A Jar of Twine

   Last night I was bored to tears. My kids went on an impromptu visit to Boone with my Mom and Dad and Husband was out of town on business.
  The Lord asked a few days before that I take a 3 day fast from regularly scheduled programs (aka my T.V. addiction). So what's a girl to do? Organize a closet? Catch up on laundry? Clean out the fridge?
                  Why, of course not. I'll roll twine around a Mason jar and take a ton of pictures of it!

When I began, I was hoping to avoid burning off my fingerprints using the hot glue gun so I

experimented by looping the beginning under to secure and then hiding it by going over it again.

It held tightly.

I kept trying to snug each time around up to the former but it occurred to me to wrap a bunch of

times and then push them up tightly. Hello.

Wrap.

Push.

The bottom was tricky so I just left it since it matches the top anyway.

(Plus Made in the U.S.A. is still visible!

Booyah!)

I added one drop of hot glue to finish.

Now what to do with this 15 minute project?

I know! Stack another 10 minute project on top...

This......

hot glued to this.

Topiary wanted to be with it's own kind.

This is what used to be in this space by the front door.

now this...

Who Needs True Green?

 I found a lovely little container at the Thrift Store recently. I gave it a coat of white paint (it was an ugly patina red before), put some rocks in the bottom and soil on top.

I threw in some wheat grass seed and wah-lah...

                              These seeds sprouted within days! I think the picture above is like the 3rd or 4th day.
                                                                                True WHO?

                                           And this was the 6th and after a haircut.

(Check out the border in the background. I am in the process of removing it but lost my umph when I realized there is no avoiding bruised armpits reaching over my "beloved" oak cabinets to scratch and claw dated border. Sigh.

Speaking of which, I finally have husband convinced to let me paint the oak cabinets white. This is a MAJOR feat on so many levels.

One, he's a mountain boy.

Two, he's a wood loving man and

Three, he admits that he doesn't envision things very well and

he's asking me when I'm going to do it!

Now normally, I would be on that like a fly on a cow patty, before he changed his mind but this falls about midway on the priority list and anyway, if it doesn't turn out I can always say,

"well, YOU kept begging me to do it!"

Okay, sorry to veer off but if you've read this blog one hot second, you know how I love a tangent.)

Isn't it cool?

I could have sworn I saw the Easter Bunny puttering around in there this morning!

Barely grass has tons of nutritional properties. I intend to juice it since I'm trimming it every 4 days or so anyway but haven't tried it yet.

If you want to try this, get wheat grass seed online or at the health food store. 

Soak the seed in water and change out the water every 12 hours or so for 2-3 days or until it sprouts.

Spread the seed generously over soil and lightly cover with more soil. 

Water often. 

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Slapping Together a Topiary

                                   I found this bag of stuff at the Mighty Dollar. 

I hotglued it to this styrofoam ball.

I prowled the yard for a straight stick. This one called to me from

my neighbor's side of the fence so I snatched it!

The pretty goblet, I found at a thrift store.

I stuck the stick in plant styrofoam and packed in faux moss.