Recycled Plant Markers...

My sister, the one I hang out with a lot is a Gardener. I swear she could plant a rock and it would grow. She is mostly into flowers but she also has a small vegetable garden. Her flower garden covers the entire backside and one side of her house, its beautiful when in bloom. She also has small gardens out and about all over her yard. I'll have to get pictures next Spring/Summer when its in bloom. I don't even know how she remembers all the kinds of flowers she has as there are so many.
She's been looking for an expensive way to mark all her flowers for awhile now. Plant markers are expensive, especially when you need as many as she needs. We searched around but didn't really find anything affordable so we did what lots of people do these days and went to Pinterest. We found a few different ideas there and being the recycler that she is, she chose markers that were made from tin can lids. She had the lids and hangers, I had the number and letter punch sets and some sharpies for another project...that I'll get around to someday.
We were all set, had everything we needed so we got started on the plant markers. We practiced first, we've never used the punch sets before and just for the record its not as easy as it seems. I told her to write us a list of flower names so that we'd know what we were putting on the markers and she got so frustrated (because of all the flowers she has) that she couldn't remember all the names. Why do flowers have such strange names anyway? She got a short list together and we started punching, some of the abbreviations she chose made me LOL but I just went with it and punched the names she chose. We worked on them for most of the day and once she matches them up with all the labels from her flowers I'm sure we will have many more to make. She likes them, we think they are sort of rustic looking. We also like the sound they make when the wind blows them against the hanger. I'm happy that we got some practice with the punch sets, now I know what to expect when I get around to my project.

Here we are punching away. Deuce (my Bichon) did not like it, its very loud. It would probably be better to do this outdoors.

 

 

Here they are outside. A few of my favorites.

Kind of Halloweenish!

See what I mean by the abbreviations.

 

 

 

Tomatoes, A Little Scare, Bigger and Exercise...

I can't even believe how well my tomato plants are doing. I have lots of little green tomatoes growing and each day I get to harvest a few.  I've been using them in salad  that is when I can get to them before the husband. I even hid them once and he found them. But I dont' blame him as they are quite tasty. Arent' they pretty?

I've been a little lazy about editing my pictures again /still but I do have alot to share. My Grandaughter had a Circus Birthday Party last weekend. Clown...magic, balloon animals, face painting, pony rides, cupcakes that looked like popcorn and all sorts of candies. She was so excited about it all. I can't wait to share a few pictures...edit...edit...edit. I really need to get busy on this...but I'm afraid to see just how far behind I really am. I sure could use some help  : )

Today my sister and I went shopping for some fabric for the laptop cover I plan to sew but I couldn't find any fabric that I really liked and if I'm going to sew something (since I don't sew) I want it to be something I really LOVE! Better luck next time..I hope! I did buy a couple of  fabrics but it's for a couple of other projects I plan to sew and I will share when they are completed. We also visited Michaels craft store while we were out and look what we found.

It's not the best picture but it was hanging on the ledge and when I started to take the picture it started to fly right at me. Well, I gathered my sister and my items and headed for the check out line. I'm outta here.

And this may be TMI but I just found out that after wearing the same bra size for alot of years that its not my size at all. I purchased three new bras today in the new size they measured me at and after getting them home and trying them on I have to return one of them tomorrow for a bigger size. I told my husband that I believe that they are making bras smaller so that us women will believe we are bigger than we are and jeans bigger so that we will believe we are smaller than we are. IYKWIM.  I remember when I could go to a store, buy the size I wore, take it home an it would fit me fine. I really dislike having to try on each and every item before I can take it home. 

Oh and just a bit ago the husband and I ran the mall to purchase a treadmill. We pick it up tomorrow. YEAH. 

Gotta go... 

First Harvest...

Sometime last month my daughter gave me a couple of cherry or grape tomato plants. I planted them...hoping for the best...you see I DO NOT have a green thumb AT ALL!  I'm proud to say they are growing great and today I harvested my first little tomatoes. There are plenty more too but they are not ripe enough to pick yet! Oh...and the husband says that they taste great. He ate them right away. I guess I'll taste one from the next harvest.