Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Girls just want to have fun, so the song says and there is a lot of fun going on in blogland this weekend. Cielo at The House in The Roses has organized a garden party. Make sure you visit her to see some amazing and beautiful gardens.

Welcome to my garden. Let me show you around. This is a little garden by our side door. My gardening angel greets you as you arrive.
I have fun little pots of sedums and grasses.


There is a sign that gardeners sometimes have in their garden which says, "You should have been here last week!" I kind of feel like that because my garden isn't very full of color right now. These were blooming a month ago. So were these.
This is what's blooming this week, but they are scattered all over the garden, so I thought you'd like to see a close up before we go for a walk through the garden.
Come with me. The favorite thing in my garden right now is this hydrangea bush. I just love it, don't you? I've picked so many blooms already and it's still full!

Let's take a stroll through my garden.

Around the side of the house

Down at the edge of our driveway. I love the Japanese maple!
As you can see, my garden is mostly different shades of green right now. I love the variegated hosta and how it stands out against all the plain green. Perhaps some of you remember Daisy, the deer that had taken up residence in our yard in the winter? Well I think she has been back because some of my hostas have been nibbled!
I have lots of ferns.
and wooded areas.
That's just a little tour of my garden. If you have time, I'll pour you a cold drink. It's pretty hot today!

Two girls who like to have fun are Kari and Kijsa. They are featuring mantles and asked us to show you what are amntles look like.

Here is the mantle in our TV room. As you can see I prescribe to the theory that more is more! I love to mix books, china, pictures and candlesticks on my mantles.


Here is how the same mantle looked last Christmas with a symmetrical arrangement.
This is the summer arrangement on the mantle in our living room. It is just a fireplace front, not a real fireplace but I get to have fun decorating a mantle!!
Here is the same mantle last Christmas.
Make sure you visit Kari and Kijsa to see a lot more interesting mantles. You'll enjoy seeing their wonderful pictures too.

Beverly At How Sweet the Sound is celebrating Pink Saturday. Go visit her and see all the other blogs who are featuring PINK.

So as I said "girls just want to have fun" and there's lots of fun going on in blogland this weekend. Hope you have a great weekend.

Rhondi xo