Bentley, my Studio Assistant, is exploring the garden looking for Winter touches of yellow and red to show you.
Imagine my surprise when I opened the new issue of the fabulous Flea Market Gardens magazine . . . . only to find . . . . a photo of my vintage bicycle taken last year after I added the touches of yellow and red. Just the inspiration I was looking for.

I was so honored that the magazine also featured my garden in a delightful article called "Cottage Style" that was beautifully written by Deb Wiley and photographed by Mark Lohman. Deb gives lots of great tips in her article about creating a cottage style garden with flowers and color and tells how to get the look. The magazine is filled with ideas on creating gardens with flea market finds, bargain ideas, garden re-dos, cottage whimsy and lighting up shade areas in your garden. I hope the magazine is the first of many issues as it is filled with great ideas for those of us who love rust, re purposing, recycling, and reusing flea market finds.
red (it was not in the magazine).



Winter color can also be added to your garden with a colorful garden sign.

Color can also be added with the addition of a little red chair planter.
More bunches of yellow Sunflowers from Trader Joe's at $3.98 a bunch add much needed Winter color.

My red garden boots always add a punch of red - I leave them in the garden for color when I am not wearing them.
I can't resist hanging a bunch of Sunflowers in an old flea market red tin to add a touch of Winter color to my garden.
Even though my garden is in the "winter stage" I have yellow and red primroses and
yellow pansies.


Winter color can also be added to your garden with a colorful garden sign.
Color can also be added with the addition of a little red chair planter.
My red garden boots always add a punch of red - I leave them in the garden for color when I am not wearing them.
Thank you for stopping by and thank you to all of you who sent me e-mails telling me that my vintage bicycle and garden were in the fabulous new Flea Market Gardens magazine. . I love hearing from you and sincerely appreciate your visits, comments and those who follow my blog. Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to see me paint something special.
Have a lovely week. Blessings, Erin
8 comments:
Hi Erin, Im so happy to vitits your
beautiful blog, I love yourstudio assistant he is so cute
God bless you and yours....
XOX
Isora
Love the colors! Red and yellow are so bold, full, warm and speak volumes!! Lovely post!
Congrats! You are such an inspiration to us all and I am thrilled that the mag showed off your talent!!!
Lots of love,
Susan and Bentley
xxoo
DEAR ERIN HAS ALWAYS YOUR HAPPY GARDEN IS SO HAPPY AND WELCOMING,I LOVE THE COLOR YELOW ALSO THE BUTTER COLOR TEA CUP IS LOVELY.THANK YOU FOR THE LOVELY POST THAT YOU DID FOR ME ON VALENTINES DAY,AND ALSO THANK YOU FOR YOUR GIFT,I WILL HOLD IT CLOSE TO MY HEART.BLESINGS TO YOU AND BENTLY,YOUR SISTER IN CHRIST...SANDRA
I am so happy to have stumbled upon your inspirational blog. I googled how to paint geraniums and found you on top! I am now a follower and may spend the day looking through your posts! Thanks for sharing your creativity!
I am so happy to have stumbled upon your inspirational blog. I googled how to paint geraniums and found you on top! I am now a follower and may spend the day looking through your posts! Thanks for sharing your creativity!
Hi Erin! SO nice to ((Meet)) you~ you have a beautiful blog! You do have a happy garden, so lovely! God Bless~ Hugs, Ann
Your gardens make me smile. Loved the addition of the red rain boots. I recently attend a seed swap and each attendee was to bring something to donate for the gift table and it had to be something related to gardening. We played a game called SEEDS..like Bingo and every body that got Bingo yelled out SEEDS instead of Bingo and got to choose a gift from the table. Somebody had taken a child's rain boot, that was so adorable to begin with and planted a house plant in a plastic drink cup and placed it inside the child's boot. So you can do the same thing with your red boots. Probably a 16 oz. cold drink cup would fit an adult boot perfect. Make sure there are drainage holes poked in the bottom of the plastic drink cup so water from watering the plant can drain.
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