Monday, Monday

Happy Monday!  What a great weekend!  Lots of projects worked on, lots of projects completed, both creatively and around the house.

My wonderfully hubby and I had a movie night last night, if you haven't seen "The Blind Side", even if you don't like football, this movie is a MUST SEE.  We've had it at home, waiting to be watched since Easter (yah, we've had the movie a while).  Definitely a great movie.

While we were able to get several projects done this weekend of course, creatively, none of what I completed can be shown quite yet - of course. 

I can share a little tomorrow so stay turned.  :)

This week is kind of a LONG short week for us.  Wednesday is dad's surgery, so time this week will be spent at the hospital with family.

Of course, because I don't sit well, I've got a bag full of things to do - felted slippers, yarn for a new knitted bear, yarn to teach myself to crochet those cute little flowers for layouts and cards and hopefully some images too to do a little coloring on :)  So, hopefully we have a few projects to share after this week's hitaus.

I do want to share a quick photo with you.

The Title - "BEAN VOLCANO"

While we don't have any beans YET, with the amount of flowers we have, we're gonna have beans comin' out of our EARS soon!  These bean plants are nearly 4 foot tall.

We're already making our list for NEXT YEAR'S garden!

Oh, and before I forget, today is Marvelous Monday over at Shelly's Images - a great new image is being highlighted today - ROUND UP!  Swing by and take a look!

Hoping you have a terrific Monday!!

POT Crazy!

So my original plan to hang the pots might not have worked out as well as I was thinking it was.  With a little thinking and brainstorming with my hubby, I was on to Plan B.  Yesterday moved from Plan B to Plan C.

Turns out Plan C is just PERFECT and I'm absolutely CRAZY about the way it turned out.  I'll be even more CRAZY this weekend once I get the herbs in the pots!

So, this is my herb garden - what do you think?

Off to cool off and do a little scrappin'.  I think tomorrow we just may turn on the AC for a day or two - something about Hot AND Sticky makes me want to take a shower already! 

Though, I don't think I can really complain, unlike this lump of fur -

This is what we've been looking at since Saturday (sometimes it can be found laying with all four feet up in the air under the ceiling fan too).......Why this lump of fur doesn't go into the basement that is like 20* cooler, I'll never understand.  Poor guy, looks like he could use a hair cut and a Margarita, doesn't he?

Thanks so much for stopping by today -hopefully you're not melting in the sunshine and warm weather, and if you are, I hope you've got a nice cool beverage in your hot little hands.

Mine - a Strawberry Margarita.  Mmmmmm!

POTS POTS & More POTS!

This is just a quick photo of the terra cotta pots I've been working on for my herb garden. 

Nothing too exciting YET, but once I get them planted and hung on the deck - can you say FABULOUS?!

Because everything at our house is TROPICAL, our hanging pots needed to follow the same suit!  We both LOVE bright colors that remind us of our trips to the Caribbean & Tropics.

I used OUTDOOR paint (in the 2 oz. bottles) that you can find in JoAnn.  It's the Patio Paint Brand.  The turquoise is "BAHAMA BREEZE", the magenta is "FUSCHIA" and the Green (which took about 100 coats to cover the orange terra cotta color) is "BRIGHT LIME GREEN".

We both LOVE the way the colors turned out (Hope you don't mind the photo, I've been playing with the camera a bit).

The pots are the medium size terra cotta pots you can get at Joann - They were originally $1.99 each, but I picked them up on sale (I LOVE SALES!!).

We'll have 2 of each color on the deck.  If we have a bit more space, I think we'll add a bright orange into the mix.  Anyway, this is what I've been tinkering with.  These will actually be hung on our deck to save up some of the valuable deck space.  These pots will also have all our herbs in them this year.  I absolutely CAN NOT WAIT to get my herbs planted . . . . maybe even this weekend!!

There's nothing like fresh herbs in meals!

I'll be sure to show you the final product once we get them hung on the deck.

I'm not sure if I'll get any tinkering in today or not.  Dad has a procedure at 1 pm today that I'm headed off to, so I'm not sure what time I'll get home.  Of course I've got a bag of waiting room projects with me - 2 new James Patterson books (must finish one before I can start the 9th book in the Women's Club series).  A pair of felted slippers to finish (yep, working on Christmas projects already!) and a new market bag to start.  So, I'm sure SOMETHING will get done while we're waiting.  I'm not a sit and wait kind of person - gotta be doin' SOMETHING!

There are some neat-o challenges I've come across this week too that I'd like to give a try - when was the last time you made a monochromatic project?!

Yah, me too! :)

And even better yet, tomorrow is the TTT Challenge at Shelly's Images that I can't wait to give a try.  Bev's got something FABULOUS up her sleeve that you won't want to miss!!

You still have time to participate in this past week's TTT Challenge that Scrappy gave you - Anything Goes.  You can enter until midnight tonight to be eligible in the weekly free image drawing!

As always, thanks so much for stoppin' by today!  I hope you have a lovely 1/2 way to Friday Day!