Outdoor Decor

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXJYvBbBtMxDzaKhNYdtuCqoVVUAWzD3DZY5mUQhk4iKljvYMXaEgE4BEs9C7xS0HQyiFW9TRupXuQ_Zc5Kahx7KlxdLE0YqHgfJm3wz06fpXpFEYEjXIIP7ZACjP8S3c6k_tZeYgoknqG/s1600/IMG_8868.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXJYvBbBtMxDzaKhNYdtuCqoVVUAWzD3DZY5mUQhk4iKljvYMXaEgE4BEs9C7xS0HQyiFW9TRupXuQ_Zc5Kahx7KlxdLE0YqHgfJm3wz06fpXpFEYEjXIIP7ZACjP8S3c6k_tZeYgoknqG/s1600/IMG_8868.jpg" width="425" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>What?  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>A BLOG post?  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>How long has it been?  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>OK, let's not talk about it...  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>Let's just move on from here and pretend </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>that I haven't been absent forever!  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>I'm sure you are all wondering </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>what prompted my long sabbatical </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>(or maybe you aren't wondering).  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>It was a combination of many factors; </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>having my house up for sale was one, </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>starting a full time office job was another, </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>and then just daily life thrown in with a Senior </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>in high school and lots of college visits.  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>But I'm back and although I would like to think </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>that I can blog full time, </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>I realize that my time constraints </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>won't really allow </i></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>for that.  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>I am going to shoot for once or twice a week and see how that goes.  I will try to fill you in on all the details mentioned above as I blog but for now let's get to the fun stuff...</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Decorating!!!</b>  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNsLgavASfDxahcRzfzfGjmNnNt4id6Qf6SS2HGIYrs_8A2ANLMsU3iGtA-oKD9pejTIgpqISM0kmDjxSYwQ872NLPB5Np-AgQydH7ykvgxjXwN0D7IQMx-m-7rzqxzeGTI7QOihDBChjv/s1600/IMG_8862.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNsLgavASfDxahcRzfzfGjmNnNt4id6Qf6SS2HGIYrs_8A2ANLMsU3iGtA-oKD9pejTIgpqISM0kmDjxSYwQ872NLPB5Np-AgQydH7ykvgxjXwN0D7IQMx-m-7rzqxzeGTI7QOihDBChjv/s1600/IMG_8862.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>  </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>I Love the Holidays!  </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>I wanted to try something new outside this year.  </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>I had seen the cutest urns on Pinterest last year and wanted to replicate them.  </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>They had taken large play balls, </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>you know the ones you see in the huge wire bins at </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>Wal-Mart, and spray painted them silver </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>and popped them(not literally) in an urn.  </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>Easy right?  </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>Well, not if you can't find the balls anywhere!!!  </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>Which reminds me of the Funniest story </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>that I <b>HAVE</b> to tell you!  </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>Mr. Beaux and I  were at The Wal-Mart in search of the play balls and we didn't see any.  He sees a Wal-Mart worker and inquires about the balls.  She was the cutest little elderly lady with her cute blue Wal-Mart vest.  </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>She gets on her walkie talkie and in the loudest voice says <b><span style="color: #444444;"> </span></b></i></span><br /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: #444444;">"Hey, do we have BIG BALLS?"