bits of gardening (wanna be)

 {starting with}

Finally, here we are. It took me great strength to  go through this post. It seemed daunting.
You'll need:
seeds - see when(in what period/ month) the seeds need to be seeded. Its March so I chose basil, cat nip and mint, because supposedly now it's their time...whatever. Just look on the back.
soil - a 5 kg bag was just perfect for what I did
used paper, preferably black and white because supposedly when you water the soil in the paper pots, color leaks into the soil and it may affect the well being and growth of the plant. That is if you get to that stage.
string
scissors
a tray or a couple depending on how many pots you have/ end up with
not pictured - a larger glass, pot, bowl - but a cylindrical one

Start making the paper pots by folding your newspaper twice.

Take your cylindrical object, in my case our coffee/tea pot and wrap the paper around and try and secure it's shape with string. After that fold the remaining bits/edges over in whatever style and tape them down. You can understand, I'm sure. Can you?

It's very easy. Then just flip it and get the soil in there.

Make as many as you think you'll need.  I first thought I would just make six of these. But the seeds are so many and small, so I made more thinking I would use them all but didn't.
You can now water them slightly and then plant 4-5 seeds in each and cover them also slightly. Just cover, don't push the soil or anything. They'll be fine. I hope.
I made 5 pots with basil, 5 with mint and just 2 with cat nip.

{behold!}

 {basil - Ocimum basilicum }

 {mint - Mentha  piperita --so tiny and little}

 {cat nip - nepeta cataria}

{finished}

{wrapped}

You needto water them daily and try and keep them in semi-sunny places. It's a problem with our room and the light we get, but we'll see.

There you have it, Good night!

I dig this. And would try it.

the week

 {spinach}

 {pizza dough}

 {parmesan - prepared for broccoli fritters}

{radishes}

 {vinaigrette - salt,pepper, vinegar, mustard, comb of regular oil and olive oil}

 {not how I expected, but I'm fine with it}

 {juice}

 {no more}

 {shoe sale, so I'm good for spring}

 {love this little plate - perfect for snacks}

 {broccoli batter}

{too big, maybe}

It's kind of lame, cause I always post about stuff from around the house, which probably makes me seem like a poor housewife but it feels like such a drag to carry my camera with me everywhere, and more so to have to fish my phone out of my pocket and take pictures. It's hard, but maybe I'll make an effort...

We're heading home for the weekend so I'm looking forward to that. Should be fun.

Above, two of the things I made for dinner this week. Pizza, which we ate two days in a row, but it was still good, and this recipe, cause I had parmesan on hand. Debs' fritters look so much better than mine.

Scroll down on this page, to see Rachels' beautiful napkins, the ones that inspired my pathetic four above. I wasn't aiming for perfect results(but maybe I should have?), so it's fine.

{tools}

 I bought the cutting tools on the right, especially for projects like this. R uses/ed them at lino cut, at school. It's all such fun, but I was cheap and didn't want to spend 50 ron on a proper sheet of lino, the kind that's made especially for this thing. So I bought linoleum from a hardware store and the cutting tools don't work at all on it, aka it's hard and inefficient. So I used scissors and a cutter and cut out the letters and then glued them on bits of wood. So you really need to buy proper sheets, especially if doing, lets say, something like this.

Diy index

Home made kitchen counter cleaner
Re-vamped chairs
Powdered sugar writing on edibles
Valentines garland
Bits of gardening 

'Chairs' - reconditioned

{chairs - destroyed}

 {garbage}

{sylvester and tweety}

 {preparing the material}

 {bedside table}

 {not so perfect}

{back of the seat}

The black chairs from the first image were found one day, a long time ago somewhere outside a building block by R and his flatmates. They took them but never used them, as they were too much of a bother to clean. At that time I had no chairs in my room, where me and my sister moved and so I thought I could use them. From that day on we were never separated. Pupi loved them too, so much that she had to bite the life out of them, and so our rescued chairs looked kind of done. But no, we didn't get rid of them. In fact we took them with us as I moved out from my sisters' in October. Then I got the idea from here. It seemed easy and so it was.
We gave them a spray paint outside while it was freezing, got rid of the old so called 'leather' and kept the insides although we did not use them. Instead we used bevatex, different material I had left from school, and borrowed a furniture stapler from school. Although it was easy, it took me less then a month to do them. But it's fine, better late then never...

birthday prepared

The happiest moment yesterday was having late lunch with my sister, eating two types of cake, sitting with R and her and talking. Watching her as she was telling pupi not to lick herself where she had stitches removed from her belly area + the fact that she was pleased with the so called gift we brought her.

 {lots of chocolate}

 {lots of chocolate + lots of butter}

 You will find the recipe here. I do love that blog.

 {cake - more like a brownie...}

 {inside this there was this book - it has an interesting cover, I think}

Besides baking, yesterday I got to clean our room a bit, organize my closet, washed loads of dishes, pack some stuff to leave at sis, because we ain't got the room for unnecessary stuff, got the washing machine going. I would say it was a productive day. I did not however get to read as much as I wanted. I'll catch up today. What I am reading is this. And it's good.