Sunflowers

I'm keeping up with my bouquet making. The latest is made with several of the densely sown sunflowers I planted in my garden. Most of the stocks are under three feet tall and they have the smallest blooms because their growth has been so stunted, but they are so cute!

These were all grown from seeds I collected last year from Sunflower Steve's Van Gogh's Fantasy Mix. Several of my neighbors grow more standard looking sunflowers so after a few years all the sunflower seeds I collect will look plain. Some of the sunflowers in my garden are going to seed and I think I will collect them, but am looking to add some fun doubles and different colors so if you have a favorite sunflower let me know so I can find the seeds for next year.

One Sock!

It's very exciting! I finally finished one of the socks! I added a frilly bind-off because a frilly sock is cute and I love cute things. The sock looks extra long, but when stretched around the foot, especially the heal, it gets much shorter and is only a few inches up the calf. Now I need to make the other one so I can actually wear them.

Bingo Progress

It's time for another resolution check in! Here is my progress so far:

Surprisingly I am one away from a bingo and I am planning on planting "everything" this fall, specifically the first weekend of October, when we have more plants to plant and the rainy season has hopefully started. It is however incredibly unlikely that I will get a blackout as I'll have to do one project a week for the rest of the year plus an extra. It is possible though and I'd feel very proud of myself if I actually did it so I better get to work!

My main holdups are my disinterest in knitting lately and the slight inconvenience of accessing the sewing machine currently. I did start knitting the socks again and hope to finish the first one today so that's progress. You'll find out Thursday if I did it!

Sunflowers and Hydrangea

The latest floral bouquet is two. More sunflowers are blooming so I cut some of them. I also cut some dahlias and two types of hydrangea then decided I liked just the yellow and purple together so I ended up matching the dahlias with some dusty miller again. Next year I need to grow more filler type flowers.

Coat Hooks

This project has been on my to do list for some time now and the worst part is it didn't actually take very long to make! As part of my bedroom tidying, I finally made coat hooks for my tote bags so they are no longer hanging on my door handle!

To make this lovely project, I used the leftover piece of wood from my floating shelf and took a router along the edge to make it look a little nicer. Then I stained it with what I thought was the stain I used on the aforementioned floating shelf, but it was much darker. This is the only part of it that I'm a tiny bit sad about, but it's mostly hidden behind my door so I don't really see it and I could sand it down and stain it again if I really wanted to. 

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After the stain dried, I figured out where I would need to drill a mounting hole so it would align with the stud in the wall. I marked that line then figured out where I wanted the hooks so that one would cover that mounting screw. Once that was figured out, I drilled tiny holes for the hooks' screws and larger holes for the mounting screws. Then after this photo was taken I realized I needed to recess the mounting screws so the hooks would sit flush against the wood so I made some larger holes that only went part way down then assembled it and hung up my tote bags! Hurrah for a finished project!