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farmmommy
True Blue Farmgirl
500 Posts
Kelley
Texas
USA
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 Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 07:00:13 AM
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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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Edited by - farmmommy on Aug 05 2009 06:28:58 AM |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 07:07:27 AM
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Oh Kelley you just gave me the biggest smile this morning.
My husband's parents used to participate in a neighborhood game when he was little. No one remembers whose flamingo it was originally, but sometime in the the middle of the night it would get flamingo napped, redecorated and the placed in someone else's lawn. This poor flamingo made it's rounds for years!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
4247 Posts
Linda
Clarks Summit
PA
USA
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Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 07:10:56 AM
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Kelley, send me your address.
:-D
Linda in Scranton, PA
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Sitnalta
True Blue Farmgirl
4208 Posts
Jessica
NJ
USA
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Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 07:24:24 AM
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What an adorable idea, Kelley!! I love it! I don't have any of them, as Jersey doesn't really call for Pink yard Flamingoes too often..hehe
Hope you find them! (Then I want to see pics!! LOL
hugs
Jessie
People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
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ruralfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
4309 Posts
Rene'
Prosser
WA
USA
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farmmommy
True Blue Farmgirl
500 Posts
Kelley
Texas
USA
500 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 07:54:49 AM
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Tee-Hee-Hee-HEE!!!! Ya'll crack me up!!! What would be ideal for all of us Farmgirls, is if someone would start making plastic Chicken, rooster, chickies, goats, sheep and cows for all of us to stick in our front yards and in front of our little travel trailers!!! I could see it now! ROFL!!!
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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
4247 Posts
Linda
Clarks Summit
PA
USA
4247 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 07:58:54 AM
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lol...I was in a kick to do the same thing at one time...lol
The wind kept blowing my plastic goose over when it was on my porch..true!
I sat her on a table to look out the window and couldn't see it well enough.
I finally gave up...lol
Linda in Scranton, PA
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1 Peter 5:5 |
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4HMom
True Blue Farmgirl
720 Posts
Kelly
Montana
720 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 08:01:18 AM
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OMG Kelley!!!! That is TOO funny! I'd have to have one of each.
There was a fundraiser here in our county where you could pay $20 to have somebody "flamingoed". For your money, the group would deliver 50 plastic flamingoes and set them up in front of the house or business for the day. Then that evening, they'd come and remove them all. Trust me, 50 flamingoes turns heads!
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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
4247 Posts
Linda
Clarks Summit
PA
USA
4247 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 08:02:00 AM
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want another story about a plastic goose I dressed up?
After my divorce my X husband wanted to be kind and give my plastic goose back to me (naked at the time...the goose..not the X)
anyway he tried to clean it and when he opened up the hole to empty the weight he said it soured and rotted and smelled too bad! I put rice in it instead of rocks or dried beans...it got wet outside for years...lol
Linda in Scranton, PA
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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
4247 Posts
Linda
Clarks Summit
PA
USA
4247 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 08:03:50 AM
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lol Kelly! see what you started!!
I love the fundraiser idea!
Linda in Scranton, PA
Put on the apron of humility.
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farmmommy
True Blue Farmgirl
500 Posts
Kelley
Texas
USA
500 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 08:20:31 AM
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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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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 09:03:02 AM
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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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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
4247 Posts
Linda
Clarks Summit
PA
USA
4247 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 12:14:17 PM
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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
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vintagediva1
True Blue Farmgirl
1251 Posts
Michele
Brighton
Michigan
USA
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Diane B Carter
True Blue Farmgirl
1270 Posts
Diane
Blasdell
N.Y.
USA
1270 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 3:52:09 PM
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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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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
4247 Posts
Linda
Clarks Summit
PA
USA
4247 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 5:39:17 PM
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yippee! are we having fun yet? !
Linda in Scranton, PA
Put on the apron of humility.
1 Peter 5:5 |
Edited by - yarnmamma on Aug 04 2009 5:40:47 PM |
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Claude09647
True Blue Farmgirl
761 Posts
Claudia
Our Dairy Farm
Pennsylvania
USA
761 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 8:10:37 PM
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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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farmmommy
True Blue Farmgirl
500 Posts
Kelley
Texas
USA
500 Posts |
Posted - Aug 05 2009 : 06:27:37 AM
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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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beekeepersgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1423 Posts
Luanne
Cresco
PA
USA
1423 Posts |
Posted - Aug 05 2009 : 06:41:47 AM
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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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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
4247 Posts
Linda
Clarks Summit
PA
USA
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Posted - Aug 05 2009 : 7:06:03 PM
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me too me too!! I want a Henrietta lawn chicken!! She should be at least life size!
Linda in Scranton, PA
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Oxbow
Farmgirl in Training
22 Posts
Lindsay
Winchester
Idaho
USA
22 Posts |
Posted - Aug 05 2009 : 7:34:04 PM
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kpaints
True Blue Farmgirl
1564 Posts
karen
cheney
wa
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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
4247 Posts
Linda
Clarks Summit
PA
USA
4247 Posts |
Posted - Aug 06 2009 : 07:33:00 AM
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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 |
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farmmommy
True Blue Farmgirl
500 Posts
Kelley
Texas
USA
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Betty J.
True Blue Farmgirl
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Betty
Pasco
WA
USA
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Posted - Aug 06 2009 : 10:40:27 AM
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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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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
4247 Posts
Linda
Clarks Summit
PA
USA
4247 Posts |
Posted - Aug 06 2009 : 11:01:23 AM
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happy 90 to him! I love it!
Linda in Scranton, PA
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