Painted Pot, Matching New Pillows and Flowers

Painted Pot, New Pillows and Flowers to Match

In my last post, I shared the two pedestals I painted and I must admit this past weekend I was on a bit of a painting frenzy, due to the post over at At the Picket Fence,  "How to age new garden pots".   I didn't use a new garden pot but, I did use a pot that I had.  I spray painted and after I sprayed it I wasn't so crazy with the color, so, I thought I would give the aging painting technique a whirl.

These are the steps I took

This is what it looked like when I started ( top left), sponged on the first layer (top right)

sponged on a lighter color (bottom left), and the added some purple (bottom right)

once it was dry, I started sanding it to bring out the tarra cotta color and in some spots I sanded it down to the original color.

I added some African Daisy Zion Copper Amethyst.
I just love the color of this daisy! Beside the fact that amethyst is my daughters birthstone.

and everything matches!  I shared that I was a bit anal about matching in my last post. 
What do you think?  Does it match?  Pretty darn close if you aske me :)

It all started with these pillows I made a couple of weekends ago and you know how it goes, you do one thing and then it leads into another and so on, and so on.
The pillows were made with a table cloth I found at Marshals I orignially used the table cloth to recover my kitchen chairs Here.  I had some left over so I decided I would use them to recover the old pillows which had become very faded.

I love how it all came together!

If you haven't tried painting pots and want to make it custom to your decor, I would highly recommend it, it is not only fun,  it is so easy!   What I love most is "It Matches"
I will be sharing some other painted pots I did in the next post, along with some inside stuff I have been working on.
 I told you I was on a bit of a painting pots frenzy!

If you like this and want to know the colors I used, please feel free to leave a comment or email me at thendersonstb@yahoo.com
Would love to hear from you!

Tammy

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Happy Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day!

Today  we celebrated Memorial Day with some very special people, our parents.  We all had a great time, good food and some real nice quality time together.  Not  wanting to forget the real reason of this celebration, I really wanted try and make it special in  honor to my father-in-law, I adore this man!  You see my father-in- law has
dementia and although his memory is slipping,  he does remember serving our country and is very proud of it!  As he should be! 

there were and still are many that sacrifice their lives for us!  Thank you to all our troops who then and now stand for us.

 

Mr. OMT plans on building a case for my father-in-laws uniform.  We are so proud of him!

Red, White and Blue,  Berry Shortcake was made just for him!

 

 

May God Bless all our troops!

Thrift Store Find Concrete Cherub Pedestals

Thrift Store Find Concrete Cherub Pedestals

Yesterday, I got to spend the day with my mom, and we both were having thrift store shopping
Withdrawals .  Can you think of anything better than spending time with your mom and thrift store shopping?   I love spending time with my mom, especially thrift store shopping, it is so much fun! Especially, when you both are frantically scouring the store, trying to find the best finds!

While, I was going my way and she going hers, I spotted these two concrete pedestals.  I am hear to tell you,  I couldn't get over there fast enough!... While I was trying to get to them....wouldn't you figure, there was someone blocking the isle, well OK... I will just go around.  Thinking to myself please, please, please,  no one get there before I do!....Whew, ok I made it!  There mine!

 

I  was even more thrilled when I had looked at the price of them!  Really?  $9.95 for the SET and 50% off of that!  OK, they are so mine! YES!   Just as I was trying to figure out how to get both of them in the cart, here came my mom around the corner "You brat! (which I have to admit I am a bit of a brat)  I want those, that is not fair, I was here earlier they must  have just put them out"  No...mom they are mine...so hard to say no to her, but that is the fun of thrifting...who will find and end up with the best finds with the best price.  Sorry Mom!  I love you!

Here is what I did with them when I got home.

Glazed them

added some purple to the grapes, added more glaze, stippled some acrylic paint until I got the aged look I was going for and then applied a matt clear finish.

The left one is before and the right one is after.

