{ garden goody preview }

Okay, so I'm a little late with these photos,

seeing as how I took them to share for Mother's Day.

These are a few of my awesome { to me } finds,

at the yard sales and antiques stores last Saturday.

I just adore this old wooden "PET' milk crate.

I don't have any of the larger sized milk bottles { I'll be looking though }

so instead I've filled it with a collection of other bottles,

perfect for adding cut flowers to the center of my patio table.

I purposefully took this photo of it's most worn and aged corner.

It's filled with some of my favorites pretties from right here in my gardens....

{ I love spring } peonies, verbena, hydrangea, dianthus, 

and some cuttings from my favorite tree.

This beauty is an old wooden bread tray.  There were many to choose from,

there were old Merita ones, and a very cool Watts Bread Co. one,

but I chose this one purposefully because the writing is so worn away,

and it had the most excellent patina....I just love it.

I was originally going to use it for flowers, as you can see by the pots,

but sitting out last night I changed my mind and decided I will use it to

hold a collection of candles in glass jars instead. { now to find a collection of jars }

What do you think?  How would you use this old box ?

Forgive the lifelessness in this photo, it's certainly not how I think this beauty will

look when I've had a chance to add my flowers to her and the great old bucket.

I nearly died when I saw this guy out at the yard sale,  I literally ran over to stake my claim

before anyone else could realize how awesome it is.  { or maybe i'm the only one who thinks so }.

Anywhoo, I do think it's awesome, this very, very old wooden flower cart with it's amazing metal wheel.

I've already filled it with the pots from above, but I've yet to get to the farmer's market for flowers.

Oh, and please excuse the poor lorapetalum behind it, I just transplanted it,

and I'm pretty sure they aren't going to make it....though they look surprisingly good every morning.

I actually feel really bad, because I don't even want it there now that I have the cart,

but I'm not sure it could survive being moved again.  What to do, what to do?

So, what do you think I should do with this lovely little garden cart?

Should I leave it as is, or should I paint it?

Will flowers be enough color?

I'd love to know what you think.

* peace & love *

Carrie

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