My Garden Made Veggies!

Banana PeppersYou know, I was just complaining the other day that there was nothing growing in my garden, but I just recently went back out and it's like all these veggies came out over night!  How did that happen?  lol I know I'm posting a lot of garden posts, but I really didn't know how exciting this garden thing was going to be.  This may be my new little hobby.  The pic above...

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Inside the Shed

Here are a bunch of inspirational pictures of garden sheds.  When I bought my home, there were 2 sheds in back and my first thought was, oh no, those big things are taking up too much room in my yard, I want to get rid of them!  Since living here though, I've found that these sheds really come in handy.  I have come across some sheds online that have made me think twice about giving...

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Canning Green Beans

Yesterday a friend and I went to my parents and spent the day canning green beans.  Just like house projects, I find out that this project also took twice as long as I expected.  We got there at 8am and went to the garden to start picking the beans.  I think we will be done by noon and we don't end up leaving until around 5:00 that evening.  All's good though, because we have some...

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The Mighty Garden

I'm over at my dad's place today, you should see his garden! It's amazing! He planted his only a few weeks before mine and look at this.Dad's garden with Blueridge Mountains in background.He's already got tomatoes, onions (my onions died), squash, zucchini (my zucchini died), beans, sweet potatoes, corn, cucumbers, jalapeño peppers, green peppers, leaf lettuce, cayenne...

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New garden herbs

My leaf lettuce didn't make it, I guess I waited too late to plant it, so sad.  I went out yesterday and bought some things to replace what was there.  There isn't anything to plant right now except for herbs, too hot I am assuming.  I got me some leeks, chives and parsley.These are suppose to grow in a bunch like this? I would think it would be more like scallions? Did I do this...

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Adding color to Guest Room

I've been thinking about adding a little color to my guest room.  I keep running across rooms in magazines and online that are neutral or white with little accents of blue and I can't stop looking at them.  I tried to have a blue bedroom one time, but was a little overwhelmed with the blue so I thought blue didn't work for me, BUT I never thought of just throwing a few touches of blue into...

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Young House Love

The pictures of my laundry room makeover were featured over on Young House Love today.  This is one of my all time favorite decorating blogs.  They took an old brick ranch and transformed every room to perfection.  I was so amazed by one room, their den, in particular that they made over, it had dark red brick walls and dark paneling and they turned it into a peaceful retreat.  It inspired me to do this to my laundry room, because it also had the dark brick walls and just felt...

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Garden growth

Here's how my garden is looking as of today.  The tomatoes are growing great, as are the peppers.  The herbs are okay, too.  I'm convinced I need to buy The Gardener's Book for Dummies at this point though.  Nothing in the garden has produced anything yet and my leaf lettuce didn't make it.  My sunflowers are looking like they aren't going to make it either. That is sad because...

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Summer is Here

The day we've all been waiting for is here.  Today is the first day of summer.  I'm not use to the weather in NC yet and coming from Florida where it's warm all year around, I crave sunlight and warmth.  I barely made it through the NC winter, but everyone is telling me it was the worst winter they have ever seen here, so maybe the coming winters won't be as harsh.Not many people have...

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Wreaths

I got a surprise present today.  A friend got me a house warming gift.  It's so adorable.  It's a wreath with seashells on it. Thank you Martha!   :)I also made a wreath this past weekend.Since this side door doesn't have a glass storm door like the front, the humidity sort of got to the dried hydrangeas and I had to move it.  I have it on the guest bedroom door for now, still...

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