You don't have a garden where you can putter around?

Maybe this post will give you a few ideas.

Pots are the answer.

Bougainvillea do well in pots

Petunias are easy

Pick up a few clay pots

Look around your house for containers.

A few welcome flowers by the front door.

By an old fountain.

Up and down the steps

A little corner by the table.

Pots placed where a little color is needed. 

Urns make great containers.

Great if you have a balcony

On the way to the terrace.

Any ledge will do.

My Begonias have been in these pots for many years. 

Pansies to greet visitors by the front door. 

All you need is a little potting soil and a few containers.    

Gina  

Plastic turning into stone

It's true,
 Trompe l'oeil it.

What a difference a little paint makes.

These little plastic urns were a plain brown color.

The urns were painted a solid green first.

On an old plate add several of your favorite acrylic paint colors.

With a flat, two inch wide brush and working sideways, apply paint in streaks.

In places stipple on a little white paint.

When completely dry spray with high gloss sealer.

You can improve so many different surfaces with just a little paint.

It is the paint treatment that separates the ordinary from the  special.

Have a great weekend my dear Blogging Friends.

Gina

I think she is cross-eyed

I painted her cross-eyed?

She is charming just the same

The apples will ripen and so will the plums and the pears ...while I'm off to new adventures

I hope that:

Our house sitters, from the big city, won't mind the rooster crowing at 4 o'clock in the morning

Stanley, our gentleman cat, will not bring mice and voles to the front door

That the chickens will not go into a molt, I have promised our friends fresh chicken eggs every morning

That the Charolais bull and his girls will not decide that the "grass is greener on the other side"

That it will not freeze so our house guests can enjoy the bounty of the garden and flowers to bring into the house

Au revoir, my dear blogging friends

Gina

Blank Canvas

Be still my beating Heart . . .


What handsome shapes, and they are not small and not easy to throw. They are like a blank piece of paper. How to begin painting them? A little stage fright? A little writers block, maybe?




Cindy, my premier student, and I painted all day yesterday. And when she made her 2 hour drive home, she left behind these beautiful bisque vessels and hand built tiles. See how perfectly straight the tiles are? Not easy to do.


Thrown by Cindy, on her potter's wheel, the shapes make my heart jump for joy. I see all of the possibilities . . . but is my painting worthy? Should I just glaze them and leave them all white, or should I add only a little gold? Should I make them look as if they have survived centuries, as I often do?

What do you think?

Gina