I recently was involved in a swap on Flickr and we were to alter Altoid mint tins. This is what I sent my partner. It is suppose to resemble a little suitcase with travel stickers on the outside. I used some real seashells and a little cocktail umbrella for the inside. I want to make one for myself. : )
My Coleus variety 2008, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
Thought you’d like to see all my different coleus. The colors and leaf variety are all so different. If you click on the link, it will take you to flickr and you can see the different names of the plants.
My etsy shop and eBay store has been updated-eBay is loaded with very inexpensive, but nice lots of cross stitch magazines and leaflets. I’m trying to clean out my one stash area before I clean out the things I was saving for myself. Please check them out! Links on right—–>>>>>>
These are called ‘inchies’ and they are more or less, one inch square. They are a bit challenging to make, but I find there are teeny pictures in books that these are perfect for that wouldn’t work on the 2.5″ x 3.5″ cards that I usually do. These are cut up paint chips from Lowes and also a gold candy box band. Watch for more! I love miniature anything!
~~Zoey asked what I would do with these-I would think making similar themed ones for a picture or a greeting card would be neat. I read where people store them in those plastic coin holder pages. I keep the bigger cards in baseball card pages. I’d love to trade too.~~
That’s colored sand around the photo of the children, and the mini butterfly is part of a rubber stamp set I just bought at Michaels.
I really did see a camel! I was coming home from CVS and turned on the east end of my road. This lovely farm always has a few donkeys, horses and even alpacas grazing in their fenced area, but I never, ever thought I’d see a two humped camel amongst them! There was no one behind me, so I did a slow cruise to check him out. Someday I’ll take my camera and get some shots if he’s still around. I’m not too crazy about being by myself on our road and getting out of the car since it’s a bit in the sticks.
I had felt rather silly just about 20 minutes before when I parked the wrong way in 15 minute parking in the next town. The meter guy was standing there, just a young fellow and was looking at me with a bit of a smirk on his face. I had parked ‘that way’ every time I parked there since the wintertime. Here I had to turn around and ‘face the flow’, it’s a small side street, but you have to follow the rules.
My van was making a loud chirping noise off and on when I was out and it appeared to be coming from the right side-like it’s done in the past. Brian sprayed the belt that seems to be troublesome and he took it for a spin tonight and said he didn’t hear anything. We want to take it to Penn State in August, so I hope we can finally get it ‘squeakless’. : )
I decided to order Sean’s favorite pizza from the new place-the taco one. It’s really good! It actually tastes more like an appetizer than a pizza.
My brothers wanted to talk to mom tonight and she was up at #3’s house for 3 hours. They want to continue to clean out her house and fix it up. That’s what it was all about. Interesting. And thanks for including me and our older brother. I’m my mom’s main shoulder and I try to make her happy.
I’m not that crazy about July and August. My gardens tend to start to bug me in more than one way-the real bugs and the weeds. We’ve been getting ‘yelled at’ by a catbird (and it’s mate) for the last 4 or so days. They must have babies nearby. It’s really annoying and makes going out very unpleasant, even for Cosmo the cat. I’ve been staying holed up more in the house and making some paper crafts, that I will share here.
I was watching tv and an ad for this company-Care.com came up. I just looked it up our zipcode and there is one lady about 10 yrs younger than me (who wants $20-30 an hour-wow!) and a bunch of young 20 somethings with their profiles up. I have been around a few hundred kids in my past and this is something I can do. What better experience than raising your own child, correct? I almost have a BS in Early Childhood Education. It’s nice to know this site is there. I was thinking about looking into a local daycare, but I’ve been down that road and I was sick every other week because of the kids passing on their colds, etc. That may be one reason I don’t get as many as other people. I would hope they screen their clients too. You can also ‘babysit’ seniors and pets!
Sean left about 7:30. I left a ‘good luck’ note on top of his laptop. He tried his new clothes on last night and looked sharp. The only hassle would be the parking, which is all meters, until he gets a pass to the business’s parking area.
Jennifer asked me if herbs were annuals or perennials. I believe most of them are annuals, which means they have to be replanted each year, by seed. Some herbs, like Rosemary, can be dug up and brought in. I’ve never had success doing this. I’m not sure about Lavender-that could be either, but I do not have luck with it.
~Update~
Sean had a good first day. He was mostly looking at a tutorial on how to use the mapping program and answered the phone. The boss said they are flexible (since he didn’t get in to close to 9 and they are suppose to start at 8:30). Sean showed him a student loan paper with his name and SS on it-ok for now, but he can send him a copy of the card.
