cleaning house

I hate cleaning. But the less I do on a regular basis, means the more I gotta do later...Attacked the kitchen today, preparing for baked bread for next weekend. I gotta little more to do in the kitchen tomorrow, then I gotta get to the craft area...That might take a couple weeks. I live in a teenytiny apartment, and the craft area is also the living area...which means that everything gets shuffled together.
Lots of crafting has been done by the way, but I can't show pictures until someone receives the package I sent for a craft swap...Hopefully by Monday she'll get that, & I can show off what I made. And because I'm lazy, I'll wait to take & post pictures of current projects till then too. I learned how to do these by the way!

upcoming craft spree

Wondering why I call this "craft blog awesome" when you haven't seen a craft post outside of gardening in months? It's true, I've neglected my knitting needles and embroidery hoops in the last few months, and I still have 2 scarves in progress, but I have been dabbling here and there, writing, and drawing mostly. Also I recently discovered the craft addiction that comes with "swapping," so I guarantee you will see some things soon.

This is one of those fortune teller things I learned how to make in like 4th grade, that I recently made in a paper craft swap for midsummer. It says Earth, Air, Water and Fire around the outside.

The inspiration came from here (pintrest).

I also made some ATC's (artist trading cards) but lost the pics I took (you can see the very upper corner of one in the pic above, I think that was a poem by Shelly, with a watercolor flower). That takes me to new ATC's I'm working on and plan to finish by this weekend. Expect more pictures soon!
And I just signed up for a new swap, but won't be able to post pictures until I send out, close to the end of the month. ...Well, maybe I'll post teasers...
Anyway, thanks for reading!

Aphids are horrible creatures.

Lady bugs are apparently really good for the garden, so I'm off to Portland Nursery tomorrow after work to get a bunch to combat the aphids. Maybe it's a bit extreme but I'm sure the other gardeners in the building could benefit from them too. I just sprayed the Morning Glory and the Sage with soapy water which is somehow suffocating to aphids, but I'ma go out tonight to rinse them off as per the directions I read here. Also they don't like Basil much, weird because something has been munching on it. Slugs? I'll try putting pennies in that pot, a trick I heard off a craft board.
Mom, the tobacco spray sounds good, but it might be a waste of good tobacco too... :D
Urgh, I feel like they're all over me now.
Horrible horrible creatures.