Three times in a week! What's wrong with me? I'm so so so so so so excited about what I got done today! The weather was absolutely gorgeous (except a bit of wind) and Ares and I spent the entire day outside.

I dusted off the lawn mower and gave it a fresh drink of gasoline, then took it for a stroll around my backyard. Oh how wondrous that bag on the back is that sucks up all the leaves and dead grass. It's like a vacuum for your lawn...and I love vacuuming! I forgot that there was a lawn under all those leaves and sticks and weeds! It looks beautiful.

I saw this done on some very creative person's blog and I just had to have some of my own! They are just terra cotta pots that you can get at Lowe's for a couple of dollars each, some black craft paint, then I traced on some numbers (my house number) that I printed off by rubbing a pencil over the back of the paper, lying the paper on the pot and tracing over the numbers with a pen so that the lead stays on the pot! Then, I painted the numbers with white acrylic paint...
threw in some flowers...
I LOVE THEM!



I went to the Restore again today...this time I had a mission! I just wanted to get a couple of plastic outdoor chairs because I have never really appreciated them or given them a chance and I wanted to see what they had to offer.

I found these for $3.00!


I gave them a couple of coats of black spray paint, threw on some pillows that I got for $6.00 a piece a few weeks ago and they've been sitting in my living room waiting for a pair of chairs to sit on, brought down the console table I bought two years ago and have never found a use for, found a green candle that I got for free from Pier 1 when I worked there and was still in the wrapper, and a couple of other odds and ends that have never really had a spot...and turned this...


Into this!

I think the chairs definitely showed me that they were well worth the $3.00 and a little bit of TLC!