The Barefoot Pixie

I just opened an Etsy store to sell some of my originally designed crochet items. Tamra has been helping me with the pictures, listings and the darling baby model!

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Em

I made these using a pattern from Sylvia Schuchardt that I bought from her Etsy store. I absolutely love them…as in “I LOOOOOVE them”. LOL. I also have a pattern for her skimmers.

I’m just loving the baby shoe thing. I’ll post more creations as they come. It’s great that all my friends have had (or are going to have) baby girls this year. I guess they’ll all know what to expect for their gift.

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Em

Sigh…

It seems that I am destined to be that girl who is good at many things but not great at anything. I quilt, sew, crochet, scrapbook, draw, cook, bake (yes, those last two are seperate categories), write poetry, sing, play the piano, decorate, garden…and so on. I feel like I’m pretty good at most of those things but the down side is that I’m just good enough to know how much better I wish I was.

I’ve been on a serious crochet binge for the last 6 months or so. I can’t get enough new patterns and I desperately want to spend hundreds of dollars on lovely, hand painted, hand spun yarns but the sad fact is that I just find all these blogs and patterns from people who are SOOOOO good and original. It makes me feel depressed. Maybe stupid but it’s hard to always be second (or third, or fourth or fiftieth) best at what you love.

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Em

My 9 yo is so crafty that she can find something beautiful to make out of just about anything. She’s made cute picture frames out of random packing materials, tiny little ice skates out of fabric and paper clips and so on. She has the best eye and is so creative with the materials she uses. In the last 6 months or so she’s started playing around with Paint on our computer. It’s a really basic program and I’m amazed at the cute things she’s managed to come up with. Here are a couple of my favorites. The first one is Tinkerbelle and the second one is Shrek. She’s made all kinds of other cute ones with amazing amounts of details considering her age and the limits of the program.

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Em

It rained most of the week last week but finally, on Thursday, it cleared up in the afternoon and I took the opportunity to FINALLY get my garden planted. It’s been such a cold, wet spring that I hadn’t put the plants in yet - not to mention the fact that I have a new baby. It’s really been bugging me, though, and I was worried that it was getting too late. I don’t think so, however. The plants that I just put in were mostly starts from the nursery and they’ve been warmer in the green house than they would have been in my garden.

I’m excited about all my plants! We had such fun with our garden last year and I’m looking forward to all the yummy produce.

My garden includes (from left to right)
1st Bed:
Corn (that’s the big empty space. I planted seeds)
Pumpkin
Pablano peppers
Cabbage
2nd Bed:
Herbs (cilantro, parsley, basil, sage, chives, rosemary, lavender, thyme, dill - most are from last year)
Watermelon
cherry tomato
pear tomato
summer squash
zucchini
3rd Bed:
cucumber
early girl tomatoes
big beef tomatoes
cantaloupes

Because I have such limited space I use a version of square foot gardening. I will train many things to grow vertically and other large things like the pumpkin and watermelon are planted next to small things that mature earlier in the season so that they can share space. I also have to use artificial plant foods to get that higher yeild from my small space. Most people think you can’t get that many plants into such a small space (each garden bed is 3×12) but you’d be surprised. I love my garden!

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Em