Thank yous and Vegetables

So first off I have to thank Simon of Simon's Ramblings. Not only are you a brilliant blogger, you gave me some brilliant advice. Have an award if you wish:



(it's photo bucket approved ;))

I also want to give a big thank you to Eric of Bored Neoclassical Guy who also had some good ideas (feel free to add the award as well) and he also mentioned me in this awesome post about glass. I am flattered.


Now- onto the vegetables!


Some things in our garden have taken on mutant proportions.



mainly the spinach- which we decided to rip out. I may or may not plant more seeds tomorrow.

Rest in peace mutant spinach.


I also picked lots of peas and beans and lettuce.






I also saw that my tomato and pepper plants were coming along (and everyone said I couldn't grow peppers in northern Alberta, Ha!)


Anyway, I chopped up the beans and peas with carrots and zucchini (also from our garden)





and cooked them up with a couple of chicken breasts in olive oil and chicken stock with thyme salt and pepper. Mmmm. oh and some onion.




Soo good. I would of taken a pic of it all finished, but hunger took over and I forgot :)

I'm loved *sigh*

So a very special Aussie lady-blogger (who I have a total lady crush on) has shamelessly stroked my ego on her blog :: the girl with the pink teacup. I highly recommend to check out the post about me her witty and insightful blog. Warning: not for the faint of heart; she can be a naughty lady.

Here is my closest approximation:



sexy, and colorful.

She also brought to my attention that I STILL don't have an etsy store up. So, my delimma (without going into too much detail) is that in order to be able to sell my beads in good faith I have to put them through what is called an annealing process. For this you need a kiln. I don't have one of my own (try I'm about $1000 too poor) but I thought I had access to one. But that kiln was moved from its home, and supposedly not up and running. So then my incredibly talented fiance was going to make one. Well, that may be a ways off, and I'm about $300 too poor for that. But, I am sick of all the beads just haning out in the basement (although the MJ beads started a choir with the goddess beads. I should really make them some instruments) so...


I am going to find another temporary solution. Monday. (hold me accountable because I'm much better at doing things when I'm constantly being yelled at)

First- I an going to check on the eta of the kiln I was going to borrow. If I can't use it in the coming week, I will seek out any possible glass artist and beg and wave around some mulah.

Well, thanks for reading my ramblings. I'm off to go fishing with my man! Have a great weekend :)

Tag you're it!

I have a post that I've been working hard on, but I've been tagged (with my very first, and thus far most cherished award) by Jen at Uberly Ecstatic, so now I can procrastinate my post another day (Muhahaha).

And now for my picks:

I Took The One Less Traveled By...
West Coast Newlywed
Under a Different Sky
One Modern Girl
Herding Cats

Happy Friday everyone- until tomorrow!