Sun Flower DIY Project

Hi Friends,

This week I have been working on a little project using wooden sun shapes fun picture frames from the Dollar Store.  

I painted the wooden suns yellow and then added some black and white checked gingham fabric.

 

My vision was to use buttons for the center of the flower (sun) frame. It seems I always have a good stock of old buttons. 

So I took a look through my button stash, and found a set of five for each flower (sun) frame.

I heated up the dandy glue gun to attach the buttons to the center to make the frame look more like a sunflower.  I think all four flowers turned of very cute.

Have you made a diy for fall? Until the next time.....

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Blooming Sunflowers in August

Sunflowers in my yard

Sunflower seed were planted everywhere

Also crab apples are ready to pick.

What a wonder time of year!  Thank you for stopping by and visiting my garden.
Til next time, have a great day!
Vicki -Colo Junkett

June garden update

The temperature has been in the 90's! 

The flower beds are thriving here and there.  The first Orange Poppy in bloom!

The Iris are looking good!

Lambs Ear are enjoying the sun.

This flower bed is looking good.  Lamb Ear, White Iris, Red Dianthus, and Purple Salvia Nemorosa in the back the Lilacs are done in this bed.

This Salvia Nemorosa is laying on the ground.

The LILACS are fading.

90* is so hot for new seedlings in my neck of the country.

I've planted lettuce, kale, broccoli, spinach,onions, carrots and as you can see a zucchini plant in the front left hand side of my garden box seems to be doing well.  I ordered a cover for cooler weather, but I decided to use it as a cover to shade the seedlings.

Hope you all are having better luck with your gardens.

Have a wonderful Day!

Vicki- the Colo Junkett

Sunflowers Late/Summer-Changing Décor

Hi Friends,

I have taken down the Fourth of July décor and starting to put up late summer décor, sunflowers crows etc.  I like summer so much and we have such a short summer that I feel it's okay to stretch summer décor into September.

cigar collection vignettes

country style spitoon

vintage white milk glass

vintage cigar box

vintage lunch box

green vintage books brass country candle stick

May God bless you and your family, I'm Vicki the Colo-Junkett

August Sunflowers in my Late Summer Vignettes

Hi Friends,

I have a few late August vignettes to share with you today.

In a few vignettes in the den I have added sunflower florals with some yellow shredded paper for filler. I have been collecting vintage bottles for a long time I love these aqua bottles.

I place a couple of roosters in this wine box added some raffia and a few sprigs of sunflowers and pip berries.

 Just another vignette a canning jar I filled with shredded yellow paper and added a yellow homespun fabric bow and floral.

I have a small collection of cigar boxes and this King Edward cigar box I added a vintage glass fishing net ball and some floral to make up this late summer vignette.

It was great to get some of my August sunflowers displayed around my house for late Summer décor.

Thank you for checking out some of my ideas to use collectibles in and around the home.

So until the next project. May God bless you and your family.

I'm Vicki the Colo-Junkett

2012 August Celebrations

 

Oh the Doggy Days of Summer!  Who thought up that saying any way..?

August is Friendship month

August 1st – Full Moon

1st week of August you can celebrate “Clown week”

August 3rd – Watermelon Day

August 12th – 13th Meteor Showers

August 20th – 1st day of college for me

August 25th – I’ll need to get a birthday card out to my Dad

August 27th – kids go back to school

August 31st – second Full Moon (Blue Moon)

The month of August is a pretty laid back month for me, however here in my neck of the woods there will be lots going on

1st of August through the 12th  with the Moffat County Fair.

Now that we all have a little bit of a breather before Labor Day the Official holiday, that says that the summer is over and get back to routines.

How are you spending the rest of the summer?

Have a Great Day!

Colo Junkett

Last Day of School !! Yipeee !!

This coming week is 'Final's Week' at the college and then summer break for me. I'm so excited!  I have a few weeks before the High School is out for their summer break, The last thing I thought I would be doing is watching my grandson this summer.

Don't get me wrong I love watching them, we play outside, we watch old cartoons, we plays games, and oh the toys! toys! toys!, but I had a lot of things on my list I was hoping to get done around my little Colorado Cottage in the next couple of weeks.  Oh well it's all good. Their only this age for a short time

 

You Have a Great Day!  Colo Junkett