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You Say Potato I Say Potato

I planted my potatoes in fabric pots the other day. The pots themselves are Potato Bins from Gardeners Supply but they can also be purchased directly from the manufacturer, Smart Pots. These bins are 15 gallons and should hold 10-13 pounds of potatoes by seasons end. We will see. This is my first year growing potatoes and I was unable to get the ones I wanted. No one ships to Idaho, funny as this is often called the potato state. But apparently Idaho doesnt want any new diseases for their main crop. I guess I cant blame them, it just puts a crimp in my ordering plans.

I planted:

Red LaSoda
Yukon Gold
Red Norland

I will keep you all posted as to how well these grow. I havent moved them outside yet but plan to today or tomorrow. For now, they reside in the new garden shed/room. Love that space! I put 5 seed potatoes in each bin, mine didnt have tons of eyes so I left them whole. The wind has finally ceased today so we are out to work on the new huge garden area, (intimidating garden area). My husband is a saint as he has tilled even in the wind. I would not even go outside in those conditions.

You Say Potato I Say Potato

What You Think You Become

Im not certain of the exact origin of this quote, but I think it

speaks the truth...

what do you think?

What You Think You Become

Surround Yourself With People Who Inspire You

I think this is so true!

What do you think? What types of people do you like to surround yourself with?

Id love to hear what you have to say.

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Surround Yourself With People Who Inspire You

You Win Some You Lose Some

Does anyone remember my Great Potato Experiment of 2009? Well it was not as successful as the Smartpot claimed it would be.

I ordered these cloth pots from Gardeners Supply this past winter. Their sales pitch sold me and it made sound, logical sense to grow in a container that would do the root pruning for me and yield 10-13 pounds of potatoes per bag. Hah!

My pototes grew beautifully and I was so sure that they were full to capacity in there. They got so tall I was worried they would fall over before they were supposed to.

The directions say that when the greenery starts to die back they are ready to harvest. So harvest we did.

Doyle dumped the grow pots into the wheel barrow and Maecy and I dug for the potatoes I was so sure were in there. Of course like most teenagers, Maecy wasnt on board with helping but my hubby reminded her that this was just the same as Easter but the eggs were under the dirt. Reluctantly she agreed to be helpful. Sometimes my husband cracks me up. Sometimes, not so much.

I will say that we had plenty of marble sized tubers in there. It was a sad day in potato land for sure.

We ended up harvesting 27 pounds of Yukon Golds, Red LaSodas, and Red Norlands. Not great but not a total failure.

Next year we will plan to plant them in the ground. I can hill potatoes the old fashioned way. My lazy mans way out was not what I had hoped. Sometimes my experiments are first rate and a staple for me and sometimes they arent quite what I had them chalked up to be. This was one of those ones. But oh well, I do live in the Potato State, I can probably find a decent potato if I have to. Better luck next time!

You Win Some You Lose Some

You Too Can Be A Famous Artist!

You too can be a famous artist!

My Salvador Dali stash

Hope you all had a great holiday!

You Too Can Be A Famous Artist!

Life Isnt Happening To You Life Is Responding To You!

Life is not happening to you, but is responding to you.

What do you think?

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Life Isnt Happening To You Life Is Responding To You!

The BEST Christmas song you may have never even heard

Hello! I cant believe it is the last day of November! I think my Halloween costume is still slung over a chair somewhere. Hey - dont judge! LOL

So we were driving in Disney World in December two years ago and listening to the Orlando Christmas radio station. We are just talking and driving and all of a sudden we just stop to listen to this enchanting song on the radio. We didnt even think to SHAZAM it - one of the greatest inventions ever - and panic set in as the song was at the end. We were trying to remember lyrics as we just had to Google this. We searched "holiday night" and BOOM it came up right away!

Listen to it here... Holiday Night!

Her website is here!

Funny disclaimer: I consider myself a self-proclaimed expert on all things Christmas! :-) Music, movies, TV shows, trivia, you name it. Some people just have that innate holiday disposition built into their DNA and I am definitely one of them. So when I hear a new carol I had never heard, it always makes me stop and listen. Im like a holiday sponge who needs to know it all. Yes this is me below - a Christmas sponge. haha

Well we found the song! The artist is Margo Rey and the song is called Holiday Night! OMG it is seriously one of my most favorite songs ever. It is so ingrained in my being that I find myself randomly singing it in like August! LOL seriously. My boyfriend and I spontaneously dance to it in the kitchen and I even hear him singing it to himself doing random chores. Love that! As I read through her posts and blog, I found out she is also a fellow 2x cancer survivor! OMG - what are the chances? Now this songs means even MORE to me. It shows that cancer doesnt kill everything or everyone. Never give up hope for sometimes it is all we have left! *BELIEVE*

Im not quite so sure why I felt the need to write a post regarding this but I did. When something brings me so much joy, I just feel the need to share. She is not my sister or cousin, etc. so Im not writing this post because I simply LOVE this song. When it comes on, I can actually feel the lyrics! I think of a holiday night which can be December 2, December 13, December 24, and even those precious post-Christmas pre-New Year nights when the holiday spirit is still abundant but the hustle and bustle (and pressure) of Christmas is no longer.

