Open House Sunday

 built 1935
This lovely colonial style home sits right on the park in Edgemere Park.
My neighborhood in Oklahoma City.
I noticed big changes going on at this home a couple of years ago.
They changed the trim color on the home and it made such a huge impact.

 This is how the house looked for years. The house looked very bland painted this color.

Although I have to say I liked the more mature landscape in this old version.

 Here we are as it appears today.

Love the big planters on either side of the front steps. 

 The details on this house are very nice.

 Inside, it's rather masculine in its decor. Lots of dark gray walls.
I would like this for a den but for my main living area...it's too dark for my liking but still it makes
for a striking room.

I like the fireplace stacked with wood. It's not practical but looks cool.
I'm sure the white marble subway tile for the fireplace surround is a renovation.
It's pretty but was probably brick originally.
 Nothing to complain about here. It's a gorgeous kitchen.
Love the way the stove is set between cabinets.
I'd be happy in this kitchen.

The industrial look continues in the dining room.
Several trends here. It looks great. Too masculine for my taste but I bet this house sells super quick.

Lovely side porch. I would have never done the ceiling in the dark color
but it's very striking.

Very tranquil bedroom. I'd love to have an upholstered bed but not practical when you
sleep with four dogs. So it's not in the cards for me.

Lots of marble tile in the bath.

 A bit austere. I could warm it up.

There is a gray laundry room too!

More of one of the bathrooms.

 Very nice back patio. Lots of potential in this backyard. I'd have fun filling it with plants.
That's a cool outdoor fireplace! Fits right in with the industrial touches around the home.

 See? Wide open space. Love the patio. I'd put lots of pots. Pots of boxwoods, I think.

This is the view out the front door. See? Right on the park.
It's a great place to live!
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Morning Glories

Last week I planted Morning Glory seeds in a few pots around here.

I figured it would give me lots of green and color for little money.

I soaked the seeds in water over night after piercing each seed with 

a nail to cut through the tough outer coating.

This lets them sprout much faster.

Three days later I had little sprouts coming up. 

I'm watering twice a day and waiting for them to grow.

 In the past I only thought about Morning Glories growing up on trellises.
But they can grown from hanging pots downward too.
I love that a dead tree is covered in Morning Glories in that photo above.

Have you done Morning Glories before?

I did a few years ago in one pot in back and I really loved them.

This time I planted on the front side of the house.

I have not forgotten about showing you my friend, Keith's 

pea gravel patio.

His yard is amazing!

I got to the party just as the sun was setting because I worked late.

So I am going over again next week to take photos.

I'll share when I do.
all photos from my Container Gardening folder on Pinterest.

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Impatient for Impatiens

Pink Impatiens

 

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 For Mother's Day, Robert one of the other designers at the store brought each

of us a girls a hanging basket of impatiens.

Mine was a huge basket of pink ones.

I was thrilled to get them!

 

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 The light coral pink is my absolute favorite.

I mentioned to one of the other designers that I was so happy to get them

because I've been too poor to buy flowers for the back deck and yard this year.

She immediately suggested that I take cuttings from the plant and 

root them in water so that I'd have lots of flowers to plant.

Why didn't I think of that?

I've rooted Hydrangeas with great luck and coleus but it never occurred to me

to root impatiens.

So today I trimmed back my basket of flowers and rooted in little jelly jars

lots of sprigs of the original plant.

 

Here they are lined up on my kitchen window sill. I have four jars full.

I also tried rooting directly in soil outside. We'll see which one works best.

I just looked up how to do it online...but it's very simple. Just snip and pull off 

the bottom leaves so they are not in water. It said to remove the flowers too

and I did on most but it just seemed so sad to take the pretty blossoms off

so I tried a few with the blossoms on. We'll see how that works.

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Hopefully in a few weeks I'll have lots of new impatiens to plant. 

Aren't the mounds of these amazing?

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How about a stream of impatiens?

Today I worked on the living room.

It's really been kind of a mess ever since I painted it and started a new job shortly after.

The last two years...I've struggled to finish projects.

A few weeks ago I kind of accidentally quit taking my anti-depressant and all of a sudden

I was so much more motivated to get some things done around here.

I started taking the antidepressant when Newman died and Shelly died shortly after...then my friend Shannon died the next year. It was a lot to cope with and I managed better with just a little help.

I was taking the smallest amount possible but oh...my it made me so sleepy!

On my days off...all I wanted to do was sleep. I couldn't imagine doing any projects around here.

I just didn't care. 

I could get to work every day and focus on work...but once home I was immediately 

asleep.

Life is just a balancing act. I've had time now between those tragedies that I'm not obsessively 

thinking about the losses. I still cry at the thought of them.

But I can pull myself out of the crying jag and focus on things I want to do.

Every time something really bad happens in my life...it sends me into such a spiral down.

The drugs helped me not reach the bottom but I wasn't flying again either.

It was time to let the help go and fly.

I'm flying and looking forward to being creative again.

First thing on the list is to paint the dining room.

I'm going to have a couple of days off soon and that is top of the list to do.

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