I'm such a slacker...

I'm warning you now... the title is the reason this post will last forever!

I won a give away on Mel's blog... Fishing and Wishing oh, I don't know... about a MONTH AGO!!!  I really wanted to post on here a picture of the item I won.

I won this really cool wall decoration by Max 'N Me Studio on Etsy.  These are unique works of art created by a mom and son duo with a portion of the proceeds being donated towards arts programs for children with autism! 

Isn't it wonderful!  I absolutely love it... I'm giving it to my dancer daughter Isabel, for her birthday... which is right around the corner.  Thanks Mel and Max 'N Me Studio for the wonderful art work!!!!!


So the other things I am behind on is my ridiculous obsession with ebaying.  I discovered eBay about 6 years ago and went nuts... I bought a bunch of "stuff" that I honestly really didn't need.  So I swore off eBay for a while... every so often I would relapse and purchase a thing or two... but two weeks ago I searched for wool yarn.  WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING!!!!  Needless to say $100 later I have sworn off eBay once again!    But take a look at this yarn...

100% wool... hand dyed... Isn't it lucious?

And wait until I get the rest of it!  oh, and I also purchased a couple of grams of silk yarn direct from India!

I'm signing up for Ebayers Anonymous tomorrow!!!

In other news... I tried my hand at knitting some longies, I found this really nice Patons sock wool blend yarn and decided they would be really cute for Sebastian.  What do you think?

I think they look adorable!

OOOH I forgot to mention, I made my first salad made from items harvested from my garden!

Yes, I realize the tomatoes are green, but they are delicious this way!

So I added a 1/2 of a ripe tomatoe and some shredded carrots from the fridge... but the end result was the tastiest salad I have had in a LONG time.

Just look at it... Isn't it lovely?

I tasted just as good and better!

Now that you managed to stick with me to this point... I'm gonna let you take a break!

Chao baby!

:OP

The Garden Project- update

We have had about three days of ridiculously crazy weather here... bright, sunny, hot all day... then torrential thunder storms at night. So I haven't been able to go water my garden, even though I have felt like a drug addict with withdrawls... I haven't been able to go and water and prune and weed and love my little plants and veggies.

So imagine my surprise when I headed over there yesterday to check the garden and saw how much plants can grow with a few days of consecutive heat, sun and lots of rain!


Instead of blabbing to death about what I found... I'm just gonna show you....

I'm soo giddy!!!!

:OP

The First Harvest

I feel like a little kid!!!  I am giddy and its all because of a few sugar snap peas!!!  Silly... Yes, I know... BUT I grew these ALL ON MY OWN!  Yup, the first harvest from my own garden. 

Aren't they beautiful? 

Let me tell you, they are D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S!!!

I realize that its not a huge bunch, but 21 and there were just as many if not more on the vines still fattening up.  So I decided I couldn't wait anymore and I just had to harvest these. 

The peas are sweet as sugar, and they are ginormous!!!  What?! You don't believe me???  Ok, then just take a look at these...

oh, still not impressed.... well then, how about these?

All the peas were this size!!!

I put them into a potato salad with tuna, raw just like you see.  Let me tell you they were the best peas I have tasted in a LONG time! 

No, I didn't take a picture of the salad... I was too anxious to eat it to remember to take out the camera!

Hopefully I will be harvesting tomatoes and peppers soon!

:oP

Wordless Wednesday- Veggies....

Happy Wednesday!  Are you playing along??? If so, head on over and link up here.....http://www.wordlesswednesday.com/newhome/

:oP

The Garden Project- Month 2 1/2

It's been a few weeks since I updated on my garden, and let me tell you it has been growing like crazy!  To be honest I never really thought that everything I planted would actually grow... BUT I have tomatoes and a few teeny tiny peppers, my zukes are all flowery, my cukes are all flowery, my carrots and beets are getting bigger (well at least the parts I can see!)

So really what else can I tell you???  How 'bout some pics... because a picture is worth a thousand words, right?   These pics were all taken on the 4th of July....

This is the flower that are on the snap peas, aren't they beautiful?

This is the first bloom on my cucumbers, as of yesterday the entire row of cucumbers were flowering!

Can you see all the yellow flowers on the plants?? by' my calculations I'm gonna have like 300 zucchinis!!!

The tops of my beets...

Can you see the tops of the carrots in the back of the pic?

The lettuce and broccoli... I'm still trying to figure out how the broccoli plants work because they don't really look like broccoli to me yet...

LOOK!!!  How cute is this little green pepper???

The largest of my little tomatoes, these have me the most excited as I love fresh tomatoes!

A quick count gave me about 15-20 tomatoes so far!

So there you have it, my little garden is starting to burst with yumminess!!!!

As the veggies get bigger and begin to ripen, I will post more pics... so stay tuned for more pics!

:oP

Garden Project update- week 4

I haven't posted any pics of the garden lately, mostly because it seemed to be the same as the day before... but with all the rain we have picked up over the last week my veggies have been growing!  Granted this picture is about 4 days old now, but I'll take new ones later today when I go and water and weed the garden again.

As you can see, my zuchinnis (spelling?) area growing at lightning speed... I'm thinking there isn't enough room in the box for them... but I'm gonna try trellising them... I'll let you know how that goes.

The cukes in the middle are coming along, although I don't understand why some are much smaller than others...

I've thinned out the beets and carrots... on the pic above beets are on the right and carrots on the left.

Can you see the lettuce up on the front left???  They are actually looking like mini lettuce plants!

On the right front, I thinned out the brocolli (spelling?)  plants and they are loving the extra room to grow....

I'm so proud of myself... I love the fact that all that I planted actually grew and I can now point out ALL veggies and not just point to a patch of dirt and say "this is where the lettuce will grow"

My tomotoes have started to bloom, beautiful yellow flowers... I'll post those pics tomorrow!

:o)

The Garden Project- week 2

My garden is coming along superbly!!!! I am sooooo excited! I am gonna start by posting pics of the garden the day I planted the seeds a week ago....

These are the seeds... yes there is a ton.. I know.  BUT I managed to plant all but the watermelon, cabbage and an extra packet of tomatoes...

I went and gots to planting...

I think I already posted some of these, but oh well... my memory sucks and I don't feel like verifying.  Consider it a rerun to put you up to speed...

I vaguely remember posting this one...

but this is what it looked like once the seeds were planted... pretty unassuming

These are the strawberries two days after planting...

but just four days ago they had grown to this...

And, I know that today they will be larger still!  I can't wait until they start to bloom...

The blueberries already have a bunch of berries... I'm working on getting them in better shape than what I found them in.

Here is a broccoli seedling... circa last monday...

Can you see the rows starting to sprout?  The vertical ones on the far end are zucchini, summer squash and acorn squash... the horizontal row in the middle are cucumbers... and the near end has beets and carrots but those you can't really see in this picture.

here is a better pic of the cukes...

and a close-up of the zukes...

Monday these were ALL much larger, but I didn't have my camera with me when I was watering the garden so no pics, but since I will need to water them again this afternoon I will post more pics tonight.

My sister claims I am a bit obsessive with the garden, but I feel like a little kid every time I run to the garden and see that the plants have grown just a bit more than the day before!  That, and I can just imagine harvesting all that yumminess and I get all excited!

So check in later to see today's progress on the garden.

:oP