This guy was in my best colander and a mixing bowl for awhile. I finally got it set up last week, and already there are nearly-ripe cherry tomatoes! Exciting! I hope it gets as big as the one I had to give up when we left Wisconsin. I still mourn that one.
These are in the wrong order. Can't figure out how to fix them. But a few weeks ago, I painted these little pots to make an herb garden. I bought oregano, basil, and chives, and planted cilantro seeds. (I love to see the little green sprouts.) They're doing okay. The chives have been the most fun to have around.
I made this so Jina wouldn't be stepping all over bath toys when she showers, and also just to better organize. I got the idea from Make It and Love It here. I didn't sew my own bag, though; I just took a lingerie bag that we'd been using for washing Jamie's socks and added some ribbon straps with velcro and a little green ribbon for color. (We won't be washing baby socks for awhile. It's too hot here already.)
I used this fabric to make curtains with blackout lining for Jamie's room, but he's in there and although I just heard him fuss, he's stopped for the moment, so I'm hoping I still have some time. They're just very simple curtains anyway, not that exciting.(It looks dirty, but that's just because it's folded and the brown dogs on the other side are showing through!)
And the most exciting addition to our home:
TA-DA!
We've never had a real table before! Kaylea's dad was done with this, so she and Joseph asked if we wanted it--free! They even brought it down here for us from Southern California. They're such good friends. I wish I had a before picture of the table, but I'm bad at remembering to do that. Let's just say it looked more like a plain, colorless, rather dirty old picnic table.
Jason (with a little bit of my help) sanded it and put like seven coats of stain on it. We had to do it in Joseph and Kaylea's garage since we don't have anywhere to do it at our place, so it took a few weeks; we couldn't get over there every day, they live about ten minutes away, drying time for each coat, etc. There are still two matching benches that need to be done, too...sigh...but isn't it nice??
And I got these flowers for 50% off at Joann last night; I think I paid $7.50 for the bunch. They're just roughly arranged right now. The vase was $2 at Goodwill.
I can't tell you how nice it is to have things coming together!
We ended up taking the brown slipcovers back, and then a couple of misfortunes popped up that are costing us a pretty penny and preventing us from being able to get different ones. So the pillows and curtains I was going to make for the living room are on hold at the moment, but I have plenty of other projects I can work on in the meantime--and a crafting buddy to work with! It's been such a blast having Jina with us! While I made Jamie's curtains, she made these for her own place. I'll post a pic when she's finished spraypainting hers.
And one more thing: I found a Father's Day present for Jason that he has been wanting forever last night--for only twenty bucks!!
...Jamie went back to sleep. Sweet!
