Pinsperation

I am a confessed Pinterest addict, that being said I don't just look at stuff all day long.  I do make a lot of things, try new recipes, work outs, craft ideas, sewing ideas, etc.  Anyway, here are just a couple example of my recent Pinterest endeavors.  

A few months ago I saw this cute skirt pinned on Pinterest.  It was for sale.  I wasn't interested in buying it, but it gave me an idea.

 

I had this skirt that I friend gave me a couple years ago.  I have always liked it cause it is comfy, but it is a little hard to wear since it is a little short on me and the slit in the front makes it harder.  So I took my inspiration skirt and my real skirt and tried to combine them.

I made a really long pleated strip of fabric and sewed it along the bottom of the skirt.

And to fill in the slit I added the piece of fabric for the handkerchief effect.  I am quite happy with the final project.  And the extra couple inches makes the skirt so much easier to wear!

Second, we have been talking about adding herbs to our garden for the last year and over the winter I found this picture on Pinterest.  I thought it was brilliant and that I could tweak it to make it work for our garden.

Here is our finished product.  Eric and I made it last weekend.  It has six-one square foot openings.  We are getting the soil this week and hopefully it will warm up again so that I can plant my herbs.

Really what is better than having fresh herbs right out your back door!

Our garden is growing!

We moved into our house almost a year ago and have had non stop projects ever since. I have to admit I had no idea how much work a brand new house would be. Last year we started our landscaping and put in our fence and this year we have continued to add to our landscaping, put in a paver patio and got our garden boxes put together just in time to plant them.

I haven't had a garden since I lived at home and worked in my parent's garden. Which was a long time ago and means I have never been the one responsible to decide what to plant and where. So this was quite the experiment this year. We built 6 boxes and also planted some blackberries, raspberries, and rhubarb in the ground next to the house. The boxes are filled with peppers, tomatoes, carrots, onions, zucchini, cucumbers, beans, and strawberries.

So far we have only gotten a couple of raspberries, but it is early and things are well on their way. Things have done much better than I expected and I have already learned a lot about what I will do different next year. It is funny to me that with all of my horticulture/landscaping background that a vegetable garden is so foreign to me. You would think that they would have a lot in common, but I am discovering they are two very different beasts. Hopefully in my retirement from professional landscaping I will learn more about home vegetable gardening.