The Pot Lady at Christmas

 

The Pot Lady has been pestering me to put her picture in her Christmas dress on the blog. She asked me to make her a new Christmas outfit, said she wanted to be Scarlett O'Hara. (I think she has Halloween and Christmas mixed up.) Any way I did make her a dress from a curtain -a bathroom curtain. I think it is about time to say happy New Near and start figuring on preparing for spring. Right after this coming freeze is over.

Garden Sculpture

 

There once was a lamp which was retrieved from a dump. It came into my possession and I determined to fix it. I could find nothing wrong with the cord or anything else really. It appeared to be a good new lamp, just would not light. I took it apart and finally got an answer to my question about why there was no off/on switch. It was a touch on lamp and apparently the touch switch was burned out. A check on the internet revealed that a new switch would cost about $20 and a new lamp of this kind was about that cost.
Not to be defeated in my quest to fix or reuse, I cut off the cord as long as I could and saved it because someday I may need to replace a cord on something. (Could this be why my attic is so full???) The body of the lamp was clearly a garden sculpture if I ever saw one, and I had just the thing to top it off- a gazing ball. So there you have the story of the repurposed lamp, except for the shade which I also have plans for. Show you that when I complete it! What fun!!!

Pot Man (Person?)

This is my pot man constructed with a little help from my friends yesterday . I have been planning this all summer, but better late than never. It was great fun. I used some clay pots with chips, as you can see, and just stuff I had around for the most part. Mary contributed pots she found hidden under leaves, Hiram helped with the actual construction and some ideas when we came to an impasse, the hat is one that I used formerly when I took the kids to the water park. The thing on top of the hast is not a loaf of bread for emergencies, but a rock to hold hat on till glue dries. The planter you see in the background filled with flowers is an old one that was junked. I filled it with bark mulch last year and this year it is making a fine show with very little watering.
Cheers, Everyone!