2013~ LOOK WHAT'S GROWING SERIES ~ FOUNTAIN PLANTER

We have a water fountain in our garden that has been a mosquito magnet for years.  

Sorry, I drained it before I took pictures.  

But this is what remained....  

EWWW....NASTY!

I've decided to turn it into a planter. 

I needed some muscle to drill trough the 3 inch thick concrete so my 

Hubby helped me drill the holes for drainage. 

We used this heavy duty drill....

 And a drill bit made just for drilling thru concrete.

Here she is nice and filled with compost, Mel's Mix and some 

Kellogg N'Rich Garden Soil Enriching Compost...love this stuff!

 And planted with a few clipping I cut from my driveway potted plants.  I plan on planting some edibles in there too!

All done for now!

NICE!!

No more yucky, stinky, mosquito water!!!

Happy Gardening!

Linking up to:
Tootsie Time Fertilizer Friday
The Girl Creative/Occasionally Crafty
Southern Dreamer
Common Ground
The Dedicated House
Made By You Monday
Our Delightful Home
Monday Funday
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2013 ~ LOOK WHAT'S GROWING SERIES - CLEANING FLATS, SHELVING FOR SEEDS, TOOLS SHARPENED, BLUEBIRD HOUSES, STOCKED GREENHOUSE & GARDEN BEDS...WHEEEEW!

Today I'm going to combine a bunch of posts in one so that I can catch up on what's happening now.  

I have been taking lots of pictures,

 but I have been so busy getting ready for the growing season that I haven't had time to post them.   

So here goes....

- Cleaning of Gardening Pots & Flats. 
I washed all my garden flats and pots in my kids bath tub...eeeewwww!  It was a MESS!!  I was too lazy to do it last year--Note to self, after plants have been moved into the garden, clean them OUTSIDE..always!!

- Setting up indoor shelving with light for seedlings. 

- Shelves filled with my new growing seedlings!

- Sharpened all of my gardening tools, shears & everything that needed to be sharp!

- I built two Bluebird houses to see if I could get some birds in my garden to eat the bad bugs.  Houses are up....no birds yet!

-I stocked my greenhouse with a few more flats, vermiculite, peat moss, compost, & yes, I course, my PINK HELLO KITTY radio I acquired from my daughter (she doesn't use it anymore).

- started preparing my square foot garden beds for this years crop.

So far this is what I have been up to for the past couple of weeks!  Busy, busy, busy.

Lots happening,  

I hope to be more organized for this years growing season.

Until later!

Bug Hugs :-)

2013~LOOK WHAT'S GROWING SERIES ~SPINACH!!

I'm starting my 

2013 - "LOOK WHAT'S GROWING SERIES"

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Look what I have left over from last years garden.  

SPINACH!  

(My very first winter garden)

I cut some for a yummy spinach salad yesterday and it was so yummy!  

I can't believe it lasted all winter!

It's so nice to have fresh homegrown salad so early in the season! 

More to come!

Happy Growing!

CUPCAKE WRAPPER STORAGE

HELLO BLOGLAND!! 

 It's been a while since I've posted. 

 But I'm Back!! 

 I have been trying to organizing my life and home since the beginning of the year. 

 I'll be posting more of my organizing projects in the weeks to come. I'm currently working on my pantry at the moment.

I have a ton of cupcake wrappers which I stored in a huge plastic ziplock bag.

(I forgot to take pictures).

So I decided they needed to have a better home.  

So here is my organized 

Cupcake Wrappers!

They store so much better in my pantry now and they don't get squished!!

What do you think?  

Do you have a favorite ways to orgnizing your Wrappers?

MY WINTER GARDEN!

Hey you guys!  

I'd like to share this fun experiment I'm trying.

  I decided to growing my vegetables and salad greens 
into the winter months!

Guess what!

  I am still having green yummy salads even after Thanksgiving!!  

Check it out!

1) Radishes

2) European Mesclun Mix

3) Mustard (these are soooo good and spicy)

4) Spinach

5) Swiss Chard

6) Radishes

7) Scallions

Yummmmm!!!!

This is so exciting!

