Three months later and what is new?

Well oh well, a lot can change in three months.    




Our first container garden
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R, due to health issues, never went of to train with the Army. He is home, helping me around the house and working on many side projects. The biggest one is The Backyard Farmers Guild.  Ever since we planted our first container garden in the backyard he has become a maniac about planting. He loves getting out and digging in the dirt. So as he started to research best practices and better methods, he decided to take all the knowledge he is gaining and share it. So if you are interested in growing your own veggies and the like, please take a look.

What am I up too? Well the stationary design business is at a stand still. This isn't for any other reason than I haven't been out there looking for clients or work. I'm working slowly on the invitations for my dear friend K. Her wedding is later this year and we've been busy developing the look and feel of her invites.





Two of the soon to be many knitted,
 reusabel swiffer covers

What I have been buys with is knitting. What else is new with that? Since January I have completed nine different knitting projects. Two of them are Christmas presents for my parents and for my brother and his lovely wife. The rest were gifts for my "nephew" F for his 1st birthday, a chemo hat for another coworker, a sustainable cover for my swiffer and then a bunch of projects for me. Selfish knitting is not always the best, but I sure enjoy the end result.

The swiffer cover got me thinking; where else can I make some active changes in the ways R and I doing things to be better to the planet and to ourselves. So we talked and we have slowly been making the changes to be chemical free, sustainable and better in our little world we live in.
 

One of F's birthday presents

I know I've re-invented the wheel here on this blog a couple of times and then didn't follow through, but I'm hoping to fill you in on our little world and show you ways we are changing things and if you like the ideas please use them in your own world. I'll also cover knitting projects I'm working on and hope to have more in-progress shots as I go. Granted at the rate at which I knit, that might not happen as I have a hard time putting down the knitting to take a photo.



Selfish knitting



Monday I hope to fill you in on the full details of the swiffer cover and how it works.