Thoughts on future projects

I haven't blogged in awhile so I guess I should do a update. We have been busy trying to keep busy. We had a nice relaxing weekend. Well relaxing for us I guess. Saturday we lounged around for a few hours and then went up to the goodwill. I have not had any luck finding anything good since we got down here though. It seems like people take stuff to the goodwill that would be better off in the trash. I am specifically looking for a little shelf like this once I saw at Ikea. I want to see if I can find something similar and then paint it. I am really just being cheap though and will most likely go buy the shelf one of these days. This is the shelve that I saw at Ikea. I figured we could hang it up and put a little table underneath it. Phedora has this cute little tea set that is in need of a home and it would be perfect in here.

I am hoping to get a sewing machine in the next month or two. I cant wait to be able to make some stuff for the kids' rooms. My first project will be to make both the kids some curtains. I want to make Hayden some Thomas and Phedora Dora. I then want to make some curtains for the rest of the house. We have all these little windows that need a covering. But they are so small that I cant find curtains for them. Not to mention I am sure once I find them they will cost a small fortune. I have been looking at sewing machines but I am not sure which one I would like to get yet. So if anyone has one that they love I would love to hear about it.

I'm also going to plant a container garden out back. I need to look into a little more as it may be too late in the season. I want to plant some herbs and a few vegetables. Initially I wanted to rake all the rock aside in the back corner and plant in the ground. But the ground is so hard I think I would need a roto-tiller and I don't have one. Plus I imagine with the ground being so hard the soil is probably not the best to plant in. So since last year I was able to produce some vegetables out of the container garden I wanted to try again. Hopefully I can get that up and going this weekend. If not I may have to wait and just plant some pretty flowers. Which would be nice too.