In other news, I am currently working on a gigantic market bag.  This is only the bottom and a tiny bit of the sides.  I don’t think the picture does it justice.  It’s really quite big.

This baby is going to hold ALLLL the groceries!

I haven’t decided whether to felt it or not.  I don’t have much experience with felting.  Well, at least not intentional felting; I’ve definitely shrunk my share of woolen items.   This bag might be a good candidate for experimenting, since it’s so huge that, even if I overdid it, it wouldn’t stop the bag from being useful.

Also, I had a stroke of brilliance and repurposed this wine box as a yarn holder.  It’s so perfect, as the little flap for the spout opens up enough to get a skein in there and then closes up enough to keep it secure and tangle free.  I can’t wait to empty more boxes of wine so that all my skeins have homes

In goes the yarn...

...NO MORE TANGLES!!

Honestly, I want one bad.   I love the elliptical trainer and I love to bike standing up.  This thing was seriously made for me and I think the inventor is a genius.  Now who will cough up the $2,200?  I AM turning 30 in a couple of months…

Is the Elliptigo...

…the new Segway?

The only thing is that I’ve never grown my own tomatoes, or anything edible, for that matter.  So, this is all new to me.

I went to the garden shop and spent 600kr (like 70 bucks!) on pots, soil, tools, etc.  Ummm….I’m not sure we spend that much on our tomato budget in a calendar year!  So I’m looking for ways to reduce the cost of testing out my green thumb.

I found this free project to make an inverted planter on instructables. I can only find 1.5 liter bottles here in Sweden, which might be a bit small for a tomato plant, but we’ll see.  Rossen is going to plant his little basil sprouts on the top.

I’ve also repurposed G’s baby bath tub as a flower bed.  (Thanks for the idea, Sarah!  She turned hers into a mini-greenhouse when raising the seedlings.)

Anyone got other suggestions on how to set up container gardening on the balcony for super cheap?   Or hints for keeping the plants happy?

Can’t wait to update with pictures of our first harvest

]]> http://quartercup.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/tomatoes/feed/ 2 59.345109 18.052178 59.345109 18.052178 rapostolova Tomato seedlings bottle inverted planter tomato plants planting helper http://quartercup.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/vote-for-my-critters-2/ http://quartercup.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/vote-for-my-critters-2/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:05:08 +0000 Rachel http://quartercup.wordpress.com/?p=118 ]]> Last minute plea for votes.

Bunbun

, Oden the owl, 

Belinda,

and Poppy

love you and want you to vote for them in the Lion Brand yarn contest on instructables.com.  If I win, I get $25 worth of yarn and a goodie bag from instructables.

But mostly I just want that warm, fuzzy feeling

I suck at knitting.

But I am OK at crochet.

And I’ve always wanted to knit because it’s much more versatile than crochet.  It can also be more refined.

See following examples of things that are possible with knitting, not so much with crochet:

From Lion Brand

I can’t wait to check the tutorials on Knooking.com and trying my hand.

The orange didn’t turn out very orange-y but otherwise I liked the idea.  I think if I did it again I would use something to make the black lines straighter.  Or maybe electrical tape or something.

I’m excited about this because I can keep track of my good work, an excellent motivator.  And I won’t be able to just kind of forget about my plan, as there will constantly be reminders popping into my inbox.  There aren’t exactly complicated stats to build around this, but a simple graph showing what I’ve done is satisfying enough.

I plan to start a new habit on Tuesday:  sweets and alcohol only twice a week each.  Hmmm…I guess that’s two new habits.   Maybe I should take it slower…

I’m so excited to see what a clean house and body I will have in just three weeks!

He sits in his high chair, swinging his head from side to side to dodge the spoon and throws his finger goodies (that mommy slaved over) on the floor until we give in and let him get back to exploring the apartment.  Half an hour later he is clinging to my leg in tears.  Why?  He’s freakin’ starving!   I hope this is a phase and that it passes soon.  Aaaaa-noy-ing!

I actually cried a little bit, and not because the songs are sad (many of them are) but because I miss being young and carefree so much.  I was really cut out to be young and carefree.

Really.

I miss the days of drinking with my roommates whenever the spirit grabbed us, of taking that cute boy up to my room cause he happened to catch my eye, of dancing like a complete idiot because the song was good, of going to see a shitty band play in a basement just because they were playing.

Getting old sucks.