Gardening

The blooms on the lavender

This year now that I am out of school I am starting to delve into some things that I was always interested in doing but felt to overwhelmed with school to really get down to. I decided that I need to get started now and just do it. I have an air plant and spider plant that have done really well in my house and I love them so much. Plants make me happy. They are alive and have color and make the room more vibrant.

I originally only wanted to get myself a rosemary plant as I had read that it was a plant that is hard to kill, it is and herb so yummy, and rosemary is wonderful for your hair. I got the rosemary plant but I also bought my mom an English Lavender plant as a late mother's day present.

I re-potted them both and so far a month later they have not died yet so I am going to call it a success so far. The lavender has started to bloom as well and the rosemary seems to be growing taller. I am hoping that the lavender plant grows in size though I am nervous about what to do if it outgrows the pot. We rent our house so my mom didn't want to plant the lavender plant in the ground.

Rosemary and Lavender side by side

I hope in the future to start an indoor herb garden. I LOVE fresh basil. It is great with fresh fruit and in all kinds of cooked foods. Not to mention fresh basil is amazing on pizza. My favorite pizza is the margarita which is just tomatoes, mozzarella, basil, salt and olive oil. It is yummy and a very traditional pizza.

I think the indoor herb garden might be a project for next year as I am currently working on cleaning up the flower beds in the front yard. So much grass has taken over the beds and I have to clean it out and other weeds. I am also putting in some edging stuff in hopes that that will help to clean it up. My mom and I want to pick up some perennial flowers to plant as well. We shall see.

I am wondering if I need to bring these plants inside when fall/winter comes around. If you know if I should let me know. Or if you have any tips for pot gardening I would like to hear then.

Have a great day!

Notebooks, flowers, and pictures

I like to play with the camera and take all kinds of pictures. If I feel I have something to take a picture of. Here is a picture I took of what I have fondly nicknamed "my Shakespeare book". I have quite a few journals, I am not a diary kind of person, so I don't know what to do with them. So I am using this one to put in some of my favorite Shakespeare poems, sonnets, and quotes from plays. It is my collection of favorite works from Shakespeare.

I put the flower there because it looked nice to me. It is one of the ones that I dried.

Blessings

~Elizabeth

Drying flowers part 2

this is the second half to my other post on drying flowers. These are the after pictures of what the flowers looked like after I had finished drying them. I have included some of my other earlier flowers that I don't have before pictures for them.

I took the pictures of all the flower (before & after) a while ago. It has just taken me a while to get them up. Sorry! I don't like taking the pictures of the camera until I have quite a few. I just hate putting just a few on the computer at a time!


this is a large bunch of flowers I have them stored on our mantel. The carnation is one of my earlier flowers.
The full view.
This is a little bouquet I made. It is held together by a rubber band and I have tied a ribbon to make it look nice. I a very pleased with it!
This was a corsage from Mother's day. I dried it for my mother. It turned out better than I thought it would!

Let me know what you think!

Blessings

~Elizabeth

Drying flowers part 1

So a very nice lady at our Church gave me some her flowers, because I told her that I like to try and dry them. This has been a recent development in my craft life. I don't come across very many flowers to dry so I get very happy when I do!! :) These are the before pictures I will post the after pictures latter! I hope you enjoy, and tell me what you think!

What the it looked like before!
These were two extra flowers.
I know this is a very bad picture but it is the only one that can give you and idea of what the flowers looked like all together!

I don't know what setting I used for this one but it is very cool looking. I like it!

This is my favorite rose!
I separated them into groups.

And then i hung them up in my closet. Not the best place to dry them, but it works and I don't really know where else to do it.

Blessings

~Elizabeth