bits & pieces

merry monday everyone! well, our weekend was pretty much consumed with christmas, here are bits and peices of our weekend.

---> went to the hardware store to pick up charcoal, soil & mason jars. i wanted to share my outfit for trees, who does a great wardrobe challenge every wednesday and last week her challenge was shorts and i wanted to show her my favorite weekend outfit, shorts with tights!

---> went to a cute local store to pick up some cards and fell in love with some of the decorations and new that brumhilda needed a few things :)

 ---> had a late breakfast date with tom. scones and cappuccinos are my favorite simple breakfast to devour  :)

---> tom is a sign painter at trader joes and often does the holiday windows. he always gets offers for side jobs and a sweet older lady asked tom to do a simple design for her front windows, so i played assistant for a few hours. it turned out really great and later the lady called to tell him how fantastic it was. that warmed my heart <3

---> this was the house across the street from where tom was painting. me want this house

---> rosie being a heater whore and looking so precious in front of our christmas tree made from baby food jars.

---> made some clementine marmalade only to find out i don't like marmalade. it is good but next time i am gonna make a recipe that i like, maybe strawberries and blackberry jam! that's the ticket!

---> made our black bear succulent terrarium. we made another one but it is a present and i don't want to spoil it :)

---> thrifted these amazing 70's ceramic owls, they had just been put on the shelf. pretty much meant for me.

man an i wiped out. i really need to start christmas present earlier! how was your weekend?
xo,
cb

painted owl diy!

happy thursday peaches! yesterday, i had the day off and worked my butt off in the garden for a good majority of the day weeding & replanting some succulents. i love rearranging the front porch and i had gotten this little guy a while ago at the thrift store and just wasn't feeling the terra cotta color.... so i painted it to spruce it up!

here is what you need!
1. acrylic paint
2. varnish
3. brush
4. butcher paper (not shown)
5. paper plate for mixing paint (not shown)

 step one.
wash your pot to make sure dirt is gone, scrub if you have to, this guy was dirty! and then let dry

step two
mix your paint to your desired color. i choose orange cause it is one of my favorite colors and i wanted to add a little pop to the deck!

step three
paint your pot and do at least 2 coats. let dry about an hour between each coat

step four
apply a coat of varnish and let sit about 3 hours and then.....

tada!!!!!!!! you have yourself a brand new super cute owl pot with a succulent growing out of its head! hehe  plus you didn't have to unload a bunch of cash to make it either. i am super happy with the result :)

xo,
cb

p.s. stay tuned tomorrow for a citybirds chirp!

its an owl attack

i am happy to report that this weekend i found a bunch of owls! well 3 and a half really...there was an accident when one of them...r.i.p little ceramic owl head sugar bowl i will remember you fondly...although you were only with us for a short time...your body shall live on in your memory...totally cheesy but when we got home from the thrift store, the mister was putting my owl finds on the shelf of the "owl room"  and the head of one of the owls fell and broke into a million pieces...very sad but what can you do, so the mister suggested we put a succulent in it and so i did and he looks darns cute! too bad i didn't get a picture of him before but here he is given a new life!

here are the other owls we found!

this owl has oil perfume in it...doesn't smell to bad but not sure if i would wear it but i love how crazy he kinda looks!

this is kinda what the broken owl looked like but a bit bigger, it must have been a set, too bad the rest of the set was there for my taking! he looks so sweet and innocent, no?

this is a strange one...it has holes at the top for either salt or pepper but then has string coming out of it for hanging...i am going to hang this on our christmas cactus! can't wait to go get it in a couple of weeks!

hope you all had a fantastic weekend! do any thrifting?


***thanks for all the wonderful comments on my bike embroidery! i still haven't made up my mind! i think the night before my craft fair will be what makes the final decision!****

xo,
cb