Blue Bottles For Bottle Tree

I have been waiting to get  these for a long time , finally got some from my Daughter-In-Law a few days ago .She said that my son had some Bud Light Beer and so she is saving them for me if  he gets any more. Right now I have 5 and a few more would be good , however that does not mean I want him drinking just so I can get them .
I will find more somehow and I hope to get the tree stand made soon. Rebar would be the best if I can get my Brother-in Law to make them, other wise I will use wood.
I just love the color of this Blue ! It is so strikingly pretty !

More Yard Art for the Garden

Mom had 2 of these kitchen globes in her cupboard that had been there since she moved there .

We saw a clipping somewhere about using old bowling balls for outside globes (yard art).

So we went to the Family Dollar store and brought some half stones, 2 bags of one color was not enough so we ended up going after more .

This blue one is mine , I could not find anymore blue so I got the white and some gold, and decided to add flowers after Tina made the suggestion.

I used 100% clear silicone sealer .worked pretty good ,I just had to go slow so it would stay.

Then I was not sure if we wanted to grout them or not , Mom said try it , so we got some. I thought it was already mixed, but it was in powder form, had to mix it, I was afraid to at first because of the powder, so being really careful using glasses, gloves ,I mixed it .

This is how it looked grouted and I did not like it, but I think Mom does. 

Ran out of the blue again , 

found out Tina had some at her house so she gave me what she had .

                            I put gold around the bottom rim, then finished it here at home today.

Yard Art - Totem Pole For Mom

I saw this in another magazine and I am almost sure it was a Birds and Bloom but it could have been a different book.Anyway I just knew I had to make one so I went to the thrift store to look for pretty glass  before I went to Mom's 

This jar was at my sisters in their garage ,I use a wooden pole for the base.turned the jar upside down and use 100% silcone sealer to keep it in place .

This is what I used for Mom's I had several shapes and she liked this ,so I used silcone sealer to keep them together I made sure I used lots of it.

Not quite done yet

this is with a large plastic tray ,Mom was worried about water getting into it ,that is a candle holder on top.

She opted out for this smaller glass tray said it looks better to her

Then she wanted something inside the glass but we did not have any thing except these purple flowers ,at one time we talked about waiting till we went to town again to get some glass marbles  but we was not sure when that would be as she lives 20 miles from Live Oak, but only 7 miles from Mayo , we went there twice but they don't have lots to chose form there.

In this photo we found the wooden balls at The family Dollar Store for only a dollar and thought they looked good on top . I don;t like the red an purple together , we was going to change the flowers out but I could not get it apart with out breaking it so maybe someone will paint it purple or it can wait till I go back in July.
 I made one for myself but will post it later.