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Since my incredible day

Okay okay, I've pretty much typed my fingers to the bone with my last opus of a post, but I figured that while I was on a roll, I might as well try to get out a lot of what I've been up to in the past few days. Most of what I've been up to has involved work of some kind.


From Sunday to Tuesday I went absolutely insane on my projects.
  • I transformed the comb I got from the bead shop into a tiny chainmaille piece with an asian flair
  • I started on a chainmaille headdress (which I'm unfortunately VERY close to running out of rings for)
  • I got a beautiful anklet finished which I ended up using all but one of the "beledi coins" I got from the bead shop on, named it the Desert Sun anklet, and have already fully photographed it.
  • I got started on my beetle wing necklace
  • I chainmaille wrapped a bottle, filled it with super glittery pink sand with strands of white glitter, and added a byzantine chain to it.. and it's all photographed and ready to go.
And that's just the chainmaille projects. I also created a hanging tomato planter for my new tomato plant, and tonight I planted it in the new pot. I also created a pot for the basil plant, though the plastic melted in ways I don't like at some points - so I'll probably use something else.

Aside from that all, I have been watching mind numbingly large quantities of Nostalgia Critic. Seriously. This guy is what you would get if you mixed an unhealthy dose of Brian, our stupidly sarcastic friend Chris, and added a dash of the guy from clerks that isn't Dante, and Wierd Al. Wow.

Anyway, my brain is trying to escape through my ear, so I suppose it's time to wrap this up. I've probably forgotten something, but ehn.. time for bed. ;)

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Gardening update

Hurray! We has a patio set! We went to get it last night, and assembled the table last night.. I started on the chairs when I woke up. The only problem is, the chairs have a lot more parts.. I got the first chair put together completely except for the VERY LAST SCREW. The problem was that the hope it screws into was stripped on the side I had to screw it into.. Fortunately after about 15 minutes of fighting with it, I finally got it, and I now have one completely finished chair. Unfortunately, the second chair was borked right out of the gate. I put together the legs the way they're supposed to go and found out that they had not only angled the connector for the seat in a way it is physically not possible for me to make it get to, but they put the little tongs that hold onto the chair on the inside, not the outside.. so we're going to have to exchange it tonight. Undoubtedly this will require me to take apart the set I just spent almost an hour putting together, but for the next five hours damnit, I have a table and chair and can lounge outside. I'll be sure to take a couple pictures. The deck looks so nice right now.


 We also got a tomato plant while we were at Lowes last night (Big Boy variety), and some Magic Mountain sweet basil that smells wonderful. We were looking at getting just regular basil, but the leaves were very pathetic, and this stuff just smells incredible. Next up I need to get the wood for the planter box and put it together.. Then it's off to buy some Blue Fescue, Alyssum, May Night Salvia, English Lavender, and some rosemary.. The fescue and maybe some of the salvia will go into the planter box, and the Alyssum is going to go on the railing of the deck.

 I also got some Miracle Gro last night at Lowes.. I just gave all the plants their first dose. We'll have to see how happy they are with that. It's my first time using it, so I hope I gave them the right amount. I feel horrible for not refreshing the soil in my pots more often, so hopefully this will make up for it.

Anyway, that's what's up so far today. Hurray for gardening!

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Woohoo!

I just planted something! I don't really have much hope that it'll actually grow, but you never know. I had a leftover 18 egg carton from when curio and I decided we were going to make Eccles toast and eggs for breakfast, and stuffed some potting soil in it with some old mammoth dill weed seeds I bought a while ago.. Surprisingly, I'm actually planting it at the right time for once. Right now it's all packed in snugly as per the directions, enjoying the sun, and waiting for them to sprout so I can move them to the not-yet-made huge planter box. I do hope they sprout.. I love fresh dill. or dried dill. pretty much any dill is good. So there are two things really going against them - 1) I planted them, and 2) they were packed for the 2007 crop. However, they ARE weeds, so you never know..

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