The Most Adorbable Skirt for Grown-Ups!

I've been so excited to make this skirt! I'm generally not into skirts, but times....they are a changin' for me. I had my eye out for 2 men's tee shirts to turn into this skirt. When I saw these at Wal Mart I was thrilled because the color is awesome! So, 2 shirts only cost $9 and look at the cuteness!

I can't wait to make more!

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PS. No Fibers on Friday today because I haven't made much more progress on the sweater, but knitting night is TONIGHT, so I'll get more done :-)

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Rain Boot Planter

One of my girls saw this idea on a website. I'm not sure where, she just ran to me an excitedly told me, "Mommy, we can use our rainboots to plant flowers!" Luckily, I had this pair set aside because they're too small. Look how cute!

I just had to drill drainage holes through the bottoms.

And plant!

Love it! I'm going to submit this to Strut Your Stuff:

Wordless Wednesday: Savage Beasts

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Easter Vase

Part 2 of adding to my Easter/Spring Decor. I had this huge vase I bought from IKEA, with grandiose plans of filling it with seasonal things for every holiday. Yeah, this is the first time I've done anything with it! But, darn it's cute!

I went with the gum drop theme and covered styrofoam balls with more gumdrops.

Then I took more styrofoam balls and covered them with petals from fake flowers and also some spanish moss.

Threw it all in there with some plastic eggs (which would have been way more cute covered with paper mache, but I didn't have time) and some more moss and flowers. Lovin' it!

Easter Goodies

When it came time to decorate for Easter, I found I only had two (lame) things to put out. So, I was on a mission to add to my Easter decor.

This Gum Drop Wreath I saw on A Pretty Cool Life, was right up my alley because it looked like a kid friendly project.


I followed her directions, except I used an 8" wreath because that's all I could find and I think it's good. Hot glued the gumdrops on. I hung it by a wire, but covered it with the nice ribbon. LOVE it!!!

Fibers on Friday

Here is the progress I made on the sweater during our drive to Florida. It's not really crooked, it's just not hanging right on my model.

It's going to be a tank top, so I'm just about done the front and then I'll pick up stitches in the back and work my way up.

It was wayyyyyy slower going than I anticipated because the seed stitch pattern (what you see on the upper half) takes me forever! It's a knit 1, purl 1 pattern so it's slow going. In any case, I'm happy with how it's coming out. It looks a little huge, but my knitting is staying right on target with my gauge, so whatever, she'll grow into it!

I intend to keep knitting right on through the spring and summer. Usually I'm not so inclined during warmer weather, but there are so many projects I want to tackle, there's no time for breaks!

My Square Foot Garden in the Making

Gardening! It's a new found love of mine. I'd dreamed of having my own garden for years as we lived in government houses that weren't ours to do with what we wanted. We've owned this home for three years now and this is my third year of gardening. It's been a HUGE learning process, with much more to come. I'm particularly excited about this year because I've recently read a book called Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholemew. His method requires very little space because he's figured out what plants (and how many) can grow in a 1 square foot space.

So, I'm going to set out using his method and fill you in along the way. Let's look at the beds from last year and get them prepped for this year.

We took the tiered center out of the old bed to make room for marking 1 foot squares. The soil mixture is composed of 3 equal parts peat moss, vermiculite, and compost. It was a little investment buying the peat moss and vermiculite, but it never needs to be purchased again, all I'll ever do from this point is add compost, which I make myself. Peat moss is readily available, but we had to call around to find the vermiculite. It's an interesting substance derived from volcanic rock/ash. It aids in water retention of the soil and aeration. It's much like the little styrofoam pieces found in store bought potting soil. We had to spread a tarp to get it all mixed.



My darling husband framed out the old smaller bed.

And we are ready for planting!

Now, the Square Foot method recommends each bed be 4' X 4', which is optimal for reaching all of the growing space without stepping on your soil. However, I wanted to utilize my existing bed so my bigger bed is 8' X 5' or 40 square feet! The smaller bed is 7' X 2' or 14 sq ft! 54 square feet for planting! I probably will not plant in the very center of the bigger bed because I won't be able to reach what's growing. It may not seem like much, but one square can be planted with the following:

8 pea plants!
or
9 spinach plants!
or
16 onions!
or
1 tomato plant!
or
16 beets!

You get the picture? It's a lot! Before we left for vacation, I planted 24 peas, 9 spinach, and 16 onions. I'll update more later, because hopefully today we'll start potatoes and indoor seedlings for later this spring.