Hunglish and Creative

Monday, October 7, 2013

Furniture Makeovers

I was reading one of my favorite blogs a couple of weeks ago and they mentioned a nice book about furniture makeovers. The local library did not have it but I could make a request and they sent it from another location. I picked it up on Saturday and voila...here it is :)!

Otto and me are amazed by the beautiful things the author created from used, old and unwanted pieces of furniture all by herself.

We got some inspiration and plan a couple of makeovers in the future.

Until then, here is a sneak peek into the colorful book of ideas: Furniture Makeovers by Barb Blair.

Monday, September 30, 2013

Propagation of mamey seeds

Mamey is a rare but popular fruit in Florida. I got some seeds so I did some research and started to propagate them wrapped in a wet paper towel and sealed in a ziploc bag for some weeks.

I gave it a try and it really works!

The grow strong, healthy roots, let`s take a look:

Propagation

Here is a new project that I have been experimenting before: propagation.

This is the process of creating new plants, now from cuttings.

The cuttings don`t have roots yet but hopefully we will see some progress in a few weeks.

Fingers crossed! :)

After a relatively long silence

Hello,

Sorry for the relatively long silence but we were really busy with our moving process. It took more than a week if I want to count the days spent with cleaning, painting, cleaning, packing, moving, unpacking, killing each other, buying stuff, searching for stuff, buying furniture, moving furniture, building furniture (we love you, IKEA)....and cleaning again.

But now we are kinda settled in, we have cable (after fighting for 2 weeks with Comcast...) but no internet still.

Besides all these troubles, I had to start my balcony gardening project.

Here are some photos of the plants that started to sprout and grow for my greatest pleasure.