from a local fabric store.  We cut the burlap into 4x4 squares.  I think we cut out 250 squares.  There was a mess on the floor from the burlap.  We actually used a foam pipe from Lowes to make the wreath form.  We just cut the foam in half and taped it with Duck Tape.  Then we wrapped the form with burlap to hide the gray.  We made "bubbles" with the squares by tucking two opposite sides inward (and doing the same to the other sides).  To secure the bubbles to the wreath form we used 100 pearl head pins (from Walmart).  When I was finished, I attached peacock feathers to the wreath with hot glue.  I also hot glued a letter "E" that I painted to match the peacock feathers.        

Flower beds

This is the first flower bed my husband made for me.  It had mums and impatiens.  Now I have Cala lilies, Rain lilies, Asiatic lilies, Gerbera daisies, Gaura, and Phlox in these beds.  I also plant tulips for the spring.  

This is the flowerbed my dad built for me last summer.  This was taken a few days ago.  The daffodils are in bloom!  In the summer gladiolus grow tall against my home's exterior.  

Baby Shower centerpieces

This is the diaper cake I made for my nephew, Hunter in 2008.  It has a frog puppet on the top.  

This is the back of the diaper cake.  

This is my first diaper cake.  It isn't as elaborate as the others but it was my first one.  I made this one for my best friend, Tiffany's baby in 2007.  

Mom and I made this bubble bath for my baby cousin a few years ago.  We used silver/white balloons to make the bubbles.  It was difficult to tape the ducks on top.  I think we could have found a better way to secure them.  This did turn out cute though.