Another DIY

A number of years ago, a friend of mine gave me a wreath she had made for my birthday.  Once she gave it to me, I had decided to give it a try myself and make a few more wreaths.  Including the one she gave me, I have a total of four - one for each season.

The one I made for spring was never a favorite but it was nice.  For the past several years, I've been wanting to re-do it and use tulips on the wreath, but I could never find silk tulips.  That is until yesterday!  I found some at Michael's and the best part was that they were 1/2 price :o)

Here are a few pics of what I did.

My blank canvas - yes, I should have taken a picture of what it looked like before, but I didn't think of it :o(

I went through my pile of clothes that will be donated to Goodwill and found this shirt - a perfect match.

My two bouquets of tulips.

Gluing the fabric around the flowers.

The finished product!  Not too shabby if I do say so myself :o)

Trees

Twelve years ago when we bought our house, we had three huge shade trees in our front yard.  Over the years that has changed.  And for the past eight months, we haven't had any trees in our front yard :o(

I could not find any pictures that showed all three of the trees, but here are some that I did find.

This tree was the first to come down (in 2006) . . . NIPSCO cut it down due to a split in the trunk.  We now have a flower bed in that spot.

This was the last tree to come down.  We asked NIPSCO to take it down, and they did in July 2013.

Several years earlier NIPSCO had come to the door telling us that this tree was in danger of coming down in a storm due to the way the trunk was growing.  Our other tree (use your imagination - it looked just like this one and was right beside the driveway) we were told was fine. We told them we weren't interested and left it at that - I wasn't ready to give up all of my shade.  Well, guess what.  The tree that was suppose to be ok came down during a storm a few years later! :o(  And so when NIPSCO came by again, I asked them if they would still take down this tree and plant a replacement for us (all at no cost to us), and they said "of course".

I so miss my trees and shade!

So today after a long hard winter, we have finally gotten two replacement trees planted in our front yard!  :o)

Yes, the new trees are really hard to see, but I was told that they are somewhat fast growers so we should see significant growth in the next few years :o)  Also thinking that once they get some leaves, it will help too :o)