More flowers (arangements)

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This is my table full of flowers to take to the cemetery.

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I bought 4 of the cone containers you stick in the ground. This is one of them filled with red carnations.
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The yellow daisies are for the basket for Mom... they are ready to set down in it when we get there. I have extra flowers to fill in with if needed, but not having the basket here makes it hard to really know what to do.

J

floral arrangement

Finally today I got to the floral arrangement... I sort of had an idea of what I wanted it to look like but wasn't sure... so just started little by little until it looked almost good. I am such a NOT floral arranger but I hope it's good enough. Kiko was so talented in this area, I wish I could do half as good. These are artificial flowers wired onto some grapevine sticks and the whole thing is wired onto a scalloped brick. The scallop doesn't have a reason for being.. I just used what I had. I wanted it heavy so the wind wouldn't blow it away.. I covered the bare spots with moss and used a hot glue gun. Will try to make another arrangement tomorrow to put on Moms grave too. I noticed the basket of flowers were all faded... That's not good. I'm trying my best to remember what that basket looks like but it seems I'm drawing a blank.. anyway here are a couple of pics of the arrangement I made today. Remember click on the images to see them bigger... Hard to get a picture of the whole thing or to really show the size... it's well over three feet in length. I think closer to four.

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Beads.....not finished

I made these beads when we went camping but I forgot to take my paints.. I do have some clay that doesn't need painting.. The blue beads were made using colored fimo but the others I am painting. The peach colored bracelet isn't finished. I need to paint two more beads and I need to buy some elastic to string them on. I'll post a finished pic when they are done. I put the beads onto skewers to hold them while I paint them and leave them there to dry.. J

Finished the dog sweater...

I did it... I crocheted my dog a sweater without even knowing how. He's a funny sized dog. Not very big around but kinda long... I have yet to find one sweater in the stores that would fit him right. So I decided to make one. This is my first attempt at crocheting a sweater for him but now that I've done it and see how well it fits him I think I'll make him several. Sure fits him good and a lot cheaper than anything readymade.. I'm quite proud of this...

J

Spring has Sprung

I've worked only a little on the dogs sweater today... I did look at some picture frames that I wanted. This project is going to be rather costly so I might only have to do a few at a time. But I am determined to do it. This evening I went outside for awhile and noticed how pretty the spring flowers were. I don't have much yard here but the flowers are nice anyway. Would love a bigger yard again but then that would mean more weeds too... this will have to do. I thought I'd put a few pics of the flowers here. Remember if you click on a pic it will enlarge and be so much prettier... J