lizard hunting

Suki loves to hunt lizards....


and the lizards love to tease Suki.......


especially when they are outside and she is trapped inside!

See?

and after an unsuccessful day of hunting through the window, she collapses into a disgruntled heap on something I'm working with....just to teach me a lesson for keeping her housebound.

which gives Leo the chance to try......

he especially loves it when they skitter across the window screen!

a little green onion tip...

see these green onions? I've got a tip for you!

instead of dicing them, I use kitchen shears to cut them...


so much neater and faster...see how pretty and uniform?but that's not the tip...not the REAL tip....



here's the tip...

If needed, when we move, I buy 1-2 packs of green onions for 33 cents. (Sometimes I take them with me!)

After cutting off the green part, I plant the little white bulbs with the roots. They'll start growing immediately and you can harvest them once they get long enough again.

The corner on my patio keeps the wind from breaking the sprouts and protects them from freezing temps. They haven't died yet and we've been here 4 years now.


Here they are...along with tarragon, oregano and baby lettuce just starting to grow...all thrown together right outside my patio door within easy reach.....


so what are you waiting for?

springy stuff

I don't do a lot of spring decorating. I look at my yard as the major decoration for spring and summer.....since we work in it so much.

But when I took down my little shamrock garland, my mantle looked so naked and sad....I felt compelled to make something.

Since the fall rag swag turned out so well, I made one using springy colors.

I am really pleased with how sweet it looks (even if it doesn't go with my house colors!)

The egg cups on the mantle will go on the table for Easter...they just need somewhere to live until then. The eggs in them are delicate, more on that later...



center of the swag, centered with a vintage wooden egg we got while living in Germany.


close up to see the fabrics :-)

Well...that's about as springy as this place gets...inside!

Ironcraft #14

This week's Ironcraft challenge was to make a postcard sized art card.

I've never made one...never even WANTED to make one. That being said, I went at it like I was making a collage...sort of.

Since I didn't have paper with words on it, I made some using publisher...but it had spaces so I added paint, fabric, foil flowers and lots of glitter.....of course, I didn't plan ahead...just added as I went along so I painted LAST instead of first!

Overall, I enjoyed the challenge and am pleased with the results:


And yes, I DO Believe in Faeries!

Gunter!

After my last Gunter post, Kaela and her friend took pity on me and said they'd go see Gnomeo and Juliet with me! I was so excited!
I bundled up Gunter and a toy gnome to drop for Toy Society and off we all went.

When we got there, the movie was GONE! (They hadn't updated their website yet.)

I decided to do the drop anyway and ran into a packed theater showing HOP. I stuffed Gnomeo into a cup holder, took my picture and ran back out.




Here he is...I hope someone rescued him!


Since we were already at the movies, we went to see Beastly instead.
Dean didn't want to see it anyway so this was our chance to watch it.

Notice the girls sat BEHIND me....ashamed of my date with Gunter. I wasn't upset though...they both had enough perfume on to choke a horse.

Lucky for me, Gunter was a good date. He didn't eat my munchies, kept his hands to himself (hee hee) and best of all, he kept his mouth shut during the sappy scenes!

How in the world?

How in the world do you fall asleep like this? (I sure can't)


Poor Kaela.
Monday's are sooooo hard! She always has a ton of homework so she does it in the dining room to have more room.

I was cooking dinner and poked my head around the corner to check on her......
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.......

How soft serve cones are really made....




Happy April Fool's Day!