Thinking of Christmas already - ideas needed
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Comments (28)I go all out for my BFF of 50+years! I look for particular things, but I like to follow a 'color theme'~last year it was everything turquoise(because it's her favorite color), and the year before it was leopard print. I get things like mittens or gloves, scarf, wallet or purse, pj's, sofa throw, velour sweat suit, sunglasses, socks, and just about anything that I can find in whatever color i've chosen. A few years ago it was everything monkey's~~this year it might be the color pink, and since she loves cats, make it a *pink* cat theme. ;o)...See MoreChristmas Ideas Needed: Unusual Natural Materials for Tree
Comments (38)Update for the Christmas bugs among us :-) I've got the whole downstairs planned! The tree will have the glass birds, mercury glass vintage and new ornaments, pinecone ornaments, etc. above, plus I found nice birch wood tags on which I am going to try to do wood burned designs of birds and tie them to the tree with twine. I also found some copper leaf "skeletons"--- both from Sav-on-crafts, thank you for that tip, Luckygal! Also from Sav-0n I purchased six or seven brush animals (squirrels, fox, rabbits, etc) and these I will use on a short garland on the wrought iron railing that goes down the last three steps into the front room. I will mix in other elements with this, possibly raffia and some narrow ribbon and hopefully a few of the large pinecones like Alison's above. For tabletop, I have purchased a variety of new and vintage Putz Christmas houses ranging in size from5" to 13". made of pressed cardboard and dusted with glitter, enough for a nice display on the mantel and one on each side table, along with several sizes of bottle brush trees. I may replace the large green glass vase on the rattan console with a display of these houses, or possibly with a bowl of real pine cones and gold tipped feathers. I am so glad I've at least mentally decorated this space! I know we'll probably have to buy some fill in ornaments bit at least I have a plan....I'm ready to sing the Happy song :-) One of the Putz houses:...See MoreAlready thinking about squash bugs. Eww.
Comments (1)Hazel, I'd absolutely let the chickens into the garden and let them have some fun. Our chickens have access to the garden all winter because I leave the garden gate open for them and they go in and out of it as desired. They do a lot of digging and scratching and they eat a lot of weed seeds and overwintering insects, so I feel like having them in the garden is very beneficial. I don't rototill my raised beds any more because of the negative effect it has on the soil structure, but back when I did rototill every spring, the chickens would follow right along behind me, digging and scratching their way through the soil and eating every insect they found. It was wonderful. They were just as happy as they could be when they saw us coming down the driveway with either the rear-tine tiller or, later one once the soil was more improved, the Mantis cultivator, because they knew that they were about to have some good times. Squash bugs overwinter in garden debris, including mulch and spent plants from the previous season. An important part of cutting into their population includes cleaning up and disposing of all the garden debris from the previous year. I do always rotate all the squash plants to a new area every year because it means that overwintering squash bugs at least have to search for the new plants each spring. Hopefully while they are moving around and searching, I'll see them and kill them. Squash bugs don't bother tomatoes and peppers, but later in summer, their close look-alikes, stink bugs, will show up. In our garden we have both brown stink bugs and green ones. The strategy for fighting them is much the same---kill every single one you see, early and often, in order to protect your plants as much as possible for as long as possible. Oh, and welcome back to your gardening family! I understand about the hillbilly internet. I've noticed we have tons of trouble with our internet service every summer. The internet service provider has tried to convince us for years that it is because our woodland is growing so tall that the trees and their leaves are blocking the wireless signal from reaching us, but I have noticed that our internet service begins acting up about the time the kids get out of school for the summer and it straightens up and becomes more available again as soon as the kids are back in school. Hmmm. Can't blame it on the trees then because they don't lose their leaves until well after school starts up again in late summer. I just think it is a fact that when the kids are out of school, we have trouble getting on the internet because it is clogged with more users than our hillbilly internet service provider can handle. It is frustrating, but I also think it is part of living in a fairly rural location where we're lucky to have internet at all. We are beyond the geographic reach of all the other local internet service providers, so we don't really have other options either....See MoreUgly Christmas Sweater ... Ideas Needed
Comments (37)The ugly sweater embellishment is almost complete. The stuffed kitty will be perched on my right shoulder, with his hind legs, tail, and kitty butt facing the front, as he "leaps" down my back, grabbing at the string of lights that also descends willy nilly down the back side. The cat toy puff balls are on the back too. I have the Here Comes Santa CLAWS hat, so I'm just about ready for our party!...See More- 8 years ago
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