Lettuce!

We had our first harvest form the garden last week and the winner was: Lettuce! We actually had fresh from the garden lettuce 2 times last week and a few leaves of spinach! Delish!

Dining Room Art

I finally found the perfect art to hang on the wall in my dining room!  I have only been looking for 9 months and I finally found it!  I found the small frames at a garage sale yesterday, the large frame is from Ikea and the flowers are from an artist I found on etsy.

Here's the before:

And the after: 

Red and Black Invite Set

My baby tomato!

I'm SOOO excited, look at my first baby tomato!!!  My whole garden is going crazy, we have been getting so much rain!  I think my first harvest will be my lettuce, I can't wait...I'm going to give it a few more days!  I'll let you know how it goes...

Chevron Save the Date

Here's one of my newest save the date orders from etsy.  I love the colors she is using, these just turned out really nicely!  Here's the listing in my store: www.etsy.com/listing/91281701/100-chevron-save-the-date-postcards

I also updated tons of my pictures in my store, it's been a long time coming!!  I have just been so busy I have been neglecting my store, it's a wonder how I have even been getting orders with how badly it needed updating!  I'll be doing more spring cleaning on it over the next few weeks, so stop by and give me your comments on how it looks!

Watch My Garden Grow II

It's been raining a lot the past few days and my garden is just going crazy!  I can hardly wait for the first harvest!!

Below is the close up of the beans and peas!

And Here's my little helper, Atticus!

Watch my Garden Grow

It's amazing the things that make me excited at this point in my life!  I don't remember dreaming about having a garden and thinking how fun it would be, but the last couple of years I have really been wanting one.  When we were looking for a new house last summer, one of my main focuses was having a garden and finding a house that had a yard that would allow one.

I have fond memories of when I was a kid and my mom had a big garden, I would help her tend to it every once in a while...I remember it being sort of fun.  I think I enjoyed the flower gardening more back then though, I even used to take my flowers to the fair.

A couple of weeks ago, I took a few days off work to get parts of our back yard in order.  I completely demolished a flower bed, leveled it and then rebuilt it.  I planted some bushes and a lot of flowers in it, I can't wait until it grows in this summer!  I also went to Sam's and bought 2 garden box sets.  Each set contained two 3.5 foot squares, so I have about 14 ft. of garden.  It was about 90 degrees that weekend, so I decided to go ahead and plant everything!  I didn't really put much thought into there possibly being another frost, so keep your fingers crossed!

Here's what all I planted: corn, carrots, green beans, snap peas, lettuce, spinach, okra, tomatoes, peppers and strawberries.  I know that I planted WAY too much in the space that I have...but maybe that just means more of it will live!  haha!  It's growing in really nicely so far, here's the first picture of the season...I will post more as it grows!  I can't wait to show you all the first harvest of my crop!  :)

Here's a close up of my green beans and snap peas box...I'm pretty excited about this section of the garden. I plan on eating these right out of the garden...raw and maybe not even washed!  :)