tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26398870923101784452024-03-14T00:46:34.081-07:00The Pink Fairy CottageDecorating, Creative Inspiration and BeautyTobi Britton*pinkpixieforest.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304025924413575900noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639887092310178445.post-11729392532088010882016-04-04T10:04:00.002-07:002016-04-08T17:18:43.169-07:00Water Makeover<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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How my Ice Obsession began...<br />
I started making my own ice about two years ago when the icemaker on my "fancy fridge" decided for the last time to just stop working. It was the brand that is known for it's repairmen having nothing to do because their machines never break... RIIIGHT!<br />
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Being without my cherished icemaker put me into a sort of panic attack- I was pretty much addicted to holding my glass up to the lever and filling it to the brim with ice in whichever form I desired- cubed, crushed or chipped. After a few weeks, I guess my husband got tired of bringing home bags of ice and one day told me "just make it"!<br />
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At first I think I actually got a bit miffed at the thought of making ice! But then when I actually thought about it a bit, I realized that making ice was a lot better than buying it or getting it easily from the fridge door.<br />
By making it, I could make sure that the water used was clean and filtered. I am pretty sure that the ice bought in bags was probably just plain tap water, and who knows how clean or dirty the plant and machines are??<br />
Looking back, I can't even fathom that I actually didn't want to make ice!<br />
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I remember as a child always having ice trays in the freezer- the metal ones that had a "Quick release handle"! lol<br />
Back to the pretty Ice Cubes!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Here are some tips on how to make crystal clear ice cubes with beautiful blossoms thanks to Food.com, and beautiful Flower Cube Pics from http://theviewfromgreatisland.com</span><br />
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<li data-ingredient="water">1 <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> cups <a href="http://www.food.com/about/water-459">water</a>, boiled and cooled</li>
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<li>Gather and gently rinse all of your pesticide-free blossoms.</li>
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<li>Place each blossom at the base of each individual compartment within an ice tray (or more trays if you have a large party).</li>
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the punch bowl, with a variety of blossoms. Don't use the glass
punchbowl or it will expand and burst in the freezer. Instead, use a
ring-shaped cake tin and fill it with flowers and water. Follow the same
procedure as above (filling halfway, then freezing), but you can add
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Tobi Britton*pinkpixieforest.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304025924413575900noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639887092310178445.post-11357657864050343212016-04-01T23:09:00.000-07:002016-04-01T23:09:11.876-07:00Fun Homes for Houseplant Cuttings!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello my sparkly friends!<br />
I thought I would share my way of making use of cloudy antique crystal and growing houseplant cuttings at the same time.<br />
I adore going to yard sales and thrift shops, and many times I find crystal that is gorgeous but a bit cloudy or maybe it has a chip or two which makes it unsuitable for the table. Well, instead of passing them up, I adopt them and fill them with either fresh cut wildflowers or turn them into sparkly mini planters! Here are a few pics<br />
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Thank you so much for stopping by, and please leave me a comment to show me how you use your crystal! xoxo Tobi and the Pixies<br />
<br />Tobi Britton*pinkpixieforest.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304025924413575900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639887092310178445.post-64702596900576597332016-04-01T23:00:00.002-07:002016-04-01T23:00:21.067-07:00DIY Copper Vessel Sink<div style="text-align: left;">
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-AOLGhaAZI/AAAAAAAAAuc/FEjipgBVBjY/s1600/IMG_2220.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467385531519861138" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-AOLGhaAZI/AAAAAAAAAuc/FEjipgBVBjY/s400/IMG_2220.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">Hello my friends! Here is a post from a few years ago on my other blog. I thought it would fit better here. Hope you enjoy!!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">It all started with our house fire back in 2007.</span></span> <a href="http://thepinkfairycottage.blogspot.com/2010/02/happy-wednesday.html">Click here for a different post on that. </a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The
house was stripped down to the beams, so I moved walls, vaulted
ceilings etc.... don't worry, it was all good! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Anyway, I had to order two sinks for
the bathrooms. I ordered one, and thought I had plenty of time to order the
other. Boy was I wrong- The contractors needed them both at once of
course! The sink I had ordered for the Powder room fit better upstairs
so I was left without a sink! I had seen pictures of a tin bucket in
a magazine, so when the project manager asked me for the powder room
sink, I handed him this bucket and said </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #00cccc;">"Here ya go!" He looked at me as it I had two heads,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #00cccc;"> </span>but he was finally getting used to my unorthodox decorating style. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">"What am I supposed to do with this?" </span>he asked, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #00cccc;">not really wanting to know my answer.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"Oh, just drill a hole in the center that matches the size hole that sinks usually have and install it".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">"You can't do that"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;"> </span>he said, obviously he was a linear thinker and</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #66cccc;">I was challenging the core of his being...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">"Yes you can, right </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">Giuseppe?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">"
I responded cheerfully, and turned to the contractor who loved my wacky
ideas cause he knew that it would look great in his portfolio.</span></span></span></span></div>
