Florida Orchids

After three years of sitting in this evergreen tree, my orchid finally bloomed! I'm not sure of the name because it was a plant I rescued from someone who threw it out. I have placed it in several trees in my yard but this is the one that it took hold in and began to bloom.

The tree it finally likes was one of those tiny live Christmas trees they sell in Lowes. It was the first Christmas tree I had when I moved into my house twenty some years ago. I planted in the yard and now it's about twelve feet tall!

The blooms are so tiny and delicate, I'm sure they won't last long. Now I need to identify the orchid. Since it has decided to live, I will try to help it along. It's survival of the fittest in my yard!

Really Wild Magnets

New in my Etsy shop this month is this fun and very colorful set of wild animal magnets, made from vintage Lilly Pulitzer fabric.

They are mounted on card stock and heat laminated on both sides. The lamination will protect the vintage fabric.

I'm working on other sets of fabric magnets as well. I only have a small supply of the vintage fabric so I know I won't be making too many of them.

I once owned a gift shop years ago here in Florida and Lilly Pulitzer had a shop in the same plaza. I was lucky enough to buy some samples the year they closed up. Wish I had bought a lot more now!

Rainbow Overhead

We were under the rainbow!
It was really a double rainbow and the colors were
much more brilliant than this photo shows.
I felt lucky all day!

Are You A Homeschool Hoarder?

You might be if :

1. You get a library card to save money on books and then come home from said library, with books you bought from the library book sale section.
   
   
2. You have bookmarked 400,000 websites in your computer's favorites, in case they might be useful at some point.
   
   
3. Instead of presents, you have asked friends and family to give your child gift cards to Staples and Michael's Crafts for holidays and birthdays.
   
   
4. You no longer have a dining room table or a dining room, for that matter. All those supplies have to go somewhere!
   
   
5. There is never anything to put out in the recycle bin because you may need that doohickey, thingamabob, or whatnot someday for some as of yet, un-named science project.
   
   
6. You stock up on blank notebooks, just in case the entire world decides to go "paperless".
   
   
7. You finally have a reason to hang on to your parent's thirty year collection of National Geographic magazines.
   
   
8. You child doesn't understand why the telephone pictures in his textbooks, have really long cords attached.
   
   
9. All of the photos, on all the walls and doors around your home have been replaced with charts, posters and diagrams.
   
   
10. You have three plastic leaf bags full of empty toilet paper and paper towels rolls in your garage because... well, just because.