Superbowl Night found me once again stitching away. This was a VERY simple block as there wasn't a whole lot I could do with it. But I didn't have a lot of time to actually stitch. I don't watch football other than the Halftime show, so I spent the majority of my evening getting done some much needed paperwork.
Who would have ever guessed that so much work goes into getting ready for a craft fair? i just thought it was make your stuff and show up! BAH! theres inventory sheets, price tags, table prep. and thats just what IM doing! My coconspiritors, Bridgette, has done the application process. (i would have never gotten that done!) and Missy, is working on keeping us all calm as caft fairs to her are old hat!
I am the ever panicked one, stressing over do i have enough made of this or that. but with approximately 160 peices I think im good. I dont really know if i have enough done to get me through all three we have coming up. one in october (this sunday) one in november and the big one in december. but i know i will know a bit more about how this works after sunday!
Our weather for the event looks promicing although its going to be a bit on the chilly side with a high of 55deg. our event IS outside. so we willhave to dress for the occasion! I think i will wear what michelle calls my "Colorado sweater" she says it woudl be all the rage out that way! PSH. But it is a very warm outfit and its layered so if i need to i can strip some of it off if i need to.
Well the Potato vines died... That was a cue to get those puppies out of the ground and this is what we got!
I thought i would pull up a few carrots and see how they were coming along, I don't normally have much luck growing them because i crowd them. But i am pleasantly suprised that we had a few nice sized. at least nice enough to go with the potatoes!
This is the cucumbers...
I put a tomatoe cage over them when they were small, then tied some twine above them on a pole that goes up to the roof down to the cages. and they just climbed right up them!
see all those blooms? how about those tiny cukes? I am so impressed this is the first time i have ever grown any cukes!
For all of my readers that think they cant cook, and wish they could learn to cook better, Here is one more place you can go to learn. very simple very easy to follow videos....
http://www.youtube.com/user/foodwishes
there is everything on his page from sloppy joes, to Grilled Game Hens!
he also has a video blog http://foodwishes.blogspot.com/
Chef John does a wonderful job at this! and i will be tryuing out some of the things i have found on his site!
I read somewhere that you can use a bucket to water you garden. All you had to drill a small hole in the bottom of the bucket.
I didnt put the hole in the very bottom, it was a drainage hole from an over watered tomato last year. but i thought why not? it might work and sure enough! it trickles water out of it! I put the bucket in the center of my four tomato plants. and the bucket will water all four plants! just fill the bucket when the tomatoes need water and presto! all done nice and slow.
and yes the tomatoes look really sad.. give em a few days and they will be so much happier!
Update on the potato plants.... arent they huge????
This is a pea trellis... Its made out of hemp twine tied around a paint stir stick at the top (which will be the bottom) then i tied knots here and there making a "net" type of thing.
My peas are along the back wall of my sun porch, so i have the bottom tied in a knot and stuck under the screen in the window to anchor it. I then tied up the pea plants to the trellis with short hemp loops until the pea plants have a chance to "grip" the trellis.
Yes i got another perennial bed done. this one was full of weeds as well... take a year off and see what yours look like!
I still need to trim back my Vincia, its starting to over take everything and i am hoping my Liatris will be able to tolerate having a peony in front of them if not they get moved next year!
This really isn't a "craft" as it is more of a hobby. But I love to put model cars together.
This one was on sale at Hobby Lobby this week. It was only a snap together but it was die cast. So honestly it was WAY to easy for me.
One of my chemo nurses and I got to talking. We have time to do that since they have to sit with me and administer 3 of the 4 drugs at small increments over say, ten min each with a syringe.
and I told her that I knew how to macrame. She has been looking for a plant hanger. So I made her one.
I love coins. especially pennies. Mostly because they are everywhere. I am the person who will bend down and pick up a penny in a crosswalk.
Most of the time they just go into my ceramic bank. but once in a while I will spend an hour or so looking through the dates and putting them in my book. Once I have the right dates, well basically its money I'll spend the rest.
I found quite a few this morning. 1962, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1972d, and a 1974
That filled this book quite a bit on the far right. This book goes back to 1941, and as you can see I do not have that one.
The top oldest pennies I have are a 1898 Indian head (out of curiosity I looked up the value of this coin it's worth a whole dollar... oh wait that's if it wasn't corroded like it is) a 1918 which is the year my father was born ($0.12), and a 1930 ($0.06).
All of the coins I collect are just circulated found in change I bring home from the store. I know I wont get rich doing it, but I have fun with it, it feels like a scavenger hunt. Maybe you should look a bit closer at what you have in your pocket, you might find a whole new hobby in it.
