Penning Pinterest

August Pinterest Day.  We decided to decorate canvas shoes.  We found some fairly inexpensive white "fake Tom's" (about $10, including tax) on eBay.  eBay Fashion.  My sister's company and division.  Support them.  She needs it.  Ha!  Where was I?  Oh yeah....here.....

We gathered some sharpies....

...and did a few doodles.

Melissa wanted to do MacKenzie's shoes first.  She settled on a daisy theme and got to work.

She added pretty little yellow centers and they turned out GREAT!  Just the perfect thing for an up and coming college freshman to wear.

I hemmed and hawed.  Couldn't decide exactly what to do, but finally just dove in.  Paris, it is....I penned the words to La Vie En Rose, added butterflies, La Tour Eiffel, and a postmark.  I likey, I likey...

Melissa couldn't decide.  She ended up experimenting and didn't really like hers. :(  We think maybe the bird ate too much breakfast.

You can't win 'em all.  At least she came out with one winner pair.  But we always have fun and we always have lunch!  We were headed to the Dog Haus area (with our Pinterest sister, KENNY), gonna try out the grilled cheese place, or maybe the Mediterranean spot.  They all share the same little patio.  Melissa had a slight meltdown and said, "I can't do it.  It's too hot!"  So we ended up at Chili's, sharing queso and chips and keeping cool in the A/C.

For the next two months we are working on our own individual Christmas stuff, so I may or may not post them.  Don't want to spoil the surprises!

P.S.  If you use Sharpies on canvas, don't use Scotch-Guard.  It has alcohol in it and it makes the colors smear.  My cute shoes now look like Paris on a dark, dull, rainy day.  Live and learn...

Orchid!

I have received many orchid plants in my life.  I have succeeded in keeping them alive for awhile, but then all the flowers would eventually drop off and that would be it.  I'd keep this "stem" sitting there for awhile, but nothing would happen and I'd end up throwing it away.

I got a beautiful little orchid plant from my son-in-law's mother, Tess, for Mother's Day this year.  It came in a beautiful little cement looking planter, with some sort of African Violet (I think???) in the planter, as well. The orchid had 4 or 5 blooms.  I put it in the window above my sink and would spritz it with water every now and then.  One by one, the blooms fell off.   The violet blossom also fell off.  This time I didn't give up.  I continued to spritz, spraying the leaves of both plants.  The root of the orchid, which lays on top of the pot, looked a little shriveled, but maybe it would be ok.

Jack and I went to Ohio for a week for his reunion.  When i came back, THIS is what I saw!

Both the little violet and the orchid had buds!  The orchid root was healthy and green.  Just like it is supposed to be.  Hooray!  So I kept on spritzing....and then one morning I saw.....

Blooms on both, and little green nodes on the orchid that will, hopefully, turn into blooms.  So glad I didn't quit this time.