artwork

I enjoyed playing this week.  I had been wanting to make some sort of artwork this week involving things that I've reused.  I used leftover fabric that looks like canvas, and then went to work.  This piece of artwork went to a close friend of mine who is due with her second child in a couple of weeks.  The leaves were taken from old magazines, and I had leftover paint from some house-projects.  Overall it was very rewarding using the gifts that God has given me to make something special for my friend.

Edible Plants and Websites to Enjoy

I was surfing the web today and found this great blog by "b. organic" and it's got some fantastic ideas and information on there.

Today I found out that you can eat violets! Just be sure that they're organic!

There are so many other great ideas on her website, that I highly recommend that you check it out:

www.borganic.net

I found this girl through our local PBS station, called "Create." There are a bunch of other great things to check out on their website:

www.createtv.com

Fellow Blogger Idea

My friend suggested this blog to me, and there are some great ideas, that I wanted to share with you:

How to make your own Peat Pots!!

Just follow this link and you'll find a creative way to make these in your own home!

Easter 2012

I'm updating on what all is growing in my garden for Easter 2012.

STRAWBERRIES!!

I'm also growing more RAIN BARRELS!! (Actually my husband is doing most of the work).

Sunny Flower Garden

Here's an updated photo of what I have planted in our North - Sunny Flower Garden:

I love those creeping garden phlox! They are a great ground cover and I planted them last year and they have tripled in size!

The middle of this flower bed is constantly changing. I want to plant more annuals here, but I seem to be getting handed a lot of perennials lately, so I might just place them there.

I would like to stick with purple and white in this flower bed. But time will tell...

100 Daffodils bulbs!

I've been working at least 5 hours a day out in my flower/veggie garden beds. It's been so refreshing and exhausting at the same time.

Today was a Spring Clean Up day at the church, and so I put in my 3 hours there, helping realign some bricks in a flower garden, etc. I always come home with some sort of plant when I help out there. And today I brought home about 100 Daffodil bulbs!! A couple of Sundrop plants and a random bush (that I have no idea what it is).

I went ahead and planted all the bulbs in front of our bushes facing the westside of our home. They have already flowered for the year, so I will have to wait till next year to really enjoy them. But I'm sure that will come in no time flat!

I also planted these bulbs here is because I feel like those bushes are so BORING!! And my husband always complains when I plant flowers in front of the bushes, because he can't trim them in the summer...so, problem solved:

The daffodils will die back at the end of the Spring, and my husband won't have a cow that I planted flowers there!!

Spring is here!

I love Spring, because it is so refreshing! After hibernating all winter, it really feels great to open up the windows and blow all the germs out. I'm sharing with you some photos of what is starting to grow in my garden and in the neighborhood parks around us. Praise the Lord for Spring!!