my lips are (not) sealed...

in which our plucky heroine almost makes a silly error...

note to self, do not leave glue stick sitting on computer desk next to keyboard alongside the hand lotion... the lip balm was in my cardigan pocket, and I almost glued my lips! Fortunately I have a good sense of smell, and the missing delightful vanilla-rose scent was a clue that the contents of that tube was not a good match for the use I was contemplating...

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time in the tinyworld:

Have a bit of crafty relief from total despair: the planet turns around the sun and spring is sure to arrive before too long... crocus is ¾" tall including "peat pot", tulips are 1¾" tall including "terra cotta pot", all are made from a combination of dried botanicals, paper, paint, wire and glue, pots made from egg carton cardboard.

Egg carton cardboard pots get filled 1/2 full with tiny gravel, then a thick layer of tacky glue, then dried tea crumbles. The plant stems are pushed through the layers to be securely anchored, and the tiny gravel gives the pots some weight to be bottom heavy and hence more stable.

I got the idea for the crocus because a tiny sprig of heather I'd picked weeks ago had dried out with the oval-shaped flowers still very bright... The crocus leaves are a strip of dark green painted paper, cut in a sharp zigzag with an exacto knife, and with a thin white stripe down the middle of each with an opaque white sakura marker. I curled the paper leaves and rolled them around a toothpick and glued them in that cylindrical form. A dab of tacky glue in the center was enough to hold the dried blossoms in place.

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the only thing I use paper grocery sacks for is to cut up into discs to line the countertop compost container. Every four or five months I need to open up a brown paper sack and cut many many little discs. Very boring task  , but lining the container means that the detritus collected comes neatly out, the container is easy to wash and not nasty/gooey, and the now soggy brown paper can be either composted outside or eaten by the worms that live in their box in my kitchen. It is all good.

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Started adding a self-closure weight to the screen door to the back yard, which will make life easier. And OMG does that door really need weatehrstripping, what is there is some very old brittle cracked foam gasket stuff. Home requires constant maintenance, this would have been helpful to notice at the beginning of the winter...

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March SMART goals (x=extra)

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	tiny tulips	more compost liners	-
2	tiny crocus	-	-
3	-	-	-
4	-	-	-
5	-	-	-
6	x	-	-
7	x	x	-
8	x	x	-
9	x	x	x
10	x	x	x
11	x	x	x
12	x	x	x
13	x	x	x
14	x	x	x
15	x	x	x

today's gratitude - I may not be a professional, but I have a modicum of fixit skills and a few tools, and am not afraid to use them.

Time of Isolation - Day 720