Thursday, April 28, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Poo in Disguise Gadget Pouch!
It's a poo! No, it's a man! No, it's a mustachioed poo in disguise! Available soon in the Etsy shop!
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
New Feltilicious Card Holders!
New business card / gift card holders recently made. They will be added to the Etsy shop within the next day or so. The poo cloud is my favorite!
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Garden Update - Tomatoes
The Big Boy seedling I bought a couple of weeks ago is starting to flower. I must be doing something right :)
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Featured on two Etsy Treasuries this week
What happens when one becomes uber productive in a day? You get a lot done and have more than one blog update in a day :)
Just saw a few minutes ago that two of my items have been featured in two separate Etsy Treasuries this week. I could just wait until tomorrow to post this but I'm trying to take the "pro" out of procrastinator :)
Just saw a few minutes ago that two of my items have been featured in two separate Etsy Treasuries this week. I could just wait until tomorrow to post this but I'm trying to take the "pro" out of procrastinator :)
Custom Owl Gift Card Holder
This was actually requested to give as a Christmas present but I just found the pictures on my camera and had forgotten about them until I used my camera today. Bad me.
Garden Update - Lettuce
The lettuce seeds I planted 7 days ago have finally sprouted. Well, at least two of them did. If all goes well, I should have my own lettuce to eat within a month or so.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Urban Gardening
I've lived in the same apartment in L.A for nearly 4 years. Every year after the summer is over, I always say that I need to start growing my own vegetables in the uber sunny corner of my kitchen. Well, this is the year that I finally did.
I'm starting small first to get a feel of things and will expand as I gain more experience (and reconfigure the kitchen to utilize as much space as possible).
First up, strawberry and tomato seedlings. All the plastic lids and containers I didn't throw into the recycling bin have finally come in handy!
I'm also very cost conscious and recycle/reuse as much as I can. Instead of running out and buying purty containers, I cut the top of a two liter bottle and used it to house one of my tomato plants. I used a rectangular food container I already had to house my two strawberry seedlings. Since I also had an abundance of non-recyclable plastic bottle caps, I hot-glued four of them to the bottom of the strawberries' new home to help with draining (after I drilled holes into the bottom of the container). The bottlecaps act as "risers" so that the bottom of the container is not sitting in the drain tray (which is the lid of the rectangular container).
Strawberries to the right and lettuce to the left.
I also got super inspired to grow lettuce, cucumbers and daisies from seeds. I decided to try out the lettuce first as it wasn't warm enough yet to start the cucumbers. Again, I used a food container I had laying around and drilled drain holes on the bottom and glued four bottlecaps to the underside. Various blogs on growing container vegetables suggested putting the container into a plastic bag after seeding to create a makeshift greenhouse so the condensation from within will keep it moist and help with germination. Holes were cut on top of the plastic bag to help with ventilation.
In the next few days to a week, I will be seeding the cucumbers and daisies. Will also start seeding another variety of lettuce. If all goes well, I will cut down on the amount of produce I will have to purchase.
As long as I can stay motivated, I will try to update at least weekly the progress of my urban garden.
I'm starting small first to get a feel of things and will expand as I gain more experience (and reconfigure the kitchen to utilize as much space as possible).
First up, strawberry and tomato seedlings. All the plastic lids and containers I didn't throw into the recycling bin have finally come in handy!
I'm also very cost conscious and recycle/reuse as much as I can. Instead of running out and buying purty containers, I cut the top of a two liter bottle and used it to house one of my tomato plants. I used a rectangular food container I already had to house my two strawberry seedlings. Since I also had an abundance of non-recyclable plastic bottle caps, I hot-glued four of them to the bottom of the strawberries' new home to help with draining (after I drilled holes into the bottom of the container). The bottlecaps act as "risers" so that the bottom of the container is not sitting in the drain tray (which is the lid of the rectangular container).
Strawberries to the right and lettuce to the left.
I also got super inspired to grow lettuce, cucumbers and daisies from seeds. I decided to try out the lettuce first as it wasn't warm enough yet to start the cucumbers. Again, I used a food container I had laying around and drilled drain holes on the bottom and glued four bottlecaps to the underside. Various blogs on growing container vegetables suggested putting the container into a plastic bag after seeding to create a makeshift greenhouse so the condensation from within will keep it moist and help with germination. Holes were cut on top of the plastic bag to help with ventilation.
In the next few days to a week, I will be seeding the cucumbers and daisies. Will also start seeding another variety of lettuce. If all goes well, I will cut down on the amount of produce I will have to purchase.
As long as I can stay motivated, I will try to update at least weekly the progress of my urban garden.
Long Time No Blog
It is now evident that I am horrible at updating my blogs. Now that I've finally graduated from school and working as a massage therapist, I should have no excuses to blog in regularly :)
Since I graduated last month, I've slowly gotten back to crafting....this is a happy start: wallets!
Since I graduated last month, I've slowly gotten back to crafting....this is a happy start: wallets!
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