I imagine people dressed in their Kate Spade and Ralph Lauren holiday finery. And a glorious table set in anticipation of a delicious feast! Lest we not forget the roaring fire to greet guests coming in from the winter chill.

Kate Spade New York 2014 - My fave dress!

I miss these old Tommy Hilfiger ads! What a sartorially splendid bunch!

I see a mini movie play out in my head as the song unfolds and I see the people arriving to a beautifully decorated home complete with the smell of a holiday feast in the air and snow gently falling outside. I see hugs and kisses and hear the clinks of the toasting flutes. I just wanted to share this with you.

Im sure we all have those carols that speak to our hearts. I love White Christmas by Bing, All I Want For Christmas Is You by the Queen of Christmas, Mariah Carey and the instrumental version of Sleigh Ride by the Boston Pops! But I love all holiday music and it is on non-stop from November to basically the 26th of December.

Thank you for indulging me to gush about this song. Please give it a listen and let me know what you think. Or just tell me about your favorite holiday carols. I would love to hear - remember, Im a yuletide sponge! ;-) Happy Holidays!

The BEST Christmas song you may have never even heard

Organic Gardening for Beginners You Can Start An Organic Garden Too!

No matter what people say about organic gardening, theres nothing more important than you and your familys health.

As you may have knew or guessed it, organic gardening does not involve the use of chemical fertilizers which reduces the risk of Cancer, Birth Defects, Infertility and many other health problems.

Many know of such problems but they do not want to prevent it UNTIL it happens to them. Sad, isnt it? You may argue that money is important than health or equally important.

What Im trying to convey is, dont wait till the problem happens to you and then prevent it but prevent it before it happens to you. I hope Im not confusing you. That is why I would say go organic now.

I cant stress the importance with words.

To learn how to start your own organic garden with detailed step-by-step guide within weeks, click on the link below because even you as a beginner can start an organic garden too!

As you see in the photo above you can have your vegetable garden as big or as small as you want it to be.

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Vegetable Garden photo by Salvadonica, Chianti, Tuscany

Organic Gardening for Beginners You Can Start An Organic Garden Too!

Woodworking Plans The way you use Select and also Bring These

plans wood

Similar to assignments, woodworking projects normally require "plans in paper" so that you can get the job done you are attempting to attain. The greater complicated the work, the extra likely its that youll want more in depth plans as a way to discover how to full your hard work.

When operating, you will require particular equipment to have the design of the work shown within the plans. For example, it is extremely helpful to offer an precise structure to adhere to when you use a new browse found to make naturally hourglass models.

The top plans of these varieties of tasks, will incorporate drawings, photos, blueprints, and sure the boomed type of the finished task so that you can discover in which every component should certainly proceed. There are numerous free of charge plans online nevertheless the very best plans are usually these you buy possibly on the internet or even in an outlet.

Where to locate Plans pertaining to Woodworking Projects In a lot of woodworking internet sites, you are able to typically discover totally free plans for assorted tasks. Those self same web sites will normally use a bigger selection of plans obtainable, however people is going to be kinds you will have to buy.

When looking for plans, you might like to obtain a number of the bundles involving plans that will provide you with a many options for not merely the sort of undertaking youre anyone searching for, and also, other individuals you might like to total later on. These greater deals involving plans may include from shelving for books, for you to hen residences, for you to kids toys and games, as well as good furniture. Merely variety what you need to your favored internet search engine and you are planning to uncover greater than you thought possible.Together with obtaining woodworking projects on the web, in addition there are a good amount of top quality publications just loaded with plans and directions with regard to developing woodworking projects of all sorts.

Maybe you might even locate guides with this issue within your community open public selection totally free. In any other case, any local book shop or perhaps the big e-book sellers on the web can have a sufficient option for you.Woodworking plans may differ coming from assignments which can be quite easy to prospects with lots of specifics. In case you are merely how to get started figuring out how to construct items via wood, you might find one of several less difficult plans more pleasurable to work with. Over the years and also you find more capabilities throughout woodworking, and they are convenient studying many different different varieties of plans, you should scholar way up to be able to more difficult assignments.

