House Stuffs 05.09.
We have Clematis in five places in our yard. This is one of them. That’s our bedroom window you see in the photo, so it’s nice to have this in our view. I want to transplant some of it to the front porch. While we do have a vine up growing in the front yard, I’d like to add to it and hopefully screen in one side of our porch with pretty flowers! Plus, bees love it and I love bees! Apparently, it can be pretty invasive, but I’m willing to work with it since I’m starting from scratch.
We have this plant (Kalanchoe) in yellow, orange, and red. The red we got from a neighbor. It started as a smaller plant, but has now grown through two containers and has given us enough clippings to have three other plants. Anyone want any?? It’s super easy to grow! They are mostly kept as house plants, but I need to research if they can go in the ground, cause we have quite the surplus.
A couple of months ago we spied this mantle in the same antique store we found our kitchen hoosiers. It was only $60, but we didn’t really have any way to carry it home, and we just weren’t in the mindset of purchasing a mantle. After visiting numerous other antique stores in and around Huntsville, we decided we should give it another look. Although it’s a bit chipped here and there, it almost matches the original in the living room perfectly. Well, obviously we got it. I’m not sure what I want to do with it…leave it as is, paint, strip, stain…we’ll see.
I won these Alice in Wonderland nesting dolls from ebay. So excited!!! I tell ya, is actually kind of a challenge decorating a mantle. It took me a while to “settle” with what I have there now. I’m not 100% happy, but it’ll do for now! I am 100% happy with the AIW nesting dolls cause they are just too awesome.
So yeah, there’s a boring entry about house stuffs.