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Indoor Gardening

Since we moved into our house a couple of years ago I've found myself wanting to get into gardening; both indoors and out. Having a cat that absolutely loves to eat plants and dig in dirt makes it hard to have plants inside the house. We found out, however, that small succulents and cactus that fit on the window sill don't interest Seymore. Maybe because of the lack of big leaves to chew on?

Either way, I've accumulated a few little plants for my window sill in the kitchen. But I want more! This year I'm hoping to add more plants to the house. Both in small planters for the windows, air plants, and hopefully some terrariums.

So air plants, have you heard of them? I was beyond intrigued when I read about them. They don't need soil to survive. They absorb their nutrients through their leaves. This means you can put them anywhere that gets sunlight and where there's good airflow! How cool do they look?!

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I'm still completely obsessed with adorable cacti and succulents. There are a few types that I desperately want to find (like the bunny ears cactus!). And eventually I'd like to make a terrarium with a bunch of them too. They're so incredible to look at.

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We know of two greenhouses near us that I plan to hit up as soon as they open this spring to check out their selection of succulents. I've always visited the greenhouse too late in the season and they're picked over. This is just another reason why I'm itching for spring to show up!

xo Jen
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Gardening

It's Summer time which means I'm obsessed with gardening again. We picked out all our flowers and vegetables at the garden centres last month and planted them. We've been having a bit of a hard time though because we have chipmunks who like to dig in our garden and rabbits and hares eating our plant leaves and flowers. It's becoming a challenge this year.

Last month we went out to Azilda Greenhouse to look around. I went home with a cactus but I fell in love with so many plants there. 


The newest cactus addition is on the left. I love it. 


Some of the annuals we bought are too cute. Like these little fuzzy flowers. There were a lot more I would have liked to have picked up but a lot of them needed full sun and our gardens don't get that much sun.


Last week our lillies started to open up and they're absolutely gorgeous. They're such a beautiful addition to our garden.


Right now we're monitoring our vegetable garden and keeping our fingers crossed that we get some tomatoes, peppers, and tons of peas and beans!

xo Jen
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5 Fandom Friday: Nerdy Hobbies People Don't Consider Nerdy

Happy Friday! This Friday's prompt had me stumped initially until I stepped back and looked at what my hobbies are...

1. Sewing


Sewing is a hobby that so many people don't know how to do. Most grandmas and some mothers have the skill set but my generation seems to be lacking the skills to mend a shirt or hem a pair of pants. So when I take my sewing skills and mix it with geeky fabric or vintage bed sheets, it equals out to one nerdy hobby that I have.

2. Baking


Baking is one of my favourite hobbies! Most people think it's great that I make cookies and cupcakes regularly. Little do they know, a lot of the recipes I make have some sort of geeky theme to them. They're just hidden to the less-nerdy eye. Take my Pokemon cupcakes I made for the anniversary, my family ate those up without even noticing the themed decorating. 

3. Gardening


Up until we bought our house I had very little interest in gardening. But now that we have a vegetable garden and two flower gardens I've become obsessed with looking up plants, zones, and soil types. I've become a giant plant-nerd. And now that I can hold a conversation with my parents about plants and flowers that onlookers would roll their eyes at, I'm seeing that I've taken on another hobby that I nerd out about.

4. Pets


Everyone uses the term 'cat lady' and we all know people obsessed with their dogs. But geeking out over the fact that you have fish babies in your aquarium isn't all that common. I didn't know that I would become enthralled by having a fish aquarium, or that I'd become so attached to owning turtles. But the knowledge I've attained, the joy I get watching these aquariums, and the passion I have talking about these pets is pretty darn nerdy.

5. Movies


Ok, so we all watch and enjoy movies. Sometimes a movie comes out that you're excited to see and you'll go opening night to see it. But do you own so many movies it looks like you run a movie rental store? Do you get butterflies in your stomach from watching a movie trailer? Yeah, some of you do and that's because you're a movie nerd. And so am I. Some movies turn me into an excited mess. Like when I dragged Adam to the movie theatre 2 hours before The Hunger Games started so we'd get good seats. And NO ONE else showed up until 30 minutes before the movie started. Or when I waited outside a theatre for hours on opening day of one of the Harry Potter movies (or for most of them...). So yeah, I'm one of those people who can nerd out huge over movies. 

What are some of your nerdy hobbies?
xo Jen

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What I'm Loving Now

Months ago we signed up for library cards here at our local library and then we didn't use them... Which is not how that's supposed to go. So I finally spent some time on the library online catalogue a few nights ago and made a giant list of things I want to borrow. But when I got to the audio book section, I literally squealed! Everything on my goodreads to-read list is on there! So my audio book listening has increased this past week so I can get to some of the books I'm desperate to listen to. 

The Goldfinch

I just finished The Goldfinch audio book a couple days ago. It was a super long one, about 24 hours, which is longer than most I listen to. It was a really good story though. I had many feels for the main character, Theo. The book sucked me in pretty quick.

From Amazon.ca:
"Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.

As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love--and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.

The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate."

I did find that near the end of the novel, I started to lose a bit of interest. That it went on too long and focused too much on some things. But overall, it was a great story and very interesting. 


Sex And The City

I normally have one or two shows that I'm marathoning at all times. Something I watch while sewing and filling cat toys. Well, when we moved into our house, none of our boxsets were unpacked. So after opening a couple of boxes at random, I found my Sex And The City boxsets so I decided to rewatch the series again. And a month later, I'm done watching all six seasons! It shows you how much time I spent in the craft room last month.

I've never watched this series that fast before and it made me realize some things about the major storylines since I was watching everything back to back. I didn't notice before how much I loved Big and Carrie together. I mean, I always wanted her to end up with him. But they are really, really cute together and watching them both grow and change into the people they need to be for their relationship is so sweet. I'm not going to lie, I shed some tears during the final episode. 



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Gardens

When I wasn't watching TV and listening to my audio book, I've been spending more time than I ever would have expected looking up plants and flowers for our garden. We want to do some things during the Fall to start prepping our front garden, back garden and vegetable garden. I'm really enjoying finding plants that work well in our zone (I totally just learnt about garden zones a couple weeks ago) and with the lighting our property gets. 

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What have you been loving lately?
xo Jen
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