Ouch!!!

Well, this is how I've spent the past week .... lovely, don't you think? Plantar fasciitis ... YUCK!!!! And now I have a lump on the bottom of my left foot!!!! I sure hope I don't have to try to wear TWO of these things!!!!!!

A new punching ...

I've had the "itch" oh so bad!!! Ever since my recent trip to Lancaster, PA to meet up with a wild group of internet friends and I found some yummy, hand dyed wool yarns in a couple of quaint little shops. I HAD to have them! I love rug punching! If you have never tried it, you simply must! So fast and easy! This is a pic of the chair mat that I punched up while watching TV last night. It measures 14" round and was punched with a #10 Amy Oxford rug punch on a monks cloth foundation. I've never finished the edge of a round rug or mat. It should be dry from blocking tomorrow. This will be an adventure ...

Collections ...

A few of the collections here in the Attic ...

Vintage aprons ...

Wooden bowls ...

Antique shoe molds ...

The gardens are in ...

Whew! As of last evening, the gardens are in here at the Attic. I was so sad to see that my loofa didn't come up. So much for THAT experiment. Not one of those darned seeds germinated. So I've planted the fence row again with small punkin gourds and an assortment of colorful little fall gourds. It will be interesting to see what I get -- hopefully some of these seeds will germinate. The birdhouse gourds are in, as well as the dippers and baby bottles. Hubby just shakes his head and wonders (he knows better than to really ASK - lol!) what I'm going to do with all of these gourds. Why, add them to the pile of last year's and some from a friend down in the basement! Silly man! Seriously though ... if a good portion of the seeds take, I'll be setting up a free table in my front yard to get rid of a few hundred - ha ha. In the vegetable garden this year we have watermelon radishes -- white on the outside and hot pink on the inside ... a "sweet" radish ... ok, they got me there. Now I HAVE to know what a sweet radish tastes like! The first planting is between 2 and 3 inches high already. We have onions -- what ya want, regular ol' onions? Bunching onions? Sweet? White? We've got a few choices. We have tomatoes -- the cherry tomatoes, the good ol' ain't nothing better Beefmasters, and one bush tomato. The bush was a freebie from the greenhouse. Ok, I'll try it. We've got carrots, squash, cukes, and green beans. The POOR green beans! I do believe we have a rabbit problem!!!! My green beans are now green sticks sticking out of the ground. There USED to be leaves. Dang it! We've got potatoes - a one hill wonder. I'm going to try to get as many taters as I can out of that one hill by putting boxes made of 2 x 12's around the plant when it comes up and add more dirt and let it come up and add more dirt and eventually adding another wood box and keep adding more and more dirt. I've read about doing this is old tires but somehow I don't think I want potatoes that were grown in an old tire. Just doesn't sound healthy. I'll use wood. We've got a few varieties of peppers -- jalapeno, sweet cherry, sweet bells, cayenne, chili. We use alot of peppers in our canned salsa and chili mix. And hubby likes to dry strings of the cayennes and chilies to make his crushed red pepper blend. So that's that. The gardens are in ... a nice cool evening after a day of rain ... and I'm blogging ...

Doll quilts ... I LOVE to make them ...

Quilting is one of my many passions. You'll see pictures from time to time of my dolls quilts ... I absolutely LOVE making them!!

Spent some time in the gardens today ...

The kitchen herb garden: rosemary, marjoram, thyme, dill, cilantro, oregano, cherry tomato, nasturtiums, lime mint, lemon mint, chocolate mint, sweet basil, chives, and strawberries.







My poor lil angel! She didn't like this past winter one little bit. Her gazing ball has broken and her arm has fall off. I'll have to buy her a new ball and I've propped her arm up. She'll have to be my "make do" garden angel this year.