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So,
not only did I get the cool sink I wanted, it cost me only $5 because I
had the pot that I had paid a whopping $5 for a bunch of years ago! We
did a "Rock Area Rug" from the pebble tiles left over from the upstairs
shower, so that cost us nothing because we had to buy them for the
shower and if I hadn't used them, they would have been in my garage!<br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-AOKePj7dI/AAAAAAAAAuM/xd-bv7SEC-o/s1600/IMG_2223.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467385520707595730" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-AOKePj7dI/AAAAAAAAAuM/xd-bv7SEC-o/s400/IMG_2223.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a>The
counter top was made from the peice of wood left over from my
fireplace mantel, and a chunk of tree that we had to cut down now lives
inside and serves as a leg.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #00cccc;">Don't you just love THRIFTY decorating???</span></span><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-AOJl515eI/AAAAAAAAAuE/uYOh48qJVXM/s1600/IMG_2226.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467385505584113122" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-AOJl515eI/AAAAAAAAAuE/uYOh48qJVXM/s400/IMG_2226.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a>Another one of my "decorating things" is to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #00cccc;">paint the walls TWO different colors</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #00cccc;">.</span>
In my powder room, two walls are blue and two walls are green! I
started doing this when I couldn't decide which color I liked better, so
I decided on both. Who says you HAVE to paint all the walls the same
color?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #339999;">Rules schmules</span></span> I say!<br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-AOJZ3bsII/AAAAAAAAAt8/Dgd4Qt3jLHc/s1600/IMG_2230.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467385502352781442" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-AOJZ3bsII/AAAAAAAAAt8/Dgd4Qt3jLHc/s400/IMG_2230.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a>Here is the WATER SHOT for Watery Wednesday!!!</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffccff;">I have Japanese River Rocks in the bottom of the sink for an organic feel</span></span></div>
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Tobi Britton*pinkpixieforest.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304025924413575900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639887092310178445.post-61042496994185989632013-04-16T11:30:00.000-07:002016-04-01T14:28:58.831-07:00Wedding Planning!!!I can spend hours and hours looking at galleries of awesome and inspiring wedding DIY pictures !!<br />
Isn't it amazing how we can get so fixated on the beautiful images that hours go by before we remember that dinner isn't cooking itself!<br />
My daughter Ashley is getting married the June 21st in a big tent in my yard with a barbeque.<br />
Here are some pictures from my pinterest board that have me totally inspired!<br />
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Tobi Britton*pinkpixieforest.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304025924413575900noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639887092310178445.post-75036774609594085702012-10-13T12:56:00.001-07:002012-10-13T12:56:09.754-07:00I'm Gonna Paint Me Some Punkins!<span style="font-size: large;">Hello</span> <span style="font-size: large;">my sparkly friends!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So Miss Beverly and Pinterest inspired me to go get some
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cmJSyrokp90/UHnF64RwaDI/AAAAAAAACuo/ni35r3EbUbY/s1600/14777504997413930_BuirrgSP_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cmJSyrokp90/UHnF64RwaDI/AAAAAAAACuo/ni35r3EbUbY/s400/14777504997413930_BuirrgSP_b.jpg" width="305" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">These pumpkins are actually pink </span>for real- <span style="font-size: x-large;">they grow pink</span>... I really have to get some seeds and try them next year! </span><br />
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Please visit <a href="http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/" target="_blank">How Sweet The Sound</a> for more pinky punkin goodness!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Sparkly Hugs,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Tobi and the Pixies! </span>Tobi Britton*pinkpixieforest.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304025924413575900noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639887092310178445.post-7436868784661695882012-09-18T14:22:00.003-07:002012-09-18T14:22:52.991-07:00Pinspiration for my Fairy House!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Hello my Sparkly Friends! So as some of you may know, I have been redoing my back yard into a Pink Pixie friendly Forest! Included in this forest is an art studio inspired by <a href="http://myshabbystreamsidestudio.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">My Shabby Streamside Studio</a>. I have only just begun, but will keep you posted as to my progress!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In Light and Love and Sparkly Hugs,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Tobi and the Pixies!</span>Tobi Britton*pinkpixieforest.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304025924413575900noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639887092310178445.post-45218656430190145072012-05-22T17:02:00.000-07:002016-04-01T14:32:33.385-07:00Ta Dah!!! Raised Garden Beginnings...and Happy Pink Birthday!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Hello my Sparkly friends!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">So It's Pink Saturday's Fourth Birthday-</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks so much for your comments on my raised garden post last week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I decided to <span style="font-size: x-large;">go with the spiral bed</span> after all like the one above from Pinterest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I forgot</span> to take a <span style="font-size: x-large;">before pic</span>- but just imagine a<span style="font-size: x-large;"> big jungle of tall weeds</span> all jumbled together!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Today </span>I woke at 5am, and <span style="font-size: x-large;">was in the garden by 6</span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This is not typical Tobi I'll have you know. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Although I truly love my sleepies- also </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">love arising at dawn and being there when the day wakes up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So that's what i did this morning! I was tossing and turning all night planning which plants I would move to which place... and in the end I wound up with this! