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I stenciled a pot:
And added lights to Potting Bench:
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A little about me..just starting a new thread from old thread.
Comments (5)Hi Terrance nice to meet ya and thanks for the reply! Yes I must get outside in scratch that dirt. Where I live now, in Aberdeen, we gravelled the whole backyard due to having multiple horses in the house. LOL..my great danes make a terrible miss on grass so it was the only way. And mud? As in garden? Would be destroyed unless I built a fence around it. We are planning to buy a house soon, so hope to change all that. I can not wait to get into roses outdoors and perenials, grow my own veggies. Lily's too! I hope he builds me a greenhouse, as I am a die hard fan of tropicals. Plumeria and hibiscus are my fave's. Been growing them indoors for a year under lights, and lots of blooms. I also enjoy propagating and starting from seed indoors. Fun stuff! I guess when you grow up as a small town girl, you stick to your roots..hahahaha..too funny! Krista - sorry I left Sharon's name in the original post, so she knew I ressurrected it....See MoreReposting A Favorite Thread From Last Year
Comments (14)Nope, I just finished reading, and Dawn's Journey Into Garden Addiction is even better than Jay's 708' sunflowers. I have expanded my garden five times THIS YEAR. Seeds and milk jugs are EVERYWHERE. The cabinets in my utility room are about to break from the weight of the stuff I have starting/growing there. I have BAGS of soil and fertilizer hidden all over the garage. I am seriously crying I am laughing so hard. Jo Dawn's Journey Into Garden Addiction: "Now, you stop that right now! What kind of a person are you, teasing us and temping us and making us want to grow more tomatoes and peppers than we should? It starts out so innocently, you know, with just one or two plants and you look disdainfully at out-of-control gardeners up the road who are enlarging their garden for the fifth time in 5 years and you say "I'll never be like that because I can stop anytime I want". You start thinking that you like it and you can handle more. Then, it starts getting out of control. You start sneaking out of bed to look at seed catalogs at night so that no one else will realize you're losing control. You order seeds under an assumed name and have them delivered to the empty mailbox next door, so that no one will realize you're on a seed-buying binge. What once was an innocent little thing becomes an addiction. You start saving and scrounging 5-gallon buckets and larger molasses tubs so you can grow just a few more without plowing up some of your spouse's precious green lawn. You start eyeing the sloping pasture north of the house and saying "Well, at least it would drain well at the top though not so well at the bottom." You start hiding packets of seeds all over the house...just a bit of a secret stash here in this cabinet and over there in that drawer, and in the closet in the spare room. Still, you tell yourself, I can stop this madness whenever I want to. The holidays are coming, and while everyone else has visions of sugarplums and candy canes and Santa, you're dreaming of hoophouses, coldframes, a greenhouse and even Wall 'O Waters so you can start feeding your addiction even earlier in the spring....or, maybe even in the winter. You convert the guest room to a seed-starting room with shelves and a fan and banks of lights. Who needs a guest room anyway? We'll just let the guests stay at the hotel! One day....sob! It comes to an end. Your spouse discovers your pile of seed flats, 2-liter coke bottles, milk jugs and the like that you're saving for seed-starting. He finds the bags of compost and manure and Pro Mix you've stashed behind the garage, the stakes and fence poles that keep piling up beside the driveway....the every-growing pile of tomato cages....big ones for indeterminates and small ones for determinates and peppers. Your family stages an intervention and demands you stop enlarging the garden. They just don't "get" your vision of converting the driveway to long rows of containers with a drip irrigation line connecting them. As you listen to them and nod your head as if in agreement, you're thinking "Who needs a drive way? They can park in the bar ditch and walk." Of course, you can't say that to them now. They want you to cut back, get a grip, slow down. They think you've "lost it". So, to keep peace, you agree. You turn your thoughts to winter time and holidays and shopping and baking and family visits and such. You put on your holiday clothes and smile, but inside....down in your soul....where no one can see, you're still planning the garden of your dreams. It isn't your fault you know. Those darn seed companies just keep sending you seed catalogs and e-mails and web newsletters. You know you shouldn't look at those catalogs and you should just delete the e-mails and webletters, but you can't. You realize you can't control your passion for gardening, and even worse, you realize you don't want to control it! And, thanks to Jay, that garden's getting bigger and bigger every day....at least in your mind and in your plans. Around the new year, when "they" are preoccupied with their college football bowl game/NFL championship game/NFL Super Bowl and such, you'll quietly put on your team sweatshirt and sit on the couch and watch the game....but in your mind, it isn't winter and football that you're thinking about, it is seed-starting and the time is now! Or, at least, it is close. Why, if it is January, surely you've already sent Dixondale your order, and if not now, then when? So, see what you've gone and made me do? Now you're getting to Paula too. Where does it end, Jay, where does it end? Dawn"...See MoreFun thread: What is your current kitchen related obsession?
