I spy with my little eye......

Hello girls........I had a wonderful day yesterday spending time with "MY FACES"...my sweetie was home for the day ....always special.... we went to have lunch with our kids which was fabulous...then off to Michael's and Garden Ridge to look at FALL STUFF......all of us love fall....we get a head start appreciating what's coming ....by September....were all set to re-do the house with pumpkins....fall flowers....cuddly throws and fires outside....I was busy in the morning yesterday taking pictures to share with you of things I have spied with my little eye through the years along with some newer finds I am "OVER THE MOON ABOUT"....my favorite NEW THING  is the picture above of a mail box we found on our trip to Mechanicsville last weekend....I saw it  peeking at me in a  corner beside lots of stuff ..... I was so excited because I'd been thinking of how cool it would be to find an old metal mailbox .....I thought it would  look great on our back porch standing on end with a plant in it...when I found  this little treasure I squealed especially since the owner of the shop knocked off five dollars so we got it for almost nothing....I JUST LOVE IT...

Can you tell what this green bit of square metal might be.....it is the bottom to a turn of the century "RECEIPT KEEPER" missing it's metal skewer....we have one just this color WITH the skewer but I loved this one because I thought I could use it in so many different ways....like this with silk baby's breath I found at a yard sale ... turned over on top of an old wine glass as a pedestal topper....nailed onto an old box as a flourish....the more I stare at it the more ideas pop into my head....

THIS BEAUTY ...is one of my favorites....it is a Victorian plaster flower basket...very old and fragile...It hangs beside the door in this house.....it's precious...

I can't remember where I found this little winter chickadee but I fell in love with it....the frame on it is not the pink one ....it has a dark frame...I just leaned the pink metal frame in front of it cuz I liked the contrast....

This metal tulip is an old piece of 'WIND CHIME".... I'm nutty like this ....I save LOTS of bit's and pieces to use in some way ....this looks cute  next to some bird houses I have hanging on the clothes line frame....I have roses and a vine growing to eventually bring some lush green height to either side of the yard....

This little gal is a "CHALK WARE" piece ....I found her at a favorite antique store years ago in North Carolina...I thought she was lovely....so old and fragile ....still  in one piece...I just had to bring her home....Well girls this post has come to an end....I hope you all have a ....SPLENDID SUMMER DAY....I will be thinking of you.....thanks for sharing some of my "FAVORITES" with me........hugs.......Karena