Always the Same

I know that I constantly find myself apologizing on my blog about my lack of updates. Life has been a tad busy lately. I have some videos from the last concert and some pictures/videos from the bullfights we went to today. Crazy huh!?? They’re not like the Spanish ones, with matadors and fancy costumes. These are actually two bulls fighting against each other, and no one dies in the end. More info about that later. Happy Mother’s day to everyone reading this!!! Hopefully people are reading this. Thanks to my mom, Mama Kim, Christa, my Grandma, Grandma Pruss, Grandma Lois, Aunt Dawn, Amber, Ericka, Selina, Iori, Erin, and all of the other mamas in our family and friends. Congrats to Angela who is spending this mother’s day as her first! You all make such a difference. Even if it’s not always easy, it’s always worth it. I hope that everyone was celebrated and thanked for their daily efforts. I suppose I could have celebrated too, seeing as how I’m a puppy mother and all. Haha. But really, I hope it’s a great day for all of you and we love you all very much!! Thanks for your contributions to our lives and the lives of those around us. Also thanks for giving us such beautiful babies to kiss on!! I have a good many to meet when we get back!!! =] I can’t wait!

New Ventures

 

We decided to try and plant some veggies!! Most of the flowers I bought, aren’t looking so hot, so I wanted to try something else. Our broccoli and cauliflower have broken soil now and are looking pretty good!! Also our strawberries are doing pretty well. The plant our neighbor gave us isn’t fruiting as much as the other one I bought at Make-man to accompany it. Also a pretty picture of one of our new hibiscus bushes that our landlord put in. They all seem to be different colors, but I’m partial to the coral colored ones.

 

Also wanted to mention that I got sick of the abundance of plastic grocery bags in our drawer and decided to go all fabric!! so now I keep this neat little pouch with me stuffed with fabric grocery bags. They sell them at the 100 Yen store here, so it was a pretty cheap and easy switch.

There hasn’t been much going on here lately. Josh finally graduated Sgts. course yesterday so I’m (kinda) glad to have him home, joking. Very glad.

Cupcakes Galore!

I made a new apron today!! I cut most of the pieces and sewed it all in one evening. May not look like a lot of work, but it certainly felt like it! I’m hoping to do some kitchen towels to go with it! You can’t tell from far away but it was sewn with a hot pink thread that shows up pretty well on the brown! I hope I can keep up with this productive streak and get those towels done this week! Didn’t have a better way to display my apron for the picture, but you get the idea! Also you get another candid of Lily in the process!

Bathroom- Check!

Thanks to Erin for telling me about picasa now I can make fun photo collages!! Here is one for our new bathroom set. The towel turned out really well. but I can’t say that I’m really in love with the sink-skirt. It did do the one thing I wanted though, and that was make some storage space for extra toilet paper!! Every time I take pictures it seems like Lily has to be somewhere in the mix. I hope I can continue on my productive path! I even got another project done tonight, I’ll post it separately!

More Personality

I wanted to give our blog a little more personality, and Josh even okayed it! I really like our new personalized banner at the top, it only took me forever. Hope you like the new look. Also thanks to Grandma and Grandpa for all of the comments and Mama Kim. =] Glad to know you guys are keeping up with us. Now that we have a fully functioning blog (hopefully the comments still work), what would you like to know more about? I spent today rearranging my blog with Erin, so I hope I can finish my bathroom set tomorrow. Here’s hoping!

Note: this is also a test post. The previous post has been reformatted into a way that I can’t change. It’s kind of running over it’s borders and out onto the polka dots, please excuse it. And in the new banner there are pictures of me, lily and Josh but when I access it on my phone it cuts their pictures off! I still have some work to do. Guess I'll have to make it smaller again =[

A new space

So aside from quickly killing my flowers, I’ve been rather busy babysitting. I made almost $300 for my three days and am glad I won’t have to see 5:50 am anytime soon. For some reason when I keep really busy I get home and yearn to be productive. I’m redecorating the ‘toilet room’, it’s a little boring and feels like you’re stuck in the back of a warehouse. Even though I really enjoy the industrial minimalist feel of the house there are a few things that are bugging me. The ‘toilet room’(only referring to it that way because there is no bath present) has no storage for things that could be rather useful to store in there. It would be rather handy to keep extra toilet paper, toilet cleaner, and maybe a few unmentionables at close reach. I decided that I would make a curtain type thing to velcro underneath the sink to use the space. I’m giving it a shot, and I also thought I would trim a hand towel in matching fabric here are a few starter shots of my project. This is not yet finished, but hopefully it will be all done by tomorrow *fingers crossed*. Side note: the fabric is Clematis by Amy Butler, she’s the reason I decided to start sewing. Such gorgeous fabrics and patterns, hopefully I put them to good use!

  

If you made it this far you’re probably wondering about my dying flowers. I am too honestly. My hydrangea wilted on day two(no, not dead, but not gorgeous anymore either), I’m assuming from too much direct sunlight. I thought I had it in a nice shady place, I suppose I was mistaken. A few of my others aren’t doing so hot either. Today was a rather gloomy rainy day and I’m afraid it did nothing for my flowers at all. I hope they don’t have root rot, I have a tendency to over water. Also, our neighbor told us we are getting hibiscus bushes along our other fence! I’m pretty excited about it, hope we can keep our yard in good shape for now! I know a few of you are excellent with plants, any tips other than not overwatering and abiding by the info on sunlight exposure? How’s about plant food? Help a clueless woman out.

Going to give this a shot

  So my Grandparents and my Mom both have green thumbs, and it’s never really been my thing. Lately I’ve become a little engrossed in the idea of gardening and growing things for some reason. So this morning Josh and I headed to Make-man to find some things to plant. I’ve identified all but one of them and I’m thinking it’s some sort of Japanese wisteria. We ended up with a pink and purple theme that started out unintentionally. Josh even got into it and picked out two of them! My favorite are the hydrangeas, and if I can keep them alive for a bit I have a feeling I will go back to get more. I’ve made myself a spreadsheet with their names, amount of sunlight, pruning habits, helpful plant food, and watering habits. Let’s hope I don’t have a brown thumb!! =]