This little fairy is silly and she just freakin makes me smile every time I see her. She has "flown" around my "gardens" for oh close to 10 years???can it really be? We have been here going on 7 years and 2 years in Texas...and yep I bought her in Texas. WOW no wonder she needed some color adjustments.
She hovers the plants and reminds me in the winter that spring will come back with butterflies and colors. It has alway bothered me that she wore her heals but what ever makes her happy.
She was the start of my bohemian type garden I started in Texas. We had a tiny little backyard that was in a brand new neighborhood of soon to be over 1000 houses! Did I like it NO, I agreed to it because my sweet husband loved the house. Anyway ...
My garden out there had this little lady, lots of different types of plants, bushes, trees (they dont have many out there ya know), and it was curvy not straight across the back yard. I would look at the big fence and want to plant cows and pastures, or fields of purple flowers, anything to remind me of something besides that stupid boring fence.
I found an old 5 step staircase that must've been pulled off a house during construction and put it in my van. My family was sure I had totally lost my mind but It screamed to be yellow with stenciled ivy coming down the stairs and spilling over. I placed real pots of ferns and geraniums on the other side of each step like I would've for a front porch and called it my "Stair way to heaven". Wind chimes were every where I could hang them and we had this oh 15 foot steel mobile with planet and stars that blew in that wild Texas winds!
Finally we decided that Texas was a nice place to visit but I didnt want to live there and have our boys back here in Georgia. Some crying, begging and a tempertantrum or two or three and my husband agreed to come back here. AHHHH...home but not quiet.
this house is not where we want to be forever. It had nothing on our lists of MUST HAVES when we bought it, but it was affordable and reasonably close to the school for our girls. So this little metal busy lady reminds me my bohemian type home is still out there and she will be ready to help me decorate it.
Love your header. Thanks so much for stopping by and commenting on TNS. Gee do you think I have one of those in my garden. Will have to look closer. She's a dandy.
ReplyDeleteShe Sounds Like A Wise Guide & Muse.Your Garden Appears Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteBestest Wishes From Tony.
Love the garden fairy. Hope you some day have the home of your dreams. But you seem to be doing well "making do."
ReplyDeleteI'm a former Texan, retired in Arkansas. I have ambivalent feelings about both.
Hey, cute fairy! And thanks for stopping by Willow Manor. :^)
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