Where did the month go?

Last day of the month already! With transplanting my 'babies', looking for my outdoor nettle plants, creating new snacks for a second-son-in-braces, building our workshop space, and baking up banana chocolate 'swirl' muffins and fruit cobbler and other daily life activities and 'necessaties', I found some time to start reading Made from Scratch: Discovering the pleasures of a handmade life by Jenna Woginrich. I am very interested in the self-sufficient lifestyle, so I am really enjoying this book so far!

Beautiful Burgundy

My herb seed babies are coming up nice on my growing racks so I want to make sure they get a perfect spot in the garden - that is why I am sketching out some garden designs... I also took several photographs of my valerian plants that are coming up outside - what a beautiful burgundy colour!

Doodle Stitching and Drawing

I have definately caught the doodle 'bug' - I am both drawing in my sketchbook, which I have not done for many years - and I have enthusiastically reviewed an embroidery book by Aimee Ray called 'Doodle Stitching'. I have always been interested in embroidery, and now I have new project ideas to work on, and my small sketches in my sketchbook cover a variety of topics from dog biscuits (yes, I tried to draw the herbal dog biscuits I baked for my pup!) to garden design. I am planning to embroider a project with a herbal bouquet on it...