Posted in Constructy Things, Crafty Things, Critters, Family Things, Farmy Things, Foody Things, Garden, Genealogy, Isaac's Reading List, Other Stuff, Uncategorized on October 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
David got the new email subscription set up on SpeedKin so I’ll be doing the blogging there from now on. For those of you that are email subscribers here(Mom!), head on over and subscribe there. I have a backlog of photos to get posted so I’ll get to doing that over the next few days.
See ya there!
(Did I leave ya enough links to the new place yet? SpeedKin.com! :-p )
Posted in Constructy Things, Farmy Things, Foody Things, Garden, tagged corn, Garden, harvest, plumbing on July 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When in doubt, use caulking. Lots of it. Everywhere. (Except on the kids as they tend to bloat and then explode out some newly-formed hole.)
(I’ll spare you the details of my urinal and bathroom plumbing adventures. You do not want to know.)
Now how to gracefully segue from urinal caulking to eating?
I give up.
So, for the first time since moving out of Illinois, I saw corn on cob on sale for 10 cents each. Wow. Guess what we had for dinner?
And a wee bit of garden porn for you in a beautiful basket we got from the plant swap this spring. (I use it every day and wish I’d had it years ago!)
Posted in Constructy Things, Critters, Farmy Things, Garden, tagged Boer, fence, Garden, goat, tomato on June 4, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Who’s there?
Dwayne.
Dwayne who?
Dwayne the bathtub! I’m dwowning, I’m dwowning!
Okay, so maybe trying to work on ten projects at the same time isn’t so great for getting anything finished. At least it’ll feel like a really productive day when I get them all finished, right? Right??
I could drown in the weeds alone. Weeds in front of me.
Weeds behind me.
That’s the lower garden which, this year, contains corn, pumpkins, and cantelope. And weeds. We’re gaining on it, slowly, thanks to my free slave labor.
Steve and Cody are making progress on the new fence to expand the goat & chicken yard.
Bullseye, the new buck? Buh-bye! He was mean — so mean the kids couldn’t go in to do their chores. So we took him back and he’s going to auction. We’ll be getting another buck to take his place but, for now, meet Bam Bam, a Boer wether.
We’ve told Josie that he’s her goat to take care of. (He’s a sweetie!!)
And lookie! Tomato porn!
Posted in Constructy Things, Crafty Things, Farmy Things, Garden, tagged Artfire, flowers, Garden, raised bed, SpeedKin on May 24, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Finally! I went with Artfire in the end. Got my buns in gear and set up shop, finally listing my first thing today. Yay! Much, much more tweaking to do as I learn the ropes but it’s a start, right?
So go check it out already!
I’m giving myself a week or so to settle into the shop there and then I’ll tiptoe towards opening the SpeedKin.com website. Baby steps, baby steps…
While you’re here, check out my so-close-to-being-done-it-hurts chicken house flower raised bed!
The poles and gate still need prettied up and painted and the gate is awaiting its latch but the bed is now safe from giant dog butt. Yay!
It houses various bulbs, a lilac, my recently acquired spiderwort, dwarf sunflowers, cleome, coleus, begonias, Solomon’s seal, and an odd assortment of “Man, I have way too many assorted flower seed packets and I really should plant them so how about I have the kids help me scatter them about and then won’t be able to differentiate them from weeds as they sprout” things. Ahem.
A bulby thingymajig of the most beautiful sort.
Steeping stones are in place so I can keep perennials safe from my giant, clumsy feet throughout the year.
Posted in Constructy Things, Crafty Things, Family Things, tagged banner, Etsy on May 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Alrighty, I need your input. Isaac and I have been working on a banner for my new site/shop and have it mostly how I want it. (For those who may not know, I’m starting up a sewing biz and opening an Etsy shop as one sales outlet.)
You can see the banner here for now. You can also see it on my Not Yet Ready for Primetime Etsy shop.
I like the color. I like the simplicity. I like the general light, spring-ish, outdoorsy feel of it. I’m not going for a boutiquy vibe as that’s just not my thing. I’m not really sold on the onion bloom but wanted something there besides text. I don’t want to limit myself with a photo of specific product(s), just something eye-catching, something to give the flavor, ya know? I’ll likely be making a wide variety of sewn (and even a few wooden) things but not so much on the clothing front. The onion popped out as an idea since I’ll be doing a lot of summery and garden-themed things initially. ‘Tis the season! 
Any ideas in keeping with the simple, homespun vibe? Something to replace the onion? Keep it? Other parts of the layout you don’t like? Once I’m 100% happy with the banner, I’ll carry that flavor over to finish the SpeedKin.com website, badges, etc, etc.
