The weekend...

Saturday was ... interesting. I was hoping to get heaps done - wedding dress fitting, visiting my grandfather and a makeup trial with a very generous friend but the only thing I got done was the wedding dress fitting. It was actually more than just a dress fitting - we ended up making a petticoat on the spot. I spent most of the day putting my wedding shoes on and standing (or wobbling) on a phonebook with my uncle (dressmaker) and my mum poking and prodding at me! We fixed my corset as it was doing a rather poor job of enhancing the cleavage area of the dress, fixed the neck line of the dress and shortened the train. I want simple and understated but unfortunately my dear uncle is more of the princess poof and cathedral train kind of dressmaker. He's probably very disappointed but simple and understated is my style. My mum reminded him that I'm not a dress kind of girl - I'm a pants and jeans kind of girl. I'm going to struggle with the little train I've got!

Seeing the dress up there on the hanger - it was pretty scary! It suddenly struck me hard that this is really really happening ... that in less than 2 months I will have a different name and legally "belong" to someone else! Scary scary stuff! But exciting too I have to admit. Can't wait for the big party that I'm sure my reception will be. At last count - 100 people have RSVP'd in the affirmative! Wow! I designed and hand made all my invites and am doing the same for my table numbers and placecards. They look great but god that is going to be a lot of work!

I hope the rain we've been having will result in a garden boost - the most I've done is go and pull some grass out from between my lettuces.

Vegie Vigor?

My pumpkin plant - has only produced 2 female flowers so far ... tiny ones too

We had a few really warm days which I knew would mean rain! So I got in there and planted some seeds. The ground was really dry by this point which meant I had to give the ground a good soak ... I admit I was REALLY naughty and used the hose. But in my defence ... I hadn't watered the garden in a few days and my partner and I NEVER wash our cars or clean around the outside of the house with water and I usually use a watering can! I know I need to start collecting our dishwashing water to use now that I have bought an environmentally friendly dishwashing detergent. I'm really suprised at how good that detergent is! I bought a bottle a few months ago and I was so suprised how long it lasted and how little I needed to use. The next detergent we bought was a Palmolive one and that went so quickly! I was worried about using that on my garden but will definately be doing it now that we've got this eco-detergent.

The lettuce seedlings that I planted got fried! I watered them every day and they looked beyond redemption and I almost wrote them off. I thought I would give the Seasol I had bought and never used a try. I think I put twice the amount I needed though ... 2 capfuls to 9L of water .... oops! But the next time I watered the plants I noticed that my lettuce was definately recovering! I watered the lettuce, my herbs and my orange tree with it. I think the orange needs a different kind of feed though ... it's growth progress isn't what I expected but at least it'st still alive! There are new little green shoots coming out from under where I assume the graft took place. Not sure what I should do with them ... pull them off or let them go. New growth is new growth! It would pain me to cut them off.

My poor little orange tree

I really need to get a border for around my garden ... I think it needs something solid like wood so I can heap the mulch up after I get it but W wants to put some green wire edging up ... grrr ... oh well - I'm guessing I'll get my wish sooner or later.

The garden I scratched out from the weeds!

This mango tree was planted by the tenants before we bought the place,

you can see the passionfruit vine going across and over the fence

Thyme and parsley

One of my recovering lettuce seedlings

One of the first passionfruits

Cucumber seedlings?

I spilled some seeds near the edge of the garden edging and I thought I might as well leave them cause the dirt was wet - I didn't even cover them with dirt! These popped up and I think they are cucumber! Can't wait to see how they grow ... if they end up looking like weeds out they will come!

3rd post!

I have been so slack in posting anything ... mainly because I've been busy with planning the wedding as well as living my life. Unfortunately, just before Christmas I fell sick and was let go from my job. Ever since then I have been looking for a new job - not easy at all with the state of things at the moment.



To change the direction of my blog - I'm just going to blog about whatever happens in my life. The wedding is not the be-all and end-all and I think far more interesting things are happening to me in my every day life.

So on Saturday we held my Bridal Shower/Birthday party (I know ... slightly wedding related but not totally! :) ). I organised it all myself as my MOH is my little sister ... who seems completely uninterested in the whole thing. I planned the cocktails and canapes we were going to serve and I left all the games to her. I did up my own shower invite and sent it to her to email/mail out. I'm one of those annoying people who tries to be super-organised. Everyone was asking if they could give me a hand but I had it under control. We had so much fun making the cocktails - and drinking them! There were some hilarious stories from when we were all younger and I hope everyone had as much fun as I did. Once I get some pics, I will try and post them here to get my blog moving.

I hope that my next few blogs will have something about my budding vegetable garden in them - I've designated tomorrow as "Seed planting Day" ... not looking forward to making myself get out of bed after staying up till 3am! I punish myself...