That sounds adorable and you Southern folks have to keep us cold Northerners inspired until spring. Please keep those pics and projects coming.

I agree with Sam!! It's been so blasted cold and snowy here, I haven't been able to think of anything but keeping warm and feeding the birds! I can't wait to get back outside!!! Got totems to make, metal things to sand and paint, wreaths to make and all kinds of junque to sort through!

Your flower bed sounds wonderful with the headboards as a fence...can't wait to see it!

My plans? Finish unpacking the few junque pieces I kept and get them out in my garden. I'm also planning to make some millstones and hypertufa planters. I already have plants stashed, I can't resist those end of season sales.
I'm currently trying to get some of them out of pots and in the ground while they're dormant.

I can't wait to get back out there, the first thing I'm going to work on is my "Wizard of OZ" flower bed. I've got the totems finished for the Emerald City and green lights too. I've got yellow tile for the yellow brick road and red shoes that I am going to frou-frou up. I also have miniature mondo grass waiting in the green house. I need to work on those shoes, I'm thinking I'm going to glue glass globs all over them and maybe fill them with quickcrete. And I'm still working on ideas for the yellow brick road, it won't be too large because of the size of the Emerald City, I could use some creative input from you guys. Thanks
Syble

My spring junkin' plans are to look for more junk. I am in withdrawal in the worst way. So the best I can do now, while housebound, is repair/paint some GS and TS finds.

I need to find the best places for them in the garden setting. Come on Spring!!!!!!

I am dreaming of the day I can jump outside and repaint my bicycle built for two. It is grungy looking. I need help and suggestions! WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU PAINT IT? I have thought about white, pale yellow/creme like the collumns, red like the shutters or....? It use to be brown and it was barely noticeable. I think green would make it unnoticeable too.

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Hey Susie...I think you should go with red...it would match the house but still stand out.

I started a gnome garden around my pump last fall. I started building a gnome home out of some scrap wook that I had around the yard. I needed something to hide the pump, yet still make it stand out so noone hits it when they plow the snow out of the driveway....Chris would kill me since he had to replace it when the last person lived here! I put some bottles that I had been collecting around the "yard" as a fence for the gnome's garden. I want to finish the home and do a lot of decorating on it in the spring and then plant the garden and create miniature garden junk for his/her garden....won't know which until they move into the neighborhood. I am thinking about decorating the home with stained glass somehow. I also want to fill in the front garden some more and possibly start a veggie garden on the other side of the yard. I am sure that I will need to create more garden junk through out the yard too...lol...have to use up all of the stuff that I have been collecting and any new finds that come my way!

So many wonderful plans! I can't wait to see the emerald city frou frou!
Its hard for me to think too much of spring yet.
Except I have a big collection of blue bottles that I need to do something with. I was going to put some of them on the stems of a bush I cut down but the darn thing started growing again.
This is the year that we are going to paint the front of the house, and thats where the front porches with all the peeling paint are. Dh agreed that we would pay someone else to scrape them which is great, but I'm worried that means my front gardens will get trashed cuz there will have to be dropcloths to catch the chips and probably people will walk in the garden. :( I just got it how I wanted it again after we lost the trees across the street and it turned into a sunny garden instead of a shadey. So as much as I want the house finished, I'm nervous about it.

Hmmm, I think I would go with either a bright, not neon, lemon yellow or cobalt blue. I can see it in a bright red too. Keep the natural baskets. That's such a neat bike I'd want it to stand out in my garden. I hope you have it tied down securely so it won't "grow legs" and pedal itself away.
For fun stick some of those fluttery handlebar thingies in the grips! They'd add nice movement in the breeze.

Hey Susie~

Is the bike near those yellow porch curtains that you have? If so, I would go with a color similar to that! Or the red of your shutters.....

For the bike - I like red, white, purple, yellow, (no to black, no to green, no to orange). I'm no help.

Good thing about paint, it can be changed easily.

I vote for dark red, susieroses...Valentines & 4th of July color...& they'll be coming up again in 2010! Always love whatever you do...& your bike has looked GREAT in the past! Jeanne S.