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I even put all of my tools away</span>- <span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You see- I have ADD and <span style="font-size: x-large;">sometimes I go off and start another project before actually finishing the first.</span> This is not one of my best qualities- but today I made sure to finish what I had started... at least the Phase one of this project!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So Here's What I did: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First I pulled out all of the weeds and trimmed back my Peegee sp? Hydrangea and spreading Rose bush</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then I dug up all of the plants I would be saving: My Sedum, two small Russian Sage plants, a Butterfly Bush that was getting too big for the front bed, my strawberry plants and these yellow fast growing tall flowers that I don't know the name of!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sedum went at the back of the spiral, The Butterfly Bush went to the left corner behind the spiral, along with the two Russian Sage and Yellow unknown flower not yet in bloom! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">I put them behind because they grow "like Stinkweeds"</span> (lol my mom used to say that, can't say I even know what a stinkweed is!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I then placed my fountain in the middle- (Setting that up will be part two)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I hadn't planned for a fountain, it was kind of a spur of the moment sorta thing- but I think the soothing sound of water trinkling will be nice from the porch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh- and I placed a hosta that was hidden under all those weeds at the entrance.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So after all of this work, <span style="font-size: x-large;">I took a nice pink bubble bath,</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And here I am <span style="font-size: x-large;">wishing everyone</span> a pinkaliscious weekend</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Miss Beverly- </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you so much for getting us all together every Saturday for the past four years! I have made a lot of friends here and me and <span style="font-size: x-large;">the Pixies LOVE YOU!!!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(even if our grammar stinks!)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Stay tuned for Part Two- Setting up the fountain and</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Part Three: Creating a pebble mosaic walkway!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ta ta My lovelies!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Sparkly Hugs,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Tobi and the Pixies!</span><br />
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Tobi Britton*pinkpixieforest.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304025924413575900noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639887092310178445.post-27623162413979228022012-05-15T09:34:00.004-07:002012-05-19T13:21:02.056-07:00Lovely Raised Gardens!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, Mother's Day is officially over..</span>. so that means it's time to</div>
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like me and the Pixies.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I really wish</span> sometimes that I lived in a place </div>
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with an <span style="font-size: large;">extended growing season</span>, but I really<span style="font-size: x-large;"> DO LOVE</span> having the<span style="font-size: x-large;"> snow</span> in the winter, even though we had none this year.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So let's talk about raised gardening. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I have a side lawn</span> that has full sun in my front yard </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">(</span><span style="font-size: large;">where the</span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span> <span style="font-size: x-large;">pile of topsoil with weeds</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2639887092310178445#editor/target=post;postID=7353102248245493302">Huge lawn weed chia pet burial mound</a>"</span> </div>
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and had my <span style="font-size: large;">husband threatening me with Preen</span> when i wasn't looking to get rid of the weeds to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">stop the neighbors from whispering <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">about us</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">)</span> </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The great lesson it taught me is to buy topsoil only in bags,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Especially if you are planning to grow veggies in your raised bed because the bulk topsoil comes from various locations and you have no idea what kind of pesticides and chemicals it contains! </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> So I am planning to create raised beds in which I will raise lots of vegetables</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and decorate with flowers so they will be pretty too!</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was planning on making rectangular ones like this</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">and lining them with chicken wire on the base so I don't have to worry about burrowing critters, and will use white pebbles in between and around the beds.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then I will make a pretty flower bed close to the curb.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Easy Peasy- right??</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">But I really keep falling in love with the circular ones...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Help me choose!!! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <span style="font-size: large;">images I used </span>in this blog are from <span style="font-size: large;">Pinterest</span>. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> If you would like the <span style="font-size: large;">source</span>, </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">visit my Pinterest board</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> "Raised Gardens" </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Linking to</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span> </span></span></span></div>Tobi Britton*pinkpixieforest.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304025924413575900noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639887092310178445.post-26571988243089212122010-05-04T08:12:00.000-07:002010-05-05T07:17:55.753-07:00Instant Forest Walkway or Outdoor Room Floor!