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So this morning we went to Home Despot and got Gardening Supplies.
These included three rubbermade bins ($4.99 each), three 35L (or so) bags of potting soil and two bags of manure compost.
They also included:
1 cucumber plant
1 cherry tomato (sweet baby girl) plant
1 beefsteak tomato (don't know the breed) plant
1 sweet banana pepper plant (which will probably be hot to my tastes, but not hers)
1 package each of: scarlet runner beans, kentucky wonder beans, french breakfast radishes, butternut squash, and baby letuce salad mix
I've got two blue plastic bowls planted with letuce and radishes, respectively, a rubbermade bin of tomatoes and peppers, another of various pole beans (I'll need to dig around and see if I can't find some romano bean seeds lying around -- I'd like to plant a few for butter beans if I can swing it), and a third of butternut squash and cucumber.
The squash bin and the tomato bin are placed in such a way that they'll get water and (a little) sun on their own. The beans, radishes and lettuce are closer to the patio doors, but they'll be alright. (I have to remember to water them regularly!)
I've also got four other plastic bowls (and two flower pots) which I'm holding for herbs -- dill, cilantro, basil, peppermint... not sure what will go in the other two (maybe nasturtiums in one, the other... Don't know. We'll figure it out as we go). We'll see. Beth is going to build a little plant stand for them out of scrap cedar in the next little while.
Tomorrow's craft show is currently scheduled for the rain location. Which is great. We've found a tent to borrow anyway -- which we'll do, in part because the gal in question has left it out on her porch for us, and I don't want to just leave it sitting there, and also because there's always a chance things'll change with Ravenswing and we'll be outdoors after all. And I want a roof over my head (and my soap) if that's the case.
Things to remember:
Rubbermade bin of crafty wares and equipment
Folding lawn chair
Float
Nibblies
Tent(?)
I'm still going "To candle or not to candle..." The foils I've got are not empty enough to just melt the wax, set the wicks and pour everything out.
Honestly, for all that I suspect I'll kind of regret it, I don't think I'm going to do it this time. (Ghost is probably sighing with relief at that news).
I went out a while back and looked for canape foils -- the kind that are basically a cubic inch with a wide rim? The next size down from "tart shells" in the disposable/aluminum bakeware section of the grocery store? -- but I didn't find any. And I really don't want to be taking my parafin tea-lights out of their foils just so I have empty ones to work with. It's not that I can't put them in different foils BUT why bother?
So I think I'll hold off and either keep an eye out for those canape shells OR just order some tea-light foils online. Crepe. :-P
I'd love to use silicone ice-cube trays as candle molds. Star-shapes or heart-shapes or something else (even silicone two-bite-brownie pans) with flat bottoms. But I worry about them melting funnily and running wax all over everything. I mean, I don't think anyone else worries about that, but I do. Maybe because I'm slightly insecure about my candle-pouring abilities or something.
ANYWAY. I think that's a project for another time. Hopefully people will be all over soap and jewellery since that's what I'm bringing.
In other news: Read Holly Black's Red Glove. It's awesome, and a great follow-up to the first book in the trilogy (White Cat). Having done that, I've started in on "The Academy" which is number four in the Marketplace series by Laura Antoniou.
So far, so good. We'll see how it goes.
- TTFN,
- Amazon.
So this morning we went to Home Despot and got Gardening Supplies.
These included three rubbermade bins ($4.99 each), three 35L (or so) bags of potting soil and two bags of manure compost.
They also included:
1 cucumber plant
1 cherry tomato (sweet baby girl) plant
1 beefsteak tomato (don't know the breed) plant
1 sweet banana pepper plant (which will probably be hot to my tastes, but not hers)
1 package each of: scarlet runner beans, kentucky wonder beans, french breakfast radishes, butternut squash, and baby letuce salad mix
I've got two blue plastic bowls planted with letuce and radishes, respectively, a rubbermade bin of tomatoes and peppers, another of various pole beans (I'll need to dig around and see if I can't find some romano bean seeds lying around -- I'd like to plant a few for butter beans if I can swing it), and a third of butternut squash and cucumber.
The squash bin and the tomato bin are placed in such a way that they'll get water and (a little) sun on their own. The beans, radishes and lettuce are closer to the patio doors, but they'll be alright. (I have to remember to water them regularly!)
I've also got four other plastic bowls (and two flower pots) which I'm holding for herbs -- dill, cilantro, basil, peppermint... not sure what will go in the other two (maybe nasturtiums in one, the other... Don't know. We'll figure it out as we go). We'll see. Beth is going to build a little plant stand for them out of scrap cedar in the next little while.
Tomorrow's craft show is currently scheduled for the rain location. Which is great. We've found a tent to borrow anyway -- which we'll do, in part because the gal in question has left it out on her porch for us, and I don't want to just leave it sitting there, and also because there's always a chance things'll change with Ravenswing and we'll be outdoors after all. And I want a roof over my head (and my soap) if that's the case.
Things to remember:
Rubbermade bin of crafty wares and equipment
Folding lawn chair
Float
Nibblies
Tent(?)
I'm still going "To candle or not to candle..." The foils I've got are not empty enough to just melt the wax, set the wicks and pour everything out.
Honestly, for all that I suspect I'll kind of regret it, I don't think I'm going to do it this time. (Ghost is probably sighing with relief at that news).
I went out a while back and looked for canape foils -- the kind that are basically a cubic inch with a wide rim? The next size down from "tart shells" in the disposable/aluminum bakeware section of the grocery store? -- but I didn't find any. And I really don't want to be taking my parafin tea-lights out of their foils just so I have empty ones to work with. It's not that I can't put them in different foils BUT why bother?
So I think I'll hold off and either keep an eye out for those canape shells OR just order some tea-light foils online. Crepe. :-P
I'd love to use silicone ice-cube trays as candle molds. Star-shapes or heart-shapes or something else (even silicone two-bite-brownie pans) with flat bottoms. But I worry about them melting funnily and running wax all over everything. I mean, I don't think anyone else worries about that, but I do. Maybe because I'm slightly insecure about my candle-pouring abilities or something.
ANYWAY. I think that's a project for another time. Hopefully people will be all over soap and jewellery since that's what I'm bringing.
In other news: Read Holly Black's Red Glove. It's awesome, and a great follow-up to the first book in the trilogy (White Cat). Having done that, I've started in on "The Academy" which is number four in the Marketplace series by Laura Antoniou.
So far, so good. We'll see how it goes.
- TTFN,
- Amazon.
