update on the garden

This year is not so great in the garden because of Ike, but I do have quite a few plants. There is lots of spinach, some broccoli,, greens, lots of onions, cauliflower-which I never have had actually make cauliflower :)
The onions in this picture where grown from seed. Which if you have ever grown them from seed-they take a long, long time :) These were started last winter :)

The best day of scouts

for my son. He loves scouts and all that they do, but this was his big day he had been waiting for. He finally earned his whittling chip card :)

This is a card I made for our monthly meeting in november. I like the challenges, gives me a reason to use my stuff and get more :)

**stamp-thoroughly thankful

**paper and acces-stampin up, dp-creative memeories

Just a quick post for those that were asking about the acetate. I actually do not use the acetate that they sell for transparencies or in the drafting section because it is much thinner. I use Stencil Blank in the stencil section :) The link will take you to their website-but I get mine at HL. It is nicer and thicker (mylar-I think) and holds up really well to folding and scoring.

It is still a little too hot here to plant, so my garden still sits empty. So I thought I would post a picture of my son, who willingly still goes shopping with mamma, but on his own terms now :)

I sure wish the craft stores had bigger baskets so he could shop with me longer :)

Halloween Goodie Boxes

I made a few halloween treat boxes for a few of my son's friends. They were easy to make and fun to do :) The clear part is folded acetate with box for the top and bottom. I used Stampin Up's (now retired) Bitty Boo's and the words are from Deer Friends, but they would be really cute with the current "batty for you" set. I just do not have that one...yet :)

Candy corn or wrapped candies would be cute-I used small "fun size" chocolates.

my new plants

Here is the first of the season's veggies! Tomato, cabbage, cauliflower.
This is a shot of the garden-post summer. After all the old plants have been taken out and everything weeded (mostly) and ready to plant. Kinda boring and plain now, but give it a few weeks :) You can barely see the different plots that I have-this pic only shows a few of them, though.
I like to use my neighbor's red barn as somewhat of a reference when I take pics of the garden. It really shows how things are progressing to have it as a constant backdrop. (hope he does not mind)