Rosemary

We spent about 15 minutes out in the garden today, hopefully what we did lasts a long time and spreads  its beauty around a little!

We put in some rosemary bushes that were

 originally $12.99!

Oliver planted one and he calls it "Swirls"

because of the wrapper it came in!

Watering Swirls.

Two of the others.  We planted 4 total!

We need to still weed this area.

I love rosemary!  We drove to Oliver's swim class

afterwards and we both smelled strongly of

rosemary!  We loved it!

Decorating

Paint!  Our table needs gloss on it so I can wipe it down easily.

But, the white paint wasn't done very well, so I repainted

the top.  Hopefully, it looks pretty in the morning!

Then I can put the gloss coat on tomorrow!

Doesn't it look pretty?  

Oliver and I love this simple table.

Fall/Winter Garden

Well, I haven't had a lot of time to work on my garden lately.  I have been focusing my energies on a few other things, so my garden has had to flourish on its own.  It has done ok, my gardner has helped me with the weeding.  I ate all the spinach two weeks ago which is a good thing!  Today there was a sunflower waiting for me!   

Hopefully, I can find time for my spring garden. 

This is what is left of the garden for winter.

The side yard needs to be weeded.

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!