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 I hope you all had a wonderful Mother’s Day weekend!
   One of the Mother’s Day traditions when my girls were still at home was for them to head out to the nursery with my dear hubby to buy flats and flats of summer annuals for my garden.
  It was always such a treat!
This post contains a few Mother’s day flowers and another lucky Goodwill find, along with a few personal reflections at the very end.
 These metal planters were a two for one deal, marked half off on the day I came across them.  I wasn’t sure exactly what I would do with them but I knew I couldn’t pass them up!
A little time spent over at The Graphics Fairy gave me the inspiration needed to transform them into something special.  The first one is decoupaged with some fancy script and an adorable page out of a rare Victorian children’s reader.
 I added a few colored birds, lace across the top and a mixed fabric rosette (instructions for making rosettes can be found right HERE). The hanger is simply a torn strip of drop cloth fabric.
The second planter is also decoupaged with pages of script, topped with the title page of a rare book entitled The Poetry of Flowers (also from The Graphics Fairy). To this urn of beautiful cascading flowers I’ve added a couple of buzzing bees, more lace across the top and another rosette of mixed fabrics.
Oh the wonders of ModPodge!  
Have you done any projects with it lately? 
I have a wee bit of an obsession with it myself as it turns so many of my Goodwill finds into great items to add to my French Flea Market repertoire!

Now for a few personal reflections, a little overflow from my heart.  Last night I said to Mr. OTN, with no small amount of wonder, that I am living my dream right now and I didn’t even know what that dream was!  
Though I don’t have my two girls close to home on this Mother’s Day, I am so proud of these beautiful young women who are each, in their two opposite corners of the country, impacting the lives of those around them by being the kind, generous, caring people that they are. My family makes my heart full!

As we come upon another Freedom Session graduation (May 19th) and look forward to hearing our hard working Participants share amazing testimonies of lives transformed, I feel so blessed that Mr. OTN and I get to be a part of this awesome ministry, as Directors in our local church.  This also, makes my heart full.Then there is this other part of my life (creating and blogging) which is secondary to family and ministry but is also a dream come true. I feel so fortunate to have the freedom to work at something I enjoy and I’m very excited about being given the opportunity to participate in my first ever French Flea Market in September.
 I am loving this season of life so much and I need to remind myself not to take it for granted.
So TODAY, I will embrace this moment in time and thoroughly enjoy the process of making OldThingsNew!
 

       Blessings, 
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  1. Graduation! Thanks for believing in me, to you AND Mr. OTN. I’m grateful for you both and am thankful that I did my second year… But seriously looking forward to Graduation. 🙂 Be blessed and know that there are a few weeks OFF coming up!!!

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  4. Why doesn’t my Goodwill have great things like yours does OR maybe I should just open my eyes? 🙂 I love the transformations…birds and bees always attract me…

    Judith

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  9. What a great idea. I love your little planters. I don’t think I would have seen those in the store and thought of such a great idea. Thanks for sharing a fun project that I can add to my to do list.

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  10. You made those so gorgeous, great job getting the papers decoupaged on so neatly. They look so pretty with all the great papers, ribbons and laces you added.
    Seeing yours reminded me of two I have that I haven’t used for some time. I’ll have to go dig them out tomorrow to see what I can do with them. For sure they’ll get painted, after that not sure yet. Mine weren’t from goodwill but will work anyway. Your pictures look like ones I have are about the same size as yours. I’m really excited to start on them now. So glad I found your post. Happy Days

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  14. Very beautiful! We found you through the Style Sisters party (just browsing away) totally a great find. We love your site and hope to see over at BeBetsy when you have a minute or two. Sharon and Denise

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  20. Super cute Patti! You turned them into sweet May baskets. Love the graphics that you used. So glad that you are living your dream. I feel the same way. Very blessed indeed! Thanks for sharing with SYC.
    hugs,
    Jann

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  22. This is so gorgeous and such a great idea! I love it. You amaze me each week with your awesome creativity. Thank you so much for sharing at A Bouquet of Talent. Just pinned. Hope you are having a wonderful week!
    Hugs
    Kathy

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