Mother's Day

A little something for Mom ~ Flower Pins are in the shop!

The Ladies

Top:: Kelly, Jamie and Me
Botton:: Donna, Courtney and Pearl

Dishman Strikes Again!!!

Top Ten Movies (in no specific order, that would be way too hard)

Sqrl::

Amelie ( or - Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain)
Chocolat
Labyrinth
The Neverending Story
When Harry Met Sally
16 Candles
Muppet's Take Manhattan
Science of Sleep
Penelope
Much Ado About Nothing

Bee::

Baron Munchausen
Time Bandits
Punk Drunk Love
Brazil
Raising Arizona
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The Dark Crystal
Science of Sleep
Back to the Future (the whole thing)
Twice Upon a Time 0r Fantastic Planet (can't choose)

Seedling Update

04-24 is when I started the tomatoes, just to give you some idea of how long it's been. I am SO happy with the seedlings this year. It has certainly been the best year yet. They're so stocky and hardy, they're like little trees. The one's in the individual container are from my Grandmom, she started too many so I got the leftovers. They're are starting to catch up to the first batch. The key - lights and fertilizer. Especially lights though, they have four 100 watt bulbs on them for 12 hours everyday and of course we put them outside when the sun out and it's warm. This year we finally broke down and bought a box of veggie fertilizer. It's organic (of course) it seems like a great company and the plants really seems to like it.

We're doing less this year and just focusing on a couple different plants and really get to know them and what they need. Plus, we don't really have that much space and what we have seems to fill up fast. You get stir crazy in the winter and all excited and essentially your eyes are bigger then your stomach or space in this case. So this years it's tomatoes, string beans, greens - butter lettuce ('cause this variety does best here), kale, collards, swiss chard - onions, potatoes, cucumbers and of course herbs and some flowers. I've got some peppers also (you may be able to see in one of the photos) they're extras from my Grandmom too.

Yay! Can't wait!

Zuri Was Here!

Shrinky dinks and Gilmore Girls


Hendrick's Farm for milk, cheese and eggs


Lunch at Dilly's Corner


Disc Golfing


Playing Croquet - well repainting them first


Playing on the tracks in between the rains


Digging in the mud


Playing 'Let It Be'


Playing on the Wing Damn - or near it since it was cover in water from the storm the day before.


Making boats and sailing them out into the river

Philly Featurette

I would like to do a little spotlight on each of the members of a group I'm a part of - Handmade Philly. I love being a part of this group, we're all so different and unique , with the common treads are our home and our craft. It's all about passing on information, helping each other grow and gathering support. It's so good.

So I'm going to start off with one of my favorites - Botodesign. Now, of course I'm going to try and cover everyone eventually but I know I'm being a bit over zealous here and will probably not meet that goal because there are a bunch of us and we just keep growing but I'll try.


Meet Boto! A robot that lives in Japan! Seriously it can't get any better than that for me. Chen Reichert is behind the designs of all these cute characters. I'm a huge fan of robots so I was a sucker at first site.


I have figure out a way to mold wool into a box shape so I can make some robots.