A few of the least complicated assignments to be effective in initially may well be a bluebird home or perhaps a basic holder birdfeeder. Irrespective, generally look for the best full plans regardless how hard as well as effortless the work will be when you.

If assembling your project is not hard, it ought to have always thorough plans. The very best plans are generally step-by- stage plans which usually teach you which in turn area of the venture to accomplish along with which usually purchase. Since you know a photo will be worth One thousand words and phrases, your plans you acquire would be wise to get great pictures as well as photos to tell you what exactly you have to be undertaking. You might want to begin a unique declare all your plans also in the event you want to develop which task yet again sometime as well as demand it regarding guide when maintenance on your own end product are generally ever before required.

Another excuse to avoid wasting aged plans, is usually to make it simpler if you think about some thing innovative to increase a preexisting venture in order to alter one out of somehow to really make it much more well-designed. At times, merely straightforward information or perhaps in proportion alterations in proportions can create a task are employed in an easy method for the specific requirements.As the experience boosts, and also before long, you need to generate something on your own. You will discover that is not so difficult and also simple enough to accomplish when you have a few encounter. You may start off basically pulling images of your respective end product. It wont should be difficult, a fairly easy drawing can do.

And then on more research from the undertaking themselves, you are going to apply your proportions on the items of the work.Following, you will have to select the kind of wood most suitable for the particular task. So now, after gratifying on your own that the sizes are usually exact, you may be able in order to estimation just what you simply must obtain to accomplish the work along with what you will be charged.When you have components you will need, it will likely be time to pull better plans that is simpler to stick to even though developing the work. Reference other plans, and see exactly how very first the types of materials are generally shown, generally using pictures products these components in fact appear to be. Your particulars are often then the particular step-by-step method to conclusion. At the same time measures really should have drawings as well as blueprints of the items comes about in that action and exactly how the work will want to look once the stage is done.

Very good plans will be the foundation once and for all woodworking projects. In case you stick to the methods earlier mentioned, you will be aware which other folks may stick to guiding as well as full the work youve got created. To know, you might like to change the woodworking pastime in your individual tiny pad company.Discover directly all of the plans obtainable as well as down load a no cost woodworking guidebook upon Judys preferred sites. Find out more about the utilizing birdfeeder plans wood to take wild birds on your yard

Woodworking Plans The way you use Select and also Bring These

Nominated For A Blog Award Will You Vote For Me

I just found out that my blog, Dishfunctional Designs, was nominated for Amara Livings

Interior Blog Award for Best DIY & Crafts Blog! I would be so grateful if you would take

a minute and vote for me! Thanks so much, Laura

Nominated For A Blog Award Will You Vote For Me

Mother Nature Why Do You Hate Me

I was not very excited to see this scene this morning. Mother Nature has a cruel sense of humor or maybe none at all. I thought I had been good this year. I tried not to be mean to people, not even my family. I opened doors for people, I even donated my time on a few projects in my community. Why then, am I being punished? I had plans this weekend. I want to plant my cool weather crops. I intended to put the pea zig-zag in use. I even planned out how to build a nice little compost sifter. And now this. On a brighter note, it did melt over the next few hours and warmed up without blowing wind. These are all good things around here. You know what they say........ If you dont like the weather in Idaho, just wait a minute. Actually, my sister said they say this in Texas but according to the weather channel, they are probably saying it all over the nation. Hope your day was filled with sunshine and good dirt!

Mother Nature Why Do You Hate Me

My Second Chance As A Writer What Would You Do With A Second Chance

Hi friends! Have you heard about SECOND CHANCE? SECOND CHANCE is an exciting series on FOX about a disgraced sheriff who gets a second chance at life through dangerous, experimental technology that was secretly created by billionaire tech geniuses. Last week I had the opportunity to preview the pilot episode of SECOND CHANCE on FOX and it got me thinking about a time in my own life when I had a second chance. While most people think about second chances, I think they usually think about having an opportunity to right a wrong. My own second chance was at a writing career, and the story begins quite a few years back. I was always making some kind of art in college and throughout high school. I made jewelry and experimented with all different kinds of crafts; drawing, painting, stained glass, enameling, I even dabbled in quilting.

