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cherokee rose



A couple years ago I bought a nice old wooden frame at a yard sale; you could tell it was hand made and the older lady told me her father had made it many years ago. When I got it home I made a tutorial on how to use school glue to crackle paint, and intended to mosaic part of it, but i never glued anything down and i just found it again and pulled it out. I also had a yard sale chalkboard put up, and when I saw it, I decided I'd put the two together and get some "useless junk" out of the way. It was a close fit, I only had to trim a little bit with a razor knife, then I glued it in place. Don't you think it'll be great hanging where I can see it, and keep changing quotes on it from time to time? Since there was a topic started on Junk Revolution forums about odd sayings, I chose one that made me giggle....here it is :D

I hung a tag on it,too, that I made last year from a Formica sample...that's about Dorothy.
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check out my talented accomplished brother-in-law David Brownstead HERE at his gallery!


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Still recovering from the yard sale; it wore me out and I can't believe how hot it is already! And last night my grandson slept with me and didn't go to sleep til 1:30 am...he said his head hurt <---here ..and --->here...and his eyes hurt. He'd say "let me see your hand, Meme" then he'd see if my hand was cool and he'd flop my hand over his forehead and over his eyelids, then say "now your hand is too hot, can't you cool it off?" poor baby. So this went on for a while, and he'd say "Meme, my ear is hot way down" and I'd ask him "do you have an earache?" and he'd say "no, no it doesn't HURT, it's just too HOT". Well, he did have a fever, and I thought maybe it's his molars again. He woke up fine, and went to school, but when he came home he said "Meme, my ear is still too hot way down", and his face was bright red, so were his ears. I asked him to show me the mosquito bite he got yesterday(which was a huge baseball sized knot last night) and when he lifted his arm I was shocked; not because of the bite, it was gone, but because he had a rash from his elbow to his wrist! This wasn't on his other arm..until a little while later. It looked like someone had slapped him around! Over to Twin's house to discuss what it could be, and she said it sounded like that slapped-face disease...we couldn't think of it....onto the computer......and wow.. all the signs of Fifth's Disease. Called my daughter to tell her, and by the time she came home, he had a rash on his legs,too. To the emergency room. She tells the Dr. "my mom said she looked it up and it sounds like Fifth's disease" and the Dr. had never seen a case before, so he was consulting the computer (:D ) and comparing the photo of the rash to my grandson's arm..Yep..that's exactly what it is. No school for 3 days, it's very contagious, but sort of like chicken pox...once you have the symptoms, you've already had the virus and been contagious. It has an incubation period of 4 to 14 days. Very dangerous for unborn babies and pregnant women,too. My daughter is 5 months pregnant.
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more photos


orange azalea


mountain laurel


this is the trunk of the mountain laurel "tree".....lol, yeah, it's pretty old and gnarly.


right over on the left is a chinquapin that has endured many hurricanes, and that's why it's branches are all twisted and growing low to the ground like that. it's the entrance to my grandson's "boys clubhouse"..

enjoy!
kudzu