pesto pesto

It's an awesome feeling when you can walk outside, pick some basil from your garden and be eating some pesto for dinner all within 30 minutes or so. Talk about fresh!

Also, it's the start of birthday week for me and my first awesome present were a pair of ceramic knives ... they are so so great ... my second awesome present I'll talk about soon.

praha church

vernacular texas church architecture / design at it's best ,,, with a dose of creepy. 

praha ruins

zucchini & tomato

 
I'm super excited about my garden update because what was once not long ago weed ridden and infested with squirrel treasures is now an actual veggie garden with fruit!

while watering this morning I noticed my first baby roma tomato and about 10 baby zucchinis ... I've got my recipes all lined up!

what are some of your favorite zucchini and/or tomato recipes that I should try?

organic pesticide

so I've been looking for a good, easy natural pesticide for my veggie/salsa garden and I came across a great looking recipe which I just made ... it should work because my eyes were watering like crazy, and my nostrils were burning ... those buggies don't have a chance.

make it for your own garden:

3 onions
3 hot peppers
1 garlic bulb

puree and mix with water
let it sit overnight
in the morning, strain the water out with a cheesecloth/strainer
add more water to make it a gallon's worth

voila!

spoonflower

spoonflower is an amazing website a friend of mine told me about a couple of years ago where you can design your own custom fabric and have it printed ... awesome, right? well, textiles turned into paper, and long story short, some fabric that I had printed from spoonflower just lay in a drawer. it wasn't perfect, the design needed to be tweaked, but I got a hankering for sewing a couple of days ago and made some cute drawstring lunch/snack bags out of it ... you can never have enough snacks and ziplocs just don't do it for me.

I see gift making in my future ...

by the way, HAPPY EARTH DAY!

earth day event | the local paper

The Local Paper is having an Earth Day Event! For online purchases during the month of April, a portion of the proceeds will be donated to Architecture for Humanity and Charity Water. In honor of Earth Day (April 22) we're giving back to these amazing organizations that help people in need all around the world and preserve the planet in the process. 

Find out more here!