Under a Blue Moon

9.6.11

Just a quick post - This three day weekend has thrown me off and I keep thinking it is Monday.

Yesterday we celebrated a few birthdays in our family. For my two neices I gave them some beauty products and a little bit of green for their wallets. I wanted to do something different for the card.

I had some faux French postcards so I wrote my birthday wishes on the blank back and then I made vellum envelopes. Tied them up with a slender ribbon and added an embellishment.

I've seen something similar but tied up with twine and an old rhinestone brooch that I used as my inspiration. I think they turned out really cute.

Friday’s Favorites

Flickr Favorites (please click link to see the source of these beautiful images)

Lovely, do it yourself wire cloche (using dollar store elements)
Clever ways to cut up fruit: Watermelon, strawberries and kiwi (wish I had found these at the beginning of the Summer fruit season…)
Amazing transformation of an old side table, dresser and some wood trim
I'm not sure if it is the necklace I like or the photograph of the necklace. Both are gorgeous

We have a skunk that has crawled under our heating/ac unit and died. The smell is permeating throughout the house. Not a great start to the three day weekend. Much worse for the skunk, all things considered….

I hope everyone has a lovely Labor Day holiday (if you are in the States). Time to put away your white clothing and don more somber shades.

9.1.11

Things don't always go according to plan. In my head I am going to bake these adorable cookies, decorate them and then photograph them so they are just scrumptious looking.

Before you click on the link to the recipe and inspiration for today's post please let me tell you a little bit about these cookies.

They are called Lemon Crisps but they aren't exactly crispy – they are kind of chewy. Now the source of this recipe even said that hers turned out chewy too so I'm not feeling too discouraged about that.

I am kind of discouraged about my decorating skills.

And my cookie staging skills.

Okay go look at the original post on Whisk Kid: Inner Child – {Lemon Cookies}

But before you go – here are my first two batches (I could only go up from there…):

8.30.11

Fall Outfit by underabluemoon

I'm feeling a bit over the whole Summer thing. I'm REALLY over high 90 temperatures.

I'm ready for actual shoes (instead of flip flops) and long pants.

I want to drive up to Apple Hill and ooh over all the changing colors. I want my yearly apple fritter and to pick up a supply of apple butter and a pie to tuck into the freezer for later.

I want a certain crispness to the air and that feeling that the seasons are starting to change. The smell of burning leaves and pumpkin soup simmering on the stove.

I would also like someone to buy me that Mulberry Alexa bag.

Friday’s Favorites

Flickr Favorites (please click link to see the source of these beautiful images)

Sweet and easy way to customize a lingerie bag from Noodlehead
Wouldn't this be a perfect (and inexpensive!) way to decorate tables at a wedding reception. Or for a fancy dinner party for two? Sparkly vase
More sparkles – pretty backdrop for the food or drink table maybe?
Remember a while back when I said I wanted a Nissan Figaro? Well in the meantime I want one of these Fiats.
Fascinating story about bottle fermenting wine under the sea. Makes me want a bottle just to be able to tell the story.

Happy Friday everyone! I totally plan on relaxing and just enjoying one of the last weekends of the Summer. Hope you can do the same!

8.24.11

Our first tomato. Is it from the one gallon heirloom tomato variety it took me 45 minutes to pick out at the nursery? Of course not.

It is from a tomato seed pooped out by one of our intrepid, self-sustaining chickens. Of course her placement could have been a little bit better.

It's on a slope leading down to the chicken coop. On the other side of the coop we have a veritable garden of corn and other tomato plants popping up. We aren't cultivating those, however. This one Rick put a support around and we are watering it just to see what kind of tomatoes it produces.

In other gardening news we finally got the driveway circle planted. And by "we" you know I mean I picked out the plants and Rick did the actual digging and planting of said plants. All sixty of them.

The space has morning and late afternoon shade and direct sun mid-day. The hardest part was figuring out how to place the plants. We will have a crab apple tree as a focal point near the center and we wanted a variety of flowering shrubs and ground covers to provide interest throughout the year.

We still have some filler type plants we want to put in and everything needs to grow and fill in but it looks really pretty already (in my humble opinion). Please ignore the stack of firewood in the background. It will be removed in the next few weeks.

We'll have to wait until Spring to get our Crab Apple since the variety we want isn't available right now. For now we just have a stand in Crepe Myrtle to help with the placement of all the rest of the plants.

The only problem we have at the moment is keeping the chickens from digging up the smaller plants and for some reason Belle is totally smitten with the Scaevola Mauve Clusters and wants to lie on them.

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