"PORCHES AND YARD"

Rabbit with ornamental cabbage...

                               Old bottle hanging in a tree...

Old blue bottle with wisteria hanging over the birdhouse....

"PORCHES AND YARD"

Birdhouse made by grandchildren....

After looking at some of "Oh So ShabBy" ideas, I tried my luck at it.

"MUSICAL WASHBOARD"

"MUSICAL WASHBOARD"    

Great fun designing this washboard...It includes my grandma's snuff can with her snuff inside, two tin cans, a wooden block, wooden whistle, a tin bottle that holds the emptied 20-gauge shotgun shells and they stay on your fingers better than anything else that I have found.  "Washboard Chaz" gave me some ideas...He is one of the best washboard players in the whole U.S.A.   On one side of the washboard, there are, red white and blue streamers and a pin that says, "Gone, but not forgotten".  Small flags are displayed on each side.....The name "Potliquor" is painted on the top......My cousin, Billy Freeman, gave me this washboard and in his honor, I named it "Potliquor"...Would you like to know how he got his nickname?   I thought you would!!!!! When he was a little boy, his mother would cook collards and turnips and he liked to drink the juice or "potliquor" from from the pot.  The "washboard" gets a lot of attention, when I begin to play it...I watch people in the audience sit up and look, because you don't see that many washboards being played.

"ANTIQUE WALL TELEPHONE"

"ANTIQUE WALL TELEPHONE"

Over the years, I have enjoyed displaying my antique oak telephone.

"ANTIQUE BROOCH"

1964-1996

"ANTIQUE BROOCH"

In memory of my daughter, Amanda Jane Fowler, I designed an arrangement of an antique blue bottle, ribbon and "Mandy's" brooch. 

"SHARING MY LOVE"

"SHARING MY LOVE"

Sharing my garden of silk roses with very ill and elderly family members.