Birdhouses

I love my backyard but something was lacking - birdhouses.  Looked around our little town and found nothing but when we went to SLC to pick up our daughter Katie, who was flying in for the 4th from Las Vegas, we stopped at Michaels.  I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.  There were so many things for so many different crafts.  It was crazy.  Crazy wonderful.

We found birdhouses ready to be painted.  A couple were $10 each, most were $5, and the little ones for the grandkids were only $1.  We bought several.  On July 3rd we prepped each birdhouse and some of them were painted from start to finish.  In this picture are my 2 grandchildren and my daughter Katie.  I didn't have enough newspaper on hand so we dug out an old, plastic tablecloth for our drop cloth.

Katie was chosen to paint the $10 birdhouse because she's very artistic.  And she's a sweetheart. She remembers me raving about the row houses we saw in the Canadian Maritime Provinces and so she went online to look at some pictures.  I told her they were called Jellybean houses in Newfoundland.  So now I have a birdhouse to remind me of those beautiful, cheerful, and colorful jellybean houses.  I'm tickled pink.

This birdhouse was put on our back, outside, brick wall were there is a hole in the brick for the dryer hose.  The dryer has been relocated but the hole could not relocate so we covered it up.  For over 20 years we had a southwest decoration there.  It was way past time to move on from that out dated decor.

Here's my new jellybean birdhouse hanging on my outdoor wall.  I love it!  So, so very cute.  Thanks, Katie.

BTW - I discovered that my iPad does NOT take the same quality pictures as my broken camera.  Will have to see about getting it fixed.