The Great Onion Harvest...

...Charlie Brown. That is what's going on at our house right now..


Hub planted rows and rows of Onions and now they are needing to be pulled..a big wind came thru a few weeks ago and knocked all the tops over and they have stopped growning..

So my part in all this is to take off the tops and roots and put them in the panty hose to store them. We did this last year and had enough onions until January this year!..Onions, either you love'em or you don't~ As you can tell, we love'em

We put this Martin house up a couple of weeks ago too..In hopes of having visitors. They eat more than their weight in mosquitoes...But it may take up till next year for them to really settle in..

This is round 2 of the Killdee nest in the driveway..

Something ate her last one, and we thought it ate her too..but maybe not~ Been watching this over the last week, first one egg, then in a few days and other, and so on until there are now 4...

Have a great Monday!

t

Big Daddy Cantelope

He's already married, to me! These little babies have been coming out of the garden lately!

If you follow me on Twitter, you would know that yesterday I got nothing done in the studio.

I worked out in the shop all day, it was 110 degrees yesterday..what a day to work in a tin building....But, I'd made up my mind and was going to consolidate all the boxes from our move, LAST YeAr...We have boxes of stuff I don't want to use in the shop shack. But, I'm going to use when we get the real house built, so it's going to have to stay in boxes and the boxes have to go somewhere..and right now they are in the middle of freaking huge shop and there is not any room for anything else. So I pushed, pulled, dollied, and emptied boxes and re-stacked boxes in a corner, now we have more open space.

It didn't seem hot until I found a thermometer and hung it up, eeeewww shouldn't have done that..I got the biggest part of it done, it was hot, I was dirty, but it got accomplished. For the most part.

Big Daddy was impressed with my work when he came home..he even went out there after dinner and did his own work...but it was too hot~to do much more..Then the buttermilk pie was ready and we both had to eat a piece of that while it was still hot! yummy..I'd not made a buttermilk pie in along time, it was good~

Other than Paper Cowgirl stuff, this is on my table in the studio waiting on me:

This is a big version of what I've done on the dominoes...I did a faux finish to the background..collaged on the papers, painted the goodies and shadowed it... I would say it's about 12x8, it still needs something, and so far it's not let me know what that something is....

These 2 pictures are on a Formica sample:

That's copper on the back, I'm not happy with that, and rub-ons are still giving me fits..I'm happy with the front..

Thanks Shannon for letting me know about my spelling error yesterday :) as you said, I'm not a COLLEGE prof...lol..you can see I do COLLAGE alot more than I did college..lol..

Andreea! Don't forget about our challenge!!!remember??

Errands and cement work are on today agenda. The rest of the week the Grands are visiting..

Thanks for all the fun comments on yesterday's post! I love my faux work, and I'm glad I can do something that makes me happy and pays the bills!

Ya'll be good today!

t

What were you doing at 4am?

I was in the studio this morning...


I couldn't sleep and just decided to get up and piddle around..so I cleaned on some things I soldered last night after the girls when to bed...



And finished shining on this little goodie:

Don't know if I'm going to attempt wings like this again on a shrine...This makes them heavy...I think I'm going to keep this one..first attempt and all...I have to find me a chain for it down at the local 'bling-bling' store..you know, those little stores that have the purses, jewlery that's cheap and girl stuff...they have some necklaces that are like rosary chains jacked up on bling and look great on the little shrines....

By the time I finished reading the paper from yesterday and looking at the pre-dawn, I crawled back in bed for a snuggle with the hub before the alarm went off..then the girls were up by 7:00 and our day was going..

Hub's garden is on the rage... he's taking the neighbors squash and radishes...we are eating squash almost every meal, and last night I broke down and made quick bread to use some more of it up..the Okra is about to start too..wonder if I can use it in quick bread...hmmm...

Found out from my friend Liz that the spoon with the curled edge is an Aspic Spoon..kewl...Thanks Liz!

Happy Monday!!

t

Mary, Mary, How does your garden grow?

Frist off, I want you to know this is Hub's endevor...I'm just eating and moral support here...

Here's Hub putting up the fence to keep Peter Cottontail out...Peter Cottentail has been seen at random times. Scooby believes he lives under the travel trailer and has had a close encounter with him...Peter Cottontail helped himself to a Zuch, so the big guns came out and the fence came up...He's got onions, radishes, Cukes, Zuchs, Orka, corn, green beans, crookneck and cantalope in the garden. In pots are: tomatoes, peppers, basil, strawberries,lettuces...Just this week the squash has started comming off...so it's been a dinner feature several times..off to find some new receipes for that stuff...

Have a great weekend! Next week is going to be full of studio stuff!

hugs,t