<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-CpI1l-61I/AAAAAAAAA2s/9THFrqRZH4c/s1600/Outdoor+Wednesday+logo_thumb%5B2%5D.png"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-CdPt8lYpI/AAAAAAAAA2k/DUNPFdy9ARU/s1600/IMG_2199.JPG"></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">"Making Foot-paths out of nothing at all... out of nothing at all..." </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Sung to the tune of "making love out of nothing at all")</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Hello my sparkly Friends! Continuing work on the labyrinth, I started getting bored with the same ol' "Rock*Brick*Gravel theme and thought I would mix it up a bit! I want this side of the Labyrinth to lead to a "Garden Room" and I wanted something prettier for the floor. After googling how I could grow moss with beer and buttermilk, I decided I just don't want to wait that long for moss to grow! </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-A7-_sqkAI/AAAAAAAAAw8/wVBusPZ2zG4/s400/IMG_2172.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467435901064482818" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">So I came up with a thrifty streak of green genius! First, lay your main floor/walkway rocks. Then we are going to transplant hardy grasses and moss to fill in the cracks and look like it has been there for years using my simple technique!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-size:16px;"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-A6_dCV2uI/AAAAAAAAAv0/GKPCOSSSKuk/s400/IMG_2182.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467434809428400866" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">This idea came to me while being scolded by the hubs that "Sod needs full sun to grow it's going to die!" when he saw my $5.00 patch of Home Depot sod that I decided looks a bit "too perfect" for my taste. It is like the metrosexual of the plant kingdom. It's way too well groomed. So perfect it's creepy (like a guy with a manicure and shiny nails! EEWWW) It's like grass that really needs to address it's "grassuality" and decide if it is really grass or not. Poor confused sod. You belong on a golf course. With Tiger. Nuff said about that. I actually like golf by the way so don't think I am judging!</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-CdPt8lYpI/AAAAAAAAA2k/DUNPFdy9ARU/s400/IMG_2199.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467542840985084562" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;">So my brilliant and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">"muy"</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(that's spanish for "very")</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">THRIFTY idea</span> was to search out <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">sod's unrefined redneck cousin... Crabgrass,</span> who everybody knows is the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">bad guy at the lawn party who is not afraid to kick green butt of any plant naive enough to think it can grow close to him.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;">Yep- this is what I'm talking about!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-A7Ah1GY0I/AAAAAAAAAwE/OGjFfyfkE8U/s400/IMG_2188.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467434827894907714" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></span></div><div>Search out a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">nice, firm, ruggedly handsome clump of crabgrass</span>, and carefully pull him up by his roots.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-A7A1ooi0I/AAAAAAAAAwM/psIxp7Y0h_c/s400/IMG_2189.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467434833211329346" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></span></div><div>Take your scissors, and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">give him a brazilian. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-A7_YmHhUI/AAAAAAAAAxE/FuEmGegTMLM/s400/IMG_2178.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467435907747906882" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Then you can artfully plant him in between your rocks! Try and mix up grass varieties and textures.</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-A8AOZxgSI/AAAAAAAAAxM/xLT19pRG-_s/s1600/IMG_2177.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-A8AOZxgSI/AAAAAAAAAxM/xLT19pRG-_s/s400/IMG_2177.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467435922191647010" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-A7BjJkVhI/AAAAAAAAAwU/flVnxtcBvN0/s400/IMG_2177.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467434845429061138" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Then you can fill in the gaps with moss that you must have growing somewhere on your property.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-A6_-n8t0I/AAAAAAAAAv8/nyoSsCi777I/s1600/IMG_2169.JPG"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-A6_-n8t0I/AAAAAAAAAv8/nyoSsCi777I/s400/IMG_2169.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467434818444506946" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Continue this until you have the desired size walkway or floor. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I am not nearly finished yet as you can see!</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-A7_YmHhUI/AAAAAAAAAxE/FuEmGegTMLM/s1600/IMG_2178.JPG"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-A7-_sqkAI/AAAAAAAAAw8/wVBusPZ2zG4/s1600/IMG_2172.JPG"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-A7-sG54gI/AAAAAAAAAw0/Djw4miumLSo/s1600/IMG_2170.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-A7-sG54gI/AAAAAAAAAw0/Djw4miumLSo/s400/IMG_2170.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467435895805829634" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">So there you have it! My nice, green shade loving MACHO SOD that will grow even if I forget about him. You can't beat that! If only husbands were more like sod.... Ha! The GRASS is always greener... you know the rest! LOL!</span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;">Jack, do you never sleep ---<br />does the green still run deep in your heart?<br />Or will these changing times,<br />motorways, powerlines,<br />keep us apart?<br />Well, I don't think so ---<br />I saw some grass growing through the pavements today.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;"> Ian Anderson</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#99FF99;"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Sparkly Hugs,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Tobi and the Pixies</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#99FF99;"><a href="http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/">OUTDOOR WEDNESDAY LINK</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-size:16px;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-CpI1l-61I/AAAAAAAAA2s/9THFrqRZH4c/s400/Outdoor+Wednesday+logo_thumb%5B2%5D.