This Week In The Greenhouse

SHARING MY GARDEN CHORES

A NEW FAIRY HOUSE

a fairy house beginning

fairy house door

STARTING SEEDS

starting herbs

I love my sink
the plant behind it is a weed
I love it too
the boxes on it hold shelving to be installed

15 stevia seeds $4.95...hope they germinate

lavender, stevia, chives, rosemary, sage, and tarragon started on May 5th

greenhouse helper

a job well done
notice shelves on right
repotted mother-in-law plant May 8th
I love my sink

IN MY TINY GARDEN

cucumber seeds planted May 4th and up May 8th!

Morning Glories planted May 4th and up May 8th!

squash row

compost in foreground is behind the greenhouse

REPOTTING

A TUTORIAL

 potting soil mixed with sand for a cactus mix

photo plant with label for identification

screen wire cut and shaped for bottom of pot

pea gravel from greenhouse floor

setting pot to get right depth

squeeze pot to release plant

set plant and fill around it with soil mix

mist plants to wet the soil

photograph label info for garden journal

go outside and scream, "I LOVE MY BROTHER FOR GIVING ME THIS OLD SINK"

CACTUS IN BLOOM

cactus about to bloom

cactus in bloom

cactus in bloom

 You may remember, last year I potted up this cactus that was growing wild on our place.

Beautiful!

♥

Please don't be scared

Face No 81

She is harmless!

But pretty mad.

Or pretty and mad.

This was my attempt to paint a face that:

had her head down

but looking up.

Which means the placement of her features are different from looking straight forward. 

And you see much more of the crown of her head.

Next time I'm going to try to make her happy because she looks fearless here. 

♥ 

PS...the crooked nose has nothing to do with what I was trying to do.  It is just the way the artist's nose use to be.  

Faces faces everywhere

Here's No 80 and 45 more!

Face No 80

Two profiles and a little strip of faces

Face 78

Face No 79

Four little tiny faces

dime and dirt-zone

Face No 75

Face No 76 and 77

This week I have been working in the dime-zone.

So called because a dime covers the face in all of these faces that form the border around the right side of my board.

All the little spots are filling with a wonderful assortment of faces. 

A bunch of dime-size faces in the scheme of One Hundred Faces

This week I have also been working in the dirt-zone.

That would be a new tiny garden that I am excited about growing a few tomatoes, peppers, squash, cucumbers and basil.

Oh and eggplant too. 

You know pics will come soon. 

♥

ps...I can see my new tiny garden right out my kitchen window and that my friends makes me happier than you can know. 

A Waif and A Dreamer

Face No 73

 A waif.

But she has her black beads and colored hair.

Face No 74

A dreamer.

One of the things I am learning about all these faces is they have stories. 

I think it is pretty amazing that with just a face in a very limited space, my imagination and their story comes forth.

♥

This is Sam and Vickie

Sam and Vickie are brother and sister and I took the liberty to paint my version of them.

I think I got the sweetness and brother-sister likeness even though not a likeness to the photo.  

Sam and Vickie 1926

I came back from my road trip with treasures. 

I went to see my friend and organizing guru.

Yes, we were organizing her stuff as she is in the process of down sizing.

My friend had a gillion framed family portraits and our project was to remove them from frames. 

I brought home the frames for the Garden Palace gallery.

She added the family photos to her genealogy records.

But when I saw one that really spoke to me, I took a quick iPhone snap for reference. 

This is Sam, my friend's father and Vickie, his sister. 

For real. 

Sam and Vickie in the scheme of One Hundred Faces

Faces No 72

Three from my noggin

Face No 69 in the Scheme of Many Faces

Click on this link

One Hundred Faces

to see the One Hundred Faces Album.

Way cool!

I'm off for a little road trip tomorrow.

I know you won't miss me.

But the cool thing is, I am taking my One Hundred Faces board,

little Sta-wet paint palette,

a tin of brushes,

and will hope to paint a face or two. 

♥

Greetings from the Dime-zone

These are in the dime-zone.

Dime-zone corner 

The Heiman's daughter

Face No 66

Probably the Heiman's daughter. 

I heard she moved to Newport, NH,

changed her hair,

and never came back home. 

Inspiration

She is right here in the scheme of One Hundred Faces
near her parents (assumed).
Can't you see the likeness?