Posted in Gardening, You Must Be Kidding!, tagged amorphophallus, Gardening, smelly, voodoo lily on June 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Can’t you smell that smell?
Wow, I just quoted lyrics by Lynyrd Skynyrd! Never thought I’d do that.
Every June we are visited by this crazy, bad smell of death. Oh, it’s just our amorphophallus blooming! I am always stunned by how bad this flower smells and I even forget it is there until the breeze shifts. This [...]
Posted in Gardening, tagged gardeing, lawns, low-water use gardening, vegetables on June 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I contributed to the anti-lawn campaign this week by digging up half the lawn in the front yard to plant broccoli….yep, broccoli. I was inspired by this radio show I heard this past weekend. It only took a couple hours and the wood chips were free from a local arborist. Each year my neighbor and I [...]
Posted in Gardening, My Art Projects, tagged art, cat, flowers, illustration, summer, watercolor on June 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Asa reborn
Originally uploaded by wholeclothdesigns
Our big kitty Asa has made the transition from indoor to indoor/outdoor cat this spring. He’s 6 years old and has been a totally neurotic cat from day 1. Since he has started going outside he really seems to be much happier and calm. I love catching him sprawled out on [...]
Posted in Gardening, Weather Geek, tagged Gardening, plants, seeds, vegetables, weather on June 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With a brief break between rain storms, I planted the vegetable starts Mogs and I bought at the farmer’s market on Thursday. I have had terrible luck with my lettuce, arugula and spinach seeds this year. Perhaps the seeds are too old or due to the colder and wetter than usual spring, but I only [...]
Posted in Gardening, Motherhood, tagged cooking, Gardening, gnomes, thyme on May 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My Garden Gnome
Originally uploaded by wholeclothdesigns
Mogs insisted on posing with her eyes closed. That’s orange thyme behind her. It smells heavenly, but I still haven’t found a recipe to use it in yet. Any suggestions?
Posted in Gardening, Motherhood, My Art Projects, tagged family, illustration, lullabies, parenthood, Sound of Music, watercolor on May 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This song is a favorite in our house. I sang this and Endelweiss over and over again when Mogs was a wee one. Now, she sings along with us. This illustration was made from watercolor, gouache and ink.
My Bonnie lies over the ocean
My Bonnie lies over the sea
My Bonnie lies over the ocean
Oh bring back [...]
Posted in Gardening, Motherhood, tagged Gardening, Motherhood, nature on April 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Mogs surveying her strawberry field
Posted in Gardening, My Art Projects, Ye Olde Etsy Shoppe, tagged art, Gardening, illustrations on March 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today I finished up a few drawings that had been laying around for months. I put these two up in my Etsy shop today. I am still adjusting to being back from CO and can’t seem to start working on any big projects yet.
“Salmon Run”: 3 1/2 “X 2 1/2″ ACEO illustration in ink, watercolor and [...]
Posted in Gardening, I Am A Sewing Machine, Motherhood, Weather Geek, tagged color, cotton, Gardening, Motherhood, sewing, sunshine on February 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
After a winter of grey rain and a limited linen palette for my crafts, I am totally craving color. We are having a sunny weekend, to which we are so thankful for. We took Mogs to a neighborhood park and she went a little nuts. She was throwing herself down the slide as fast as she [...]
Posted in Gardening, Making Art with the Little Lady, Making Crafts!, Weather Geek, tagged family crafting, felt, tree topper, Weather Geek on December 3, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s true, I am a weather geek. Ever since we moved into this house with a great western view and garden space, I’ve been more attentive to the weather. I’m a regular visitor to the regional National Weather Service site, going so far as deciphering the “forecast discussions” by the meteorologists:
.SYNOPSIS…A POWERFUL STORM SYSTEM HEADING NORTHEAST TOWARD BRITISH COLUMBIA WILL BRING [...]
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