by Flora Caputo | Apr 13, 2019 | Crafting, Uncategorized
We have been trying to entice hummingbirds to our property for years, and it has only been recently since I have been putting more native flowers in the garden, that I have been seeing them. I was hoping to make some homemade nectar and a glittery, pretty feeder using...
by Flora Caputo | Mar 23, 2019 | Crafting, Uncategorized
You may have seen this garden project all over the interwebs. I have always wanted to try it myself, and as the weather is warming up, my attention has turned to garden projects. This one has been on my list for quite a while. Cement is a messy endeavor, just check...
by Flora Caputo | Dec 9, 2018 | Crafting, Uncategorized
I’ve been trying to purge and simplify our lives, little by little. I am tackling a closet a week, and a room a month. I try to clean out, give away, sell, and reorganize each pile of flotsam. It’s a great feeling-but fair warning, it’s often darkest...
by Flora Caputo | Aug 4, 2018 | Crafting, Uncategorized
Mosaics are a big thing around here. If I suddenly get inspired and can glue ceramic pieces to a surface, watch out, it’s getting some mosaics. When Fathers day rolled around, I finally decided to make my husband a gift of a brown trout out made out of mosaics...
by Flora Caputo | May 22, 2018 | Crafting, Uncategorized
It’s garden time! I have spent any warm dry day I can in the garden beds this month. It has been a late spring, so we have to pack in a lot of chores in a very truncated time frame. It’s been a ton of work, but I have been so happy doing it. I can really...
by Flora Caputo | Apr 30, 2018 | Crafting, Uncategorized
SCREEEEEECH! (in glee) It’s 70 degrees today in Chicago! 70! I have my seedlings out hardening, I took my power walk this morning w/o a winter coat, my hubby was prepping our veggie garden, my Magnolia tree is beginning to bloom! Good lord this winter seemed...