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467555916918221650" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 246px; height: 204px; " /></span></div><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-A7BjJkVhI/AAAAAAAAAwU/flVnxtcBvN0/s1600/IMG_2177.JPG"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-A7A1ooi0I/AAAAAAAAAwM/psIxp7Y0h_c/s1600/IMG_2189.JPG"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-A7Ah1GY0I/AAAAAAAAAwE/OGjFfyfkE8U/s1600/IMG_2188.JPG"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-A6_-n8t0I/AAAAAAAAAv8/nyoSsCi777I/s1600/IMG_2169.JPG"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S-A6_dCV2uI/AAAAAAAAAv0/GKPCOSSSKuk/s1600/IMG_2182.JPG"></a></div>Tobi Britton*pinkpixieforest.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304025924413575900noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639887092310178445.post-8734905073001064972010-04-21T10:45:00.000-07:002010-04-21T11:26:54.738-07:00Happy White Wednesday! Pixie Edition<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S886WIC-pCI/AAAAAAAAAlE/VE06SdVG3lQ/s1600/IMG_1944.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S886WIC-pCI/AAAAAAAAAlE/VE06SdVG3lQ/s400/IMG_1944.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462649024815211554" /></a>Hello my Sparkly Friends! Today is White Wednesday and this is my first! As you know, Pixies rule in my neck of the woods, so I thought it fitting to start my White Wednesdays with a peek at my Pixie Collection!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S886VnwPEFI/AAAAAAAAAk8/TFOjAWut1a8/s1600/IMG_1951.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S886VnwPEFI/AAAAAAAAAk8/TFOjAWut1a8/s400/IMG_1951.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462649016146661458" /></a>I love the way they all wink...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S886VYbriNI/AAAAAAAAAk0/-YfZAqVtCj8/s1600/IMG_1950.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S886VYbriNI/AAAAAAAAAk0/-YfZAqVtCj8/s400/IMG_1950.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462649012033915090" /></a>Looks like the little cherub wants to talk, and she just pretends not to hear...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S886Uio3RrI/AAAAAAAAAks/PmhbHUSAYgM/s1600/IMG_1949.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S886Uio3RrI/AAAAAAAAAks/PmhbHUSAYgM/s400/IMG_1949.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462648997593695922" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S886UcyOgxI/AAAAAAAAAkk/ug5sulFyjoU/s1600/IMG_1946.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S886UcyOgxI/AAAAAAAAAkk/ug5sulFyjoU/s400/IMG_1946.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462648996022354706" /></a>Well, I hope you enjoyed my little Pixies, there are more so keep coming back for White Wednesday!<div>Be sure to visit <b><a href="http://fadedcharmcottage.blogspot.com/">Faded Charm Cottage</a></b> and see all the White Wednesday participants!</div><div>Sparkly Hugs,</div><div>Tobi and the Pixies</div>Tobi Britton*pinkpixieforest.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304025924413575900noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639887092310178445.post-24168829277970801892010-04-09T10:18:00.000-07:002016-04-01T14:33:38.637-07:00Mommy...Where do Pixies Come From???<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S79jLZbyoRI/AAAAAAAAAe4/H-ozFtV4F9Q/s1600/IMG_1551.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458190320853491986" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S79jLZbyoRI/AAAAAAAAAe4/H-ozFtV4F9Q/s400/IMG_1551.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Hello My Sparkly Friends! I thought you might like a peek into the Pink Pixie Forest Workshop to see where the trees are created. I was feeling better yesterday and the Pixies convinced me to organize the workshop and like a dummy I listened! Today I am paying for it, but laying up here in bed I feel good knowing that we prettied up the workspace and I can now find stuff!</span><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S79iezpLH1I/AAAAAAAAAeA/Mp8x8RLdo2g/s1600/IMG_1519.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458189554794831698" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S79iezpLH1I/AAAAAAAAAeA/Mp8x8RLdo2g/s400/IMG_1519.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a><br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S79ierIapjI/AAAAAAAAAd4/GsRqzH_xt6A/s1600/IMG_1522.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458189552509953586" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S79ierIapjI/AAAAAAAAAd4/GsRqzH_xt6A/s400/IMG_1522.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a><br />
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S79ieH0jZhI/AAAAAAAAAdw/Cs_tvEFHFNU/s1600/IMG_1554.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458189543031399954" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S79ieH0jZhI/AAAAAAAAAdw/Cs_tvEFHFNU/s400/IMG_1554.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc66cc;">Have A Wonderful Weekend!!</span></span>Tobi Britton*pinkpixieforest.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304025924413575900noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639887092310178445.post-44894178096489806612010-04-01T19:29:00.001-07:002010-04-01T19:58:20.458-07:00Got Labyrinth?!<div style="text-align: center;">Almost! I did 3/4 today, and it will be done tomorrow!</div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S7VZEMvLcXI/AAAAAAAAAZE/IQhrgglTTEI/s400/IMG_1470.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455364452302680434" />This was what my labyrinth looked like at 9am this morning. I figured it was time to get some of my projects done, and since the rain has finally gone someplace else for the next 4 days, I decided to start on the first thing on my list... PROJECT: LABYRINTH!<br /><div><br /></div><div><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S7VZEi4f41I/AAAAAAAAAZM/9kY2Z2FuMyw/s400/IMG_1473.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455364458247349074" style="text-align: left; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></div><div>First I decided where to put the center. I made it to actually face in the same direction as Chartres, the famous labyrinth in France. Next step was to lay down the landscaping fabric.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S7VZE7F2s8I/AAAAAAAAAZU/TaVy2r_mdaA/s400/IMG_1474.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455364464745821122" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></div><div>Then I got a google pic of a 5 circuit modified Chartres labyrinth, and laid out the bricks.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S7VZFZxuncI/AAAAAAAAAZc/yC8hm_WW0XQ/s1600/IMG_1486.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S7VZFZxuncI/AAAAAAAAAZc/yC8hm_WW0XQ/s400/IMG_1486.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455364472982904258" /></a>After adding a sitting log and mini fire pit to the center, I started to make a fancy dancy entrance and start filling in with crushed stone.</div><div>Well, I am pooped now and off to bed, stay tuned to the same bat channel for tomorrows toil!!