I have always liked your 'bike built for two', and have no doubt that whatever you do to it will be wonderful!

I always have'ideas' but then never seem to get them done. I live with garden junk because it gives me 'wishes and hopes'.

Well, everyone will be very busy in the spring. We are currently in the middle of a deep freeze in the deep south. Way too cold to be outside working in the frozen ground. It has been 21 years since we have had this hard of a freeze and I don't like it. I hope all of my plants survive. And the junking will have to wait a bit now.

Sharon

Well, my junkin plans come spring are
1. finish the bird house totem I started before the ice age hit. I still need to hot glue them on the pole and wait till the ground warms up to plop in the post
2. I'm working on some garden signs; "Squirrel Crossing" and "Tweet Retreat" Almost done with them
Whiteoakian, Susan
ps Two weeks ago, I found free bedrock on Craigs list and was out in 10 degree weather loading up the car with them. Another spring project is a new garden bed area!

My plans are to get a yard! lol! I want to do more mosaics. A friend of mine usually hosts a Mosaic Madness day at her house where friends get together and create their own mosaic projects. I miss getting my hands dirty with grout. I would like to try my hand at some glass totems to give to friends and family for their yards.

Susie, I'd paint the bike a bright sunshine yellow. I think it would really stand out and would compliment any color of flowers you'd put in the basket.

Susie, that bike HAS to be BLUE! A real bright blue - that will stand out and you will see every detail on it and with red geraniums in the baskets!!

Whiteoakian- (My experience) Regular hot glue will not hold up in the weather for long. Liquid Nails would hold wood but I would also add some kind of wood screw.

Thank you all for the ideas for painting the bike. I may have to draw color names from a fish bowl now. LOL Yes, Marlene those yellow Sunbrella Fabric curtains are still in perfect shape hanging near by. I wash them twice a year because birds like to fly up on the porch and perch on the metal rod. I also made the charitable mistake of putting a couple of bird houses on the porch. They are so grateful they poop on everything.

Here's one more color for the mix. I think an aqua blue would fit the style of the bike and make it stand out nicely.
Syble

Find some place WARM!!!! Would love to do another highway sale. The one in Ks. was awesome!!! Lots of fun junk!!

I have been doing a lot of looking and not much doing in the craft room:-)

I have started working on the glass lamp shades. 2 of them I'm making into solar light hangers. I'm stringing the copper wire with beads to make the hangers and I plan to put glass stones/marbles in the bottom and put in a string of solar lights. I hope the lights will pick up some of the colors. I will hang them from long hooks in the trees in the back yard.

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I keep looking at these metal scroll pieces I got for $5 each. They are 3 feet long and are made of a thin metal. Right now they have a green tinge to them but I think I want to paint them:-) but I don't know what color I want.They might look good on the top edge of the roofed in area on my deck.

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Cool ideas, textilejo! I bet that metal thing would look cool painted to look like aged copper.

Well, I want to finish landscaping our back yard. It's all in wood chips and some shrubs. Want to plant more shrubs with paths running through them.
This winter, to get ready for spring, I want to get the MOUNTAINS of glassware that I have lying around my craft/computer room made into yard art. Also, my husband bought welder so I want to get him started on some projects. Any ideas??

Textile jo...LOVE the green scroll work pieces!! And, I have those same glass light globes...haven't done anything with them yet, but I want to! Can't wait to see how yours turn out.

textilejo..Please post pictures wheen you do something with those glass lampshades...I have about 5 and don't know what to do with them ......Thanks

Love the light shades textilejo, and the metal scroll work is great too. Can't wait to see what you do with them.

laurastheme, I have mountains of glass too, but I have to pack it all up, my first grandbaby will be here in April

Where does one buy solar lights in strings?

Are they spaced close together like Christmas tree lights?

soxxx,I got my solar string of lights in the garden section at Walmart. They are spread out more than Christmas lights on the string. Several of mine blink on and off and some don't.

