It´s difficult…..

To stay inside!

With all of this going on in the garden,

My very FIRST hibiscus of this season!!!

Love, love, love this "shabby" Rose, and there are lots more on there!

The gorgeous combination of bright red and bright green on this Bottle Brush…

The pink of this one, that is popping up like weed! 

They where originally white when I planted these last summer(forgot their name). 

And now they are all over the place in yummy pink! YES, like weed, but in a good weedy way…

Purple and white that goes on for months, if you take out the dead ones that is!

And of course the good old Red Rose, Big and fragrant.

This is the first year that almost every thing looks  very much alive and comes to bloom.

The goats have not yet found a way in at the upper part of the garden, let´s hope it stays that way!

I have been waiting for this for 4 long years, and every single time the goats came in before I got to see all this loveliness that I bought, planted and took care off.

  Meanwhile…… at the bottom part where I did the weeding for a week straight, there is a climbing Rose that was doing really well, full of leaves, no buds yet but full of live. 

And yesterday I found it half eaten…..

I was devastated, shattered, disappointed, they even were some tears involved!

Screaming!, that I would just open the gates and never look at the garden again!

 There was a part of the fence that had been blown away by the storms we had all winter and most likely it came in through there.

I hope so, because if not there, I don´t no how anymore…..

Lemon Project nr 2

This time I made a Lemon Poke Cake from my Pinterest page

All Things lemony

At first I did not understand what Poke Cake actually was…. but when I started making it, I got ;-)

The recipe is from Ashton at the SomethingSwanky blog.

She does desserts & designs with really clear tutorials of how to use PicMonkey for your blog

 Go check out her blog please!

After baking a lemon cake I followed her recipe except for the "cool whip" Not available in these parts. But use normal whipped cream with extra sugar instead and changed the white chocolate for dark.

The Lemon Curd is the best! So simple to make and definitely a keeper!

It turned out really nice! 

Although still tweaking the lemon rind and juice proportions in every recipe. 

There have been some failures already!

Next time I will use less rind , put a bit of sugar in and may even try to water the juice down a bit because it can be a bit to LEMONY.

The left over Lemon Curd has a little tag that got a little stamp that I made.

( Cocalores has a tutorial for it!)

Waiting for a new project in the fridge.

I hope you will try it and when you do,

Please let me know how it turned out!

Hasta Luego Chicas!

Still under attack!

Still under attack…..

But in a good way!

See, I have this pin, I´ve pinned it over a year ago and as off yesterday it´s been repinned like crazy for some reason that I can´t explain!

Let me introduce you to my most repinned pin….

Although it is cute…. very cute, is it over 500 repins cute?

I am just sayin´, is it a great picture with the right colors to attract pinners to it?

It is a bit small too isn´t it?

Or is it just working on your imagination of how great a place like this would be to sit in, enjoy the fire and just look around at all the beautiful flowers….

Not that I am complaining or anything, I am very happy about it!

But I was just wondering could this also be spam?

Oh well, if you like it too, just  go ahead and click at the picture and you will be whizzed off to my pinterest page and you can join in with the crowd!

PS. The weeding at the bottom of my garden is done!!! Yeah me!

Now still 3 more parts to go…..

Seeds are showing there little heads, bulbs are showing sign of live as well and pretty much every plant that I have right now, in a pot or planted is looking very promising at the moment.

FINALLY after 5 years of gardening my hard works is starting to pay of.

Now if only I had a little corner like that dream garden pin…..

PS again,

Hopefully I can back into making posts soon!

Hi There!!!

I have been seriously busy the last couple of weeks and not having much time for making blogposts.

But here I am letting you know I am still here!

Working really hard in the garden, time flies when I start with weeding, 

you almost would think I like it…

This is my latest project, this is how I left it yesterday and started this afternoon

4 hours later I ended at the white arrow, thats about 10 loads in that black bucket next to the palm tree.

I need to go up a stairs to get it out so no need to workout these days!

The bad news is, by the time I get this finished ( still one other part to do) I can start all over again!!

I am trying to workout how I can keep up….

And I already mentioned it before but as of yesterday my blog has been under heavy spam attack!

All day and during the night I got hundreds of messages.

Before I got some in my mail box but hesitant to get the threshold installed for your comments I thought if this is it I can live with it. But day before yesterday the first one showed up on the blog, for everybody to see, and there is where I went WRONG!!

I wanted to delete it and saw the Spam option, so STUPID me choose that one.

