Over the 4th

These are some photos of the party we decided to have at the last minute. Friends were going to come over to watch the parade that goes right in front of our home. We decided to have them come for a cookout too, so I got a red table cloth out and the only other patriotic things I had. Everyone offered to bring goodies, which they did.  Joann even brought the jello shots, because I had never made them before and she is a pro. Yes, yes, she is a pro, they were fantastic!!! That's why there are no pics of the table loaded with food or of any actual people. What can I say?

The Table

The Cracker Jacks I picked up because of the colors

I had red and blue cups left over from the Homecoming party   

The basket on the table for the chips has a RW&B napkin tied on the handle and the other basket has the plates wrapped in a RW&B napkin.

Thanks for checking out my little photo display of the 4th.
~LORI

I party here:
Inspire Me Fridays 
Weekend Wander 
Fabulous Friday Link Party
Pink Saturday-A Patriotic Pink Saturday 

Lavender & Rosemary

This is my first attempt at growing Lavender. I think I need to re-pot into a larger vessel, the plant just started growing so fast. There are a few purple petals where she has started to bloom, but I need to do a little reading on when to harvest and how to cut and dry.

This is my rosemary.  I want to start propagating her now that I know that I can. While blog hopping or browsing Pinterest, I came upon a post from  Juniper Moon Farm about how to propagate Rosemary, (I believe they want to grow a hedge eventually). I found out that you can do the same with Lavender, check out their fabulous blog or go through my Pinterest board, Herbal Apothecary. Visiting both of us would definately be worth your time.

Here is a closer shot of the Lavender and below a closer shot of the rosemary.

Thanks for stopping by, I would love to hear what you think and welcome any advice,
Hugs~Lori

Linking up here:
Tuesday Garden Party 
Wildly Original Round Up
Home and Garden Thursday
Friday Fun Party

Independence Day Medallion

update: This project was featured at Eye Heart Thanks Cinthya!!!!

JUST DO IT!

I've made another medallion deco for my front door. They can be time consuming to create, but so much fun. I advise everyone to just go for it! This one took approximately 1 hour or so, it's hard to tell, I made it yesterday taking several breaks. 

Glass of Front Door

Close Up

The Half Circle

Close Up

Close up

Another Close Up

Another Full Length 

Link and photo of the original pin 




Thanks for the visit and comment, I sure appreciate you! Hugs~LORI

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Look What I Made

Sunshine!

Here's another Stampin' Up card. The pinwheel uses the 5 new In Colors for 2012-2014. The green is actually muted, not bright as it appears here. All of the colors are muted this time. The only thing that I did differently was adding a bigger brad to the center, (I really messed up the hole punches).
Thanks for stopping by!
Lori
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Stampin' Sisters in Christ Use Something New~New In Color Card Stock
 

Independence Day

Today I'm sharing my Independence Day card. My Happy 4th of July!!! It's a little early, but I wanted to share it with a few fun parties today.

This card is full of texture, don't you love that? Everything is Stampin' Up. This is exactly how Susan had it demonstrated. She teases that I always have to change her cards. Well, several of the cards you will be seeing over the next weeks are tweaked a bit here and there. I have a ton of cards ready to share from the last two months of our stamp camps. I love that we got the crimper out for the Night of Navy card stock. The heart and star punches are always fun too.  Below is a close up of the heart so that you can see the dry embossed Polk-a-dots.

Thanks for stopping by and leaving you comments,
Hugs~Lori

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More of Our Back Yard

I think this is called a Snowball Bush, but I'm not sure. It is HUGE! It has spread out quite a bit over the years. Beautiful, yes. In my way when I go out to hang clothes on the line? Yes. It is overgrowing my stone path, I guess I should have taken a photo of that too. Anyway, I just wanted to show a few shots of our yard. As I said in the day-lily post, I was only able to get a few areas because of the time of day.

The leaves are gorgeous green and the flowers are a beautiful white. Easy to care for....we don't have to do a thing except trim it!!! They are not fragrant, which is a bummer.

Sharing my gardening at the following:

Tuesday Garden Party
Look What I Made

Day Lilly's

These are the Day-Lilly's behind our garage. It wasn't a great day for photos, as you can see in the close up below, a bit of wilting was going on. It is a bit warm and sunny on the south side of the old carriage house. Our garage is actually the original carriage house for our Victorian era farmhouse.  More about the interesting history of our home in another post. The Day-Lilly's are rather wild behind the corner and around one side. When we first moved in I cut a few and brought them into the house, but they died by the next morning. Oh! That must be why they are called day-lilly's!!! Who knew? Well, we didn't really have many flowers on the farm while I was growing up. Sheesh! Tee hee, silly girl.

Thanks for stopping by, hope I put a little smile on your face and sun in your eyes. **Smiles**
~Lori
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