Vote for my purses!

This has nothing to do with gardening, but it does have to do with the purses I have posted about on this blog…  
BurdaStyle is holding a minichallenge contest for recycled creations!  I’ve entered my upholstery swatch purses (the ones I finished within the challenge’s time period).  I’d love it if you voted for me! [...]

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Green tomatoes

I took a picture of the pile of green tomatoes that I took off the plants before I chopped them down.  There are probably more tomatoes in this bowl (which my cousin painted/glazed for us as a wedding gift!) than we got the whole summer!

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Preparing for winter, act 1

I mentioned in an earlier post that the condo association for our building decided to have the wooden balcony railings, etc. repainted.  They asked all the unit-dwellers to move our stuff so that it wouldn’t be in the way of the painters.  I was pretty sad to chop down most of my garden, but it [...]

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Really late Thankful Thursday

This week I am so thankful that God helped me maintain a focus and even an excitement about work.  I got a lot done this week, and I’m really focused on graduating in May.
I am also thankful for some wonderful news for my friend J from church!  I am *so* happy for her!

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Peas and the amazing revitalized plant

I just thought that I’d share a photo of the pea sprouts that I took over the weekend.  I planted about 9 pea seeds and almost all of them came up (what a difference from the set that I planted in early spring…)

 
And the yellow pear branch that a I replanted on a whim (see [...]

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Thankful Thursday

I think the thing that I am most thankful for today is that I have a new hard drive in my work computer.  Last Friday morning, things started freezing up and went downhill from there, and on Monday I was told by the lovely support people at Apple (I’m not being sarcastic– the phone support [...]

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