OK…I’m a plant-a-holic!

Friday I filled up the back of the Durango with flowers from a local nursery.  This is my kitchen!!!

See that cast iron skillet?  I wonder who put that there?

Saturday I went with Tammy, her husband and his friend to Ash Grove, MO to a nursery I’d never been to.  Uh-oh!

Here are some pictures from our yard~before planting the new stuff.  Sunday Mickey and his friend were walking around the garden and said they counted 50 plants that needed to be planted!  I said did you count the 6 packs as 6?  They both said NO!

I’ve planted Mon, Tues. and Wed.  No pictures of that new stuff yet!  It has started raining here and is not supposed to stop until next Wed. or Thursday!

Hope you enjoyed your garden tour.

Peace,

Sheri

Alice and I are published!!!

It’s not yesterday’s news, but it is recent! Jane Halliwell Green’s new book, “Pictorial Hooked Rugs” was released in the fall and I just now got my copy! And here are our works!

Mine is titled “Sunflower” and it is the place in my mind I would love to live in Italy! Never been there, but hope to go someday.

The sunflower in the lower right hand corner is stuffed with fiberfill and beaded with little brown and gold beads.

And here is Alice’s rug, titled “England Memory Rug”. You can visit her blog folkartprimitives.blogspot.com.

Also of interest today I was reading Jane’s blog and she has a link showing her new video on pixelating! Jane Halliwell Green teaches how to pixelatehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Bf2c-vCoU

Very Interesting! And a great idea for hooking all of the spring flowers that are just around the corner. (Yes, I know I’m pushing it. We have snow on the ground too!)

I’ve been hooking on a tote bag by Karen Kahle. I’ve got one side finished already! Really fast hooking.

And FYI, I had chemo #4 Monday and everything is going Great! Still feel good~knock on wood! Two more to go! Yeah!!!

Going to do some more hooking this afternoon.

Hope everyone has a pleasant evening.

Peace,

Sheri

Blue Bottle Tree

I’ve wanted one for years.  And my brother-in-law has been saving wine bottles for me for years.

On the day of my last chemo I took a picture of the dead cedar tree that Mickey had finally drug home from the lake.  The perfect tree. (Kind of like Charley Brown’s tree)

  Notice the worm holes in the bark where it has laid up on the shore.  He searched for the perfect tree for months before finally bringing this one home!  So the day of chemo it was laying in the yard and I thought I would take some pics of it.  I was sooo proud!

Mickey came home for lunch and wished me good luck at the treatment. 

When I pulled in the driveway I immediately saw it.  The bottle tree was “planted” and “growing” some beautiful cobalt blue bottles!  Mickey had done this on his lunch hour for me!!!  Of course I couldn’t even see it for the tears.  How sweet is that?  He knew how much I wanted it.

It may seem silly to you guys, but this is, and will always be the greatest gift I have ever or will ever get!!!

Ever since, he has been searching Pier One and numerous other stores in search of the perfect cobalt blue bottle.  Found a few at Hobby Lobby too.  Knowing how much he HATES to shop makes it even better!

Over the summer I was at a garage sale and the people had a whole box of the old Milk of Magnesia bottles.  They told me I could have all the bottles for a nickle a piece!!!  I think I got a dozen or so.  And there is a Kosher water that comes in the most beautiful bottles!

That was the beginning of December.  This was Christmas day…

A Coopers hawk has found my tree and stayed for hours sunning himself on his beautiful new perch.  

I Love it.  Not so sure about the neighbors.  Paula said, “it’s so you, Sheri”  I’ll take that as a good thing!!!

Have a great week.

Peace,

Sheri