A Successful Day

• Today was such a successful Day!
  
• I got the baby quilt finished! Pictures coming soon!
  
• I planted five hanging baskets of strawberries! Yum!
  
• I got started on a matching sewing tote and machine cover!
  
• Successful Days Are So Wonderful!
  
• Don't you love it when you feel like you've got a lot accomplished?

Starting Seeds for Indoors

This is a project I've been wanting to do all month! But I've been busy with errands to run. We have too many errands during the months of February and March. To name a few there are Income Tax, deadlines for college paperwork, and Property Taxes to be paid, I feel like I just run, run, run these two months. I even ran a few errands today concerning paperwork for our Home Owners Insurance Claim, we still haven't got that completely taken care of yet. Its drug out for 10 months now! Hopefully it will all be taken care of soon. But I finally managed in some time for making me some homemade indoor plant starters, sort of like the Jiffy things, but the frugal way! lol

Seeds, Tray, Bucket, and Water.

Toilet Paper Rolls

Cut them in half.

I labeled all of them, so I wouldn't forget what I planted.

This was left over from my last project.

Pouring the soild into the water.

Stirring with a stick.

Now it gets messy!

All filled up!I poked holes in them all with my finger.

I put about three seeds in each, only two in the ones with larger seeds.

Covered them over.

Here they are!
Now they are resting in my window seat in the kitchen.
I got this idea from Nancy Today! I love watching her videos!
You can learn so much from her!

Birthday Gifts from My Husband

This is what my Husband got me for my Birthday!

He was so sweet! He said, "I hate getting you flowers, because they always die."

The he pulled this out, "Now, they don't have to!"

Wasn't that sweet?

He also got me a nice card and wrote something sweet inside!

Aren't they beautiful?

Flowers are my favorite gift!

So, this is what I did today.

The instructions on the bag said to pat it down firm.

Should I have patted it down firm?
Maybe it was a little too firm!
The rose wouldn't go in.

So I poked a hole with my finger.

That worked.

There multiplying! lol

Giving them some water.

Had to add some more soil.

I made a mess!

My baby waited and watched out the door the whole time!

Have any of you ever used Take Root?
This was my first time using it.
I sure hope it works!

Birthday Stuff

Yesterday was my 21st Birthday. My Mom brought me a cake, and later last night my Mom and Step Dad took me to the local Mexican Restaurant, Its my favorite! I got several calls yesterday from family wishing me a Happy Birthday. I got some Birthday money also, and decided I'd buy a few things with it. I bought two more skeins of yarn, to finish a project I had started for my bedroom. I bought a book, called Making Candles & Soaps for Dummies. I haven't started reading the candle making part yet, but I have read over half of the soap making section, and this book is not what I was looking for at all! In the Soap Making section it only talks about melt and pour ready made soaps and grating store bought bars of soap, who needs a book for that?!? Right? You just melt it in the microwave and pour it in a mold... I was looking for a book to tell me how to make soap from scratch with lye, but this book does not:( So, I am still on the look out for a good soap making book, anyone have any suggestions? I also bought some seeds with my Birthday money. I'm planing on growing a small Urban Garden. We mostly eat Mexican Dishes, so I'm planning on growing mostly a variety of peppers, onions and tomatoes! But here are the seeds that I have bought so far.

Herbs

• Sweet Basil
• Dill - Long Island Mammoth
• Cilantro - Coriander
• Parsley - Moss Curled
• Chives

Cilantro is great for making Pico De Gallo! I love Spanish Rice with jalapenos and Pico De Gallo all mixed together!

Vegetables

• Pepper - California Wonder (Green Bell Peppers or you can let them ripen to Red Bell Peppers also, for a sweeter taste)
  
• Pepper - Grand Bell Mix (Bell Peppers that come in a rainbow of colors, purples, oranges, reds, black, and white)
• Onions - White Lisbon Bunching
• Tomato - Delicious
• Squash - Straightneck Early Yellow
• Zucchini - Dark green
• Cucumber - Straight Eight

I plan on getting some more tomato and onion seeds in different varieties. I've also been thinking of getting some dwarf fruit trees also, I haven't really decided on that yet. I'll probably start most of my seeds indoors because they can't be sown outdoors here until April. And I'm so ready to start a garden!!! lol