Blue Cricket Design: Paper Fans

Blue Cricket Design: Paper Fans

Ok, JoAnn's is having a sale tomorrow, so I can get a set of scrap-booking paper in blues and browns and get something up on our bedroom walls. The bedroom is the most boring room right now. And these circles would be perfect!

Boring terracotta pots

I'm researching the best way to refinish all my boring terracotta pots.

I think they're going to need some prep first.
http://www.the-artistic-garden.com/painting-terra-cotta-prep.html

Some ideas
http://www.ehow.com/how_2224053_bright-shiny-finish-terracotta-pots.html

http://www.casacullen.com/2010/03/diy-how-to-paint-terra-cotta-pots-and-planters.html

http://www.krylon.com/projects/outdoor/terra-cotta/

http://www.younghouselove.com/2009/03/planter-banter/

I'm not sure about painting the inside though, since I do want to use these for food.

I like this site, at the bottom it has "Clay Flower Pot Possibilities" I want to try all three!
http://www.container-gardening-made-easy.com/clay-flower-pots.html
and Martha with all those ideas expanded...
http://www.marthastewart.com/article/making-history-aging-pots

Rocks in the Garden can be good

The gardening project is going to take a long time. We've "kind of" divided up the backyard to my husband with the container gardening of food items, and dog space (where the poo composter and food composters are located.)

That leaves me to manage the front yard, making the house looking aesthetically pleasing from the curb. Buying plants on sale, and trimming back the vines.  (And hopefully painting the exterior trim sooner than later.)

So my ultimate goal is to diminish lawn space, I actually don't mind mowing, especially with my awesome push mower, but I just don't see the need for a lot of lawn, and would rather have more fun plants (and rocks).

We went to the local river and picked up some buckets of rocks (and then fish & game warden came to tell us that we really weren't allowed, but thankfully didn't make us put any back.)
And this is what I did with the rocks.

Dog pouches

I did it!  I followed a pattern! Well it was a really short pattern, but following patterns is usually something I avoid.

Pouches x3, Wrangell and Penguin's friends need pouches too.

And Penguin modeling, maybe not a good career choice for her...

To do list

My to do lists seem a lot longer than my done lists.  I would like to keep this blog more updated so I can actually see that I am doing things.
So I will soon be posting pics/instructions of:
+ my reupholstered/painted chairs
+ Value Village mirror -redone for bedroom
+ bathroom with decals
+ sweet potato dog snacks (that only Penguin likes)
+ T-Shirt quilt (still in planning stages)
+ Gardening and Baking adventures
+ Reunion buttons

Anything else?

Book Review - Zombies ROCK! or "All-Out-Worldwide-Zombie-Blog-Explosion 2010"

Yippee! I got this book to preview for my blog. 

I loved Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.  P&P is one of my favorite books, P&P - A&E version is my favorite movie.  And I think zombies are hilarious.  When Quirk offered a preview of the prequel I wrote write away.

The book was an easy fast read, with more of the origins of Zombies that PPZ left out.  It had the Jane Austen style as far as using the same characters and setting, period dialog, and a ball, but with much looser interpretation than PPZ, mostly in the dialog category.  I liked having more (possible) backstory and character development to a book that I love.  Seeing origins of Elizabeth's rightful bitterness towards men, and Jane's constant goodness was great.  

It felt much shorter than the other Jane Austen adaptations, probably because it wasn't an adaptation and thus wasn't as dense as P&P or S&S.  

I definitely recommend Dawn of the Dreadfuls to all who enjoyed PPZ.  Oh and did you see this? Very exciting!!

Another exciting thing is that you can win one of 50 Quirk Classic Prize Packs: containing advance copies of this book, audio books of PPZ & SSSM , book poster, PPZ journal, and PPZ postcards.  (If you win, you need to send me a postcard!!). By going to this link and mentioning my blog!!!

http://quirkclassics.com/index.php?q=QuirkClassicsContest_DOD_Reviews 

Thanks for reading my contribution to the "All-Out-Worldwide-Zombie-Blog-Explosion 2010"

‘Crazy Art’ Documentary Explores Art Therapy, Schizophrenia

‘Crazy Art’ Documentary Explores Art Therapy, Schizophrenia

This looks really interesting. I'll have to see if I can add it to my netflix queue.