The progress of our garden.
One of my biggest perks for moving to our new home last August was the prospect of having our very own, first garden. Mike and I really don't know anything about it other than what we wanted. Thankfully we had some help, especially from my mom as to some hot tips. Mike and I dug it all up and turned the soil, then Mike sectioned off these areas and created little walkways. We thought we were way behind in planting but now looking at my garden I can see we definitely weren't. We began planting somewhere around the 13th of May, this first photo was just after that.
This was the garden a few weeks later. Mind you, the tomato plants and the bigger lettuce were from plant, not seed, but they had still grown a lot. In this photo is tomato plants at the back with basil, 3 potato plants near the middle left. Then front left is lettuce. Front right is sunflowers, and a big rhubarb plant
In all, we have 11 potato plants, a couple of bean plants, broccoli, cucumber, onion, carrots, peas, tomatoes, basil, lettuce, rhubarb and sunflowers.
These fuzzy photos were taken tonight. The sunflowers are getting huge, Mike is gobbling up rhubarb, we've got a few cucumbers already (still not big enough to eat), tomatoes budding... so exciting. Also in our other flower gardens we have strawberries that are producing tons of sweet little berries everyday. Mmmm.... my mouth is watering just thinking about all the goodness.


















this was the sickest thing. UGH, If I believed in reincarnation I think this would be the ultimate punishment.






















My bathroom is a very pale minty tooth pasty green. Kind of stale and cold feeling. I thought this space next to the towel rack needed a splash of it's own.
So here is what I came up with. I took two 8x10 canvases and painted them. I cut out a shape of a sparrow from scrap fabric. I stained white paper with tea bags, dried it then wrote a Bible verse, ripped and burnt the edges. Then I placed the bird and verse when I wanted them and painted over them with a clear, glossy varnish. After it dried I crazy glued on a twig that was lying around in the yard. Lots of steps, but easy and very very cheap.

