~harvest garland~

 Hello long lost blogging friends.

Hopefully you've all not given up on me. 

My lack of blog posts hasn't been due to 

lack of projects completed. 

It's been entirely due to lack of computer time. 

I'll spare you the details and excuses.

I kept my Thanksgiving deco this year real simple.

I had a bag full of big, beautiful, vibrant leafs 

that I gathered in my Aunt's yard that I knew I

wanted to use for something. I decided

to make a simple harvest garland with them.

I added some pine cones and called it good. 

If I get around to it you'll be seeing more 

of the leafs and pine cones on my 

Thanksgiving table setting. 

 

I'm thinking I'll be using the pine cones for 

Christmas decorating too.....

keeping it simple.

~summer days~

 Been spending lots of time doing this:

Staring at this:

Lazy summer days.

Aren't they the best?

~buggin~

I'm bugged.

I was going to post the tutorial for the skirt I 

made into a dress BUT..... 

I just looked at the pics I took as I was making

the dress.....the pics are horrible!

Not surprising since I had an hour to make it

before I had to leave for the place I wanted to wear it!

I'm not going to be able to put the tutorial of

the dress up yet. Sorry...it's gonna take some

picture doctoring and new pics.  I'll get to it

first thing next week. 

So....enjoy the pics of the bugs in my yard.

~garden markers~

 We started planting our little garden last week.

We don't have a whole lot of areas to plant things

so we can only choose a few each year.

This year we have: lettuce, tomatoes, chives, parsley, 

dill, onions, jalapenos and beets (first time!).

My little guy helped me paint rocks to mark what we planted. 

 

 I know....they're primitive looking but we had fun with them.

If I were to do it again I would use a 

large permanent marker instead of painting the words on.

We've also been doing a lot of playing in the yard this past week.

Toes in the grass.

Toes in the sandbox.

Toes in flip-flops.

Toes in the water.

Do you love your kids' feet as much as I do?

Oh-those little toes.

xoxo

~our beautiful flowers~

 Spring is my favorite season.

This is one of the reasons:

...our amazing flowers.

We have so many tulips and flowers blooming.

I can't take ANY credit for this beauty.

My husband does it ALL.

He digs EVERY SINGLE bulb up after the flower

has died off, cleans the bulbs, stores them in a 

cool/dry place the entire summer and then plants

them all again in the fall.

He puts so much work into it and I appreciate

it so much. He likes flowers and gets his

green thumb from his Grandma but I know another

reason he does it each year is because he knows

how much I appreciate their beauty. 

 His famous crown lilies.

He is having problems keeping these alive and

for the past 3 consecutive years, we have

lost most of these bulbs due to bugs.

If any of you out there have any suggestions

to keeping these bulbs alive-I would 

greatly appreciate it.

 

In the summer time our flower beds will be

full of roses, day lilies, various ground covering plants

 and petunias.

Oh-the beauty of the Earth!

Isn't it amazing?