Comments (74)Mine longtime kitchen obsession has been vintage cookware from the 50s or older. I have a lot of Guardian Service cookware. I love that the stuff is practically bombproof. At the thrift store the other day I found an ancient but still perfectly workable Presto 4 qt pressure cooker. The hammered texture on the lid caught my eye. It has beautiful wood handles too. I love that I can still get gaskets and overpressure plugs for it which I did because while the ones it had were serviceable they looked a little old. I also found a manual for it. Using some common sense and some internet research, it's incredibly easy to use. Since then I have experimented with making a few dishes in it. French onion soup is awesome in it and beans come out creamy textured. Presoaking gets better results though if in a hurry I can start from dry. Seasonings get right into the beans instead of staying in the broth. I am looking for a big oldie so i can use it at the next chili cook-off!...See MoreA fun thread
Comments (51)My grandmother's sewing machine. She made all my clothes. She was very good at designing. She never bought a pattern. She made them from newspaper. She would look at the high-end catalogs and cut patterns, make my clothes. As her vision became more and more dim, she moved her sewing machine to the conservatory so she could hopefully see better. As it was probably cataracts and not lack of light, it was not long before the sewing machine sat quietly and idly by as emphysema took its toll on this wonderful, beautiful human being who was a beauty as a teenager and I want to remember her that way rather than in the condition she was before death rescued her. No, she never smoked and was never around smokers. There seemed to be a propensity or genetic problem with her family that way, so much lung disease. A 40-year-old cousin who has never smoked is now on oxygen fighting for her life and hoping for a lung transplant. Thank you to all who participated in this. It made each one of you so animated, that I could almost see the delight in your writing as you proclaimed favorites and disappointment at errors in decorating. That is what makes it a decorating family. We all have made the errors and we all have some favorites, whether because they are beautiful or because they have precious memories. Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for your time to participate in this. It was a lot of fun for me....See More
Oakley
2 years agoJinx, the cats are my favorites, and I think the better ones are retired which you can find on ebay or maybe Etsy.
I bought this coffee cup a few years ago and it always makes me smile. Now that it's Spring I need to put the faux purple cabbage in it. The cup is larger than it looks.
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2 years agoAll good stuff above! Thanks for sharing, Jinx and everyone.
Here’s mine… a sweet little oil painting for $20 from FB marketplace that I picked up today. And the seller was so thoughtful when I inquired last week. Her daughter lives 5 minutes from me, and seller left it at her daughter’s house so I didn’t have to drive so far. There are so many good people in this world.
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoI painted another pot (bad pics, sorry). It was a faded gray, I used green, brown, and linen, then sealed.
Plastic pot with raised design, old:
I added a purple cordyline with the mandevilla and it’s on a bench out front now.
Lars
2 years agoI ordered these pants a couple of days ago:
They are shipping from Florida.
The remind me somewhat of some jeans that I made for myself in 1992 out of some black and white cow print fabric that no longer fit. These are 3% Spandex, which might help with the fit. The ones I made were 100% cotton.
The cow print fabric for the other pants looked somewhat like this, but it was not that cheap, but it was not a twill weave, although it was heavy enough for pants and jackets.
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2 years agoApropos of absolutely nothing, I share this. (Actually it appeared in my IG fees and made me giggle... quite a flashback to the 80s!)
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2 years agoSuch cute grandchildren. Our youngest love The Count, so she loves bats. DD2 purchased her the Jellycat bat for her Easter basekt, but was so excited about giving it to her she got it early. DGD brought it when they visited us last week. Jellycats are so soft and cute!
Butters is such a handsome boy! Love those eyes.
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2 years agoThis is my youngest’s (college freshman) dog. She ”rescued” her off Craigslist (w/o our permission or knowledge) at age 16 bc she desperately wanted a puppy and we are cruel parents who had 1 dog rule for our family. 🙄😂
So of course, now dd is away and Koda is our joy. Even our older, grumpy dog has grown to like her. And bc she is such a good baby girl, she gets to go to doggy camp once a week to frolic with all the big doggos (her favorite thing.) She got a bath & spa treatment 😂 yesterday after playtime and looked so happy I had to take her pic. 💕
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2 years agoNini - we also had a one dog rule but somehow were talked into one more on Sunday. This is our newest family member, Milo:
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My cabinets in the kitchen have seeded glass in them....sooooooo.....I placed an order for 3 seeded-glass pendants. At the AMAZING low price of $23.39ea from Home Depot....and....they're ......out-of-stock. 😳---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unless I shop Habitat Restore for my remodels....I can't get anything done cheaply. I just did a whole basement in a week.....3 light fixtures, 2 cellular shades with trim & art-work. All I have left is flooring and we're done! (My volunteer project...funny...we had a whole group of people...but DH & I did ALL the shopping and install!)
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoOooh, can I join? So many cute stuffies and other goodies.
Last week I have my first migraine in over a decade. Forgot how much they sucked.
But I’m excited to be on making progress on what I want my side hustle to look like! Still got some work to do.
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoSeen in this month’s Southern Living, a different take on deviled eggs. I’m going to try this, but use a thinner rosemary or other herb type of cracker instead of the thick buttery ones:
Also, Southern Living is free on Kindle Prime this month and has a great feature on visiting South Carolina and other popular southern cities.ETA: Yum.
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2 years agoThis is our NOC! My DD cat sits when our neighbors go away, and I swear he comes here looking for her. We often find him lounging by our back door.
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