Flowers or No Flowers?

One weekend in May, I was invited to go to Chris Olsen's house with Amanda. He's a landscape architect in Little Rock, and he has an open house a few times a year. Needless to say his yard AND his house were amazing! The design of it all was very finished and he had lots of fun art. In his sun-porch off the back of the house he had hung neat plastic flowers all over walls and ceiling, available at Urban Outfitters. I decided, like I do, that I could make those, easy peasy. HA! 

Well, this is what I have so far and I think I either need a few more or I need to scrap the idea. What do you think? Not as perfect as the plastic ones, but handmade? :)

Broadway Baby

Hayden has officially accomplished something I have never done and will never do, she was in her first play at Rogers Little Theater. An even bigger deal, she tried out for a part! She sang a song in front of all the other kids and some of their parents.


She and 52 other kids along with the help of the Peacocks put together a collection of  songs and skits from various Broadway musicals. They did a great job and it was lot of fun to watch...twice. Mom, Dad and Allen went to the second performance with me, thanks for coming Grammy and Pop!! Next time I'll get a picture of all of us.


Hayden had so much fun she wanted to be in the second session that started the following Monday. We decided that it would be best to wait and maybe try the fall session in August. For now we're moving on to swim lessons.


(I couldn't figure out why the photos were so fuzzy and I thought maybe the camera hadn't adjusted from being inside, then I found little fingerprints on the lens. :) 

My Big-Little Garden

Here's an updated photo of my garden. It's grown sooo much! The plant in the front growing over the side is the burpless cucumber, it probably could have been in the container all by itself. The tomatoes have lots of blooms but not tomatoes yet. The okra has a baby okra and the bell peppers have babies but the leaves don't look so hot. I sure hope we get at least one veggie from each plant.

Oh, the Drama

So, I'm sure you all know that Hayden is full of drama. She's been in a drama camp at Rogers Little Theater for about a week and a half and loving every minute. I can't tell you how many times I've heard, "You can't stop the beat". Her performance is Friday and Saturday and the parents are in charge of the costumes. The rules we were given were, it has to have a black base and any other color had to be sparkly. This is what we've come up with. I pretty proud of it! Me, Allen and the house are covered in pink and purple glitter.

Deep-Fried Creative

A friend of mine found this blog, Monsters in Real Places. I thought it was super cute and would be fun to try. I challenged the rest of the crew at Deep Fried Creative to make some monsters of our own. Here's mine.

Check out the rest of the monsters at Deep Fried Creative.

Olive

This is Olive, she has lived with us for a little over a year and we love her very much!

My Little Garden

I have a friend that built a raised garden earlier this summer and her garden inspired me. Allen and I talked about it for a while and he had the great idea to use a galvanized, livestock water tank.

He drilled holes all along the bottom and then we put pea gravel in before the dirt.

I planted the plants 2 weeks ago and they've grown so much already. You can't tell it in these

pictures, but one of the tomato plants has a flower on it. :)