Garden Pics #2

It's been one week since I took the last pics....the corn is now up and looking good, my tomatoes have grown and are full of blooms, the squash has just about doubles since last week - the little squash I took a pic of last week has since rotted..don't know what's going on with that and my cucumbers are all over the place...I really need to get some stakes for the cucs and my pretty sugar snaps...the beans are going crazy, too.   All in all I'm pretty please right now - blooms are all over the place - I just hope they bud into some veggies......I'll update again next week.

Stamp Lunchbox Tin - I gave to Doodles ......!!!

July 4th 2005

Box sent to Anna for the SS7 Swap!!!

1.  I imagined Anna having her very own Copics...3 in her fav colors-green/yellow/blue
2.  Box of pre-made cards along with ribbons/bling/pearls  to make fast and easy cards
3.  TH embossing folders - clocks and steampunk
4.  I used the friendship of the 2 women from the movie....a sweet little friend stamp and die cuts
5.  2 distressed stickles and glitter cut outs to use on the cards (I love sending kits to be used to make things)
6. What's more country than WILDFLOWERS!!!!
7.  Anna loves to fish so I sent her fishing embellishments for future fishing trips
8. I went overboard in making the charm dangle very chunky..more pics further down the blog
9. Black and white pattern paper and brads to go with it
10. Military cut outs for her to use on her DH and DS's pages...used just a bit of glitter, I hope not too much for manly pages
11. Fanfold flowers and flowers in her fav colors
12.  Yeah, a Notebook that I decorated.

Anne, Anne, How does your garden grow?

I finally have a backyard garden!!!  We had 2 trees damaged by Hurricane Ike or rather beat the crap out of by Hurricane Ike....after waiting a couple of years hoping they would start growing again, we finally gave up and had them removed this past fall.  So I got my garden!!!!  Sean and his friends got it dug up and we added lots of bags of top soil, garden soil and garden mulch and BINGO! I have plants growing.  The ideal was to plant most of it from seeds but the project took longer to get started than planned so I had to buy plants.  I did put in 2 rows of green beans and sugar snap peas.  They are coming along nicely.  These pics were taken on  last Sat morning and it has already grown so much since then.  I even put in a few corn seeds, they should be sprouting soon.  Right now, I am having a battle with Ms Snail and Mr Slug...so they better be warned...I have upped my attack plan...I put down S&S bait last night.  Hopefully it did the trick!!!!!!!

Ree Drummond - The Pioneer Woman

Myself and Debbie went to a book signing at Blue Willow Book Store on Friday night and met Ree Drummond.  She is such a nice lady, very down to earth.  She signed my cookbook ) I love it and have made many things out of it), her book on meeting the Marlboro Man (great book - throughly enjoyed reading it) and her new book, Charlie, the Ranch Dog - signed just for Chico!!

Chunky dangle I made for Anna in the SS7 swap....