muggies again

So Maine got some relief for maybe 4 days. Nice comfortable weather that makes it oh so easy to be outside. I have to admit though, after all that 80 and humid weather, it kind of felt like some fall weather.
Shhhhhh! don't tell anyone! I do love fall, for all the colors, and cozy clothes. Fall also brings our trip to Salem, Mass. Yes we go to some of the witch trial attractions, but after 4 years of going, we have been to all of them. Salem is also a gorgeous town. A lot of the house are kept up historically, and there is the oldest candy shop there. Also every year we have gone we have found something new, although I will say the coolest thing so far has been this person's backyard.

We were just walking down a side street and found this. HOW COOL!! I love how they used all these things that other people would call junk, and brought it alive.  That is why we go back, there is something you could have missed the first or third time around.


I love seeing things get reused. I have some jeans that got pretty torn up last year at work, but I am inspired by Poor Pitiful Pearl, Violet Bella, and Craftster. I can reuse them as shorts, but they would be a bit shorter than I would like, but I have some great fabric left over from other projects, to lengthen them.
Oh I also got my sundress from Lucy Magnolia on etsy. I love it.
I have been in love with this, and with this summer we have been having, I would totally wear this a whole lot. Can I convince myself to buy it?? I am always so careful about buying things, but do you think looking at it over and over again for over two months, means I should own this?

Poor Pitiful Pearl

I might be thinking about getting this one all day.
Well I need to go get ready for work. Muggy all day today, should be fun!

Have some fun today!

What's Blooming at work!

Just a few things blooming at work!
Blue Satin Rose of Sharon (the blue isn't really showing off in this picture.

Annabell Hydrangea 

Lord Baltimore Hibiscus 

A truck also delivered about 200 pots of black-eyed Susan's. I will need to take the time to get a picture of them on the table, it looks like instant field of flowers!


Also I must confess a new addiction to the Starbucks, Tazo Passionberry tea lemonade, it has just the right amount of sweetness to it.

Enjoy the weekend, I know I will, I got the whole weekend off! WOW!

Random

Well, hopefully I can get a break from work, so I can go pay my respects at my uncle's funeral.

But I have been thinking lately about fashion. There are times where I so want to have some 50's chic appearance,  but it can take more time than I want to give. So I lean more towards that natural, sometimes maybe hippie look. I would have to say that is where I am more comfortable. But I guess it all depends on my  mood. It is very much like my music taste, that is almost all over the board. I think that will have to be a whole other post!
I will say my favorite, clothing, etsy stores so far are

• Violet Bella
• Poor Pitiful Pearl
• Lucy Magnolia

I actually  just purchased a dress from Lucy Magnolia, looking forward to that.


Right now I am working on some crochet plush. Working on ideas that  I will hopefully be able to translate the idea in my mind, into awesome yarn creation. My motivation comes from having it mentioned to me that there will be a plushie show in October, in Portland. I need to find out what I will need to do to be a part of it, but I am nervous. I just don't know if I will make some really good stuff. I do have fun making them, and would make more, but I have been afraid they would take over the house. There aren't a whole lot of children in my life. I did send my sister a little monkey I made. I guess I will just take a leap, and hopefully get a chance to be a part of it, and be received well, or at least get some constructive feed back.

Good days ahead!
Tabitha

I can, how 'bout you?

What did I do last night? I canned pickles! or would it be a canned cucumbers that will become pickles, either way, I am so excited to try them. I use a sour pickle recipe, I LOVE sour pickles! I am going to give them at least two weeks to brine, before I try them out. They sealed perfectly, and hopefully they will be an awesome sour pickle. Now I want to try canning other stuff. I think it is too late to find green beans at the farmer's market, so I don't think I could do dilly beans (will still keep my eyes open). I need to get my hands on some green tomatoes, because I learned those are awesome pickled. I would also like to make green tomato jelly. Unfortunately this year I am only growing Roma's so I need to find a someone that will sell me some medium slicing green tomatoes.
Well I got to get ready for work.
Have a great day!
Tabitha

A lot to say at once

Been busy at work. Saturday I got to go to the farmer's market. I got 20 pickling cukes for $4. HOLY! I also got my mom a bunch of sunflowers, just because they are so pretty.



David and I went up to Winthrop to see, my mom, brother and sister. My sister is at the stage where you can't take pictures of her so this is what I got.

Good Morning!


I got her foot next to mine. Mine is not dirty, just weird tan lines from the Keens I wear at work.


Sara's ducks, they are pretty freaked out by people.


My brother is looking for an apartment near school, because they have accepted him, but they don't have enough dorm rooms. I am so nervous for him, but I know he will figure it out. Joe is smart, but still he is my baby brother, I want to see him do well. If I had the room, I would let him stay with me, I know David wouldn't mind. Unfortunately the house is tiny.

Can I just say how much I need one of these?
Poor Pitiful Pearl







Also why I haven't been on , I found out my uncle passed. I know he was battling cancer, now he isn't in pain. It still leaves me sad. I have that one more moment desire. I didn't get to visit with him and the rest of my dad's family on the fourth of July, I was working. I have just been thinking of all the memories I have of him. My aunt and uncle own a place on the lake, and there are a lot of good summer memories there. I should find out soon when the funeral is.

Yippie

All kinds of exciting things lately!

Finally signed up on Etsy and got this amazing soap!


It smells like... soap, and I have never felt so clean! Thanks so much to Rocky Top Soap Shop, next time I would like to try the Bamboo activated charcoal soap.

I just picked up my Anna Marie Horner pattern, Evening Empire Dress. I want to do the first option, since any dress that goes to the floor, makes me look even smaller than my 4'11". Thank you so much to Zfabrics , Mary is so awesome!




I have also been able to enjoy this lovely sunflower for about week.





I will be going up North to visit my mom, brother, and sister. I need to make sure to take a lot of pictures. I never take pictures, and if I do it is only a few. I need to make use of my camera.


Have a great weekend!

I think there is something wrong...

With me.
6:00am I am working on the SEAMS TO ME, I'll have one of everything bag. I took a break to get ready for work, and am now blogging. I need to leave for work at 8:40am. I was up making coffee at 5:30am. I am more a morning person.
My favorite part of the day, is the early morning. Still quiet, the only things moving around are the animals, and it is still relatively cool out. I need to get the camera out sometime and take early morning pictures around the house.

For now I leave you with a view from Arnold Arboretum in Mass.




Enjoy the day!


Tabitha