Sean and I went out for a few hours this afternoon. We had to exchange some trousers I had bought as a gift for him. We also had two huge bags of coins that we have saved for many months. Commerce is open on Sundays and they have a free coin counting machine. So we guessed we had $124.00 (they ask if you want to guess) and after all was said and done-we had $197.00! Yes! We split it up and I saved Bri $50 (Sean got $100 since he will be driving the most for his internship) and then we went to Macy’s. Sean got an extra pair of trousers and a few shirts in another store-from the coin money! We then went to a shopping center where Old Navy and Michaels is-I went to Michaels and Sean to O.N. I picked out some things there and went down the clearance aisle and I started to chat with a nice lady there. She asked if I had ‘a coupon’ which I didn’t. It was for after 4pm and for 25% off your total purchase. She had an extra and gave me one. I thanked her and headed to check out and saved $10!
We ate in Friendly’s and shopped a bit in Trader Joe’s then headed home. I called my mom and she had talked with brother #2 and they may be seeing eye to eye again. I seriously hope so. He tends to get mean about things that he doesn’t agree with. I still am not crazy about being chummy with him as I feel like I don’t know him anymore and he talked about me behind my back that night he horned in on our ‘girl’s night out’. I wish mom hadn’t told me he thought I looked fat. He had said that to my face when we went down to visit him in Florida in 2002. Nice isn’t he? I’m not having high hopes about this, but at least, and I’m praying, he’ll treat her nice and with respect.
Anyway, here are some yard shots for your enjoyment. They sure make me smile. : )
This is what I call my herb bed. The Roma tomatoes are taking it over. There’s basil in the front along with fennel and cilantro.
My favorite lilies are blooming too! I missed the first blooms a few days ago.
A pretty hanging basket with pinkish daisy like flowers and portulaca
Look how big the butterfly bush is! You can see the rain gutter there. Not a ton of blooms, but we cut it back a lot last year.
Sean got a B- in his English class he just finished. My boy’s not a writer, so he was happy.
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Just what you want to see-snow during a heatwave! We got a good amount of the white stuff that year! The snow and lights look so bright, don’t they?
I thought my walk around the gardens would help me to feel all refreshed today. Nope, just had allergy issues-so did Bri. The Chestnut trees are dumping their catkins now. They look like fluffy rat’s tails and they smell like funky corn chips. Also had to proof a 6.5 page research paper for Sean that was due tonight, his final night of class. I burnt the midnight oil doing that. And then today I went food shopping. Does anyone enjoy it anymore? ; ) I’m fine if I am buying ingredients for a special dish or cookies, but the same old thing is so boring and the stores are too big! I see elderly ladies pushing their carts around probably thinking the same thing.
I want to make a small project for a pal’s July birthday. I need to get the fabric and floss pulled for that.
I was looking for Sean’s long lost Social Security card (which he really needs for the internship) and ran across old photos of me trying to sell things at a craft fair that a local neighborhood had years ago. I sold like two things. My mom had made things also. It should have been canceled as it was pouring rain. The only person who sold anything was the lady who made American Girl doll clothes. I had short hair and was pudgier-I should burn those photos!
Sean needs to exchange some nice trousers I bought for him (he needs a size bigger around the waist), so I may go with him tomorrow. It’s going to be a scorcher!
Ok here’s a nice photo:
The Bell Tower, waterfall and lake at Longwood Gardens
I was able to venture over to Longwood Gardens and had a nice time trying to see all I wanted to see this time, including their veggie patch and idea garden. Here are some shots that I really like, but I did take over 100 and most will be in my flickr account within the next few days. That’s a lot of photos to upload and tag!
Coneflower and orange butterfly weed. There’s a bee on the coneflower in the middle there.
A neat birdhouse and faux gourds hang in the veggie patch. The residents, I think wrens, love it!
Pretty coleus! I also bought some, not the same as the above and some Persian Shield.
This plant was in the conservatory, I believe it’s like throatwort? I think it’s pretty!
Some pretty roses. I heard a gardener say they aren’t doing well this year. I noticed many of them had black spot on their leaves.
I told this guy (inside the pool with the waterlilies) that my little pond was really green. He told me to buy some water hyacinth to help balance it out or add dye to it. These are dyed.
Here’s a link to my flickr slideshow!
Yeah, I have a cross stitch finish to share! It has those words in it-‘those who plant kindness, harvest love’. The chair legs were terrible, but I just did what I could. I figure if you are going to use chairs for plant stands, they are too rickety to sit on anymore. I may redo a few of them. ; ) So I’m thinking (this is added later) that I should tear out all the legs, get a vanishing pen, draw straight legs, and stitch over that! I think I would be happier with it. It’s a kit I had and on white aida. Aida doesn’t bother me most of the time, but of course I can change out the fabric that they give you with the kit. If anyone wants this chart, let me know.
Almost broke my left, little toe at 4am when I got up to use the bathroom. I got up too quickly and stumbled a bit and misjudged the door in the almost pitch dark. It hurt for almost an hour and I had to get the ice pack. I didn’t wake anyone up either. It’s still sore, but better. All the times I get up in the middle of the night and I finally missed the opening! Geez.
I wanted to go to Longwood Gardens tomorrow, but I’ll have to see how my toe is-drats!
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