In Love with Spring

Spring is in the air! I can smell it, feel it, and almost touch it. I'm hoping that stupid little groundhog was wrong, and spring will come early. Even though, I know, technically, there really is more winter and spring will not be here officially until my birthday.



Even so, I am starting to plan my garden. I love to garden even with that black thumb I have. I'm thinking of adding more rows to my vegetable garden and debating what veggies to grow. Yeah, I know. I did this last year too. There are just so many veggies and not enough room. I like to grow enough to eat fresh but still have some to freeze for the winter. Boy, did that come in handy this winter! If you have just recently found my blog, I just started doing real veggie growing last year.

(On a side note, the Mr. Man has BBC america on, and they have some men doing some tribal dance thing, and it's really distracting.)

Back to my garden. I have had requests from K to grow edamame, mung beans, corn, peas, lima beans, peanuts, and some exotic watermelon. Mr. Man has requested potatoes, garlic, and peppers. I personally like fresh tomatoes, lots of herbs, and want to try some broccoli and blackberries and so many other things! Oh, the dilemma! I'm thinking of adding some veggies in containers to sprinkle throughtout the yard and garden as well cause veggies can be so pretty.



Then there is the planning of my flower beds. This is the department I need serious help in. I just don't know what to do with them. Some years they look so bare then other years it looks like a florist shop exploded in my beds. I want something gorgeous and well planned. Does anybody do landscaping plans over the internet? (I have pics!) Possibly for jewelry. Just give me a plan and tell me what to get and I'll be good. I'm so horrible at decision making.

Obsession

The title says it all. I'm obsessed. With my garden, that is.

I am dying to get my plants in the ground. Literally itching for the weather to get warm or at least even out in temps. I have pretty much moved and divided everything I can. Now I'm just waiting to transplant my seedlings.

I have also become obsessed with getting plants. I keep adding to my list of things I "need". Notice the quotation marks. This implies that I probably don't need everything I've bought or am getting. For the most part, I have relegated my buying to fruits and veggies. I blame my sudden spurt of fruit seed buying on SevenAcreWoods from etsy. She had some mini orange trees she was selling in her shop. Living in Maryland, I never even thought about growing an orange tree. Heck, I've never seen an orange tree mini or otherwise. I also can't stop reading about my plants. I think I've read all the articles and books three times over.

My fruit and veggie list continues to grow. I am currently growing heirloom beans, peas, spinach, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, luffas, lemon basil, garlic chives, lavender, watermelons, anise hyssop, butternut squash, lemon balm, bee balm, cantalopes, corn, birdhouse gourds, sage, and goji berries(I have to wait for a couple of years to get these berries). I'm getting broccoli, pumpkins(for K), onions, lettuce, popcorn, edamame, peanuts(again for K), summer squash, and broom corn.

With my list ever growing, I have discovered something. I am a much better farmer than I am at growing flowers. I stink at growing flowers from seed or any other way. So far, I rock at growing at veggies and fruits. As you can see from the photos. Most of the plants in the pics are the ones I posted a couple of weeks ago. See how much they've grown. My flowers on the other hand either are not progressing or never came up. I guess I will just have to buy all ready grown flowers sometime unless I just decide to fill my whole yard with veggies and fruits. So, come on Mother Nature and help a girl out.

Custom Wedding Accessories

My latest custom wedding piece is fresh of the worktable. A copper headband accented with copper wire and champagne colored pearls. The decoration is based on the dress on the dress of the lucky bride so it is shaped like wildflowers beginning to bloom. I absolutely love making wedding accessories and custom accessories are even better. If you need a custom accessory for your weddding, feel free to stop by my shop and send me shout. I would love to make your dreams come true and design your accessories around your dress, colors, or your theme.

In other news, my blog has had a little makeover. What do you think? I'm still working on some things, but so far it looks pretty good I think.


I've been home with a sick kid this weekend so I've missed some photos in the photopalooza. I don't even know what day it is, but here's one for whatever day it is. These are the first daffodils in my garden. They are blooming so early this year. I hope some wait for my birthday. It's my little pleasure in life to have daffodils blooming on my birthday.