I couldn't just stop with the pedestal, I ended up doing the tarra cotta pot too!

add new flowers

Here is the other one.
  OK, do I paint this pot too?  What do you think?
  I am anal when it comes to matching.  I think yes!
Speaking of matching.... I painted some more pots, and yes,  they match the new pillows and flowers I planted!  I will share that in my next post.  If you want to see, either follow or subscribe, nothing would make me happier!
Till next post!  I hope all of you had a safe and enjoyable weekend!

Tammy

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New Addition to Vegetable Bed

We have a new addition and new additions to our raised vegetable bed,  when things started sprouting,  it was like every single seed planted took,  oops!  OK...now there wasn't going to be enough room in the two beds!  Do we need to pull some of them out?  I couldn't stand the thought of pulling out what just grew.  I love everything about this vegetable bed,  the thought and love that Mr. OMT put into it  (Mother's Day Gift).   I get so much pleasure of just watching this garden grow!  Mr. OMT says I am easily amused....and my answer is always Yep!

  Mr. OMT surprised me again, when I got home there was a new addition to the vegetable bed.

and

 a new trellis for the new green beans he planted.

Before

After

Lot's of growth in such a short amount of time...Love IT!

  

New herbs for window shelves

I loved it when it was a 2 tier raised vetetable bed!  I really love it now that it's a 3 tiered vegetable bed! 

P.S.  I really love Mr. OMT for all he does for me!

I do have to say my love grows for him each and every day, just like this garden!

I will be sharing more of other additions to the back yard, so, if you like this post either follow me or subscribe to OMT would love to share more with you!   Till next time, thanks for letting me share!

Tammy

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Grapevine Stump Garden Planter

Grapevine Stump Garden Planter

In my last post I shared how to make a cake pop stand from a log HERE,  and today I am going to share,  what I did with a dead grapevine stump.  This stump was here when we moved in and it has been a eye sore for a very long time,  I guess one solution would be is to remove it, or just ignore it,  we chose to ignore it,  Till this last weekend.

After decorating the log for the event I did recently,  HERE,  It got my creative juices flowing and this is what I did to this tired old grapevine stump.

Why not?  OK... so now it has a purpose and not so much of a eye sore anymore!

Now, that I am looking at these pictures.... I am thinking these pots would look better painted and aged  like the ones over at At the Picket Fence, Thanks Heather for sharing the great post!   If you have not seen them yet and you like the look of aging, you will love this idea.  I know I did!

I really think a little aging with some color will make this grapevine planter complete!  What do you think
age it or leave it the way it is?
Would love to here some feed back and if you would like, either subscribe or follow me that would be great!
Thank you for letting me share...till next post :)

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How to make a Log Centerpiece for Cake Pops

How to make a Log Centerpiece for Cake Pops

In my last post,  I shared the event I did using a log for the main centerpiece to display cake pops  HERE.  Today, I thought I would share with you how it was actually made.

First, you need to find a log, because we wanted to make it the main attraction a larger log was chosen, cleaned and cured and prepared for food, although the cake pops are on sticks, I still felt this step was very important!  In one of my past events,  I used a birch log, you can see it HERE, 


After the log was cleaned, cured and treated,  holes where drilled into the log for placement of the sticks.  

You will want to only go as far as 1/2 inch down or enough to hold the stick in place.
Since, this log was going to be decorated with moss and floral, I did not want to lose sight of where the holes were actually drilled, I marked the holes with purple latex paint using a Q-tip.

1 /2 inch bit was used to round out  placement for  the battery operated tea lights.   .

I started using this kind of moss (above)  for placement, but later I decided I wanted a more greener moss. (see below)

  
 After,  I achieved the look I was going for with the moss and floral, I then glued them to the log.

  I hot glued moss around the top and edges of the tea lights, so it would blend in and only the lights was showing.

I love the way it turned out and it was a big hit at the event I did it for! :)

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