Making Hats

I decided to decorate some hats and design them for my shop....I had fun and they turned out really great!!! Some of them I put charms on and others butterflys and lady bugs....:)

I think the colors really set them off....

This was a wicker box I out together....I was on a flower craze....

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My "B" Day, Field Trip to the Yarn Shops, and Flowers Blooming

This little guy I got at a boutique in Seal Beach and he was too cute. His hair is that stretchy rubber stuff...and to the right is my metal fisherman at my pond.
The flower I am holding is a purple morning glory

these are just starting they are my Moon flowers

here is a pink rose from my flowerbeds and asnail my daughter got me

These are varigated geraniums that my son picked for me 3 Mom's days ago down by the Queen Mary. It was just one branch and now I have them everywhere. I always get so many complitments about how beautiful they bloom.

the ones also the front edge are also varigated pink geraniums and they have really bloomed this year

My horse is getting covered with greenery, and I couldn't resist this pen with the chick on the top, sepecially since my groups name is Stitch n' Chicks...hey I think I will get a few for the group... :)

Another snail in my garden and the lettuce plant is sprouting babies this year

Gerber Daisys and purple and white daisys are really blooming

Orange succulents and my Tiki with the parrots beak plant surrounding its bottom

more geraniums in pink and Whisteria in the purple hanging over the fence. the little reading frog my friend got me because she knows I love to read.

some purple and red geraniums..

I loved this sweater made with Annie Blatt yarn

the beach

the group on the yarn field trip

lots of colors

this store had so many samples hanging everywhere. Yummy....

A $285 skein of yarn...wow!!!!! I had to feel it

Friday was my "B day and I tried to blow out these candles but my DH bought ones that kept lighting up....so.....I kept trying... :) now to show off some of my "B" day pressies...My DH got me a Swift....yippy!!!! And beautiful peach roses, a new spade and cutters with rubber handles to help with the aches of cutting and digging. I am always playing around around the pond and in the flowerbeds, as you can see my flowers are blooming everywhree. I just love love the color, then I got a wire Tea pot basket to hold me tea bags. I love this little tea pot. I saw at Polly's Pies and fell in love with it and he remembered and got me one... :) Then my DS got me a digital key chain and it holds 60 photos...I cannot wait to put my pis on it, and a cordless mouse for my laptop and my desk puter....I hate the cord one I have now... :) my best buddy came out Sat night and spent the night with me and she brought me the cutest frog and turtle for my pond, and took me to dinner. DH went fishing for the weekend so we had a girls weekend. We went shopping in Seal Beach Sunday and bought flags and other goodies and then went and ate out on the pier. Then we went over to the Japanese Gardens and walked around. They were having an Orchid display, wow!!!! Sat daytime my local knit group and I went on a field trip to 3 shops and had lunch down in Hermosa Beach at Henessey's by their pier. The shops we went to were Beach knit Shop, L'atiere, and Concepts in Yarn....they were all different and had some great yarns and patterns that I absolutly had to get... :) I also had to get a few new projects of course. And if you look at the one shot Donna is holding a skein of yarn that costs $285 .....unbelievable...What fun....

My Garden is a Blooming!

This little gut I call "Chi Chi" he loves to pose for me and he is my backyard pet squirrel...and the other little one is in my front yard flowerbed, my daughter gave him to me...

This is called a hybrid geranium and I love its purple color....

I went around and took some snaps of my blooming garden...and WOW the colors were amazing...I love spring when everything just jumps up and sings and the insects and birds are chirping and buzzing away...so stroll with me through some of my flowers... This red and white is another hybrid geranium that my son got me in 2004 on Mother's Day when we went to the Queen Mary in their flowerbed he snipped off a branch and it has grown in my front yard ever since...the purple and white daiseys are in my front yard along with my succulent red bead plant and Gerber Daiseys.The orange ones are called Parrots Beak and they grow around my pond, sooooo pretty...and the pink ones in the flowerpot are impatients and hang from the front tree

The yellow daisys are out front, and the orangish blooms are around the pond and it is a water plant called, Orange Canna.

The white potted ones here are my sweet smelling Jasmine flowers....

So as you can see my yard is blooming all kinds of colors....

WOW...love flowers!!!

Oh I must not forget to add a little crochet...this is a picture of a crocheted hanger sachet that I made for my swap partner in the All Around the House bedroom swap for March...I love this pattern asn will make lots more for gifts, but I am changing it to baby hangers, the bigger ones are just too big!!