Helpless in the Garden

Thank you for all of your fantastic comments yesterday. I really appreciated it.

It's almost spring. I know because my birthday is just after spring. Actually, this year Easter falls on my birthday. I don't like that. I don't know why I have such an aversion to Easter being on my birthday, but I do. I found out last night on the Etsy forums that the last time Easter was on my birthday was 1913. Of course, it wasn't my birthday then so that was okay.

Anyway, there's only about a month and a half until the first day of spring. I have started to wonder what I will put in my garden. You might no know this, but I have a garden serial killer. Last year was absolutely the first time I had a garden that lasted, and it looked beautiful. I hope I can do that again this year. I raised cantalopes(or cantaloupes as I sometimes like to spell them), tomatoes, peppers, and had lots of pretty flowers. Most everything I planted last year was annuals except for my lilies and irises. That's a picture of one of my lilies above. This year I would like to add some more perennials.

I have a thing about lilies so I will probably add some more. I was also thinking about gladiolus because I just love how big and beautiful they are. Tomatoes and bell peppers. I would love to plant a big old night blooming jasmine somewhere on the property, but I would have to find one first. I do have a grapevine to plant, but I was thinking about adding a blackberry vine as well. I remember picking wild blackberries with my father when I was little and my grandmother would visit from Florida. Is squash hard to grow because I would love to add that as well.

I just don't know what perennials to plant because I know nothing about plants much to my step-mother's chagrin. Japanese or Asian plants are my favorites and they do well in my garden because of the sandy, acidic soil we have being near the beach. It doesn't help that I have a big barren wasteland of yard and so very little money. I might go to the auction again this year and see what I can there on my list.

What do you have in your garden and do you know anything about peach trees because I have one and haven't got a clue?

Blue Monday

I'm not really blue except for the fact that it's Monday. Even as a stay at home mom, I dread Monday's for some reason.

How was your weekend, my duckies?

Mine was less event filled than past weekends. I did end up going to the auction that I love. I truly meant to bring my camera so I could take pics of the place, but it wasn't a good week for that as it wasn't filled to capacity with gobs of stuff. Plus, I forgot my camera. I did walk away with a couple of deals though. K and I both got two still with tags Kenneth Cole jackets for $3 a piece. I also got a great bentwood rocker with no broken cane free. Actually, I paid a dollar for it, but some guy wanted a desk out of the lot I bought so he gave me a dollar. I also found this amazing never been used faucet that I picked up for $27. That's a lot you say? Nope. It's a big one with a pullout sprayer built in to the faucet and everything. I looked them up online and one like the one I got is about $200. Steve got some stuff too but nothing worth talking about.

Sunday I spent looking for things to improve my pictures. Always improving. Actually, some of you know my trials and tribulations with my pics. It's a never ending circle of love and hate. I think my magazine article exasperated the situation. Plus, I'm trying to redo myself for the new year so why not my pics? Onward and upward. Always improving. So I like to think.

I got to thinking this weekend that we have not done a blog slumber party in oh, so long. We should do another one of those.

Well, duckies, on that note I bid you a fond farewell until tomorrow. I hope your Monday is not blue but bright and sunny. Oh, forgot to mention those earrings in the pic are my latest pair, Rasberry Smoothie Earrings, and not with my new and improved pics.

Snow Day

Snow day!

Yes, with a whole inch(well, maybe a little more) on the ground we have a snow day. Our first of the year. I really don't know why we have a snow day other than they couldn't shovel their sidewalks off. We are one of the few school districts around with a snow day.

Now, as a kid, I loved snow days. Things have changed. As a stay at home mom, I hate snow days because they wait until I have to get up before dawn to let me know that school is closed. Then while my child gets to sleep in, I'm up for the day. Seriously, now it was done snowing yesterday by 6 in the evening. Did they really think it was going to melt when the temp was going to drop to 18 degrees?!

Well, that brings me to my newest item in my shop. The piece pictured is my Asian Blossom Cuff from my 2008 Spring Collection- Moonlight in the Garden. I'm hoping to bring spring faster. You can find it and a few others from my new collection in my shop.