Thursday, April 24, 2014

Mystery WIP Revealed!


Do you remember that mystery WIP I posted about the other day

It's finished! 

Ta-da!!



It's another Smocked Dress by Amy Polcyn from 60 Quick Baby Knits.

I used Hobby Lobby I Love This Cotton! in Buttercup. 


The color my friend originally ordered was out of stock, but I think this one is totally adorable!


I just had to take a picture of it next to the stripes in my craft room. 

Even though I have made this before and I knew exactly how much yarn it takes to make this, I ended up buying 4 skeins of it. I guess I knew I would want to make another as soon as this one was finished!


Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Gardening, gardening!

Well, it's past Easter, and our garden is planted!



The wind sure did a number on the poor little nasturtiums in the corner! I tried using a seed starter to give myself a bit of a jump, but the wind just decimated those poor seedlings. I ended up replanting most of them, but that's ok! 

This year I planted lots of different types of tomatoes. I have the plain ol' red tomatoes, purple tomatoes, and a white (well, yellowish-white, really) variety. I also have red and yellow cherry tomatoes, and red grape tomatoes. 

It's a good thing I love tomatoes!

We also have banana peppers, jalapeno peppers, serrano peppers, and a sweet and spicy pepper that's name I can't remember unless I am staring at the garden spike. 

I'm going to make salsa! It will be interesting salsa since I can't eat onions or garlic. Maybe I'll try using chives? Well, experimenting will be fun. 

Pete is not happy that he can't dig here.
The other garden bed is mostly bare right now since it's just seeds, but I did have a volunteer lettuce, cilantro, and mint this year. 

I planted three types of green beans (green, yellow, purple), oregano, basil, more cilantro, more lettuce, snapdragons, asters, and daisies. I think we planted more nasturtiums in the second bed, too, but I can't remember.

Danielle went with me to pick out the plants and helped me plant them. It was such a nice day yesterday, and we both forgot our sunscreen. Luckily, my makeup was enough SPF to prevent much damage, but my lips are sunburned! That's just not something you think about. Well, I learned my lesson! 


Sunday, April 20, 2014

Another WIP

I'm working on this for a friend. It's kind of a commission! Woo!

Can you guess what it is?



Hint: I've made one before in a different color. 

"Xtreme Butter"

Chris loves buttery popcorn. He's a buttered popcorn fiend, so of course he picked the "Xtreme Butter" flavor when we were at the grocery store yesterday. 

And here it is!



According to Act II, that's "Xtreme Butter." According to Chris, that's barely butter at all!

I guess that's what we get for buying the cheapest butter in the store.