Scissor Quirk

On My Mind...

With all this nature-studying I've been doing for school, it's no wonder it's on my mind a lot these days (I'm just finishing up a presentation I have to give on a nature-inspired project tomorrow morning, so it's right there in the forefront).

In class last week, we had to make a reusable item from those paper coffee cup sleeves - you know the ones, they come around every cup you buy. I used to keep them in a pile and reuse them when I could if I'd forgotten my fabric one or my reusable cup...

Anyhoo - we came up with - in an hour - the idea that they should be foldable, and when folded create a little starter seed pot. Here are our tests:

You can kind of see a few of our tests, here - we made a bunch of different variations to get 1-2 final designs and then 'planted' some little plants for our presentation of them...he he. I'm totally hoping to make these, myself, next time I get a paper sleeve: I kind of wish they came perforated to make this easily possible with every one!

Actually: I'm wishing that coffee houses everywhere world-wide would ban those darn horrible paper cups in the first place and force everybody to have/use a reusable cup. Did you know those paper cups aren't recyclable because they have plastic lining in them? Yep. Just think of how many everyday are thrown away. It's gross! It could be solved so simply, too. (sigh).

Revived.

Yay! I'm happy to say, my basil is sprouting & growing like crazy!

You may remember me mentioning that my window-sill garden got a little fried in our hot sun last month (you can still see the last two dry-as-hay herbs behind the basil, above). lol. I was so sad! No joke. And then the flowers were done blooming. The sunflower died. Some herbs were sacrificed to the sun gods. It looked sad for a few weeks until I finally replanted things and trimmed and watered and rearranged.

The basil (which I had thought to be oregano, at first) managed to survive all along. I planted a few more seeds at the bottom after some of the underneath leaves died and they sprouted up again right away!

Now I'm careful to remember to water everyday and close the blinds a bit so they're not frying all day when it's super hot! Still working on my green thumb. :)

How's your garden doing?

I hope it survives our weekend of kayak-camping without water! lol.

That geranium...

Is still making me smile. :)

And the rest of the garden's yet-to-bloom have finally popped up over the last fews weeks or so, too! Well, garden being: Cilantro, Dill, and Coriander. They still have a bit of growing to do, and that's about it in my garden, for now. lol.  But I'm super-excited about every little growth spurt, and I've been good about keeping my green thumb about me and watering it every day.

That's the hardest part, isn't it?

I wish flowers could bloom all year!
But I guess that would take the sweetness out of it, wouldn't it?

Dresser-Top Garden.

I have a guest post about my garden up over at Amy is the Party, today - hop on over to see it & all the cool blog party posts she has up!

I've been jonesing to share my little garden so much!

Since the peek I gave you (when I took the photos), my little herbs have popped up and are growing like crazy, now and there are tons of teeny flowers! :)

We live in an apartment with no yard whatsoever, and have had a few measly-looking plants for the last few years following us from home to home - I found a vintage dresser to put by my desk that holds all of my fabric and was getting rather sick of the dreary dead plants in the corner (lol), so I moved them atop the dresser on a plastic Ikea tray (so as not to water-log said dresser) and filled my collected-over-a-few-months colorful vintage pots with herb seeds (Coriander, Basil, and Dill for now) and temporarily-potted flowers:

You can read a bit more on how I put things together over at Amy's - my green thumb is still developing (for example, I have no idea what any plant is called, and our sunflower plant is looking really crunchy - I'm not sure if sunflowers just die at this time of year, if we've watered it too much or too little, or what! lol) - but it sure is lovely to have a little bright spot beside my workspace. :)

Could you tell I had too much fun photographing it, too? :) he he.
We have such great light in here...perfect for this lil dresser-top garden.

I'm off today to get a haircut & grab a few essentials (sandals, tank tops) today, since I start work again on Monday and my work-at-home wardrobe is seriously lacking the basics - lol - and then a pop into the nearby fabric shop to stock up on supplies for the big winter craft show & getting back to work is in order! Hope your day is lovely - and full of flowers, too.

Garden Peek.

Last week I took a moment and finally prettied up our garden! :) It's super lovely and bright and pretty, now - I'm so happy I took a few minutes to repot our old plants and plant some herb seeds in my thrifted pots. Yay! It makes me smile.

Here's a peek - I have more to share of the whole spot next week:

Aaah. Glad to see my green thumb has come out for the sunny season! :)

Do you have a garden spot going?