It’s spring break here, and for me that means that my children and my husband are both home for an entire week. That’s a really good thing for my garden, but first, unfinished business! Last summer we received from a Freecycler, a porch swing. The fabric was the worse for wear, but the frame was […]
Read more "It’s that time again…"My birthday was last month, and rather than sock the money I received away to justify all the little extra craft purchases I make, I decided to splurge on a somewhat larger toy. Enter the Drum Carder. A Brother Drum Carder to be precise. What is a drum carder? It is a mechanism for preparing […]
Read more "Batting a Thousand"Here are the roses that I worked up. There was one more that was such a complete failure that I couldn’t bear to post it. Unfortunately, scatter-brain that I am, I can’t find the little piece of paper that I took notes on while I was making the patterns, so I can’t post them. 🙁 […]
Read more "Ratta Tat Tat (Part II)"I had a really neat idea while watching the plumber dig up my flower bed a few weeks ago. Last year’s chive flowers had dried in their beds to a beautiful, skeletal shape. I gathered them together into a beautiful bundle that was more difficult to photograph than I expected. It’s the sort of thing […]
Read more "Photo Practice"But I think I had less than 24 hours of down time and only had to re-upload the photos. Everything else seems to have loaded fine, and I am really happy with how quick everything in the WordPress Dashboard loads (looks around quickly for some wood to knock on). Very soon I will be uploading […]
Read more "Well, Not Quite Seamless"This year, my unofficial New Year’s resolution was to work on being more regular in the release of my blog posts. I’ve been doing a fairly good job of this, but I am being thwarted by the interface between Word Press and Yahoo! (who hosts my web page) They apparently don’t work well together. Couple […]
Read more "Hosting Trouble"I love Alton Brown. He is my favorite food celebrity. His mix of science and food is irresistible to me, and his quirky humor makes it fun to watch. He also has some very good advice, which my husband usually insists that I follow. No one trick ponies in the kitchen (other than the fire […]
Read more "No One Trick Ponies in My Kitchen"I’ve been seeing a lot of really nice paper roses around on the net lately. Since I recently bought a whole bunch of tissue paper to make fiesta flowers with my daughter, I thought I would try out one of the patterns on ellinée. I’m still experimenting with good backgrounds and my photography techniques. Last […]
Read more "Flowers for Valentine’s Day"My son turned four this last week, and when asked what kind of cake he would like, he responded immediately and definitely, “A taco cake!” I have no idea what he thought he meant by this, but this is my interpretation. The “tortilla” is sponge cake; the “beans”, chocolate mousse; the “cheese” and “lettuce” (or […]
Read more "Taco…Cake?"It’s two days before Christmas, and I have officially brought in my last handful of tomatoes from my garden. I’ve been waiting to post that for almost two months, but mild weather and a crop of strong producers has kept me in tomatoes. Many of the ones I brought in today will have to be […]
Read more "“Isn’t borage an annual?” and other lessons from a first year garden"