I can't seem to keep up two blogs. Maybe I should combine them! We have been busy, busy here with birthdays, crafting, gardening, and trying new recipes.
I made a birthday banner for the kids' birthdays and some felted bug decorations for Tea's party. You can see a picture above! I also made screen printed pictures for their birthdays and for Kai's friend Grant using the computer and some special paper. Then there was the birthday cake baking, which needs some tweaking, but the candles stole the show, thank goodness. I also folded a bunch of tiny paper airplanes for birthday garland on Kai's birthday.
We broke ground on the garden and Jev hauled a ton (literally) of really nice dirt into our circular garden. The garden was planned completely through the use of muscle testing so it will be very interesting to see how it turns out. I've got my seedlings starting inside. The garden itself will have flowers and veggies: 'giant white' moonflower, 'covent garden' baby's breath, 'firewitch' dianthus, 'mahogany midget' coreopsis, 'rozanne' geranium, 'moonlight' nasturtium, 'autumn' fern, 'peaches' impatiens, 'early golden' squash, shallots, 'sweet banana' peppers, 'mammoth melting sugar' peas, 'ez serve romaine' lettuce, broccoli raab, 'scarlet runner' beans, 'globe' artichokes, and 'moon and stars' watermelon. In some ways, using the muscle testing was easier because I didn't have to pour over the catalog and try to narrow down what I wanted. This always stopped me before--the sheer overwhelming amount of choices! Exciting news (for me anyway), I just checked my seedlings and many have sprouted. It has only been 3 days! I used a product called ETS Plus for Plants from Perelandra and it's supposed to help them sprout faster.
Finally, since Spring keeps battling with Jack Frost and it's making us all a little depressed, as we really want some fresh local produce from the farmer's market, I did a week of cooking from Bon Apetit--no easy feat! The food was delicious but the prep and mess about put me over the edge. I made asian chicken salad with snow peas, cucumbers, spinach, bok choi, and a ginger lemon soy dressing; cilantro pancakes with raita, souffle, and the grande finale for supper tonight was coconut ricotta pancakes with ginger syrup and pineapple banana garnish. That was fun because we had the whole process of opening the coconut and drinking the juice and then removing the flesh, cleaning the shell so Kai could play with it, then grating/blending the coconut. It was a family affair to make the pancakes since there were so many steps. Jevon made the syrup, Kai and I mixed the batter and he helped me beat the egg white and then Jevon sliced the pineapple. It was delicious! I don't have those photos loaded yet, and yes, I know--I won't be asked to be a food photographer anytime soon. I clearly have a few things to learn. The food tasted divine, even if it doesn't look that way.
More posts soon. The next one will include some of Kai's three-dimensional paper art, which is phenomenal!
