tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67960813244970309152024-03-04T22:04:53.290-08:00Amanda All DayAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02319536141759240954noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796081324497030915.post-17953313424290185612012-07-23T21:03:00.001-07:002012-07-23T21:03:35.682-07:00The Crafting Bug<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">So it has been a while since my last post. Even though I have not updated, I have thought about my new blog almost every day and found myself saying, "Oh, I could blog about that!" but for some reason or another didn't make it to sitting down and actually doing the darn thing. That is, until today! </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Lately I have gotten a little crafting bug and created these little buggers: </span></span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimgh3bUPnFveoTggU1PAm50-k7IMA251mpHEVKmZ6nyz97hQvMgfHohQ5lUstdkQtLl3veA0WPFJLlHd9pJrt7GBBG4rP3OnVt4lycOxtOcEi6XFne2sJsD4DVev_HksqnCHGXCn9BONc/s1600/photo+1+(1).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimgh3bUPnFveoTggU1PAm50-k7IMA251mpHEVKmZ6nyz97hQvMgfHohQ5lUstdkQtLl3veA0WPFJLlHd9pJrt7GBBG4rP3OnVt4lycOxtOcEi6XFne2sJsD4DVev_HksqnCHGXCn9BONc/s320/photo+1+(1).JPG" width="239" /></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm really glad to be posting them on here because I plan on giving them away as Christmas gifts eventually. I drew inspiration from this blog: </span><a href="http://whenboredomstrikes.blog.com/" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">http://whenboredomstrikes.blog.com/</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> which I believe I found through Pinterest which led me to another craft blog, which led me to a post about her copying an entire chapter of Harry Potter on her wall which led me to her Etsy shop. Her's are much better than mine but I enjoy having an easy craft outlet. </span></div>
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02319536141759240954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796081324497030915.post-30622056274874358142012-07-02T18:40:00.000-07:002012-07-23T21:04:08.623-07:00Gardening in Southwest Florida<br />
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I have started following a lot of blogs recently and find myself wishing that I had a blog to post to. Because of this, I have created, "Amanda All Day". I suppose it is because I don't want to focus only on gardening, or shopping, or funny videos I find, or even things that I create (or destroy) in the kitchen. So... It's Amanda All Day... a little bit of everything that I do. And I hope you enjoy it as much as I will enjoy posting about it.<br />
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So I'm becoming very brave. I'm trying out a little garden in Southwest Florida. I am not a gardener, and in fact refer to myself as having a "black thumb".<br />
Despite this, like I said, I am brave.<br />
Here are some pictures of my garden so far (I am very pleased with myself!)<br />
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First up is my baby watermelons. I planted these from seeds in late May/early June. So far my biggest watermelon is about 1/2 inch. I've got two that have been pollinated and are growing and I've got a third that will open up any day or two for pollination.<br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">This is another picture of a baby watermelon, but it ended up being kind of fuzzy. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Here is a picture of a baby green bell pepper that is growing (I'm really excited about these because if you look in the second picture, it looks like I will have between 4-5 bell peppers on the same plant! </span><br />
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Here are my Raspberries:</div>
I've got no flowers but it looks to be a healthy green color, so I'm currently pleased with it.<br />
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Here are my Blackberries:<br />
That I'm pleased to say, are flowering! I just hope that I can keep the darn birds away from the berries long enough that I can try one. :)<br />
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Here are my Green Beans, which are growing very slowly. I'm wondering if I planted them too close together. They sprouted very quickly but this is all that they've done in a month. For a vine, I think something must be wrong with them. We shall see!<br />
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Here are my strawberries, of which I have two small berries growing! I've got two plants, but this is the only one with anything on it as of yet. </div>
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And finally, my Cherry Tomato plant. As you can see, the bottom was entirely picked off. This is from the wonderful Grackle birds that dive bomb it. I put the wire support around it this evening, so I hope it makes a difference and the little sucker can have a fighting chance.<br />
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As you can see in my pictures, I have baited for slugs and fertilized this evening. There is a big rain coming through right now so I'm hoping I took advantage of a good time to do this.</div>
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