Sharing Shadymont, My Mountain Cottage

I think the little fairy gardens everyone is making are so cute.  So I made one....sort of.  I received this pot of succulents from my boss a couple of months ago when I retired.  I looked through a couple of drawers of "junk" for some small items to add to it to make it a garden. I found the Saint Joseph given to us by our former realtor.  You may or may not be familiar with the story that if you want to sell a home, you need to bury a Saint Joseph in the ground in front of the home.  When hubby and I first married, we had 3 homes between us, and something needed to go.  We decided to sell the older home near Atlanta.  It stayed on the market for what seemed like forever.  So, our realtor bought a Saint Joseph and planted it in the yard and shortly after, the home sold. (Now granted, it probably had nothing to do with the St. Joseph), but it's kinda neat to think it did. She gave us the statute as a symbol of good luck.  I placed the sta...