make something monday :: cactus garden

 Terrariums have definitely been popular for the past few years, I have seen so many amazing ones around the blogesphere especially as of late. But it wasn't until I popped into our local Anthropologie and spotted some sweet + simple ones recently that I thought I needed to make a few for our home.

Anthro is selling simple succulents in a glass jar with some dirt and rocks for FORTY big ones. They were truly adorable but for that price just something to admire in the store. After I left Anthropologie I walked over to Ravenna Gardens just a few stores down here in Seattle's University Village and found these tiny little cactus for $2-$4 bucks each. Perfect solution, I spent all of $15 and today my boys and I made a little cactus garden together.

The rocks and dirt were something I had on hand here at home and the candy jars on our piano were needing a little something. The sweet woman and Ravenna Gardens told me to plant these tiny succulents in a well drained pot with a hole in the bottom and water them about once a week tops. She said if I was to put them in  a jar because of condensation not to water them at all. We did give them a good spritz with a water bottle and left them in the sun after we planted them today but I will most likely take her advice and not really water them any more than that.

We had fun this afternoon enjoying the beautiful sun that finally decided to make an appearance here in Seattle. The one thing about us Seattlites - when the sun peaks out we really take advantage. It was a beautiful day and way to spend time with my little ones!

Happy Monday Everyone!

make something monday :: garden markers

I am not entirely sure that this counts as a *craft* today but after a having few days of beautiful spring sunshine here in Seattle I was in the mood to do a little something outdoors this afternoon. I have been sitting on a sweet gift certificate my Mom in Law blessed me with last year to Swansons Nursery - to be honest I was saving it for the vegetable garden I wanted to start this season but after the decision to sell our home and move it seems like a full blown garden isn't in the cards - total bummer.  But I thought I would do a few pots to get my spring juices flowing so we headed to the garden store as family.

I decided on just a few herbs, strawberries and peas. I hope to add some tomatoes and basil as the weather warms up. I had fun cleaning up our back patio a bit and getting my hands nice and dirty. I wanted to add some sort of garden markers to the several pots I filled - rocks and a sharpie did the trick today.

If I had really put my heart into it I would have drug out the paints and all to make my rock markers a bit more crafty but truthfully I wasn't really in the mood - my three year old was making a big enough mess (read - a large colorful pen mural on our carpet) and we are attempting to keep the house under control for potential buyers so I refrained.

I still long to one day get my vegetable garden started and maybe a few chickens too but that will all have to wait for at least another year. In the mean time I have been loving Kari's amazing posts on planting edibles specifically in the northwest I am bookmarking it for future reference - Kari you are my gardening hero!! And my little pots were just the thing to get me even more excited for this new season!

So what about you, what are you planting in your garden this spring?

Happy Monday Friends! xo