Faux chocolate bunny number one

I will post an image later, but I did get a chance to make my first Faux Chocolate bunny using the technique that  was posted on Martha Stewart Crafts website.  It was pretty simple and the Durham's Water Putty was a steal the $1 a can at the Re-Store!  Picked up some milk chocolate spray paint the the big box store, so I am ready to sand and paint it. I would have done it by now, but it's just too hot to deal with spray painting outside.

I have an garden junk art  project that has been dismantled and is waiting for paint that I also hope to get done this month and will show some during and after pics of that one too.

Ooh, and a MS hack of those expensive cake stands that she sells at Macy's is also in the works.

Garden Junk Goddess

The statue, that is, not me.

I found this $5 lady figure having a 'wardrobe malfunction' at a thrift store and thought it would look very nice as a focal point as one exits the pergola.  I previously had an old barrel topped with a sundial, but it eventually collapsed and the sundial was re-located to another part of the garden.  The barrel underplanted with daffodils and iris but, as the burning bushes got bigger, they sort of killed out the iris, leaving a dusty, weedy patch.  Although there is a forsythia bush directly behind her to conceal the 'lovely' chain link fence in the background, it was due a good pruning this spring.  Now I have to endure seeing that wretched fence until the forsythia fills back in.  I am still pondering what to over-plant the daff bulbs with that will thrive in such dry shade. I really, really want to put in wintergreen (Gautheria procumbens), but it absolutely hates clay soil and would just be a slow death sentence up there for it.

For now, I plan on mulching heavily and waiting until spring. 

Made in the USA fireworks!

Not from China, that's for sure!  Had a big cardboard roll that I got from work and finally got around to cutting them up and painting them for my July 4th display.  Yes, I know they are missing fins, but it was 100 degrees and I ran out of steam.

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Happy (Belated) New Year!

It's snowing today and I have already shoveled the driveway and the sidewalks. Once. I also fed the birds and they are quite happy to have some munchies. A few of them even liked the water I put out for them.

The gurls played ring-round-the-patio while I was gathering firewood and clearing snow. They are now exhausted and are curled up, asleep on their beds. I am supposed to be finishing the laundry, but decided that my snow-removal job warranted a cup of hot coffee and some web surfing first.