Today's Lunch Was

Fresh Homemade Bruschette

But Let Me Back Up A Little Bit.....

Let me tell you what led to having this delicious Bruschette For Lunch...

It All Started When I Read A Blog Post and Recipe By Yvonne At Her Stone Gable Blog. You Can Find Her Recipe HERE For Making This Pesto Sauce...

After A Quick Look Through My Supplies ....

And A Quick Tour Of My Garden..

I Knew I Had Everything I Needed To Make Up

This Awesome Pesto Recipe I Found At Stone Gable's Blog

So I started Clipping The Tops Off The Basil Plants......

And Before I Knew It.....My Basket Was Full!

To Prepare The Basil I Cut Off The Leaves.....

Washed It.....

Then Spun It As Dry As Possible With My Salad Spinner

Then It Was Time To Gather Up The Pesto Ingredients

Pine Nuts...............

Toasted A Golden Hue

Freshly Shredded Parmesean Cheese, Olive Oil and Chopped Garlic...MMMMM

The Kitchen Was Beginning To Smell Pretty

Delicious!

The Food Processor Worked It's Magic!

At Last.......Presto....

It Was Pesto!!

So of course I Had To Make

A Custom Pesto Tag For My Jar

Well One Thing Led To Another......

and As The Aromatic Smells Were Sensually Drifting Through The House....

I Thought.....hmmmmm.... It's Lunch Time...

How About Some Bruschette???

And So....I Made Some!

It Was Delicious. 

All I Did To Make The Bruschette Was Chop Up Three

Roma Tomatoes, Add A Dash Of Fresh Ground Sea Salt and Pepper And A Bit Of The Pesto and The Bruschette Was Ready

 

The Recipe For The Pesto Can Be Found Here On Stone Gable's Blog.  Yvonne Has

The Most Wonderful Blog, Check It Out
You Won't Be Disappointed!

Thanks For Stopping By Today!  Until Next Time.......I Wish You Peace...

Winner Announcement!

Congratulations To Aimee Qulia of Greenbelt, MD

On Winning The 4 Copper Garden Tags From

Art Pod Studios

My Etsy Business, Art Pod Studios is being featured today on Music and Mommies Blog!  Crystal, the author of this blog, is sponsoring a Free Giveaway of 4 Custom Art Pod Studios (words of the winners choosing) Copper Plant Tags.  So hop on over to Crystal's blog and check it out HERE !  Don't forget the deadline is July 5th, 2010....so don't wait too long to enter!

(The Featured Banner Graphics Above belong exclusively to Crystal the author of Music and Mommies Blog.)

I Woke Up To Rain On The Roof This Morning...

It Had Been So Hot And Muggy All Weekend..

It Was A Refreshing Change!

This Was The View Outside My Studio Window This Morning

Last Week Was All About Creating New Packaging For My  Etsy Items and Filling Custom Orders

  I Created These Cards For My Copper Garden Tags Using A Graphic From The Graphics Fairy

I Think It Has Really Added A Custom Touch To My Packaging

Thank You Karen For Such Great Free Graphics!!

Here Are A Few Pictures From Some Of The

Custom Orders I Filled Last Week

I Also Created A New Style Of Packaging For The

Storage Tags I Sell On Etsy.....

What do you think?

I Love How The New Packaging Came Out!

This Order Went To Washington D.C.

Other News This Weekend, We Went To The Local Farmer's Market and Got Some Fresh Veggies and These Wonderful Sunflowers.....They Just Make Me Smile!!

We Then Took Our Weekly Drive To The Farm To Pick Up Some Fresh Goat's Milk.

Tomorrow I will be posting pictures of my weekend yogurt making session.  I will also be posting the receipe and yogurt making tips.  See you here tomorrow!

By The Way.... Happy FLAG DAY !

Until next time....I wish you Peace...

This week....Tags....TAgs....TAGS!

I Made These Tags For

My Coffee Bar Area

These Are Copper Garden Tags For An Etsy Order

Another Etsy Order ~ Galvanized Tags 1" X 3"

Tags For My Homemade Yogurt

I have a couple more tag orders to fill yet and when I'm done I'll post some more pics.....Have a great weekend!  Until next time.....I wish you Peace.....

We Had A Wonderful Weekend !

Nothing But Blue Skies As Far As The Eye Could See!!

I Am So Thankful For Those Who Have 

Made It Possible For America To Stay The

Land Of The Free

We put our flag out for the holiday and I finally got a couple of hanging plants up too.  The windows you see across the top ridge of the house are the skyline windows at the top of my studio's vaulted ceiling. 

Last week in a previous post I showed you the little wren nest full of speckled eggs in this red basket of Geraniums and guess what.....

The little babies are hatching!!  I'll post more pics when they get a little bigger.

Summer is finally getting here, it's about 90 degrees here today and my tomato plants have more than doubled in size already!  Just makes my mouth water thinking about the coming harvest!

As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said..

Earth Laughs In Flowers!

Hope you are having a great week!!  Until next time.....I wish you Peace....

A Bird Is Nesting In My Hanging Geranium Plant!

 I don't usually post on the weekend, but I just had to share this

with you today!

I took my hanging geranium plant down to pick off the dead leaves and the mama bird (a little wren I think) flew out and squawked feverishly at me! 

This is why she was so mad! 

 But I am happy to say she forgave me because I noticed later she did fly back into the nest.......

Hopefully once they hatch I can get another picture and post it!! 

 Have a great weekend....until next time.....I wish you peace

Like brown paper packages tied up with string

~TAGS~

are a few of my

Favorite Things.

So that is just what I have been designing for the last few weeks.

Like these cute little Purse Tags I made.  I decided to make some with regular words like this one....and with texting abbreviations for an instant personalized message.  These tags would look great on a purse, bookbag or manbag.

I had been wanting to come up with a contemporary and stylish way to label my glass storage jars so I decided to make hang tags for them too.  I love the way they turned out and it was the perfect finishing touch these glass jars needs.  

These Salt and Pepper containers from the dollar store were exactly the right size for my coffee bar in the kitchen.  I put cinnamon and stevia in them and made these tags to identify the ingredients.   It makes it so much easier for my guests to find what they need when getting their morning coffee.

Of course by this time I had gone completely bonkers making tags for everything imaginable, even my homemade yogurt! 

I even made tags for my storage boxes that had a space for a

 label, but I made  metal tags for them instead.

 With all this tag creating going on I decided to start listing some of these on Etsy.

  So of course I needed to decide how to package my little gems......

This is what I came up with for the Garden Tags I showed you earlier this week.

I grabbed a great picture from the Graphics Fairy  and printed 3 across using the "wallet" size printer option, then cut them long with the blank space below each picture for the bottom.  After punching holes for the stakes to go through I slid them into cello bags for that finishing touch! 

Simply styled, Professional looking and Functional.  I am already dreaming about and working on other great packaging uses for some of The Graphics Fairy's artful freebies.  I'll be posting those up soon.

Thanks for stopping in today!  Until next time.......I wish you Peace.