Ford Tough

This spring I went to a huge outdoor antiques venue in Warrington, Texas. I have been seeing these super cute Coke and Dr. Pepper crates on Pintrest that were being used to hold paints, or other craft supplies. So I went on a mission to find these super cute crates, because I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them. My four year old, like most little boys, has tons of hot wheels, by tons I mean, more than I know what to do with. I find them everywhere! They're in the pantry, under my entryway  bench, behind the toilet (at least they're not in the toilet!), in my closet, in random side tables, and just about everywhere else.

So what could be cooler than this . . .

These provide incentive to clean up! Nothing like a sneaky trick to get the kids to clean up after themselves. Plus, it's an awesome display. We put these right above his bed and they're kind of like a fau headboard. I picked these up for about $15-$20 each.

His soccer medals are displayed close by as well. And somewhere in the house are the rest of the hotwheels. . .

I found this vintage bicycle rim in a heap of stuff behind a super cute booth at the antique show. This called out to me and I had no idea what to do with it, but bought it anyways. The color went great in Hayden's room and well with the transportation theme. As I was hanging it up, I knocked over a picture frame he had stolen from my entry table and put in his room. But how perfect did that turn out? I just stuck the picture between the spokes, and now it's ready for a few more pics as well.

Here is his wall, the car crates are to the right of these as well. The whole display created a good mix of vintage and modern which is what I love!

At least the Geraniums Grow...

We will have lived in our house for four years come August. Every spring I have made several attempts at Gardening. The first attempt was at weed and rock removal. That was at least successful. I then did alot of research and looked through all the pretty pictures of flowers and gardens on the better homes and gardens website. I was bound and determined to have a beautiful front garden... All my flowers were dead by the end if the season. Turns out, that since we live in this hot and humid state of Texas, you have to water the garden at least once  a week....

My next attempt came the next summer when my husband decided he wanted to have some fresh Jalapenos. I thought that was an excellent idea, but why stop at just pepper plants!?! So we borrowed tools and plowed and used cow manure and hay stuff and top soil and dirt and planted a huge plethora of organic vegetables. We even surrounded them by those yellow flowers that were supposed to keep the bugs out. We did have several good grows of romaine and jalapenoes. Then it rained... hard and it flooded out our garden. I'm sure there was a way to have salvaged it, but the weeds and flooding were so depressing. By the end of the summer, it was overgrown and all dead.

Attempt three was not so bad. I decided to keep it simple. I used a few flower borders, geraniums, and daisies and even planted two bushes in my front bed. Mulch was added and more weeds were removed. However by winter almost everything except two geraniums and one daisy had again died.

This year, I covered my two surving plants and what do you know . . . They came back!

The Geranium above the angel was my only surving victim geranium from the previous year and it has gotten huge (thanks to a little help from miracle grow)! Well since that seems to be the only plant that lives, I planted a few more. . . ok, I planted alot more.

More Geraniums planted this year as well as a pepper plant in the pail. (I also planted moss in the pail you can see a little bit of it, but I have no idea what this green thing coming out of it is. I guess its some sort of weed, but it looks kinda cool.)

Can you see my one daisy!?! And apparently this ground cover is awesome. It seems to be keeping out most of my weeds. I am curious to see if it survives my brown thumb this winter though. And don't you just love the old window? I found this at an antique show for $30 I want to plant somethig that will trelis up it but not overtake it. . . Maybe next year!