Jo Ann, Thanks for the compliment. I think seeing anyone's gardening projects helps. I have gleaned so many ideas from so many posters in bits and pieces that I feel like my garden is actually is an amalgamation of many other peoples gardens, including yours. And, I too want that bear!
I am up to my eye balls designing a new kitchen, bath, laundry, and dining space in our VT house that I am not on line much. The old space was rotten to the core and close to being dangerous. So when not in the garden, kitchen or studio, I have been glued to my desk drawing up the blue prints.
I am going to try to follow your lead and make the knobs for the cabinets as well as glaze back splash tiles for the kitchen. I found some hardware at the ceramic supply store that makes attachment easy. I am going to cheat and buy commercially made bisque tiles and just glaze them, either 4" or 6" white stoneware. I have a glaze kiln to fire on Oct 11, so I am going fire some test tiles at that time and hopefully find the right colors and a pattern that I like to use. This idea may be a pipe dream, but thought I should give it the old college try.
I have been putting up veggies, making jelly and starting to put the beds to bed before our big bulb planting. I went hog wild as usual with the bulb orders. Today we made a ginger, apple, hot pepper and basil jelly and some jars of a sun-gold tomato and basil conserve and then we pickled some green cherry tomatoes. Tomorrow is salsa day! Then I worked on getting the green house ready for winter. I cut back all my hippeastrums, now close to 75 of them, and then I pruned back a bunch of the bedded plants and an out of control jasmine vine, so the GH is now ready to have all the potted plants brought back inside from the porches. I have my dear friend coming from Brooklyn to visit on the 17th who said he would be happy to help with that back breaking job. Love those kind of friends.
I will post the results of my firing projects next week. Can't wait, but terrified as I am suppose to be in a Dec pottery show in Boston and I need everything to fire well enough to sell. I also need to produce another kiln worth of work asap. I guess I need to find a few more days in the week.
Here is part of our blank canvas. Not pretty now, but it will be, hopefully especially with the knotty pine gone for good. Patti
