Just Junkin' Around

I love junk, I can't help it....I love to see what I can make out of junk! I drive by flea markets and my heart races with excitement....wonder what I can find in there? So here are just a few of my wonderful treasures. The Hunter does not get my obsession with junk, not that I care....he already tells me our yard looks like a flea market (which it does not). I think it is better to look like it does that be dead, with vines growing up the front of the house, and weeds everywhere. You can tell alot about a persons home from looking at the yard...wouldn't ya'll agree?

This precious ball of flowers was once a light fixture....a COOL light at that. I have several chandeliers that I have yet to do anything with. I have this particular one hanging on the rose arbor ok, so this isn't "junk". The Dirt Queen (mom) got this for me...how cute is it!

My friend was going to have a yard sale ans she told me to come over and get what I wanted before the sale....and so I did! I got this little urn....not sure what I am going to do with it just yet

Hanging flower vase ($3) from my favorite Consignment Shop, and YES those are FAKE FLOWERS (gasp) in the vase! It is dreadful, but I don't have much this year due to the lack of rain.

Here is another hanging vase from the same store ($3)

My friend had this weather vane to sell in her yard sale, it was still in the box!!! Needless to say it is now out of the box and in my yard!!!

How precious!

I LOVE it!

This is a RANDOM Hodge podge of stuff. The pot on the far left is actually a 26 gal crock that was my grandpa's. I made it into a pot. The bucket on the right, was my grandma's old tub, I also made it into a pot. The fence in the back was a sample of a fence that I was using on a project when I was working at an architectural firm.

the flower light again just because it is so very cool

I love windows! OLD windows. I have several of them, and I want more! It is about 4' wide x 5' high. I have a clematis planted on it, the little silver thing below it is just a "helper" to get the clematis started. The "helper" came off of a camper screen door...LOL!!

My wire chickens also from my fave consignment shop ($3 each)

close up of my cute new sign

found this in my friends yard sale stuff This I love....I bought this terrarium at...guess? MY FAVE CONSIGNMENT SHOP! $15!!! Is it not great! One day I will spray paint it. (Notice the dead flowers under it....the heat!).For now I have filled it with a few things. I have a wire chicken basket that was my grandma's. I filled it with moss and created a flower arrangement that I can change seasonally. I am a seasonal person. My friend (the yard sale one) is always laughing at my seasonal decor. I decorate for every holiday, but my decor also changes with the seasons. During the Fall (which is my fave to decorate for)I have all fall colors, orange, bronze, gold, burgundy, etc. Winter is like a wonderland, I decorate with non traditional colors such as pink, purple, aqua, silver and crazy little things stuck all in my tree. I LOVE nutcrackers and I am proud to say that I own a life size nutcracker! I love him! Ok enough with my seasonal decor. I will blog about that when the time arrives and I have nothing in the garden to blog about.

back to the terrarium....here is an up close shot of my arrangement. Sorry I didn't get a photo before I stuck it in there!

Here are a few more of my finds that I have blogged about in the past:

My Grandparent's window and door knobs The "Circus" piece and yard signs

Singer sewing machine table with my grandma's tea kettle used as a pot My wonderful blue chair (notice the difference in the picture of how the flower bed looked then vs. now! AMAZING!)

My FAVE Consignment Shop...and where the fun with Bilbo began

Now you get this picture? I love junk! Call me crazy....but I know alot of you love junk as well! So show us your junk around your garden. We want to see it.....really!