Showing posts with label celluloid parakeets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label celluloid parakeets. Show all posts

Thursday, October 8, 2009

A new home for the Halloween rat...

Every October Ratty scampers up from the depths of the basement to spend the Halloween season with us... This year he chose to share Pete and Re-Pete's cage while living upstairs.


Now Ratty was absolutely giddy with excitement when he heard I was announcing the "cottage pumpkins" winner on my blog today...


He begged me to let him announce the winner and he promised to have a huge smile across his face while doing so...


Ratty is true to his word ... Just look at that big, toothy rat grin! And just in case you can't read the sign Ratty is holding, it says, "Congratulations to Claudia of Mockingbird Hill Cottage."


So congratulations, Claudia! Just head over to Ronda's Tempting Textiles shop...


...and pick out which set of pumpkins you'd like to receive!
Happy October, everyone! (It is COLD here in New England tonight !!!)
Donna

Friday, May 15, 2009

Blue and green...

A lovely color combination that has worked its way into both our garden and our home...

In the garden:


An ordinary trip to the grocery store turned into gasps of 'ooooh' and 'aaaaah' when I spotted the beautiful hydrangea bushes being offered for sale in the produce/floral area.


How boring to spend my money on chicken and rice and such when I could bring home one of these instead!!


After all, the family could sit on the deck and eat cereal or sandwiches while gazing upon these beautiful blossoms, right? A great trade-off, if you ask me!


There was a wide selection to choose from... some pink, some blue, and some a combination of blue and green, which is what I chose... It's still sitting on the deck, waiting for me to decide the perfect place to plant it.
I wish I could keep it in a container on the deck year 'round, but #1, it wouldn't survive our New England winters if it was just in a pot, and #2, bringing it inside isn't an option since it grows to a height and width of 5 feet (a tad too big for any of our little rooms!)


In the home:
You've met Pete before (he's the green parakeet on the left)...


...but here is our newest addition, Re-Pete...


Pete is vintage whereas Re-Pete is new, but they haven't let their huge age difference keep them from becoming best of friends.


The pair of them provided me with another opportunity to work in that blue and green color combination that I love so much!! (The three main colors that I keep repeating in our little cottage - because I love them all so much - are blue, green, and peachy-pink!!)
Wishing you all a lovely weekend!! I hope to get some flowers in the ground, if the weather cooperates!!
Donna