</span></b>  </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>OMG, we were DYING!  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVa8IaG7RsK0vXSvRiIVPnUCbpKyZP9k-M70kI-CBMEsJ4e2rcASjUvW-afOjhGnokZnb2Y-9WORJMX46B3XKppRsmscYasuDJ8YEtM-y9BTGm5__h3te-HCLBTOgVAqXNRd7uM5yEzUTY/s640/IMG_8768.jpg" width="640" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>So, this year I remembered to look for the balls in the fall before they put their seasonal toys away for the year.  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>I spray painted them silver </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>with about three coats of spray paint.  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW3vUg-NOleymffYGDKhxVVs9tAjWVYyK21R2EiSIAy-4iA238XndamDXfvGU0kN9KIfnMNJ-V9lnT_x7_3Q3y5SLC7w3WQvvfWd_IzEmh2gI8yoqLxw7XMxZoV3hQ_fBPtBkBSbjtO3Yl/s1600/IMG_8865.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW3vUg-NOleymffYGDKhxVVs9tAjWVYyK21R2EiSIAy-4iA238XndamDXfvGU0kN9KIfnMNJ-V9lnT_x7_3Q3y5SLC7w3WQvvfWd_IzEmh2gI8yoqLxw7XMxZoV3hQ_fBPtBkBSbjtO3Yl/s640/IMG_8865.jpg" width="480" /></i></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i> I set a real greenery wreath from Costco on top of the urn.  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>They run about $15.00 a piece and </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>will last most of the season outside.  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>I wrapped ribbon around the spray painted ball and fashioned a pretty bow on top.  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhntLeLplHmcg7ryEjunFtxXwYxV42VquOF0WahiYGJCG4xlb_8BAy0ywgC0ywRTp11MXZ9R4-FKnNfmBU5OZK_-HqnsGuGneYW7ocfkpimw3liPMp0AKDH8iqhtS_U5lpUm-lZoanY5qWm/s1600/IMG_8864.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhntLeLplHmcg7ryEjunFtxXwYxV42VquOF0WahiYGJCG4xlb_8BAy0ywgC0ywRTp11MXZ9R4-FKnNfmBU5OZK_-HqnsGuGneYW7ocfkpimw3liPMp0AKDH8iqhtS_U5lpUm-lZoanY5qWm/s640/IMG_8864.jpg" width="464" /></i></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>Now, I bet you are probably wondering how the heck I am going to keep that shiny ribbon wrapped ball in that pot all season without it flying off to Nebraska!  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>Yes, I did think of that too...</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>It gets pretty windy at my house.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>So, I took a coat hangar and looped it through the ribbon at the bottom of the ball and stuck it into the dirt in the bottom of the urn.  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>Problem solved.  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxTOegD-TaVjBAUHnFfp9u8HB6KRMKSyJ4bb0w87VYomWJBK3DHy7QVWTnKiGYsaAe-GDKilQN9DYR9NYHoCdKu9m_caPYXtIZeAyPUrHx3I_kh6Auou9CC74Wbgphs4EsIWreqiZKrDjn/s1600/IMG_8867.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxTOegD-TaVjBAUHnFfp9u8HB6KRMKSyJ4bb0w87VYomWJBK3DHy7QVWTnKiGYsaAe-GDKilQN9DYR9NYHoCdKu9m_caPYXtIZeAyPUrHx3I_kh6Auou9CC74Wbgphs4EsIWreqiZKrDjn/s640/IMG_8867.jpg" width="426" /></i></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>Up closer to the house I decorated the urns with lots of greens, pine cones and berries.  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>Last year I bought branches with lights on them at Target.  This year I added to those branches with new more realistic lighted branches.  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>It looks so pretty at night with everything lit up.  </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhog6QDXwPWbCE6Xmpl4PIij6qHrocjIymsxCut-0Nbtms8bPVbz942vnFeJMY5ES3d5pMgwH9EgP_1R0xCTD2Msov8S0fCzMDBAzwNcKDDZ-S-7bIob3xrwBkxrHbhxrJrNryN3IzqAx1A/s1600/IMG_8862.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhog6QDXwPWbCE6Xmpl4PIij6qHrocjIymsxCut-0Nbtms8bPVbz942vnFeJMY5ES3d5pMgwH9EgP_1R0xCTD2Msov8S0fCzMDBAzwNcKDDZ-S-7bIob3xrwBkxrHbhxrJrNryN3IzqAx1A/s640/IMG_8862.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>In my next post we'll take a house tour...</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>Until Next Time,</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Outdoor Decor

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