Lawn Ghost Re-Post

Hello My Sparkly Friends!I have had so many requests for this tutorial I am re-posting
it for now and will post my new improved ones for 2012 soon!
Lawn Ghosts are a fun outdoor decoration to make

which will 

have your neighbors

talking for weeks!

They are super easy peasy to make...

Just get yourself some:

Cheap Plastic Drop Cloths

White paper, newspaper

or even leaves to stuff the heads

6 or 8 Lengths of rebar- 3 to 4 feet high

Clear packing tape

a bunch of older outdoor white

Christmas Lights with a long extension cord

HOW TO ASSEMBLE

 1.  Hammer your rebar into the ground 

in a circle formation or a wavy "tango line"

2. Cut lengths of drop cloth double the height you want your ghosts

3.  Form the head by balling up paper.  When you have a large enough ball place in center of stretched out drop cloth section.

4.  Gather the  drop cloth and cover the paper forming a head, almost as if you were covering a lollypop

5.  Place "head" of rebar and wrap packing tape around plastic to form neck.

6.  Randomly cut up from the bottom of the plastic to form ribbons

7.  Gather at the waist area and tape again

Your ghosts should now look like armless

lollypop dolls at this point.

8.  Cut several long strips of dropcloth to form arms.

These are crisscrossed and tied arround chest area, then each "hand end" is knotted to the next ghost's "hand end" to look like they are holding hands.

9.  Place your heap of lights on the center and plug in!

You can keep these up thru Christmas-

Just add wings and string the lights around them

and they

become

Angels!!!

Just don't forget the aluminum foil halos:) 

And just to keep in with the Pink Saturday theme, wouldn't you just adore these pink wellies to flitter around your garden in?!

I am linking this post to Miss Beverly's PINK SATURDAY- the theme this week is Pumpkins so hop on over and see if there are any ideas that catch your fancy!!

The New Pin-Inspiration Contest!!!

YOUR "PIN-spiration" COULD WIN A SURPRISE BOX OF GOODIES FROM THE PINK PIXIE FOREST!

Hello My Sparkly Friends!  Of course we all LOVE Pinterest darlings- so let's share the projects we have done that were inspired by Pinterest and win a sparkly surprise box!!  The "Surprise Goodie Box" will be filled with a variety of crafty de-stash stuff and a sparkly surprise.

Winner will be chosen every two weeks till December 1st!

Why not  create your own Pinterest board of all the projects you have completed.

RULES:Create a post about a project you have created that was inspired by a Pinterest Pic. 

Let's keep the projects limited to crafting, garden, decorating, Holidays and Tablescapes.

Your post should include the Pinterest Inspiration photo/link, and pics of your project-

either just "after photos" or step by step.

Be sure to LINK ONLY THE POST URL, NOT YOUR HOME PAGE or your entry may be deleted!!!

CMON and Strut Your Sparkle!!!

The Pink Pixie Forest Has Come To Life!!

Hello My Sparkly Friends!!!

Sorry it has been a while since I have posted- The pixies and I have been busy bringing the Pink Pixie Forest to life in my backyard.  We removed a few trees to make way for Mr. Sunshine, knocked down an old dilapidated shed, trimmed the big ugly black chain link dog run in half and changed it to silver.

Then we added lots of pretty crushed gravel and bluestone, hydrangea, hibiscus and rose bushes  and plenty of pennsylvania wall stone for some sweet rock walls.  It is now the home of two Fairy Cottages and garden art space for my classes, a raised garden for next year's vegetables, and a few little outdoor "sitting rooms" which I am still working on.  It is like a little pinterest dream come true!

Here are some fun before and afters!

Before- Concrete pad for fairy cottage

After- Cottage, Arbor and Bluestone 
sitting area and path

                                                                                         

Before- Yucky Dog run

After- Raised beds- view from deck

Before

after

before

I just love having these raised beds now instead of a big black chain link poopy dog run!!

after

Before raised beds

After raised Beds and gravel

Before stone wall

Stone wall constructed

Stone wall planted

                                    Cottages installed

Have a wonderfully sparkly weekend, and a happy Pink Saturday!

 Sparkly Hugs,

Tobi and the Pixies!

You are my sunshine

 You are my sunshine, my only sunshine

you make me happy when skies are grey

You'll never know dear
 How much I love you

Please don't take my sunshine away

My daddy would always sing that to me-

it always brings a tear

but a happy one so don't be sad!

Happy Father's Day Daddy

up there in heaven

I miss you!

 What song did your daddy sing to you?
Happy Pink Saturday my Sparkly Friends!

Bumble Bees Have Feelings too!

Pink saturday Bee
That's what I have to keep 

telling myself every time one flies by me

 so i don't freak out like a crackhead and start running and flapping my arms.

Bees have feelings.

Wasps have feelings....

I wasn't thinking that three weeks ago when I had to "call someone" to have our wasp problem taken care of. 

 I confess my sparkly friends-

I hired a hit-man

to 

"take care of a situation".

By situation I mean "not being able to go in and out of my house or car without being bullied by a flying stinging pissed off insect."

Wasps... Hate em.

Wasps are like

 Midlife crisis Men Driving Corvettes...

You really just need to stay away from them!
Ok,

Back to WASPS-

I know, I know- all life is to be respected and even scary wasps are part of the ecosystem.

just...

not that many-

-living in every orifice of my house-

-coming into my bedroom uninvited even though all of my windows are shut-

and 

-trying to nest in my car door.

So needless to say I still felt tremendously guilty watching my gun for hire neutralize my situation.

Which brings me to Bumble bees.

I had a chance yesterday to do a good deed for a relative of those wasps yesterday

and I did!

I helped some Bumble bees.

Furry, chubby fat black and yellow bumbles, nesting in my garden.

You see, I was making this really swell circular bed

for my Pink Fairy Cottage post Here

and picked up the fountain statue from my front bed

and heard a multiple buzzing sound.

Eeew.

I knew what that meant.

I carefully went over to where my statue had been

and there was a 

bumble bee nest

newly exposed.

A funny thing happened...

Instead of freaking out, I felt bad for those 

little rolly polly chubsters.

I went and got an empty flower pot

and gave it to them.

 Heck- I was feeling so happy that I even 

gave them a handful of tree stuff to help plug the holes.

 Look at this adorable little bumble creeping around to find stuff to shore up the nest!

 So I feel like I am a little closer to becoming

stinging insect tolerant.

At least

I know my flowers are happy...

Ok, I am too!

So Have a Sparkly Day my friends!!

And a VERY
HAPPY 4th BIRTHDAY
to Miss Beverly
and PINK SATURDAY!!!

Sparkly Hugs,

Tobi and the Pixies!

Linking to
Pink Saturday
Outdoor Wednesday -Yep- It's Outside!