I'm Back!

I took a few months hiatus from the blogging world, but I'm back with exciting new stuff! So what happened in the meantime??...Just life...I got some gorgeous tomatoes from my garden, never completed it like I wanted but I had my nephew do some work and cleaned it up a bit. Kids started school, and I'm actually loving the cold weather! Finally I can quit feeling like I'm going to melt...Anyway, my exciting news is this weekends show: Roses and Rust! October 8 at the Gover Ranch in Anderson. I'm just bursting at the seams! I can't wait to get out there! I have a little preview of the stuff we have available. My team and I have been working round the clock to make custom jewelry, so there is something for everyone. Check out these awesome designs! oh and I'm glad to be back...hope you'll follow me.

Puffy Eye Morning

Last night I watched the movie My name is Khan, it's basically a love story about a man with Asperger's Syndrome, he's Muslim and what happens to him after 9/11. I cried so much my eyes feel like they're going to pop out of my head. Anyway, great movie but you need at least 2 1/2 hours and I would recommend an entire box of Kleenex!

Moving right along... I made a couple of rings last week for Wedding season...take a look:
Here's a couple of other ones I did that I thought turned out pretty well:



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Latest Creations

Taking a quick break from gardening to make a couple of cute things....

Backyard Veggie Garden...now we wait for the good stuff

Doesn't look like much now but we got it all finished, I purchased three different types of Heirloom tomatoes, one of which is named "Mortgage Lifter"...interesting. We have peppers, red and yellow, basil, cilantro, spearmint, and parsley, I'm hoping my squash will survive they were looking a little depressed. But here is the finished raised veggie garden for this year...now we wait for all the goodies.... Oh and here is the latest edition to our family meet Molasses and Pine
We started building the chicken condo, I mean coup so I'll be posting pics of that too. Now for operation backyard redo stage 2!

We did it!

Got the veggie garden started! Yeah those sneakers are my husbands, he did actually lend a hand!



Steer Manure! FRESH! We almost passed out in the Yukon on our way back from Home Depot, with those bags in the back....



We also planted sunflowers along the fence...if the birds haven't eaten them yet we should have some 12 footers by mid summer!




Giving our baby seedlings a nice drink! Oh and what happens inside the house when all this wonderful gardening is going on outside?....take a look at this:







ate the whole top off of a boston cream pie! yummy!

We have lift off!

It's been two weeks since we planted these squash seeds and take a look at these beefy little guys! We're going to be the type of gardeners who are always trying to get rid of their squash cause they have too many. That's cool, I love squash, but I'm the only one in the family that does. Well guess the neighbors are going to be loving squash this summer too. Well it finally quit raining, and I've been cleaning out the garage, doing a little spring cleaning and this evening I'm going to start looking at my veggie garden plot and cleaning up a few more things in the back yard. It's amazing how inspired you get when the sun shines!

I'm drowning! Rain, Rain go away!!!

I know we need the rain, but 70 mph wind gusts? Plus do you ever have one of those days that you just wish you could have stayed in bed? Yeah, that's me today. I have a leaky roof, my kitchen sink is backed up, and I feel a migraine coming on. On a more positive note... This is my little baby's second day he rode the school bus back home from school and he didn't cry. The bus driver said he was really excited to get on the bus today, now that he knows she's bringing him home. They grow up way too fast... So right now I'm working on my landscape design, I've been looking at countless pictures of fabulously landscaped homes, and with a twinge of jealousy I've been taking a few ideas from each one. For instance, I found a drawing of a skate track all the way around this backyard that was similar in size to mine. In the famous words of Mr. Gru: "LIGHT BULB!" That's such a fantastic idea. Big enough for the kids to skate or ride their tricycle's and small enough to leave a little space for the veggie garden and grass! So I'm excited about this concept, I've been looking into what it's gonna cost, probably more than what I can afford, but I figure if I do in sections, maybe it won't hurt like passing a kidney stone, hopefully more like stubbing your big toe... Anyway, stay dry out there!