Future Farmer of America

 We went to City Farmer's Nursery today to pick up some pots and soil to re-pot my rosemary plants and last year's Christmas tree (that will hopefully make it to future Christmas'). Oh, and I re-potted my jasmine in the old Christmas tree pot (I don't know what type of tree it is).  Maya had fun shoveling new soil into our other plants and the rosemary already looks happier. We also planted a tree for Earth day that Kate Quinn Organics sent to us. They sent it with an order I placed. I thought that was pretty cool. 

Encinitas

 The other day Maya and I went to Encinitas to check out what the Magical Child had to offer. Her birthday is coming up and I found a couple things that she is really going to like. Afterwords we went to my new favorite park. I'm sure it gets packed in the summer because it's practically right on the beach. As we made our way back up the path to our car a squirrel stopped to say hi. He was really into us for some reason. Every time someone came by he ran into the bush and back to us when they were out of site. It was pretty bazaar. We must have smelt really good.

Spring Collection and Accessories

 I made Maya a couple of flower children for our Spring collection. I didn't use wool felt which made a huge difference. But I plan on making a couple more when I do get wool. She really likes them. She couldn't wait to show Daddy. I needle felted the Spring maiden last year and have another in the works. 

 I finally finished a necklace for my Mom I started last year! I don't know why it took me so long. I think she bought the flower in Hawaii and we bought the pearls at a really cute bead store In WA.

 And I thought I would give hairclips a go. Maya loves doing her hair, or at least accessorizing it. I'm not that good at free hand embroidering but these were super simple and fun to make. Check out Urbanhousewife's hairclip collection here. Fabulous!  And I just now learned how to do that cool linky thing. 

It's Still Christmas in Maya's Mind

 Today she said to me, and it's not the first since December, that Santa Claus was here and that she needed to decorate her tree. So she strung the "lights", which I might add, she's pretty good at grouping colors and shapes, put the star on top, and asked to help her tie the "lights" on.  The End

Wild Parrots

 Just a few days ago we had another fun bird sighting at Peoples. This time there was a tree full of the wild parrots that fly  all over OB. I've seen a flock of them in my neighbors tree in PB months ago. I kept hearing this horrible noise that wouldn't end and looked out to see a bunch of parrots on the wires and trees. I still think it's cool to see them because it's something you expect to see at the zoo or pet store.  Anyways, I got my camera out just in time to snap one and a few flying away. Go ahead, click on the pictures. 

Matching

 Lately with Maya everything has to match. If she's wearing blue she has to play or hold her blue toys. Her socks and hair ties have to match too. She always ask if I have matching shoes for her outfit. A woman gave her a Dora sticker at the store and today she told me that she needed a Dora shirt, purse and shoes to go with it. Earlier she said she wanted zoo shoes to go with her new zoo shirt.  The other day she had to wear her star necklace because it matched her star dress. In this picture the butterfly necklace, eyes, and bucket match her butterfly wings.  Did I somehow create this? 

Catch up

 Well, my niece from Washington came down for a week. Though it was fun I feel like I didn't get anything done. And I'm not quite sure what all needed to be done but I feel like I played for a week instead of....ummmm.....cleaning? Paying bills? Is that all I do? 

 Let's see. My niece is 15 and soo easy going. Anything we did was fine with her. She was happy just to be in the sun. It snowed up there just before she came!

 So I took her to the zoo, Old Town, the mall, OB, PB, and MB. She did a little shopping but only bought things that went towards a cause. Mostly endangered species and wildlife. That sort of thing. She also mentioned to me that she didn't like to watch movies with animal scenes. Also, she took her name off of Victoria's Secret's mailing list because the models were modeling with real fur rugs. She even called them to see if the rugs were real or not. She definitely shocked me. I told her that most everything in our house (except maybe some shoes) was cruelty free and not tested on animals. She thought that was really cool.  

 When she first got here she asked if the fruit was real. Funny. I made breakfast and dinner every night for us but showed her our favorite restaurants for lunch.  She wanted real Mexican food but only ever orders rice and beans. I took her out for sushi and she only had rice and terriaki sauce. I ordered her a miso soup to try but she said it tasted like fish and gave it to Maya. I tried. I'm glad she ate all the food I cooked.

 I only posted a couple pics from the Zoo that I took. I didn't get very many.