I know better then that, I NEVER do this in my mail box, so why I did it this time….beats me.

But by report it as spam they got the confirmation that this blog is actually in use so computers lined up and decided to target 2 blog posts…..and overload my mail box with crap.

Soooooh, I am sorry but I have no choice to put word verification in between us, at least for a while and see what happens. I promise I will get it off soon to see if the spammers moved on!

But then

Something really nice happened yesterday…..

I got a message from a friend that there was a package delivered for me….

I did not order anything so was very curious to collect it.

(We get our mail and packages delivered at a friends store, otherwise we never get anything delivered!)

To my surprise my HB got me a new camera!!!!!!

Look at it, isn´t it beautiful?

It´s not something he does, ever…..

He is a sweetheart but getting me presents is not one of his strong points ;-)

So imagine my surprise, it´s cute, small, with a macro option, also has some effects build in, it even has WiFi!!

I am in Love!

Hopefully I can get a normal schedule back soon and get out of the garden and get back to making stuff and getting this camera up and running!

Hope you have a super-duper weekend chicas!!

                                               

Funky Cover

Today I FINALLY finished a project that has been moving around in my room for over a YEAR!

Over a year ago we finished our little  "lemon"patio next to the living room and we came up with an idea to create shade without having 2 parasols on there.

The poles were in the way of placing the furniture, the wind got underneath and they would fly off and when the sun moved we had to move everything with it.

So we dreamed up a system to have a large piece of fabric on cables, hooks, rings, poles and what have you. We proceeded to buy all those things.

On sale I bought 4 shower curtains and stitched them together…….

and right here is where the story ends, over a year ago.

HB was not feeling it and did not want to start something that he was not happy with so we went into a store and bought a full electric sunscreen that was connected to the wall and had a sun and wind sensor.

Problem solved :-)

I cannot believe it took me all this time to make this cover for the outdoor sofa. 

Last year I had already came up with the idea and even laid the whole thing out and thought of how I was going to do this.

And when I figured it all out, I folded it all up and took it to my room to leave it there and move it around from corner to table to cabinet to chair to under the desk etc.

But today was the day, did not plan it, just did it, took me a total of 45 minutes…………

Yes, it´s that simple!

Cannot believe it took me this long….

It looks a bit bigger because I am planning on getting those pool noodles 

on the armrests to protect the wood for when it does rain.

This cover is mainly for covering up at night. 

Living so close to the sea, everything gets a bit humid during the night. 

Covering it up means that I do not have to get all the pillows and stuff inside every day.

Today I put every thing in summer mode out side.

I have been working really hard in the garden and I need a change of schedule.

It can get a bit boring pulling weed 2 weeks in a row and still not done.

And we are hitting over 25 dgr this week, so I want my hangout spots all ready to crash and relax.

Still so much to do!

Are you all ready for summer? Or is the weather still being all weird on you?

The Lemon Project

As of today I am starting a new project!

The Lemon Project

 On a irregular basis I will post something that I made with lemons.

 I have this lemon tree on my patio.

It´s loaded with lemons and I am collecting recipes for a while now and now is the time to start picking them, there are wayyyyyyy to many to leave on there and new ones are already in the making!

I have a pinterest board called All things Lemony

And planning on using my lemons for those pins and let you know if they worked out or not.

They are not just cakes! I plan on cleaning, making facial spray etc. with lemons

I will post irregular on this project because not planning on eating a cake a week

for obvious reasons ;-)

This is how the tree looks today

as you can see it is packed!

The first thing we do each year is make lemon juice and poor it into those ice cube bags and store them in the freezer. So when it gets really hot in July and August I have a jar with water and some Lemon ice cubes in it in the kitchen.

 Not in the fridge,  just on the table. Not only for easy reach but

It´s much better for your body to drink water at room temperature then it is to drink cold water!

So first one in the lemon project is the easiest one!

I do not have a recipe for this one…

2 pictures tell it all.

I use 4 cubes per liter water, but that is just a matter of  personal taste.

I do however think that these little lemons are way more lemony then any store bought one!

 So there you have it, the first lemons are of the tree and put to good use!

If you have a great recipe or other use for lemons please let me know! 

I will be happy to try it out!

Spring

It´s definitely not winter anymore!

The sun is trying really hard to shine trough the clouds

Today I made some pictures of these little black berries

They slowly turned in 5 months from green to white and then black.

They are from the garden and came off the Fatsia Japonica.

It´s now time for  more colorful flowers

JiPPPPIE!