Summer Junking Treasures

James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. (NIV)



This has been a great summer for junkin', collecting, well yea, Junkin'

What are you going to do with all that JUNK?
Sound familiar?

It's been a rust filled summer, so if you share my Love of Rust, take a scroll through my post. Here you will find some of my Summer Treasures, Thrifted, Salvaged and Yard Sale Finds,
all  Super Cheap or Free, beautiful JUNK.

First up is a half Rusty Bucket, picked up for 25 cents at G/W, the Hen and Chicks were 50 cents at the HMY "100 Mile Yard Sale". I hung them on the Rusty door Knob, of my favorite salvaged door.

The Umbrella Stand I'm using for my garden tools, was from the HMY.

 The Rusty Quaker State Barrel, holds my Bird Seed, it was Salvaged while on it's way to the scrap yard.



This old Enamel Bowl was a "present" my husband dug up from an old barn foundation beside our Camp in the mountains.

The Plaid Thermos I picked up for 50 cents at the HMY.  
The Wire Egg Basket is from our Church Rummage Sale.
The Small Basket, was another gift from my husband, he brought home from his Aunt, who is de-cluttering.

The lantern was another Rummage Sale find, it was black and I painted it white. The Broken Crate I already had.

Another picture of my Rusty Door Knob, and some Small Rusty Tools

A glimpse of my Salvaged Potting Table, with a Thrift Store Wire Basket and a Salvaged Licence Plate.

A pile of Junk? or Treasured Finds?

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Hydrangea Photo Shoot

 Corinthians 3:9

For we are God's co-workers; you are God's field, God's building. (NIV)

Who but God could create such beauty?

Loving my potting table!

I am so thrilled to have these beautiful hydrangeas blooming in my yard!

I only have a few blooms on several different plants, but together the form a wonderful bouquet

So, we (me and flowers) decided to have a photo shoot...

They weren't bashful at all! Here they are posing on my "new" rusty step stool, one of my many treasures from the "Hundred Mile Yard Sale"

and again here on my (almost complete, potting table) Hopefully I'll be sharing this soon, it just needs a little "tweaking"

I love the hydrangeas combined with the Russian Sage

Now I think they are just showing off...

Truthfully if I looked as good as they do, I'd be showing off too!

There is something so peaceful in their beauty

I think I could have played with these blooms all day

When I'm working with my flowers I truly do feel as though I am working along side God

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My Little Rusty Fairy Garden

John 20:29

Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." (NIV)

My very own Fairy Garden, this was so fun to put together. Last summer I had never even heard of a fairy garden, and now I had to have one!

My summer budget is super small this year, so I knew I wouldn't have much money to put into my Fairy Garden, but I really, really wanted one.

So I did what I've come to rely on more and more (since I'm not working right now) I shopped my house and yard, Thrift Stores, and the dollar store.

I purchased the little bird house to use as my Fairy House, a bag of moss,  and 2 African Violets from Giant Eagle for $1.50 each, the little church was .50 at the Thrift Store, for a grand total of $5.50~not too bad...

The plants and Flowers I had, I just gathered and added things and made the Popsicle fence, I had the Welcome sign (I got last year at the Church Rummage sale), and the little Blackboard.

I decided to use this great boiler pot (I think that's what it's called) my sister-in-law gave me several years ago (cause, she knew I would come up with something cute to use it for). It was pretty deep and I wanted to add drainage so I filled it about 3/4 full with mulch (the power line cutter left me a huge pile! so free!) I read (on pinterest of course) to use baby diapers to help absorb water, so on top of the wood chips I opened and layered some baby diapers. They seem to be working and hopefully keeping the water from lying on the bottom of the pot.

The keyhole door is cardboard from my scrapping supplies, the old spring I just had.

I painted this rusty old stand I got when my husband was taking down an old garage, not sure what it used to be, I just thought it was neat and the pan fit in perfectly!

I love this tiny little jeweled candle box, I've had for years...

I made the rusty cross from an old piece of wire, the jax I found the hose handle and spring made a cute little addition, and my Mom's turtle salt shakers are peeking out of the flowers

The small rusty gears are from an antique meat grinder

The old bottle caps are from my sisters Mother-in-law

My Fairy Garden was rather easy, this post was not. Did you ever have a post that was just stalling? I have been trying all week to get this posted. My computer has been crawling and kept freezing when I was downloading the pictures, argh... and then today it crashed. I spent all day on the phone, fixing it, so not what I wanted to do today...

I thought it was all fixed until I went to add some more pictures to the post, and re-arrange them, and I all I can see is a "mock" picture in place of every picture on my computer, so it looks like I'll be spending tomorrow on the phone, also.

So I'm posting, not exactly as I would like it to be, but it's here and I hope you enjoyed the show...

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