sharon

Your flower bed sounds wonderful with the headboards as a fence...can't wait to see it!

I need to find the best places for them in the garden setting. Come on Spring!!!!!!

I started a gnome garden around my pump last fall. I started building a gnome home out of some scrap wook that I had around the yard. I needed something to hide the pump, yet still make it stand out so noone hits it when they plow the snow out of the driveway....Chris would kill me since he had to replace it when the last person lived here! I put some bottles that I had been collecting around the "yard" as a fence for the gnome's garden. I want to finish the home and do a lot of decorating on it in the spring and then plant the garden and create miniature garden junk for his/her garden....won't know which until they move into the neighborhood. I am thinking about decorating the home with stained glass somehow. I also want to fill in the front garden some more and possibly start a veggie garden on the other side of the yard. I am sure that I will need to create more garden junk through out the yard too...lol...have to use up all of the stuff that I have been collecting and any new finds that come my way!

Is the bike near those yellow porch curtains that you have? If so, I would go with a color similar to that! Or the red of your shutters.....

Good thing about paint, it can be changed easily.

I always have'ideas' but then never seem to get them done. I live with garden junk because it gives me 'wishes and hopes'.

Sharon

Susie, I'd paint the bike a bright sunshine yellow. I think it would really stand out and would compliment any color of flowers you'd put in the basket.

Thank you all for the ideas for painting the bike. I may have to draw color names from a fish bowl now. LOL Yes, Marlene those yellow Sunbrella Fabric curtains are still in perfect shape hanging near by. I wash them twice a year because birds like to fly up on the porch and perch on the metal rod. I also made the charitable mistake of putting a couple of bird houses on the porch. They are so grateful they poop on everything.

I have started working on the glass lamp shades. 2 of them I'm making into solar light hangers. I'm stringing the copper wire with beads to make the hangers and I plan to put glass stones/marbles in the bottom and put in a string of solar lights. I hope the lights will pick up some of the colors. I will hang them from long hooks in the trees in the back yard.

I keep looking at these metal scroll pieces I got for $5 each. They are 3 feet long and are made of a thin metal. Right now they have a green tinge to them but I think I want to paint them:-) but I don't know what color I want.They might look good on the top edge of the roofed in area on my deck.

laurastheme, I have mountains of glass too, but I have to pack it all up, my first grandbaby will be here in April

Are they spaced close together like Christmas tree lights?

I have 3 pieces of the metal scroll, sure wish there had been more because the 3 won't cover all the eaves on the roof of the deck where I want to put them.

I'm starting to get inspired as our snow is leaving (early) so I can see spring might be coming!

My *junkin'* plans are to go to yard sales to find more treasures! I've been in withdrawal since last fall but they don't start til well into April here. We might be traveling before that to warmer places so hopefully will find treasures soon. Besides yardsaling I want to go beachcombing on the west coast and find some nice pieces of driftwood for garden decor.

Once we are home again our projects are to finish my garden house and the fencing (DH says 760 feet of wire mesh to attach). Then do the labyrinth I didn't do last summer, level, spread compost & topsoil for new garden beds and plant and seed. Oh, gotta make a bunch of paths also. And put all my garden junk in the garden rather than leaving it in the shed as I did last year!

The really fun things I plan are to put my glass flowers on stems and make concrete stepping stones (maybe more rhubarb leaf ones). I'd also like to make some sort of rustic twig/branch arbor/gate. I'm doing a shade garden so it would make a nice entrance to that.

Always more ideas than time or energy but a little finished every year does make changes.

Looking forward to seeing everyone's pics as they do projects.

Laurastheme, some ideas for your DH to weld are a bottle tree and there are other ideas in the link below. Nor sure who's link this is but I think someone here posted it originally.

You all have been such an insperation to me, THANK YOU!!

Hugs Carmen