Hello Again!

Hello! I've been away from this blog for quite a long time, but I am ready to start up again finally. So here is the plan- I am going to jump back into blogging about my various arts and crafts and creative endeavors, but I am not going to focus on my shop much at all any more. It will be active and I will add things occasionally, but I don't have enough time to really make it a good business. Instead I am going to share projects I am working on for fun, or creative work I am doing for others jobs that seems to fit here.


So, here we go!

I am on a knitting kick lately. I knit hats for three people for Christmas this year, and was pleased really pleased with how well they came out. That got me wanting to knit something for myself. Then I joined a local knitting circle and they got me to sign up for Ravelry and now I am hooked. I want to knit everything! Right now I am working on two projects. I knitting my first lace item with some yarn I had stashed for years. I am pleased wiht it for my first try at lace, but I don't know what excatly it will end up as, since I don't think I have enough yarn to make the neckwarmer I had planned. Here it is in progress:



I am also knitting my first big project. I am making myself this great shrug. This is what it will (hopefully) look like when I am done.



I am about to finish the collar ribbing and start on the chevron pattern. Here is mine in progress:




That is all for now, but I do plan on posting weekly again, so I will see you soon!

My Garden!

So, my little break was a little longer than I planned, but hey, that's life right? I did get a lot of stuff done while I wasn't blogging though, including planting my garden! I planted everything on Saturday, plants and seeds alike. I know I should have gotten the seeds planted a little earlier, but there was just too much to do getting the ground ready this first year. So, here are a bunch of pictures of my garden taken on Saturday. The only things you can't see are the recently planted seeds (of course), but planted carrots, radishes, lettuce, spinach and arugula seeds. Hopefully a few will be popping up today when I go check on everything.


Here it is- My Garden! Up at the top in the small section I planted 6 strawberry plants and all my zinnia seedlings and the big area has all the rest of the veggies as well as the three little poppy plants that came up.


A couple little critters I found crawling around.

My strawberry plants! I bought these and the tomato plants and I am so excited about fresh strawberries.


This is the one bean plant that I didn't break while transplanting, so I planted a few more bean seeds in hopes to make up for that.


Green pepper and Jalapeno plants.



Eggplant!



Peas plants, I have some of both sugar peas and regular peas.


Watermelon. I have never successfully grown a regular watermelon, so I planted the small personal sized variety in hopes that will be easier.


Cucumbers


Honeydew melon.


Tomato plant. I planted 5 tomato plants, 2 of which are cherry tomatoes and the other 3 are of the regular variety.


Zucchini

Yay plants! I finished my sock too last week, and I will post about it and any exciting garden progress soon.

Working the Week Away

Just a quick post today to apologize for the lack of posts this week. I am working a bunch of extra hours this week, and I just haven't gotten a chance to sit down and do my regular posts. I'll be back next week when things are back to normal. I can't wait to post pictures of the seedlings- they are starting to grow new leaves!

Friday Favorites

Hello all. This week's Friday Favorites theme is cars. Why cars you may ask. The answer is that for the past month or so I have just had one car problem after another, and it seems that all of my time (and money!) has been spent dealing with the less than wonderful parts of owning a car. I am hoping that my current problem can be fixed by just getting a new battery, but we will see. I hope you enjoy these lovely, and low maintenance, car items I found on Etsy this week.


A Drive in the Country Clutch by sakizome.


Small Green Car by smalltowntoys.



Ok, not really a car, but I couldn't resist. Pink Scooter/Vespa by LeahSutton.




Matchbox cars case print by amandakindregan.



Traffic note set by cricicis.

Happy weekend!

Seedling Update

Sorry I skipped Friday Favorites last week. I ran out of time before heading out for my Easter weekend. I hope you had a great weekend whatever you did. I had a great time relaxing with family, and I finally got a chance to work on digging and preparing the ground for the garden. It is almost ready, just needs to be worked a little more and I need to add some organic fertilizer too. I did a soil test and the nitrogen and potassium levels are pretty low right now. Luckily the weather this coming weekend is supposed to be absolutly amazing, so I can get out and finish that stuff up.

The seedling are coming along very well as you can see!



Today is day 10 that they have been in the ground, and the only things that haven't come up yet are the jalapenos, green peppers and rosemary- which are all supposed to take at least 10-14 days. I am really impressed by how quickly everything is growing, and I am actually a little worried that they might out grow their little seedling pots before it is time to put in them in the ground. 4/29 is supposedly the magic date when it is safe to transplant seedling outside, so hopefully they can make it two more weeks.

Seedlings!

Saturday was pretty gray and drizzly, so I didn't get outside to work on my garden. I did however start my seedlings inside, and today I noticed I already have some Zinnias sprouting!




Here is my whole set up. I started some peppers, water melon, honeydew, peas, beans, eggplant, cucumber, zucchini, zinnias, poppies, lavender and rosemary.


Now I just have to wait and see what else comes up.

Friday Favorites

Time for Friday Favorites again, and this week I have gardening on the brain. As I mentioned in my last post, I am very excited about my new vegetable garden this year. There are a lot of lovely plants and seeds listed on Etsy, but I was having a really hard time picking just five, so I picked picked five great non-plant things I would love to have for my garden.

PS. Please forgive the funny font sizing. Everything looks right in edit mode, but for some reason it changes after I hit post.


Beautiful and Biodegradable!

20 Recycled Biodegradable Seedling Starter Newspaper Pots by RushofWings.

Attractive plant labels.
Plant Markers by dbabcock.


A very lucky bird will get to call this home.

Primitive Birdhouse Yellow Cabin Charming Rustic Folk Art by birdhouseaccents.

Worms help make a healthy garden, and this one can water for you.

Worm and Bird Plant Tender or Water System in Pistachio by LeaningOaksCeramics.

and who can resist a garden gnome?
Garden Gnome Note Card by creativeapples.


I am really hoping for good weather tomorrow so I can start preparing the soil!