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| farmmommy |
Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 07:00:13 AM
two plastic "yard flamingos"...lol....I'm sure ya'll know the ones I'm talking about....I have some jewelry and decorative foo foo stuff to dress them up in, but no flamingos...lol...I want to stake them outside my vintage travel trailer when I go places...lol...cheesy, I know....but they are gonna look so cute with retro sunglasses, pearls, and cherry aprons on!!!
I have been in search of some for a while, even thrift store and garage sale hunting for them with no luck....
Anyone got a couple that they dont want anymore????
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| farmmommy |
Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 06:36:59 AM
yay! The flamingoes linda sent me here made it just fine...I have been super busy the last 2 weeks, and just got home from being out of town! I can't wait for fall when things start slowing down around here so I can get time to make my flamingoes some CUTE little accessories!! Thank you soooo much Linda!!!
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| yarnmamma |
Posted - Aug 23 2009 : 1:00:25 PM
Grace, that sound so cute!! I sure wish we had pics of that!
I saw a couple of the regular sized old flamingos... in a vintage store window...I asked the owner if they were for sale and she laughed and said no...and she gets LOTS people asking that. It is her theme and they are all around, different types of flamingos..for decoration...
She is thinking of stocking some to sell because she gets asked so much!
Linda in Scranton, PA
"I dare you to scare yourself with how beautiful you are."
Rob Brezsny from http://freewillastrology.com/home.shtml
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| katmom |
Posted - Aug 19 2009 : 9:59:18 PM
ok, I had to pop in here...the Oriental Trading Company-a mail order party supply catalog sells Flamingo Paraphinalia too!
I use to have a "Flamingo garden" back when I lived in Calif. I sure miss it.
Now I only have 3 in my garden up here.
I use a Flamingo Plant stand to place over my trailer hitch and put a potted plant in it. It looks cute but it also keeps passer-by's from crackin' their shin on the hitch.
Also Back when the Carol Duval craft show was on HGTV, she did a segment on decorating plastic flamingos....using feathers, rhinestones to even decopodging it....hmmm, I just might have to get my Modg Podg goo out & kidnap one of my garden flamingos for some serious fun & mischief! lol!
>^..^< Happiness is being a katmom.
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| yarnmamma |
Posted - Aug 19 2009 : 3:28:37 PM
Kelley...where are you???
I mailed the little flamingos and haven't heard anything..did ya get them?
Linda in Scranton, PA
"I dare you to scare yourself with how beautiful you are."
Rob Brezsny from http://freewillastrology.com/home.shtml
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| yarnmamma |
Posted - Aug 08 2009 : 5:31:08 PM
The flamingos are flying off to be at their new home...LOL
I would like to get a plastic goose to dress again...I have made some stuffed fabric ones but the yard lawn ones are best.
Maybe I'll find one in a garage sale.
Linda in Scranton, PA
Put on the apron of humility.
1 Peter 5:5 |
| farmmommy |
Posted - Aug 07 2009 : 07:52:27 AM
oh linda....what a bittersweet story!!! How could anyone hate pink plastic flamingoes enough to destroy them???
So....linda..how will you be dressing yours foe our contest???? ROFL!!!
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| yarnmamma |
Posted - Aug 06 2009 : 11:13:45 AM
Look at this story I found!
http://hubpages.com/hub/Pink-Flamingo-Panic
LOL
ok...have we heard enough yet???
Linda in Scranton, PA
Put on the apron of humility.
1 Peter 5:5 |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Aug 06 2009 : 11:08:00 AM
http://www.gotpinkflamingos.com/servlet/StoreFront
here's a site
Linda in Scranton, PA
Put on the apron of humility.
1 Peter 5:5 |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Aug 06 2009 : 11:03:43 AM
I read a true news story about brothers who competed to put flamingos in each other's yard....it went on for years when one brother got friends in the electric company to wire one into the electricity that NEVER turned off and had friends make it huge....something like 20 ft tall. He finally won! LOL
I bet we could find the story on a searh in internet!
