Challenge for this weekend...

...origami!

...so easy for kids... and so hard for grown-ups? Having a look around the Internet for ideas on what I'll make - if I can actually manage any of it! Any successful results will be posted ;)

PS: here's an amusing but useless thought. The word origami comes from the Japanese verb "oru", to fold, and "kami", paper. So, basically, just folded paper. Looks easier than it is, in my humble opinion :P

Time, please?

I often wish I lived in a huge house -actually, make that a small, easy-to-clean house- with a huge garden. Unfortunately, some countries are better than others for that. At this point I'm not rich enough to be able to get a house with a garden, and if I was rich enough, chances are I wouldn't have the time to enjoy it! Now, when I say enjoy it... other people might think of sitting outdoors in summer with a can of cold beer. My idea of enjoying a garden is having the time to look after it yourself, keeping it nice and tidy, growing your own fruits and vegetables, and running around a bit. In the south of Spain it gets really hot during the summer, and most plants actually dry out, in my experience, except rosemary, olive and orange trees, even roses. Lawns, in my opinion, are a waste of water down here, (golf lawns... let's not go there!) and furthermore, the grass that grows here is so thick it's actually really itchy! Not fun... Unfortunately, I think my ideal garden is somewhere further north... *sigh* But I'll just cheer myself up admiring the lovely lumbergera flowers winter has blessed us with!

(Thoughts inspired by stress and some gardens I've seen online...)

Eek! Not updated for over a year!

Ok, this is really disgraceful :$ ... I hadn't updated for months and at the end of March, after the quake, I returned to Spain... and obviously the plants, which had not been doing that well (apart from the broccoli, I wonder if it's actually possible to KILL broccoli!)... well, that was the end of those plants :(

Anyway, now I'm back to work, and I really wish I had more time for crafts... so my New Year's Resolution is... well, let's not aim too high... let's just say get that purple and yellow fimo out of the drawer and get creative, as well as going back to crochetting / knitting after months of doing nothing!

So let's just say... if I get anywhere I'll show it on the blog. If you don't hear from me, I have broken the resolution :P

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Well, there's some sign of the carrot!

I never realised carrots would take so long to grow. Back in July we planted them. Just sprinkled them in a window box, which was apparently deep enough (after all, they were Japanese seed - from Korea I think, and there are really tiny carrots here!) So, stupidly enough I just sprinkled them all over the place, and for some reason, when they were just seedlings there were a couple of them round the edges and the rest all nicely lined up along the middle. It would've been nice if it had been along the middle, lengthwise, but unfortunately it wasn't. So after having tried to transplant (don't try to transplant carrot seedlings, they'll just die!) I just left the remaining leaves just as an experiment. I really should be more ruthless sometimes! 

You'll probably remember what they looked like back in September. They've just been looking exactly the same, but bushier. And just when I thought nothing was ever going to happen, today I discovered the tip of a carrot pushing it's way out of the soil! I tried to take a photo, but carrot leaves are green, the carrot itself is green, and I have a very shaky hand... so if it comes to anything I'll post a photo here ;)