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Fun with Seeds

The Crafty Crow has some great craft ideas today made from seeds.  There are projects that will be fun for kids of all ages .  I love the seed bombs, seed packets, and seed paper.  Great gifts ideas!

I have some seeds to sow this morning, and I will set some aside to make some of those "seedy" little creations, too. 

Have fun !

Recycled Shirt Smock

I saw this cute, cute, recycled men's shirt smock here.  I intended to put in in with the carnival posts yesterday, but forgot....Imagine that! 

Anyway, I think this is a great idea.  When you are as messy as I tend to be in the kitchen, in the garden....everywhere ; these could save on some laundry time and clothing purchases.  They would be good for little artists and cooks, too!

The Homesteading Carnival #99 - Summer Fun Edition

Don't Forget!

I'm hosting The Homesteading Carnival on Monday, please don't forget to submit an entry!  So far, I've only had one submission from a HSB blogger .  Please join in the fun and submit an entry, please, please, pretty please!!! 

Just choose a favorite post of yours, or write a new one; then come back here and click on the button below or on my sidebar to go to the submission page.  Fill it in and you're all set to be a part of The Homesteading Carnival #99 . 

OK, I'm counting on you to help me make the next issue of The Homesteading Carnival great!  I'll be looking for lots of submissions from my HSB friends.

Have a great weekend!  I'm off to see what's happening in the garden this morning...

Garden Photos

Here are some photos of the community garden:

We have tomatoes, green beans, squash (lots of squash), cucumbers, onions, bell peppers, banana peppers, jalapenos, serranos, cantaloupe, and watermelon planted. All are growing well, and we have begun to harvest tomatoes, squash, and green onions. The beans and cucumbers are blooming, so we should have some of those ready to pick soon. What a difference a month makes; here's what the garden looked like just a few weeks ago:


Yes, that's me hacking away at the weeds and wishing we had mulched sooner! Still need to do both (weed and mulch), though the plants themselves are blocking much of the weed growth now. And yes, that's the only remaining photo from my daughter's photography debut ! Now do you see why I was horrified by her other shots?!?!   oh my.

Blog Carnival Here Next Week!

I'm hosting the next homesteading carnival (June 8), so please submit your entries!  It's been a long time since I've hosted a carnival, the last one was Carnival #32...next week's carnival will be #99! 

I've read many great posts about things happening on your homestead. Please pick your favorite entry, or post something new and click here (or on the graphic below) to go to the submission form! 

I'm pondering a theme....Summer Fun (my own blogging theme right now), Homestead Fun... ideas anyone? 

See you here next week for THC...The Homesteading Carnival!

Summer Fun Day 1

Earlier today I posted that today is our "First Day of Summer".  

It didn't take the girls long to find some fun things to do this morning.  They concocted some nice slippery bubble solution and blew bubbles, skated, rode bikes, found a green inchworm, checked our sources-Handbook of Nature Study and Pets in a Jar, for info. on inchworms,  made "Inchy" a home in a plastic container, spent hours holding that little green worm, found him a friend- a moth (to keep him company)... 

This afternoon we read the first chapter of Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit and a book about Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables (one of their favorite movies).   

Not a bad start to some summer fun, I'd say! 

Summer Fun

Though I know it is "officially" still a few weeks away...we're starting our own summer fun today!  Home "school" is officially closed for the next few weeks, and we'll be diving into all those fun things that we've not had much time for thus far..... swimming, early morning bike rides, blowing bubbles, crafts of many forms, picking herbs and wildflowers, trying new "cool" recipes, and lots of time to just "be" instead of so much "doing".  We'll also be spending quite a bit of time in the shady front yard curled up on a sleeping bag, reading together.

I got an unexpected surprise in my inbox this morning... a congratulations e-mail from The Crafty Crow, informing me that I was one of the winners in the drawing for Blue Yonder's Book of Days!  What a nice thing to start off our summer adventures with!  Yea!!!  These are such fun downloadable books, I'm looking forward to trying out all the goodies with my girlies!  They are only $6 per dowload, so they are quite inexpensive; but so very creative and cute.

OK... I think I'll get outside and have some Summer Fun!