Fruits of Labor

After all the hard work I finally get to enjoy the fruits of my labor.

After battling cold after cold since the beginning of December I finally am here.  My children and I have all gotten the cold twice.  My daughter is on her second round while my son and I are finishing our second round.  Thankfully, my husband has not gotten it.....yet?

So my first day of some energy, this is what I decided to do.

Remember my garden.  I planted this sweet potato.  It grew like crazy.

Here it is in the corner.  I planted purple sweet potato's next to it and look how it has grown.

 Another pic.  The purple ones are thriving but the green leaved ones are going crazy.

So picture this with ten times more lush.  So today was the last day to have my niece and nephews.  So I decided to pull out potato's and see what we find.  They had fun.

 This is the original potato I used.  I put it half in water with miracle grow until it started to grow roots.  Then I planted it in a pot after which I planted in the ground.

 After digging around, I could have filled four more buckets of dirt.  I am sure I have missed some and will go look for more tomorrow.

 On the process I found this huge worm.  Did I mention HUGE!  Totally grose.

 Found this many potato's.  Did not bother to count them.

 In the year I have successfully started an avocado plant.

 After three tries, finally have a thriving papaya plant.  I may finally take to my Tutu for New Year's.

 And transplanted two more tomato plants.

It has been a great year for gardening and look forward to next year.  I will start new eggplants and work on perfecting my tomato gardening skills.  I have killed one plant already.  Let's not talk about it.

Christmas Cards and stockings

Here is my little Christmas blurb since Christmas has come and gone and I was too sick to post about it.  But it does not mean I did nothing!

With nieces and nephews and kids of my own, our house was full of people and lots of stuff going on.

First is my families Christmas cards that I made and we sent them out.  (Still have two more to send, I ran out of postage, you are still loved!)

 So I chose the snow globe design from the doodle charms Cricut cartridge.  Now for our picture.  We have yet to take them.  So when the snow fell onto Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, I had to drive my family up the saddle and take as many pictures as we could.  We basically had to race the clouds to catch the best pics.  And it was great fun.  Thanks to my sis for taking the adventure with us and snapping all the pics.  I also took them on a small hike in which we used one of the pics from.

Pictures all chosen and ordered to size.  My snow globe was ready and I proceeded to glue.  One side first and then exacto knife the edges off.  This started to hurt.  So I found the craft scissors I got a while back and that worked great.  After the first side was finished I glues on the second side and after it dried I cut the edges of it and voila!

Our cute Christmas card.  I had my sister design the writing for the bottom.  Which of course consisted of our names and "Mele Kalikimaka a me Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!"

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Ok, next project.  We made stockings for the kids cause they forgot them in Oahu.  So if I make for my niece and nephews I have to make for my kids too, right!?  So bring out the scrap material.   My Mom made the pattern and my sister, Mom Andrea, cut out the material.  After the kids each picked their own material.  All the more fun for them.  Then onto the sewing machine I went.

After I finished they got to pick the ribbon to accent the stocking.  They totally loved it.  I would like to say they loved it more then the goodies Santa put inside.  :)  But that's just my opinion.  The green one was two different material so I folded the top so that you can see it.  Cute aren't they.  :)

Christmas Ornaments

 Here is what I have been up to.  My messy corner of Christmas gifts that I have been working on.

You can see in the upper part of this pic I was making glass ornaments with glitter glue.  I tried the drip ornament and this glue.  Tip: Hawaii is too humid.  I started these in October!  They are still not dry.  That is why the green and blue have dark spots that are dry and lighter spots that are not.  I even put them in front of the fan, ALL DAY!  Ugh! Moving on...

So instead I had these glitter balls I purchased on sale last Christmas.  So these are what I made instead.

Then I made little covers for them or tags with scrap paper I had and could not throw away.

See the ornament inside.  :)

Did I mention I used my cricut to put the year on them.  Having so much fun.  I will post my lanterns next that I made for my niece, nephews and my kids.