Next Up On The Garden Crafts List

The kissing ball ornaments.

I can't decide whether to just paint the styro balls or dye the corn husks and cover them that way. Maybe I should just leave the husks as are to cover the styro? Hmmm...

I have lots of flowers dried and ready, including goldenrod for filler.

I still haven't decided on ribbon color yet, for pete sake!

Maybe I'll start with the bottom tassles and go from there on ribbon colors. I don't know. Red is probably out as it would clash with the dried flower colors. I have a nice earthy green. I love a nice navy I have, but not so good for Christmas?

Honestly, I've never been this indecisive on a craft project before! Anyone done these and have any tips?

Watching The Snow Fly & The Blogs Roll By

I could watch for hours. NOT good:

"Blogger Play will show you a never-ending stream of images that were just uploaded to public Blogger blogs. You can click the image to be taken directly to the blog post it was uploaded to, or click “show info” to see an overlay with the post title, a snippet of the body, and some profile information about the blogger who uploaded it."

Damn you blogger...damn you!

And it also serves to remind me that I asked child #4 to please take a pic of a couple caorrots I pulled the other day that were so twisted together they looked as if they were hugging. (my commitment to thinning leaves much to be desired). But did she? Nooooo. Couldn't be bothered. So now they're just withered strips of dull orange that aren't quite garden blog worthy any more. ~sigh~

We've had our first snow. Very depressing. Then again, we've had snow in October some years, so I guess I shouldn't complain. November and December are our cloudiest months of the year around here. I can feel the SAD coming on now. Ugh!

I have SO got to get my butt out there and collect some more calendula to stuff in some kitty litter to dry. They've made it through many freezes and a few bouts with the white crap, but how much more can they take? I'd best get them today - I don't think I'll push the envelope. Strange how it seemed I was drying all these flowers (and the cosmos drieded perfectly with this method!) and when I have them all done and piled together, it doesn't seem like I've done many at all! Maybe I won't have enough for the kissing ball/tree ornaments. I best get crackin'.

Kitty Litter Is A Wonderful Thing

Well, for cats and drying flowers it is. lol. Ok, and for planting pond plants (but only a certain kind!), and soaking up oil, and for slippery sidewalks, and, and...

I never tried flower drying that way before so thought I'd give it a wing. It worked great! I got much better results than I figured I would. Two weeks and voila! They came out perfect.

Well, maybe I'll just have to give some kissing balls a try.

:)