I have 3 pieces of the metal scroll, sure wish there had been more because the 3 won't cover all the eaves on the roof of the deck where I want to put them.

Boy, My List is always getting bigger!!lol!
1) Get my pond built
2) Finish my Throne Chair
3) Finish Humpty Dumpty and his brick wall
4) Build a Rainchain water feature(Got one for Christmas! Yippee!)
5) Build a Celtic Cross(3d) out of wire mesh/concrete
6) Put lights out to showcase stuff
7) Mosaic my front door patio (10x10)
8) Install 3 outdoor plugins on 3 decks for said lights
9) Build an outdoor 3d GOG peacock

10. Make a 3d GOG pineapple that will light up
11. Pergola over pond
12. Plant another couple a hundred plants!lol!
13. Create a whole super cool area for my throne, including giant wiremesh concrete flowers, hooked in a semicircle to act as a backdrop....
14. Plus I have a deck to paint, landscaping, mosaicing the pond, garden beds to dig/plant/design for said 300 new plants(so I say to self...no more than 300 this yr...a girl has gotta have limits!!!lol! Clean up said yard from waaaay too much junkin future ideas, that just look like junk piles!ha! Plus I'm like a gymnist, I gotta use the whole 1/2acre floor space!lol! Plus I want a seperate small bog garden off the raised pond, that will have a 3 concrete rhubarb leaves fountain(still gotta make em too!)
15. Finish all paths, old/new ones with gravel
16. Go get rocks down the road that I paid for 2 summers ago and never got yet, to make cool rock beds...waaay down the back forty....wheelbarrows of rock down a 45degree slope...ya, good idea...
17. Beg/hire young strong boy to help with said projects....
    WHEW! I think I'll go have another morning coffee and start a priority list....(considering I am having major surgery in 2 months...don't know when this is all gonna happen, but it's a wish list and will eventually get done...gotta have dreams/hope...!!!
    
    
    
    

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Jane I always love to see your creations! You are a whirlwind and I hope you get a lot of that done but also survive to enjoy it! :-)

I'm starting to get inspired as our snow is leaving (early) so I can see spring might be coming!

My *junkin'* plans are to go to yard sales to find more treasures! I've been in withdrawal since last fall but they don't start til well into April here. We might be traveling before that to warmer places so hopefully will find treasures soon. Besides yardsaling I want to go beachcombing on the west coast and find some nice pieces of driftwood for garden decor.

Once we are home again our projects are to finish my garden house and the fencing (DH says 760 feet of wire mesh to attach). Then do the labyrinth I didn't do last summer, level, spread compost & topsoil for new garden beds and plant and seed. Oh, gotta make a bunch of paths also. And put all my garden junk in the garden rather than leaving it in the shed as I did last year!

The really fun things I plan are to put my glass flowers on stems and make concrete stepping stones (maybe more rhubarb leaf ones). I'd also like to make some sort of rustic twig/branch arbor/gate. I'm doing a shade garden so it would make a nice entrance to that.

Always more ideas than time or energy but a little finished every year does make changes.

Looking forward to seeing everyone's pics as they do projects.

Laurastheme, some ideas for your DH to weld are a bottle tree and there are other ideas in the link below. Nor sure who's link this is but I think someone here posted it originally.

Here is a link that might be useful: cool fence

Reading all of your plans has made me feel tired! LOL
I recently moved from my 2 acres to an apt. in town, so I'll have to start over & cut back severely.

I agree with you Maggie! Jane...you are one ambitious gal!! Hope all goes well with your upcoming surgery...keep us posted!

I'm feverishly looking for all and any ideas that I can put together for a spring show. I have a little resale shop in downtown and April 10&11 we are having our "Spring Fling" show and it brings thousands of customers to downtown area where my shop is. Sooo my plans are to have lots of garden junk in the front yard of my little shop.
you know I want to fill it with plate flowers and bird baths and totems. and whatever else I can put together.

You all have been such an insperation to me, THANK YOU!!

Hugs Carmen