Friday, March 26, 2010

Laundry room/Green house

Tyson had gotten some plant trays from his folks and he just got this book on growing Microgreens which he was really excited about so the laundry room is now also doing double duty as a mini-greenhouse.

Farmers have always been famous for getting the job done with the supplies they have on hand. Tyson is already showing a great aptitude for farming by creating a small scale watering system from a recycled tomato can.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Monday, March 22, 2010

My Urban Farmer

We had some sunshine this weekend. It was better on Saturday when we were running all over town getting the supplies for the projects we wanted to do on Sunday. But in-between rain showers Tyson managed to mow our cute little yard...
Build a cold frame in his shop for seed starts. The wood was bought used from the RESTORE in Ballard...
He filled it up with good healthy dirt and surrounded it with the special crushed nut (hazel nuts?) compost his folks gave him. Slugs apparently can't stand it, which means we love it...
He topped off the new cold frame with a recycled vintage window from the RESTORE ($4)
...and here he is just looking good : ) I will try to post what I was working on while he was doing all this tomorrow.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Portraits of Friends


New Side Project for Sarah: I am going to find pictures of each of our best friends in which their personality shows through the photo. For instance, Jason with that hat outside in the snow is pretty classic "Jason". Once I have collected all these pictures I am going to hang them in a big arrangement in the living room. Let the search for great pics begin....

Monday, February 15, 2010

Guess who is a super good uncle?

It's.................TYSON! Although to be fair it is easier to be an awesome uncle when your nephew is the best baby ever. Nice work Katie and Jamie.

This little piggy....

I leave the house for one hour and when I get back look who is up on the kitchen counter getting into the dirty dishes! Bad pig, bad!


Actually, I made this little guy the other day out of a medium sized soda bottle, an old egg carton and some newspaper. He is really a piggy bank. I got the idea off of the Martha Stewart site- hers of course looks much more like a bank and less like some sort of stray woodland creature. But I thought this guy deserved a photo-shoot anyways.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Goal for 2010: Blog More!

I could make these little dresses with my new sewing machine - I know I have sequins and lots of pretty thread (thank you Jan), I might even have some felt....we'll see what I come up with.