</div><div>Sparkly Hugs,</div><div>Tobi and the Pixies!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div>Tobi Britton*pinkpixieforest.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304025924413575900noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639887092310178445.post-29071257242804541562010-03-20T07:52:00.000-07:002010-03-20T07:53:18.853-07:00More Bricks Please!!!<div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S6TRpN55zmI/AAAAAAAAAXE/87aQvLoQXjY/s1600-h/IMG_0825.JPG"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S6TRpN55zmI/AAAAAAAAAXE/87aQvLoQXjY/s400/IMG_0825.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450711955062509154" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></a><br />HA!!! (Sung like Mr. Rogers Neighborhood)<div>"It's a sparkely day in my neighborhood,<div>A sparkely day for a neighbor,</div><div>Do you have Bircks?</div><div>Could I have Bricks?!"</div><div><br /></div><div>Well, I got an email from the "Brick Man" that I met on Craigs List last year and guess what?? HE HAS MORE BRICKS FOR ME!!!</div><div>YAY is all I can say.</div><div>"Why Tobi..." you may ask</div><div>"Don't you still have a huge pile of bricks you got from him last year and haven't moved them an inch?"</div><div>"Why YES..." I reply, "I certainly DO still have them, but NOW I don't have to decide between a Labyrinth or the waterfall brick walkway!"</div><div><br /></div><div>The Best part of all this is- IT"S SATURDAY AND the HUBS isn't home and that means I am in like Flynn!!</div><div>I will post some pics for you later!</div><div>Sparkly Bricks,</div><div>Tobi !!</div></div></div>Tobi Britton*pinkpixieforest.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304025924413575900noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639887092310178445.post-73531022482454933022010-03-06T13:09:00.001-08:002013-09-20T10:48:36.884-07:00Hurry Up Spring PART 2 Unfinished Business...<div style="text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">So I am hoping</span> that by posting my unfinished projects here, I may be inspired to really finish them! Like I told you in Hurry Up Spring, I had a bunch of projects that just didn't get done last summer because of the :</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Weeds growing on my pile of topsoil that became known as the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"Huge lawn weed chia pet burial mound"</span> and had my husband threatening me with Preen when i wasn't looking to get rid of the weeds and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">stop the neighbors from whispering about us.</span></div>
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I am determined to get this all done this year so I am hoping by posting this y'all will hold me accountable to be a trustworthy yard steward and finish what i have started! Here are a few picture to give you an actual view of why my husband was complaining. :) Smeeze! </div>
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T<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">his is my waterfall walkway: it needs to be cemented but I am not sure if I want to use the bricks for my labyrinth. What do you think? Keep it? Labyrinth it?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">This is the "Huge lawn weed chia pet burial mound" - it is being sneeky right now... it looks perfectly harmless but once sunshine and spring hit, it will turn into a gigantic chia pet and have hubby heading for the preen.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Prince Albert in a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">CAN</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">...Hey- Can someone please let him out?? That was an old joke my dad used to tell.</span></div>
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Well, better late than never! Here are my Cs and D's!</div>
</div>Tobi Britton*pinkpixieforest.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304025924413575900noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639887092310178445.post-24872114355595150642010-03-05T10:33:00.000-08:002010-03-05T10:58:14.637-08:00The "I Need Friends"Beautiful Fairy tree Giveaway!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S5FUCKoi_6I/AAAAAAAAANI/v5Ibr7yt1Yc/s1600-h/IMG_0771.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S5FUCKoi_6I/AAAAAAAAANI/v5Ibr7yt1Yc/s320/IMG_0771.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445225820658532258" /></a><br />So, I am new to this blogging thing. I have 3 blogs (probably a result of my Adult ADHD)!<div>http://pinkpixieforest.blogspot.com</div><div>http://thepinkfairycottage.blogspot.com</div><div>http://tobibrittonslivinggreen.blogspot.com</div><div><br /></div><div>PinkPixieForest has 13 friends</div><div>ThePinkFairyCottage has 10 friends and</div><div>TobiBrittonsLivingGreen has 3!</div><div><br /></div><div>I have been seeing all of these giveaways for bloggers that have big milestones- 1000 followers, 100th post...you know. </div><div><br /></div><div>So I decided to have a big Giveaway to welcome new friends!!!</div><div><br /></div><div>I figured I would start out with a really pretty giveaway- one of my Fairy Trees that I will make</div><div>especially for the giveaway. </div><div><br /></div><div>So here's how it will go:</div><div><br /></div><div>I will make a very special Fairy or Pixie Tree especially for this giveaway in about a week.</div><div><br /></div><div>To ENTER:</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Become a FOLLOWER on each of my blogs listed above. That's Three blogs to follow!</div><div>2. Leave a COMMENT on this post on each blog telling me which tree is your fave from the pic above! Yup- three comments!</div><div><br /></div><div>YOU WILL BE ENTERED TWICE if you....</div><div>Just do this before I post the actual giveaway tree MARCH 14th!.</div><div><br /></div><div>Once the tree picture is posted, each entry will count as one.</div><div><br /></div><div>So... </div><div>Enter before i post the tree = 6 entries- 2 for each blog!</div><div>Enter after i post the tree= 3 entries!</div><div>Add my button to your blog = 2 extra entries for each blog for a possible total of 6 extra entries!</div><div><br /></div><div>But WAIT BOB- THERE's MORE!</div><div><br /></div><div>IF I GET MORE THAN 100 FOLLOWERS BEFORE I POST THE PICTURE, I WILL ADD ANOTHER TREE SO THERE WILL BE 2 WINNERS!!</div><div><br /></div><div> You just can't beat social marketing ;)</div><div><br /></div><div>Sparkly Hugs,</div><div>Tobi :)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Tobi Britton*pinkpixieforest.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304025924413575900noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639887092310178445.post-41854490367966852162010-02-27T10:33:00.000-08:002012-05-22T16:29:34.429-07:00Vintage Alphabet Party- This Week It's "B"!<div>
This week is B so here are my Vintage Goodies that begin with "B":<br />
