It seems that is was just a day or so ago that I was busy planning my garden and getting ready to sew seeds - and now I am slowly taking it all down.
Slowly I say - because for the first time in three months, my garden is finally looking like it should have all summer.
We had a severe drought here, only receiving less than 2 inches of rain from spring thaw until about 2 weeks ago when it finally started to rain. In fact our Municipality and eleven others in this area had declared a state of emergency, especially for the farmers in the area.
This was taken at the end of August.
And then it started to rain, and grass that crunched beneath our feet when we walked, started turning green again. Flowers that I planted in spring, suddenly started to grow, and just now are starting to bloom, vegetables that I re-seeded two and three times, are now growing in abundance.
This was taken this morning - a much different look to an area that was all but dead. Sad to say the weeds are taking control over the grass here, but we will work on fixing that next spring.
We will enjoy the flowers and the vegetables for only a short while, because already the Robins have left and the Geese are arriving, and frost has threatened almost every night this past week. This morning I could see my breath on my early morning walk.
While everything was falling apart outside, I turned my attention to projects inside the house. I primed and painted all the trim on the main floor of our home, and it looks so nice now.
I have been doing a lot of knitting - I did finish my fall walking sweater, and a baby outfit for my soon to be new great-nephew ( due in October). I made a quilted wall hanging for the living room, and a small one for the dining room, and just this weekend I finished this project.
I was lucky to be able to purchase two windows from a local church as they replaced their windows. This window was an outside window, and it was in very bad shape. It has the latch and hinges on it, and I left them on because I like how they look. I chose to mount black and white family pictures in this window, and I love how it turned out.
This is hanging in my guest room now.
The other window I have on a wall in my living room. I intend to turn it into a mirror using the spray-on mirror product, but so far I have not located that product in our area. So for now an Ivy grows on the window.
Both these projects cost me a grand total of $20.00 to complete.
I also cleaned my studio, which desperately needed some attention. I made a little video on a special afghan made by my Aunt Margaret - a pattern from the 1970's which although really vintage, still is gorgeous today, you can see some of my finished projects as well on the video.
I am working on a follow-up video where I do a Tutorial on the Vintage afghan - so stay tuned if you are interested.
I hope everyone has had a lovely summer - now it's fall - time to change gears and head in a all new direction!
Come along for the ride -
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