As the weeks go by

So, May is officially upon us. Mothers Day was fun, but scattered. Most of the family had to work at some point or another throughout the day, so we were never really able to gather together. However, we showered my mother with love and affection and my aunt eve gave her a refreshing haircut! I had tried to buy flowers on my way home from work but the roadside floral vendor, who is always there, was not there that day. Ridiculous! The best day to sell flowers and youre not going to be open?Fortunately, I had purchased my mother some amazing hand-blended teas from Teaman on Etsy.

My garden has been pushing steadily along. I have some small squashes forming and am re-growing green onions for the third time. They seem to be forever regenerating!
My cousin even made some mild hot sauce from our garden using onions, scallions and peppers.We didn't have enough peppers, though. Hopefully soon we'll have a bigger harvest.

Mom Day

Today is Mom's Day. Well, my mom's day. It's her birthday!
Happy Birthday mom!Love this cute card by GladeMade!

Commotion

I haven't blogged in a while (obviously) and here's why: I've been busy. Typical excuse, I know, but really, I've been trying like crazy to save up cash for a variety of new-found goals, so that means extra time at the night job. Which has kind of turned into a day job.
PLUS my family has added four new additions to our household. My aunt moved in, along with her son's best friend, a cat, and a dog. And a lot of extra stuff. Also, another cousin and two cousin-in-laws came down with them, although they only stayed for a few days.I love my family, but I've always been a hermit-at-heart. I create, clean, and relax better when I'm alone, so I felt paralyzed all week by the constant stream of people in and out of our house.
Hopefully all will be organized and calm soon, and everyone will be able to settle into a routine.
Hopefully.
In the meantime, I've being trying to keep myself dedicated to my online sales. I even had some shop time this week and made a couple cuffs and change purses!

April Shennanigans

My birthday was a success! I spent the day practicing the fine art of doing nothing. AND a birthday dinner of calamari and cracked conch at the Thirsty Turtle!

I also had the opportunity to get a little leather-working done at the shoe shop.

I made a couple coin purses:

And we've been teaching my cousin how to make sandals - he's getting really good!

Here's one of our latest:

(almost) my Day

It's my Birthday!....

...tomorrow.

I'm dabbling a bit in my garden before work tonight. A very stange thing has happened. Tomatoes are growing everywhere! Just not where I planted them.

They're in my oregano:

And my green onions:

They're all over the yard, too! However, I can understand the yard-tomatoes because my last harvest was a little too-abundant and tomatoes ended up rolling all over the place.

The worst part is, I have no idea what kind of tomatoes they are, because I planted a couple different varieties over the past year. If seeds got mixed into the soil (which obviously they did), I have no way of telling which kind they are until they get much larger.

Our garden is doing well, and managed through the torrential downpours we had through the weekend. This one particular patch of dirt, in front of our old house, is a bit of a puzzler for me. we've only been able to produce massive amounts of weeds due to the lack of drainage and poor sunlight. I suppose it would be an ideal location for a box garden, but it really doesn't receive any sunlight, ever.

My carrots were also flooded in my backyard garden, but I think they'll recover.

And all my other starter pots have sprouted! Corn, squash, and eggplant!

Thursday Hump Day

Well, Thursday is my hump day.

Halfway through the week AND I have tomorrow night off! I'm hoping I can run some errands and maybe relax a bit before I have to leave again and pick up Allen from his night shift.

Sort of a cruddy evening - maybe Allen and I can catch some more movies on my Netflix account before I cancel it tomorrow.

This past Tuesday we watched Zombieland for movie night.

Hilarious!

If you're into gore and dark humor (and Bill Murray) I highly reccommend it!

We've gotten some more gardening done! We dug out some more space in the back and planted some lettuce and peppers. I'll add the corn and squash once the seedlings get a little taller.

Now I just need to clean up the rest of this mess.

Not really sure what to do here. I think this area would be perfect for anothergarden space, but I'd have to put some extra effort into keeping out our pets and preventing dirt and leaves from flying into the pool, which sits all of twenty feet away.

New Things

I've been getting back to creating! The past few weeks most of my time has been eaten up at the night job (now mostly a day job) and I haven't really had much of an opportunity to go into the work shop. I did finally finish a cuff and money wallet I had started previously.

Here's the cuff:

I also made som new beads for my Blenderbach shop on Etsy:

March!

My garden is off to a good start. I need to start utilizing myfolia.com again. it's good website for keeping track of planting dates, expected sprouts and harvest, and even has a photo album section.

I have some carrot sprouts! the seed package said they're great for poor soil (which is all I have) and they have a harvest rate of every three weeks or so, but so far that seems a little far-fetched. I guess we'll wait and see.

My cousin and I planted some more squash, corn, eggplant and peppers, but so far we've not seen much action in that department. However, my oregano that I re-planted seems to be growing again. Hopefully it will be nice and bushy again by summer.