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Beaded Bag, Brooch, Bunny Mold, Bowl (footed with roses)</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I keep looking out my window to see if the snow is almost melted yet. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #33ccff;"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">I have lots of big plans for my garden and yard this year.</span></span></span> <span style="font-size: large;">They are actually many of the same plans I had last year but never got to because of all of the rain. Let's see- I have <span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">boulders to build,</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">a labyrinth to construct,</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">a few outdoor "rooms to furnish with concrete "Faux Bois" furniture that I of course will be creating myself!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> I</span> also plan on making a bunch of raised beds so I can actually</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;">grow the veggies I threatened to grow last year</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;">,</span> <span style="font-size: large;">pile a few fieldstone (Pennsylvania) walls, and build a few floating decks for my outdoor rooms. Oh, I forgot about the greenhouse I am going to make out of my falling down shed! Just to make sure I don't make things easy on myself, </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9999ff;">I will grow a yard of pretty flowers from the hundred packets of seeds I bought last year and never had a chance to plant.</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">The thing I forgot to mention, was that I have ZERO budget to get my fantasy yard in order. I have, instead, to rely on good ol' fashioned ingenuity and creativity when it comes to getting what I want.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">You see, it all started out fine last spring. I went on craigslist and found a bunch of bricks, my aunt was moving and uncle Bill gave me a palette of bricks<span style="color: blue;"> that I loaded one at a time into the back of my Honda Ridgeline-</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ccffff;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9999ff;"><span style="color: blue;">much to the dismay of my "don't use the truck for things it is made for cause it will get scratched" husband!</span> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ccffff;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">I became a "brick sleuth", taking small loads whenever I could and quickly unloading them before the hubs came home. I even snuck a yard of dirt in the back of my truck to save the delivery charge by carefully lining it with landscape fabric and he was none the wiser! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are lots of things I would like in my garden... like rocks and boulders! I have "hardscape envy" of anyone that has had the good fortune and budget to adorn their yard with big, heavy, gorgeous boulders! Big ones, small ones, Mexican river rocks- small, medium and large, pea gravel, bluestone, flagstone- I dream of them all. Now when I lived upstate, this stuff was everywhere and you could pretty much drive down the road and come back with a free truckload of whatever you could pick up and put in your truck. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3366ff;">But I lived upstate in the 70's when I was a teenager and my idea of great rock came in the musical form with big hair, tight pants and had absolutely nothing at all to do with geology. </span></span> <span style="font-size: large;">EEK!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">JUNE.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So I was online drooling over pictures of designer hard scapes when I came across a guy from Australia who creates boulders and slab staircases out of concrete!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was perfect for me...a girl with limited lifting skills and no bobcat. I sent away for the instructional videos that taught me all about sand mix and pigment powders. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I got a bunch of free concrete rubble that the guy even delivered for free, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and also got to listen to my husband tell me that I "was never gonna finish and we would be looking at that pile of broken sidewalk next year."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span> I scoffed at his lack of imagination and vision for the future paradise I would be constructing with my bare hands! HMMPHMPH! " I will show him" I thought. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc33cc;">Then came the rain.</span></span> <span style="font-size: large;">I looked on the cheery side and said to myself "great-I will see how the water makes it's way thru the yard so I can plan more efficiently". Well, I pretty much spent the entire summer waiting for it to stop raining or dry up enough to do my projects! I couldn't start concrete if it was going to rain, all of my boulders would wash away!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #990000;">JULY. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #009900;">All of the rain made my pile of topsoil grow and start looking eerily like a huge lawn chia pet. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As it grew more from the plentiful rain, it actually started looking more like an abandoned burial mound. This made me very reluctant to put it into my beds at that point because I really didn't want to do THAT much weeding!! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> I think my topsoil was probably made out of decomposed weeds because I had become the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;">proud owner of a lush, green weed chia burial mound. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;">Yay. Just what I wanted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;">By then my husband was having quite a jolly time <span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">reminding me about my broken sidewalk project and the big weed grave in the front yard!</span></span> <span style="font-size: x-large;"> He kept on threatening me that he was going to get preen and kill everything before the neighbors started whispering about us, but I really don't want all those chemicals messing with my backyard wildlife. </span>Not to mention, I had bought a hundred packets of seeds with leftover grocery money (shhh, don't tell!), and the preen would make it impossible for anything to grow! </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">August. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> Now that the weather had a few stretches of workable dryness, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc33cc;">the mosquitos were having a block party and I was the tequila.</span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Not a big fan of encephalitus, I chose to remain inside in the air conditioning and crackle finish my vanity instead. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before I knew it the summer was over. I finally weeded my front lawn chia pet in time for the fall clean up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Right now, the blanket of snow keeps my broken concrete project a secret to those who don't know, and my box of seed packets patiently wait for me to Johnny Appleseed them into my beds and so they can take a chance at life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> My rich, black crumbly topsoil peeks it's weedless head innocently out of the melting snow, silently saying "put me in your garden beds"...but I know better- it thinks I will forget and let it chia pet my entire garden this year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Heck, maybe I can start a new trend- the chia garden! </span></div>
