An Outside Metamorphis Monday!

Our lovely Susan at Between Naps on the Porch

is our wonderful hostess for this fun day

that many of us love to post about.

Thank you Susan for being a gracious hostess for us.

I have an outdoor project I have mentioned before in my blog

and have done a tutorial on for a Three or More post.

But this project has become a mess

and needs to be resurrected again.

So here goes.......

My Petunia Tower.

There is a picture in my side bar of how it looked last summer.

The old petunias died off and the weeds sprouted

from the winter rains.

A big messy mess.

Right?

Now you can see I have pulled the old petunias

out of the pots.

And I pulled out the weeds around my pots,

including some of the neighbors weeds.

Otherwise the pots would still be kind of buried from the

neighbor's weeds.

Here is another view looking out at the green belt

area in our mobile home park.

We are fortunate we have that green belt to look at.

You can't see it here,

but from this angle we also have a view of the hills in the distance.

It is especially pretty with the morning sun shining

on the hills.

I saw these bricks/stones being used as a plant

surround at work.

I really liked the look of it and wanted to do that around my tower.

So last weekend we got some stones.

When I got home from work on Thursday,

I scraped the bark away from the tower and tried to make it

sort of level.

Then I started placing the stones around the tower.

The view people walking along the green belt would see.

Now the stones are all the way around.
And we added a stepping stone for the tower to sit on.
It was not easy to get the heavy tower on there.
Hubby helped with that part.
We tilted the tower some and worked the stone under there.
But the stone was too close to one edge.
We used one of hubby's belts around the stone,
and hubby pulled on the belt while I held the tower steady.
Worked like a charm!!
So there is a hint for you if you try to do something similiar.
The ground sort of slopes here and the tower is not
perfectly straight.
I may try to straighten it more.
But then on Friday it started raining.
Rained on Saturday.
Rained on Sunday.
Needless to say, I have not been back out there.
My plan is to add dirt in the open area between the stones
and the tower and plant seeds there.
I will be planting petunia seeds in the pots.
It will look very different this year compared to last year.
I will post more when I have done more on this
current project.
In the meantime,
when it rains

we


get



these!




ANTS!!!!

The rain chases them into the house.
Yucko!!
Happy Monday everyone!
~Linnea~

Blue Monday and Met Monday----sort of----

Hello everyone! I am doing a double post again

for double the pleasure.

Hmmm......

That sort of reminds me of that Doublemint commercial.

Anyway, thank you to Sally over at Smiling Sally for hosting the BLUEs for us.

And thank you to Susan at Between Naps on the Porch for hosting the METs for us.

Have you noticed several of our hosts have names that start with "S"?

Now why is that?


After the Easter clean up I had all the clean dishes
all over the dining room table.
I should have taken a picture of that, oh well.
But here is the look after I put the stuff away.
My plates, bowls and cups you can see here.
Notice I have the cups hanging from hooks to save shelf space.
The dishes have BLUE.

We used these Princess House plates for dessert.
See, I have put them away too.
My what a good girl I am.
Now I need a pie to stick in my thumb,
like that nursery rhyme. Heehee.

The wine glasses get put away here.
See our method of saving shelf space.
It really helps to have some of the wineglasses hang from the stem.

Otherwise that upper space is wasted space!

The gravy boat that was used for extra ham glaze.
It gets put away here next to my wedding cake top
which has BLUE!

This gravy boat was one we got on my birthday outing.
We found it at a thrift shop for cheap.

I also have some BLUE wine glasses.

Only 5 though. And 2 water goblets.

They were wedding gifts, but we did not end up with very many.

The towels I used to dry the dishes.

Also full of BLUE.

So that was a mini-met in the kitchen/dining room.

Going from messy Easter meal dishes,

to clean and put away again until next time.

Here is another Metamorphis I am working on.

This messy corner in the family room.

I was getting annoyed with this mess.

Can't find what I want.

This is the bookcase in the messy corner.

A yucky messy place.
And on the floor beside the chair.
More yucky messy stuff.

This messy place is in the sewing/office room.
Actually it was worse before I took the picture.
There was a lot more papers and junk on the floor.
Yucky messy me.
Also, by the time I took this picture, I had actually straightened
the bookshelf some.
It is actually neater here than it was.
If you can imagine such a thing.
That laundry basket there is full of fabric.
This is the worst.
I have not tackled this part yet.
HELP!
I can't even get into the closet!!
Oh me, oh my!

The ultimate goal it to totally clean out this closet and redo
the storage set up in there.
But I needed to do the other straightening and cleaning before
I can even get into the closet.
The closet was never painted white like the rest of the room
which is making it a very dark spooky place.
No wonder I don't want to go in there.
Notice also we have taken the door off.
Gives me more usuable wall space.
But my cutting table is now blocking the doorway.
Half of the room has been painted yellow
which is the color I want in here.
It is kind of a dark room so the yellow should make it cheery in there.

This is a Metamorphis in progress.
So far I have gotten this corner in the family room
cleaned and straigthened.
Doesn't that look so much better?

Now I need to get back into the sewing/office room
and continue where I left off.
I need to keep going so I can make it a room
that is fun to sew and craft in.
This is also the room I blog in too.
The corner where the computer is located
is already yellow.
So I get to look at the cheery yellow while blogging.
And that mess in the pictures is behind me.
I can't see it while I blog.
If I can't see it, does that mean the mess is not there?
Happy Monday everyone!
~Linnea~