Bernadette

Decorating the inside of my home is the same as gardening or decorating our yard.  So, here are some pictures of our room we are calling, Bernadette.  Oliver doesn't like the name.  It will grow on him.  I'll help him understand.

We need a rug in here and we are just going to keep filling it with fun meaningful stuff!  It will keep changing.  Five minutes after I took this picture I put an oval mirror I got at an estate sale in the right hand corner.  

The desk is from a friend.  It fits perfectly in that space.

The room to the right is called, The Inspiration Room.

I'll put pictures later.

Its all a work in progress.  

List for this room:

-Figure out how to take those dumb wine racks out.

-Get bookshelf from antique store.

-Put my collection of mini chairs throughout the two rooms.

-Gertrude Stein wall will go in The Inspiration Room.

- Get Rug.

-Take out gate to The Inspiration Room.

Sneak Peek

I'm trying to get Oliver's special present finished before Christmas!  Here is a sneak peek:

An old, falling apart park bench.

Its perfect, because I don't have to make it super

nice.  It just needs a little sanding and some paint!

I borrowed an electric sander, that makes it go

a lot faster!

It was nice being in my yard.  I get a little

sidetracked when I'm out there and start doing

other things.  Kind of like birdwalks.  Oh well.

Sneak peak!  Oliver said he likes blue, so I got

a funky blue to go with our orange podium!  

I got some of the funky paint on the floor too, I 

kind of like it, it livens up our garage!

Hopefully, Oliver will rest on this bench!

Keys

Oliver and our neighborhood friend, Mattias,

found the keys to our garden today!

So, so happy!

Planting

 I finished planting some more in our fall/winter garden!  Yippie!  Now we just need more rain!  And a gardener who actually pulls weeds!

In Progress.

Lots of sunflowers growing in this little pocket

of our garden!

Moonflowers

Our painted tree with morning glory is doing alright.  Some of the leaves are starting to wilt, I wish I could water it more often, but its been difficult the past month and a half to keep up on the garden.

But when I looked up at the painted tree tonight, it was amazing!!  All the white at the top are the flowers that open up to the sun, now I get to see them at night too!!!

Planting

I put some bean, cucumber, and radish starters in the 

ground this evening!  Yay, for Fall gardens!

Antique Shack

Today I went to the antique shack on Valley Parkway in Escondido, I think its called "Country Flowers."  I was looking for a unique Christmas gift for Oliver.  I saw a lot of neat things, saw the bookshelf I would like, a church pew bench that I have wanted and its price has been reduced and a creepy weepy spider!!!

Library Card Catalog? 

This is neat and I have an idea for it,

along with something new from World Market

and a collection of old suitcases...someday.

Here is the spider.

What kind is it?  Is is poisonous?  

I looked at this website, but can't seem

to find what it is.  I think it is harmless.

But is was scary...

The young store clerk and I took

about 10 minutes to come up with a

strategy to kill it.  

Back to stuff, I like this bookcase.

And this one too.  I've had my eye on this one

for awhile.

Oliver first though!