After a while I focused in on stained glass and jewelry, selling my work locally and then online on my own website. In any case, the time came for college and though I was basically doing art every single day – even if I wasnt realizing it sometimes – I was always set on a vision of myself as a writer. I was good at it. I love reading and writing so when it was time to pick a major I chose what I naturally gravitated towards, which was English, books, and writing. I thought briefly about an art degree but I remember thinking to myself, I already do art. I dont need to go to school for a degree in art, to make art! A few years later I had earned my Bachelor’s Degree in English, Professional Writing from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.

The funny thing is, throughout my years in college, aside from loving school and studying hard, the only other thing I really did was make jewelry and sell it. I did this not only because I enjoyed it, but because I had success with my sales. All of a sudden my jewelry was in demand. Even though I only sold it in small batches online, it always sold quickly, and so I did what any person would do, I kept making jewelry. It helped pay my way through college. I married soon after college, and had two children within the following couple years. I kept making jewelry. I was a full-time mom, so I wasnt able to go out and get a writing job, but I kept a daily journal and I enjoyed writing out the descriptions for my jewelry on my website, and any other type of writing that was related to my small but growing jewelry business. Fast forward a few years and there I was, creating my jewelry, happy with where I was in my life, but sitting on a writing degree that I had never used. Then one day, everything changed.

I received an email from a woman who worked for a publisher. She was an editor, and she explained that she had come across my jewelry in my online shop, shared it with some coworkers who also loved it, and then proceeded to ask me if I had ever written a book about my jewelry and if not, if I would be interested in writing one?

I was in shock. This couldnt be real. Editors dont usually seek authors to write books. Its the other way around! Especially in the craft industry, where everyone is trying to create something new and different and then pitch it to a publisher hoping to get a contract. I was thrilled. Ill never forget how I responded to her email; "...as a matter of fact, I happen to have a writing degree." I had come full circle.

Not only did I have a second chance as a writer, but I was using my degree to write a book about my jewelry. If it werent for technology, my online shop and this editors ability to find my work online and then email me, I wouldve never had this same opportunity. Who knows, I may have never had a second chance at a writing career. Science and technology can indeed change life as we know it. In FOXs series SECOND CHANCE, technology also plays a specific role in the show, it really made me think about how technology may help give people second chances at things in their lives in the future.

What would you do with your own second chance?

Read more about SECOND CHANCE, which FOX describes as,

”A thrilling new action-drama about a man brought back to life by two scientists playing god in the quest to save one of their own lives.

Seventy-five-year-old JIMMY PRITCHARD (guest star Philip Baker Hall, “Modern Family,” “Magnolia”) is a shell of his former self. A drinker, a womanizer and a father who always put work before family, Pritchard was forced to resign as L.A. County Sheriff for corrupt conduct more than a decade ago. Now, some 15 unkind years later, he is killed when he stumbles upon a robbery at the home of FBI Agent DUVAL PRITCHARD (Tim DeKay, “White Collar”), one of his two children. But death is surprisingly short for Jimmy, who is brought back to life by billionaire tech-genius twins MARY GOODWIN (Dilshad Vadsaria, “Revenge”) and her brother, OTTO (Adhir Kalyan, “Rules of Engagement”), founders of the social networking empire, Lookinglass.

Resurrected as a younger, better version of himself, with physical abilities of which he never dreamed, a re-animated Pritchard (Rob Kazinsky, “True Blood”) is given a second chance at life. What will he do with it? Will he try to repair the damage he did to his family? Will he embrace a new sense of purpose or fall prey to old temptations.”

Be sure to tune-in to SECOND CHANCE on FOX on Wednesday, Jan. 13, at 9/8c!

My Second Chance As A Writer What Would You Do With A Second Chance

Do You Know Etsy

I have been drawn to hand crafted, unusual, vintage pieces for a long time. Finding them locally is sometimes a challenge... A great source for these pieces is shopping online through Etsy. Etsy is a marketplace where people around the world connect to buy and sell unique goods. You can find fabrics, vintage objects, handmade creations, bags, furniture, jewelry, pottery, paintings - pretty much anything you can think of!

Here are some of the items I've found and fallen in love with:

SHOP: FROGGOESTOMARKET

Do You Know Etsy

Ecodom Could you live in your garden office

The housing crisis in the UK is such that the spaces we normally showcase here on Shedworking are now being looked on as actual living space. Ecodom is putting one of its Bristol-based properties up for auction later this week - at 12 sqm it comes "fully equipped with kitchenette, shower room and living space with fold down bed" and a guide price of £8,000 which is admittedly a lot less than most first-time buyers will spend. --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Ecodom Could you live in your garden office