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Tobi Britton*pinkpixieforest.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304025924413575900noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639887092310178445.post-25419168402885087432010-02-17T13:31:00.000-08:002010-02-25T14:21:06.371-08:00After The Fire...Phoenix Rising!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S4b1uCKY1EI/AAAAAAAAAIE/8gNtLHfaN_U/s1600-h/IMG_3545.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S4b1uCKY1EI/AAAAAAAAAIE/8gNtLHfaN_U/s320/IMG_3545.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442307370927051842" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S4bzYBMJKKI/AAAAAAAAAH8/NTeHe75Cr-w/s1600-h/IMG_3576.JPG"><img style="text-align: center;float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S4bzYBMJKKI/AAAAAAAAAH8/NTeHe75Cr-w/s320/IMG_3576.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442304793685600418" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S4btwAQX3xI/AAAAAAAAAHU/WqeTN_-Fp4c/s1600-h/7525_141015974171_607979171_2379764_8359018_n.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 333px; height: 250px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S4btwAQX3xI/AAAAAAAAAHU/WqeTN_-Fp4c/s400/7525_141015974171_607979171_2379764_8359018_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442298608682000146" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S4btv-uysaI/AAAAAAAAAHM/bpoeLb50RwY/s1600-h/7525_141015969171_607979171_2379763_865517_n.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 333px; height: 250px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S4btv-uysaI/AAAAAAAAAHM/bpoeLb50RwY/s400/7525_141015969171_607979171_2379763_865517_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442298608272716194" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CCFF;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S4btv-uysaI/AAAAAAAAAHM/bpoeLb50RwY/s1600-h/7525_141015969171_607979171_2379763_865517_n.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"></a></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CCFF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CCFF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CCFF;"><br /></span></div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3366FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3366FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3366FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3366FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3366FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3366FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3366FF;">Three years ago I got the call that you never want to get..."The house is on fire".</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Bad news-House was a total loss. Good news- Tobi gets to redecorate COMPLETELY from scratch! We're talkin' "the beams were the only thing left. We lived in a trailer on the front lawn from April till November...the neighbors must have just LOVED that! Although it was very</span> traumatic and stressful, we were really blessed to be able to redo the house from top to bottom! We were only able to do this because we had a wonderful insurance company. Now if it sounds odd that I would call a fire "good fortune" let me channel Lucy Ricardo for a moment and "splain". The fire actually only burned one room- the dining room. All the rest of the house was smoke damage. That was the good part. Smoke damage meant that I didn't lose any of my old photographs, teacups, dishes etc. They were considered a "loss" and we were paid for them but got to keep them! This of course meant that I had many hours of washing to do, but I didn't lose a single piece of jadite! I am a true believer that you should always look for the good fortune in things even if they seem like a disaster. One of my best piece of good fortune was that I was able to move walls a bit and vault the upstairs ceilings- something my husband would never had agreed to do if we had to pay for it! The only very unfortunate part of it all was we lost three dear little munchkins- Midnight the big fat cat, Nikki the vociferous Pomeranian and her puppy Brodie. But now that I have this blog, they will have their little faces out there for all to see!!! So here are some pictures of the house and the updates, and believe me I still have LOTS of projects to do so there will be much more to come!In love and light,Tobi</div></div>Tobi Britton*pinkpixieforest.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304025924413575900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639887092310178445.post-81371199836198075702010-02-16T14:19:00.000-08:002010-02-25T14:37:05.893-08:00Rainbow Bridge<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S4b7hS8iKkI/AAAAAAAAAIc/AL-B-ZNi7Jo/s1600-h/32641011589.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S4b7hS8iKkI/AAAAAAAAAIc/AL-B-ZNi7Jo/s320/32641011589.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442313749163813442" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S4b7hFk-_oI/AAAAAAAAAIU/HhDDDhUOd8I/s1600-h/15148730757.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S4b7hFk-_oI/AAAAAAAAAIU/HhDDDhUOd8I/s320/15148730757.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442313745575378562" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S4b7ggcJ-8I/AAAAAAAAAIM/9ZklVO_WkUs/s1600-h/126065864197.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l2C-VLyK0fU/S4b7ggcJ-8I/AAAAAAAAAIM/9ZklVO_WkUs/s320/126065864197.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442313735606238146" /></a><br />Our beloved munchkins that passed in the fire. Nikki was my first Pomeranian. She had such a personality! She would loudly protest when things didn't go her way by saying "WoooWoooWoo"! Her puppy Brodie was the one we were going to keep. Brodie would just look at you with such love- a deepness of soul. Midnight was a big fat black long hair cat that I think was a Maine Coon. She would actually be so lazy that instead of bending down to eat, she would pick up a piece at a time with her paw and put it in her mouth!Tobi Britton*pinkpixieforest.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304025924413575900noreply@blogger.com3