Sharing Shadymont, My Mountain Cottage

It has been a while since I posted anything, almost a month.  I don't think I've ever gone that long.  Things are good at Shadymont.  I live alone now, but that's ok.  I've learned to do it again.  I lived alone for 5 years between my first husband's death and my 2nd marriage.  Just took him 13 years to get tired of me.  (lol)  But I find that I'm happy right here.  I cook once a week for my daughter and granddaughter, she cooks one time a week for me.  But I mostly eat ceral and salads.  Haven't lost a lot of weight, but my water bill is down quite a bit.  I don't run the dishwasher but about once a week.  I run the washer when I have full loads. I was having lots of repair bills on my 17 year old SUV (235,000) miles on it.  I was just drivig through a local car sales place last Saturday, and found the perfect little vehicle for me @ 24 miles per gallon.  $ 30.00 for a fulll tank, and it has bells and whi...

Easter décor is out in our home. I'm using mostly items I have used before.  I do have a couple of new additions though, like this sweet little sheep. I found the larger sheep, and the butter dish the same time I bought the table for the powder room, here .  I spray painted this 2 tiered basket green.  It was originally black.  Little bunny in a cloche. This pink rabbit came from Wal Mart. Love these two little bunnies. This wreath (above) is an old one that I removed everything from, and hot glued plastic eggs and a peat flower pot on and added some pastel curly ribbon.  I am happy with how it turned out, and it cost nothing as I already had everything. I found this butterfly shaped sign at the DT. Wal Mart has some of the prettiest speckled eggs this year.  Here are some in this wooden box.  Tweaked the display on this table. Here, I placed the distressed mason jars in a ra...

I've been seeing some of the prettiest crafts being done with the small peat pots available at garden centers, and had been wanting to get some.  Finally, I did just that.  I got a package of 18 at Tractor Supply for $3.52.  That's about 20 cents each. Thrifty enough to suit my frugal nature.  From there I went across the way to Dollar Tree to see what I could find to use with the peat pots to make some cute decor. At Dollar Tree, I bought 2 packages of various mosses, 3 bunches of white tulips, several rabbit figurines, and some styrofoam blocks, for a total of about $12.00. As soon as I returned home, I got busy with crafting something from these items. First I used white craft paint, and some gesso to lighten the peat pots. You can see that I wasn't concerned with complete coverage.  I would rather they look a little 'used'.   So the steps to do this are:  1) paint the pot with whatever paint you have on hand, 2) next, I stamped this crown...