Under a Blue Moon

1. Elly <3, 2. Untitled, 3. Fabulous mail day 🙂, 4. OOAK Sheepy*, 5. dress2, 6. Gpen, 7. hand lettered, 8. 18/52, 9. Apothecary Jars

• Lovely vintagey green hand painted tray.  And a lovely painting by the same artist.  I want both for my kitchen.
• Fabulous before and afters.  Amazing what a coat of paint can do to a sad, neglected piece of furniture
• I do love Ikea for simple serving pieces.  
• I wonder if my laptop would fit in this sweet looking bag
• Love the retro look of this camping cup.  I can remember having a similar one when I was a Girl Scout

Happy Friday everyone!  It promises to be HOT this weekend so I think I'm going to try to stay inside where it is nice and cool as much as possible.  Who knows…maybe I'll paint something.  

Hope your weekend is fabulous!

1. Tools, 2. A box of clementines, 3. 011_2, 4. EC – Wise Guy, 5. cups & saucers, 6. Painterly Bracelet trio, 7. Confetti Garden, 8.Storybook Toys, 9. 130 | 365 Liv's new doll bed

• One of the many happy surprises with our new home is an apricot tree.  It's pretty small and just has a handful of apricots but when it gets more prolific I'm making this apricot tart.  Isn't that gorgeous?  Curious – do you say app-ri-cot or aaa-pri-cot?  We have a differing opinion on which is correct in this household
• Street map necklace – great way to commemorate your home town or a fabulous vacation
• Technically this is a Valentine post and they are mug rugs but I think slightly larger they would make lovely pot holders.  Kind of like my retro ones
• Sweet, Summery espadrilles
• On my book wishlist:  Seasons:  The Best of Donna Hays Magazine  I love Donna Hays' magazine, when I can find it.   And when I do find it her seasons are upside down from mine so when I'm ready for Summer her Winter issue is just out.  This book looks like the perfect solution

Happy First Day of Summer!  We have been dialing in our garden so we can spend more time out there.  Not that there is too much that needs doing – mostly keeping the weeds under control and taking out a few plants that weren't quite our garden esthetic and replacing them with some that are.  I was going to show you our wall fountain out back this week and never got out there to take pictures.  Next week I promise!

This weekend I have a big basket of blueberries that need to be turned into a pie.  We also want to work a bit on the little courtyard.  Rick took out a tree and moved a rose.  I want to tidy it up and repaint my cafe table and chairs that are out there.  

Goodness – there is always something to do around here!

Hope your weekend is spectacular.

1. ~, 2. From our garden…, 3. milkandstuff, 4. Fallen Sunshine, 5. printable calendar — flower, 6. home, 7. Sunny side up, 8. vintage yellow MOP buttons, 9. Lemon Yellow

• This is a completely clever use of spray paint.  Turn a new fan retro
• Hmmm.  Wonder if Chardonnay has the same effect
• Lovely alphabet stamp set (via Creature Comforts) and D'oh!  Why didn't I think of that!
• Are these not the cutest cookies you have ever seen?  And you can order the cookie cutter and make them yourself!  (No. 8794 of things I have pinned and plan on doing one of these days….)
• Who had a pen pal growing up?  I can remember my third grade teach organizing pen pals for all of us.  I wish I had kept up with it.  There really isn't anything as sweetly exhilarating as getting real mail.  Pretty post cards, in case you ever take it up again

How can it be mid-June already?  This year is just flying by.  My new job is keeping me very busy (good busy) and the house is too.  Unfortunately the blog, as always, suffers a bit.  I'll try to get caught up here with the little projects we have accomplished.  I just need to spend some time taking pictures.  

This weekend I'm not entirely sure what we'll be doing.  I do have weeding that really needs attending to so that might happen.  Maybe I'll pick a room and paint it.  I have to kind of sneak up on myself with the idea otherwise I over-think it and get all worn out before I even start.  

I hope your weekend is splendid!

1. Bubble Bokeh, 2. . dreaming, 3. Milky Ways, 4. Winter Blues (Day 157/365), 5. flickr.com/photos/31994811@N06/7649954044/, 6.silver sounion, 7. Noel, 8. Noche de luna llena – Full moon night, 9. One by one I drowned all the people I’d been

• Good lord is this not the cutest dustpan you have ever seen??  I might actually sweep more often if I had it
• Very clever – make your own Otter Pops (or whatever they are called now) using these bags.  Is it just me or do Otter Pops make you cough when you eat them?
• Keeping with the frozen treat theme – wouldn't these ice cream cups be cute for a Summer party?  Here are the spoons to go with them
• This is what I strive for

Another week come and gone.  We have been interviewing contractors for our main bath remodel.  I would say the economy is definitely on an uptick because most of them are too busy for our poky little job.  We have had only one of them actually get back to us with a bid.  We do have two others that we are waiting for and hopefully they will follow through.  It would be nice to have more than one bid to choose from.  

We did get Rick's corner desk put in.  This entailed painting the laundry room/Rick's office area and building the corner unit.  It turned out nicely.  I'll try to get some pictures of the before and after next week.  

Tomorrow we are focusing our attention outside and will be putting up a trellis for the jasmine we bought.  Rick sunk a post and hung my wall fountain and we want the jasmine to grow up behind it. Another post forthcoming…

The irony here is that I finally have things to post about but no time to do it.  

We will be having houseguests again this weekend.  The weather promises to be hot so maybe we'll be able to eat outside.  Hmmm….maybe I should go hang some fairly lights out there….

Have a marvelous weekend everyone!