Frugal Friday #7 #FixThePlus #FollowFriday

Planted seeds in egg cartoon holder.

Seedlings

Last Frugal Friday I talked about growing yourself indoor herbs and left off saying we will explore making indoor starter kits and save a ton of money. When I grew my own back in Maine I planted seeds in empty egg shell cartons. What I think is so neat about the paper cartons is the biodegradable part of it. You can plant the whole little container holding your sprouts either out in your garden or inside in your planter. May is a good time to start planting.

My little sprouts.

Containers

This is what I like best for you can use your imagination. Like for instance, you could plant your seedlings in a discarded coffee pot. I just would put small stones or pebbles at the bottom of the pot or you can use fish gravel that has seen better days. Then you will have drainage and fertilizer.

I love clay pots.

So take one of your seedlings in your egg container, it will be quite moist by the time you are ready to plant. Fill with gravel about 1 inch tall, then the soil, then the seedling and there you have it. Put what ever you are growing in a nice sunny spot.

While I'm thinking about it I love what some people have done with old tires. The ones I've seen is they were painted, buried halfway with flowers in the middle. Looked pretty neat.

Nice sunny spot.

I hope I have given you a few ideas to play with. Gardening can be so much fun:)

What have you planted so far?

Brew'in in the Kitchen

Today will be about "homemade goodness". I was going through my photos and decided that today was Kitchen Time with Grandma Rose and weed out some of those photos of food and other strange ideas I come up with.
All has been tried and tested. Maybe these will give you some inspiration...or not. 

Inside my fridge after shopping more of a healthy way.

Homemade Mac & Cheese w/hamburger & tomato slices.

Homemade Mac & Cheese w/hamburger & tomato slices ready to go in the oven.

Mayo splat.

 Omg this picture was a mayo splat. There were 3 almost finished off Mayo jars in the fridge. I had a scoop on my spatula turning to tell hubbie that use up the old ones first...and SPLAT. I stood there a min. and we both started cracking up.

Homemade Quesadilla

The ingrediants for Quesadilla 

Serving Husband

The quick way to make Bacon Burgers & Fries. Takes 25 mins.

Sweet Potato to sweeten up Green Smoothies. 

Frozen Strawberries to make Green Smoothies or Daiquiris:) 

Because of back issues bacon and fries in the oven...bout 25 mins.

I was making the eggs when one of my eggs were twins!

The best way at least I think to thaw bacon or anything else. No more wet counters.

Crafting Shibori Looks Fun #FixThePlus *

Today has been quite the eventful day at least

from my perspective.

And it's not over yet.

Went to see Susan, my counselor this morning. I

really love that woman she is so much like me.

We have a lot in common which is always nice.

I have come a long way since February when I first started seeing her.

I loved what she was wearing so she introduced me to the wonderful world of shibori which I cannot wait to try out!

That's next on my craft list.

From what I understand, it's economical and easy.

Right up my alley for I have this glaring white cotton dress I'm 'dying' to try out!

Will let ya know for sure.

I just finish the American Community Survey so now I'm free for the more fun stuff.

So I got a new person to add on Facebook so I'd better get to that before I lose the piece of paper. Bye for now.

What do you like as a craft?