Is there anyone out there growing veggies in these cold winter months?

Let me know how it's going!!

Have a FAB Day!

Bug Hugs!

CUPCAKE BOX AND A HELLO!

WOW,

it's been a while!

But,

I'm back

:-)

Let's talk

 CUPCAKES.

I made this for my daughters school friend for her birthday.  I used the 

The cupcake is Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting.

Yumm!

Items Used:

Silhouette Cameo

Design Id #30339

Design Id #20958

~HAVE A FABULOUS DAY~

THE WEDDING DRESS

I just love making wedding cards.  

What do you think of this one?

The Cut:
The Silhouette Cameo
Design #12282

ON THIS DAY NOT LONG AGO...

a terrible thing happened....

Hope you have a wonderful day!

HAPPY "END OF SUMMER" DAY

Happy END OF SUMMER" Day!  

(Labor Day)  

Well, it's the last day before school starts around here!  

I am sorta happy and way, way sad :-(  

Happy because my kids are starting to get bored around here 

& 

sad because I won't have them at home with me all day anymore.  Where has the summer gone????

Well,

HAPPY LABOR DAY

 everyone!

2012 ~ WHAT'S GROWING SERIES~WE HAVE STRAWBERRIES!!

Got tons of updates on my garden coming,

 since it's been a while that I posted. 

 Here are my strawberries when they were babies.  

I have a liitle planter on my deck that I just stuck them in.  

They seem to have done well...

there are strawberries hiding in the back there!

Picked these just in time before the birds discovered them!

Nothing taste as good as homegrown strawberries!  

YUMM!!

UNTIL LATER!

I'M BAAAAAAACK !!! :-)

It's been forever since I've posted.  

 I have a confession to make! ... 

I have been in a withdrawal state of mind for about 2 months now!!  

The reason......

Me dear trusted D90 camera WENT TO CAMERA HEAVEN :-(.......

We decided to replace my dear old friend for my birthday with this!

The new D7000!

This puppy is 

"THE BEAST"!

I know they both look the same, but they are not by far!  

This baby has so many more new features! 

 I can't wait to play!    

And now guess what!!!!  

I'm Baaaaaaaack!!

  :-)   :-)

So get ready for some pictures, pictures, pictures!!

Have a fabulous day!

PRIMARY TREATS ~ GOOD SHEPHARD

For my Primary Class in church on Sunday,

 I taught my little Primary Class about

"Jesus Christ is the Good Shephard".

Since the lesson was about SHEEP, 

 I made these little guys for them, filled with marshmallows.

I also had them glue cotton to the white section for the sheep hair.

I used my SILHOUETTE CAMEO to cut out the sheep.

  It was soooo easy!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY 2012

To all the 

Father's, 

Husband's 

& 

men 

out there who are Dad's....

I made this Father's Day Banner for my Husband's Father's Day decoration.  What do you think?  They were all made by my Silhouette Cameo!  I love that you can just click and buy any image you want whenever you need them!  

HAPPY DAY!

2012 "WHAT'S GROWING SERIES"~RECYCLED FENCE TO GARDEN TRELLIS

Hi everyone!  Another garden project completed!  And more recycling to go with it.  As you can tell I have a bunch of fences that I have been recycling.  I love turning old thing that I would have thrown away a couple of months ago, into amazing new useful STUFF!!

Here are the supplies I used to build my 

NEW GARDEN TRELLIS!

1. Old Fences

2. Shelter from the SUN!!!

3. Shipping Boxes (I had laying around)

4. Portable Table Saw.

I also used my trusted Porter Cable Combo! (I just love this tool!)

1).  Took apart the fences.

2).  Ripped the fences into smaller pieces using the table saw.

3). Used the Priority Boxes for measuring each square

.....I hate to measure, and this way worked so much faster for me!

They all come out "even steven"

4). Here she is almost done.

5).

6).  You'll notice the ugly, orange, temporary fence I have up in the background :-)

That's where my fences came from..hehe.  

(Getting new fence installed this week!)  Yeah!

 7).  Here she is in her new home!

I'll have more gardening updates coming soon!

Thanks for stopping by.