Take that! High priced fruits and veggies!!
Since last year I have been bugging bugging bugging bugging (get the idea?) hubby to build me an above ground planter box. I could be one of those “I can do it myself” type of wifes. But honestly….I dont like to sweat!
FINALLY my super awesome, strong, handsome, beautiful, sexy husband built my box!! Now when hubby builds something. He gets all manly and BUILDS something. I just wanted a little planter box like this cute little planter box. Nope I got this manly 11 foot monster!!
(told ya he was sexy….meeeeowwww!!)
And since hubby is the greatest. He gave me free access to get whatever plants I wanted. But I do believe it had something to do with the guilt trip fact that I was unable to start from seed since I wasnt sure when he would get to my box. 
We did a potting soil, compost, manure (but if you say it man-errr, and fast, it’s so funny, that’s all we were doing yesterday!), and then on I put some black plastic mulch on top. Those bags are heavy, so we used our child laborers…….
I’m not sure how much Miss J was helping, but she sure was grunting up a storm and throwing around a lot of “oh my gawd’s”
After hubby got all of the ground level and grass gone. He placed the garden box in for me. I laid newspaper down, reading in that link above, that it helps with weeds and then just naturally decompose and enrich the soil. It was kind of ironic going to the store to buy a few newspapers to use at the bottom of my garden, the checkers thought it was funny…..the cover stories were about the killing of Bin Ladin. So I was going to bury him in my garden….ya ya…ha ha. Me too, I’m over it.
After getting all of my yummy dirt mixed up in my box. I was ready to plant!!! WOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!! Here is what I bought to plant and with any luck I WILL be able to say “TAKE THAT! HIGH PRICED FRUITS AND VEGGIES!”
- Cantaloupe
- Watermelon
- Strawberries
- Artichoke
- Zucchini
- Bell Peppers
- Corn
- Tomatoes
- Pumpkins (outside the box)
I am so proud!!
Miss J’s new room
Since we moved into our very own home (2 years ago) I have been wanting to paint. Anything! Something! Why? Because we COULD! Its OURS!
With some extra money we decided to tackle Miss J’s room.
1. She is the baby
2. Hoping she would love her room
3. with this new love she would want to SLEEP in her room
4. just to make it more “homey” for her
Her and I talked about it a lot. What colors she would want. Which character she would want to base her room on. Let me tell you, this simple conversation with a 4 year old took at least 2 weeks! In the end we chose Tinkerbell.
Hubby and I went to Home Depot, they have actual Disney Colors. I didn’t want to go with a fluffy pink. Tink is more green and purples. So I went with these 3 colors:
The green and purple to go on the walls and the yellow (for Tinks hair) to go on the ceiling.
Since spending so much on the painting supplies we really didn’t have the extra money to buy new decor for her room make over. So we just used what we had.
Here are the before…
I took this after taking down her curtains and moving her heavy bed in the middle of the room.
Her room had ZERO “homey” feel. I felt like I was depriving her.
And now for the after!!!!
We already had the Tinkerbell curtains. And I put up her Tinkerbell costume.
We already had the Tink decal. So I painted pixie dust from Tink leading down to a sleeping Miss J
Here is a close up of the pixie dust, I hot glued little rhinestones on them.
These were the other decals that we had. It’s a bit bare but I will add more at some point. 
This “little” project took me all flippen weekend. lol! It will be a while before I do another one of these little projects.
