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How Does Your Garden Grow?

Good evening!

My sweetie spent today planting all of the vegetables into our new vegetable garden, and I am very happy to report that I have some new pictures to share with you!

I am soooo very impressed with what he was able to do in such a small space!

We now have growing:

  • Spinach
  • Green leaf lettuce
  • Red leaf lettuce
  • Green romaine lettuce
  • Red romaine lettuce (I didn’t even know that existed!!)
  • Butter crunch lettuce
  • Red bell peppers
  • Green bell peppers
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Yellow grape tomatoes
  • Broccoli
  • Snap peas

All of these veggies will be a great and tasty foundations for some very healthy salads this Summer!! 😉

We also planted an herb garden in some large pots we had on hand! They now hold:

  • 4 kinds of basil
  • Thyme
  • 2 kinds of oregano
  • and 2 other herbs, that I am going blank on at the moment (sorry!!)

My sweetie also got us some strawberries for our hanging pots, and two blueberry bushes, which he is going to let grow in 2 different large pots. I am SOOOOO EXCITED to see what grows and how well we can incorporate these fresh goodies into our our new healthy life style!

This whole adventure has been so much fun! I haven’t actually gotten my hands dirty (thank you, Love, for doing all of the dirty-work, literally!). I will eventually get my hands in the dirt, weeding  and tending to the veggies’ care, it is a garden after all, but Jason and I have had so much fun planning it out, and seeing it come to fruition. I realize it is just a small garden, right now, but it means something so much larger to my husband and myself. This little garden is a small glimpse of what we envision for our future; owning our own little farm. It still makes me smile ear-to-ear when I think of it even now!!

We are so blessed, and life is so good!

Here is to a FABULOUS evening!! ;-)

 If you want to have a different life, you have to live differently!

Getting Some Big Jobs Done!

Good evening!

Has it really been more than a week since I have last posted! EEK! Sorry about that! I find that I am a little behind in my Brave Girls’ Soul Restoration II class, and am seriously trying to get caught up before the next lesson and assignment comes out this next Tuesday, but that is not what I want to talk about tonight!

What I want to share with you, this evening, is a couple of REALLY BIG jobs my sweetie and I are doing around our place this weekend.

First off, my sweetie is busy building us a garden in the little backyard of our condo! I am SOOOOO EXCITED to be able to harvest our very own fresh salad fixings from a garden where we grew everything ourselves. I am not exactly sure what all we are going to grow, but so far I know we are going to both red and green leaf, and Romain lettuces, spinach, both cherry and grape tomatoes, and some herbs – cilantro, oregano, rosemary, and basil. Doesn’t that just sound delicious!! I can’t wait for our first harvest!! I will totally make sure to keep you posted on that, but in the meantime here are some pics of my sweetie finishing up the building of and filling of our new raised garden bed:

The measurements of our new garden bed is 4′ x 8′, and alth0ugh it is not as large as the garden we will have when we have our little farm, I figured it would be great practice!! We are planting our veggies sometime this week, and I will make sure to share pictures then too!!

Here is my handsome sweetie, and garden-builder!! Isn’t he adorable?? He just kept saying what a great feeling it is to be working out in the “yard”!! I just LOVE seeing him so happy!!

So, while my sweetie was busy building our new garden bed, I was busy on a big house project myself; purging, cleaning, and organizing the art studio!! That is such a GINORMOUS JOB, that it is going to have to take more than just one day to do!!

I had stuff squirreled away in every single nook and cranny in this room. My goal today was to get EVERYTHING pulled out, put as many like items together as possible, and then go through as much as I could while sorting everything into multiple bags: confidential recycle, donating, garbage, and put away all of the rest!

The long table on the right of this picture is not normally in this room, but my sweetie brought this in for me so that I would have a place to do all of my sorting! Thank you, Love! 😉

As you can see, I still have a LOOOOOONG way to go!!

I am excited to get this room completed, but I am going to need a little bit of help!! My sweetie has agreed to give me some moral support tomorrow, as I do the hard work of really paring down!! I want to get rid of the old to make way for creating the new!! This space is going to be a HUGE part of that future!! When I think about that, it makes getting rid of stuff kind of exciting!! 😉

So, before I start again in the morning, I am going to spend the evening hanging out with my sweetie!

Here is to a FABULOUS evening!! ;-)

 If you want to have a different life, you have to live differently!

A Very Happy Friday!

Good evening!

I thought I would just take some time to write this evening! It has been a while since I have just written.

Things have been going pretty well for me. I feel like my life is moving towards a much more creative future! I am happier, healthier, stronger, more confident, and lately I have been feeling kinda sexy – I think it is all the belly dancing that is going on!

I have been day dreaming about my farm again! Decorating, baking, entertaining, creating, gardening, and hosting creative weekends for women. I was looking at pictured of gypsy caravans, and I thought how lovely would it be to have 4 or 5 caravans on the back of our property, parked in a circle, around a campfire pit. That would be a FABULOUS place to have get togethers, and sleepovers with friends and family – can you just picture it!?!?! I have always been a sucker for intimate, cubby-like spaces! Forts, tents, head hidden under the blankets while sneaking in a good read!! I just thought you might like to know.

I had lunch with the girls today, and they were all talking about how beautiful their gardens were, and how prolific all of thier plants were doing, and how everything was in full bloom!! I can’t wait!! I dream about being able to take long walks hand-in-hand with my sweetie, enjoying the sunset, or an early morning sunrise.

I want to have a reading tree and a climbing tree. For those of you that may not know, a reading tree is a tree large enough for a grown-up to climb and lounge amongst the branches comfortably so that one can read a good book, or just sit and watch the world of nature pass around them. Doesn’t that just sound divine?? I am so ready to find that tree!!

I am also thinking a lot about the idea of hosting girly glam creative weekends, where women can come from all over the Pacific Northwest and have a fun weekend, creating beautiful arty projects, taking lovely nature walks, making new friends, and having a chance to just take a break from the demands of daily life. Doesn’t that sound yummy??? We will have deliciously prepared meals and snacks, and turn down service with a chocolate on your pillow every night! Oh MAN!! Sign me up – I am SOOOO there!!!

Anyway, I am going to keep dreaming for the night!

Have a FABULOUS evening!! 😉