Be Still My Heart...

 

It's Spring at the nursery!

 

Where do you start?

 

What would you pick?


 

$45.00 for a hanging basket... worth every penny, but too rich for me.

 

At my favorite nursery you can watch the koi...

 

Wonder at a waterfall.


 

Must find a tool box!

 

So many plants in full bloom.

 

Oh, the colors...

 

The cutest ideas.


 

Inspiration for my own color combinations... 

Tomorrow, some of my own pots and combinations.  My fingers won't be clean till fall!  What fun!
Thank you for stopping by. 

Today, while the blossoms still cling to the vine
I'll taste your strawberries, I drink your sweet wine
A million tomorrows shall all pass away
Ere I forget, all the joy that is mine...Today.

(Lyrics by Randy Sparks, but John Denver is singing this in my head!)
Enjoy this beautiful day!

Look for me in the garden...

 

No time for a regular weekend update... Here's the quick recap...it was part helping at Church, part garden, part Home Depot and Lowe's.
Part rummage, part company, part baby wrangling and lumber lugging...mulch schlepping and
plant picking...

 

Less than 20 days till a big celebration, company staying, a garden party,
and a small birthday girl to squeeze and love.

 

To say I have my work cut out for me is an understatement...

 

Most of the grass looks like this...but no chemicals on this lawn!

 

The white violets are back, and fragrant and beautiful.

 

They aren't going anywhere.

 

My white lilac is brimming with buds...


 

Anticipation!


Weed, mulch, repair, plant, seed, water...I know we won't be finished in time...
but maybe we'll be ready by the little bird's 5th birthday in July!

When I get a minute I have some rummage finds to show you and some projects in the works.  Hope you are having a great Monday and wishing you a productive week ahead.
Enjoy this beautiful day and thanks so much for stopping by.

Secret Garden Tea Bag Sachets

I always try to remember my Guild sisters with little gifts for holidays and special occasions like Mother's Day... I made these little gifts I call my Secret Garden Tea Bag Sachets.



They are just a sweet Secret Garden card...from a beautiful piece of scrapbook paper I found and fell in love with, and a fill it yourself tea bag I filled with lavender .
I found the tea bags at a tea shop in Wisconsin. You fill them and iron the open end closed. Of course these tea bags are just to be used to tuck into your drawer to scent your underoos.



I enjoy a quiet little craft. The cutting, stapling, making the tags and packaging.



Here is the info on the card stock. It is actually called The Secret Garden Collection.




I designed the tags at Avery.com, and die cut them and added adhesive with my xyron. Slipped into a plastic bag, and sealed with my homemade tag, they are a cute gift.

We are back to Winter after a brief Summer and tiny Spring. I'm confused, so is my garden!

Have a great weekend my friends, thank you for stopping by.

Enjoy this beautiful day.

Love, Penny





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Back to work...

Hooray, our dryer was installed and works like a dream. The towels are soft this morning...



Still mismatched and some threadbare but Soft! Thanks to Sears and the manager at the Lake Zurich store who got things moving for us. I even got a comment from Sears Care...the social media escalations team...I never had to contact them. Oh how spoiled I've become. What was once a luxury, I had a hard time living without.




Outside my window this morning, spectacular!




This maple is ready to pop. Sing it with me Lynne...What a wonderful world!
Enjoy this beautiful day my friends, and thanks for stopping by.

Love, Penny

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At the Lake

 

My honey's car was in the shop...so when he got it back in the late afternoon...I was ready for a ride.
Well, work kept him from leaving right there and then.  So, when the business day was through, and after we had
a great Face Time with sweet p., we were off to the Lake!

 

We are a half hour to 45 minutes away.  In rush hour traffic and construction on Lake Cook Road it took us an hour.  Thank goodness for Daylight Savings Time!  With sunset at 7:48 we had plenty of daylight left.

 

That's what I call an URN!

 

We've been driving this route together for 39 years!

 

A giant new addition to the Coast Guard station, a communication tower of some sort.

 

And then, there she was!

 

And there he was...
(He still makes me swoon...)


 

A perfect evening.  It was not cooler near the Lake, no, it was still very warm, with a great breeze.

 

She is so beautiful...

 

I never get tired of just looking at her.

 

A brave soul...the water was 50 degrees.

 

I always dream of that sensation of being out on the Lake...

 

Seems like it just took one warm day and everything popped!

 

Flowers were everywhere.

 

The trees that have been bare till this week have tiny green leaves.

 

Our colors were flying proud with a hearty flap in the wind.

 

Love this view.  Some of my favorite trees are gone from the park.
Several giant cottonwoods, along with my favorite I hugged every time we visited...gone.

 

This is how large they were.  This one remains on the Lake side of the road. 
See my sweetheart, arms outstretched at the base?
Oh, if that tree could talk...the changes it has witnessed, the storms, the Lake
with all it's power...
Wish I could talk tree...no really, I do.

 

We chased the sunset home.  A perfect evening.  Thanks honey.  I love you!

Waiting for the installation of the dryer today. (Sorry for all the grumbling...)  I will not spend much time drying things today, it is too beautiful outside for that. (the giant pile of laundry will keep;-) Thanks for stopping by and for your kind comments.  Have you noticed, I have 99 followers...My newest, sweet Faye from The Blessed Hearth.  It's humbling to think anyone would want to follow my blog, and a honor to have made so many wonderful friends. Thank you, one and all!  Enjoy this beautiful day.