Earrings

I bought the Czech glass daggers quite a while ago. I loved the copper, blue and gold colors. This past week, I was experimenting with a few new designs. Here is one that I will be loading on my ArtFire studio this next week.

Garden

Today, I started the seedlings for my 2011 container garden.  Last year, for the first time, I planted a container garden from seeds that I had saved.  I planted peppers in a variety of colors, butternut squash and spaghetti squash.  It was a great experience, but I started the seedlings a little late and I didn't follow the rules (didn't thin out the plants).  So while my harvest was good (25 peppers) and two squash, I had a lot of really tall plants, but they were too crowded.  I wanted to try starting seedlings from seed packs this year to compare how much of difference there is between planting from seeds you save and planting from seed packs.   

I just finished up planting:  sweet peppers, long sweet peppers, okra, winter squash, cantaloupe, burpless cucumbers, lemon cucumbers, eggplants, lettuce and onions.  Oh, and some cilantro.  I want to try one of those topsy turvy tomato planters too.  Initially, I wanted just a salad garden, but this weekend we bought a garden box, so we could add more options to our container garden.

I'll post photos of the progress as my garden grows!