There is something about working with your hands that is just so soothing! Today I went to visit a friend and we decided to do some gardening. She has a new home with a HUGE back yard and in that yard are 6 raised garden beds (4 3x3' and 2 3x 10 boxes..give or take) and she and her hubby tilled a 4x8' bed on the side for corn.
We dug, tilled and hand planted corn and pumpkins today and it was so relaxing! The weather was perfect, overcast but warm, no wind.
She's 'giving' us a box to plant in so we can grow some veggies and then we'll get together to garden and harvest all of our produce as it ripens.
There is definitely something to be said about working with your hands, actually doing the work to prepare the ground, planting the seeds to grow your own food. Not much of it has started really popping up yet, but as it does, the anticipation of 'reaping what you sow' becomes almost..euphoric I think. God used reaping and sowing, good soil and bad soil, harvest, et cetera as examples to us of how to live, how to care, the proper state of our hearts, how to reach others. I love the simple things God uses to help us understand His word, His heart for us. We cannot comprehend the things of God, but he gives us practical, relevant parables that we can relate to in order to help us grasp the simple truths of His character.
God has blessed my friend and her family so much, with a beautiful home to house their beautiful little family and the amazing yard for the kids to play in and the great beds to grow their food in, and our friends in turn are blessing us with room to grow our own food in and the friendships that grow from working together! I'm so excited about watching all of our work pay off and can't wait until we can use some of the fruits of our labor to have a big, yummy family meal with them!
We decided it might be worth leaving one of the raised beds empty just so we can have dirt to play in, being as soothing as it is, with 5 kids, 5 years and under between the two of us, we just might have to have a mud pie mommy date!
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Beautifying
I've been longing for these..then it happened..I wandered through the clearance aisle..50% off the clearance price! So I went back the next day to get them..and the extra sale was over. I decided the 'original' sale price of 50% off was good enough for me, though that extra 50% off would've been lovely!
This is what my couch & pillows look like. Aren't they so amazingly '80s fabulous?! So.....
...I finally took the plunge and repurposed my sweater ($2 on clearance, just HAD to have it even though it didn't *quite* fit..) but look how cute it is!! One pillow down, 2 pillows & a couch to go..
Our first (and only, so far) strawberry! We planted this last year and thought it had died..then the sun came out! It's amazing what can happen with a little rain and sunshine! It was pretty sour (we ate it today!) but lovely!
Coming Soon: the ceiling fan project!!
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Project Three
Well, I didn't even come close to 31 projects in 31 days..
HOWEVER..
I did accomplish a lot of things that I'd been putting off and will be doing a bit more for the yard sale this Saturday! I feel good about everything.
One thing I LOVE to do is make cards. May is a crazy month of anniversaries and birthdays for us so needless to say, I've been having lots of fun! This one was especially fun because I got to be slightly more creative than usual.
It was my in-law's 28th anniversary last week. I looked online and found that the modern gift for the 28th is orchids and the color lavender is associated with it as well.
This is what I came up with.
Simple, black & gray paper (the back was white w/ the same black border)
I cut out the petals from white cardstock, glued them down and curled the edges around..wait for it..my meat thermometer (don't worry, it was clean!! and just the right size!) and then for the center petals I used a yellow and a purple stamp pad to lightly dab some color and then attached and curled them in the same way.
Details..
Overall, this month wasn't as productive as I had hoped but it was productive.
I hope to keep up the project goal, maybe 2 projects per week would be a more attainable goal..
HOWEVER..
I did accomplish a lot of things that I'd been putting off and will be doing a bit more for the yard sale this Saturday! I feel good about everything.
One thing I LOVE to do is make cards. May is a crazy month of anniversaries and birthdays for us so needless to say, I've been having lots of fun! This one was especially fun because I got to be slightly more creative than usual.
It was my in-law's 28th anniversary last week. I looked online and found that the modern gift for the 28th is orchids and the color lavender is associated with it as well.
This is what I came up with.
Simple, black & gray paper (the back was white w/ the same black border)
I cut out the petals from white cardstock, glued them down and curled the edges around..wait for it..my meat thermometer (don't worry, it was clean!! and just the right size!) and then for the center petals I used a yellow and a purple stamp pad to lightly dab some color and then attached and curled them in the same way.
Details..
Overall, this month wasn't as productive as I had hoped but it was productive.
I hope to keep up the project goal, maybe 2 projects per week would be a more attainable goal..
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