Linda in Scranton, PA
Put on the apron of humility.
1 Peter 5:5 |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Aug 06 2009 : 11:01:23 AM
happy 90 to him! I love it!
Linda in Scranton, PA
Put on the apron of humility.
1 Peter 5:5 |
| Betty J. |
Posted - Aug 06 2009 : 10:40:27 AM
Kelley,
A gentleman here in the Tri-Cities had 90 of those plastic pink flamingos planted on his front yard during the night. He turned 90 today and that was a way of wishing him well.
Betty in Pasco
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| farmmommy |
Posted - Aug 06 2009 : 10:29:36 AM
ok...who's gonna run the contest??????????? ROFL!!! I'm in...for real, we should do it...!!!!
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| yarnmamma |
Posted - Aug 06 2009 : 07:33:00 AM
great idea!! but then we'll all have to go searching for the flamingo to dress!????
we could make it something like "dress up a farm animal....plastic lawn decoration" LOL!
Linda in Scranton, PA
Put on the apron of humility.
1 Peter 5:5 |
| kpaints |
Posted - Aug 06 2009 : 07:24:07 AM
How about a farmgirl contest for the best decorated Pinkie? lol
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| Oxbow |
Posted - Aug 05 2009 : 7:34:04 PM
So cute! |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Aug 05 2009 : 7:06:03 PM
me too me too!! I want a Henrietta lawn chicken!! She should be at least life size!
Linda in Scranton, PA
Put on the apron of humility.
1 Peter 5:5 |
| beekeepersgirl |
Posted - Aug 05 2009 : 06:41:47 AM
My company was just "flocked" with flamingoes. It was a fund raiser for the local animal shelter. The deal is you have to pay $250 (I think) to get them removed from your location and then you can pay another $250 if you want to have them delivered to someone elses business. It has been fun seeing where they are going to show up next, and a good deal for the animal shelter.
beekeepersgirl
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| farmmommy |
Posted - Aug 05 2009 : 06:27:37 AM
I tell ya'll what would be PERFECT!! If MaryJane could make "Henrietta" out of recycled plastic!!!!!! I bet Henrietta chicken yard ornaments (with her cute little apron on) would sell to Farmgirls ALL over the US like hotcakes!!!!!! ROFL!!! Oh...I SOOOOOO want one!!!!
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| Claude09647 |
Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 8:10:37 PM
If you cant find them, I have seen them in the lawn and garden dept of Walmart
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
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| yarnmamma |
Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 5:39:17 PM
yippee! are we having fun yet? !
Linda in Scranton, PA
Put on the apron of humility.
1 Peter 5:5 |
| Diane B Carter |
Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 3:52:09 PM
A few days ago I saw them for sale at a family dollar store. Not sure if they still have them, but look around someone has to sell them. I do like your idea. I doupt my DH would let me put one up. Have fun!!!
Hope all your days are Sunnydays.
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| vintagediva1 |
Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 1:51:50 PM
Renee,
Or that now that the subject has been brought up, we all some!!!!!
Michele
www.2vintagedivas.etsy.com
www.stitchingby2sisters.etsy.com
Love that good ole vintage junk |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 12:14:17 PM
OK Kelly, I want to tell ya that these are small...only about a foot long including the long necks...but have long wires for legs and still cute..I think you'll like them!
Linda in Scranton, PA
Put on the apron of humility.
1 Peter 5:5 |
| dutchy |
Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 09:03:02 AM
LOL! Would love to see pictures too. I have never seen the pink flamingo's here I think. I do have a few chickens outside YAY! So I am a farmgirl with fake chickens hehehehehe
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)
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| farmmommy |
Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 08:20:31 AM
ya'll are a hoot!!!
Kelly - we have seen that before! A church a couple of months ago had a "Flock" of flamingoes in the front courtyard...we figured it may have been for VBS or something....but...Great Idea!
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