Baby Sweet Toes

Well baby sweet potatoes! Butters mom and sister came up to visit in the spring and got lost taking some back roads and came across this amazing nursery on a Mennonite farm, an amazing begonia was purchased as a house warming gift from mom and sis, and a promise of "I'll show you where this place is the next time I visit". The next time mom came up she took me over to the nursery and boy was i impressed, flowers, vegetable every where and so affordable! I have a soft spot for sweet potato vines, and I found one I had never seen before and had to have it. The lovely Mennonite lady told me that that plant was a real sweet potato vine, and I thought ok all I want is the vine. Thinking all along there was no way I was going to be able to grow sweet poatos in a hanging basket, well sure enough I was tiding the yard up for the cold weather and took a peek in the basket and sure enough there they were....

Jack is coming to visit

And Frost is his last name. The previous owners of the house, had many kooky ideas, the corks in the floor, broken windows stuffed with rags, and of course duct tape on broken window panes. Slowly I'll be going around the house replacing these panes one by one. There are a lot of panes that need to be replaced. So these are old fashion windows that have weights that help them slide open and closed and run inside on tracks. I watched my dad take the window out and re-glaze while growing up but never had to tackle it myself till now. I found a lot of really great how-to's online from This Old House to Domino Magazine(!) Its rather easy actually, a glazing putty is used and these cool little triangles keep the glass in place. A quick coat of paint and the window is good as new, but the window sill is another thing.....

During

I have lots of projects that are in the 'during' stage as in not a before and not quite an after. Small things have popped up here and there like working! But here are some shots of my studio/office. Its during because I'm still making shelves and finally unpacking. The usual of scraping wallpaper, spackling, priming, painting, cleaning has happened. A special window project was tackled which you will see very soon! ( I promise this time)