Side Salad Garden

This is more or less for the visual, though the text explains more. What's important is the concept of packing a small garden into a small space, like this tiny little side yard.

You can do this in a pot, and have salad greens even in winter if you do this now. Give it a chance to get going before the cold winds blow.

Native Jewelry Holder

What a clever idea this is! My necklaces and bracelets for ritual use are varied and fun. I plan to use this project to put them on display.

http://www.hgtv.com/crafting/polymer-clay-native-jewelry-holder/index.html

Lena

Recipes-- Tropical Trifle and Dessert Gazpacho

Notes on the Trifle:

Fat Free pound cake is a royal pain to find. If you can't, you can either make your own or just get the regular one.

Trifle bowls are delighful to show off this dessert, but any good very large bowl will do.

Notes on the Gazpacho: I'm a recent convert to these. My first taste of a tomato gazpacho was memorable only for the nausea it induced. Needless to say, I was prejudiced until I tried my first cold fruit soup a year ago without knowing it was technically a gazpacho at all. Give it a try!

Recipes- Winning Snacks

Healthy, portable snacks are important these days. Who needs those tasteless cardboard granola bars or the expensive teensy "power" bars with more preservatives than a morgue?

Recipe-- Can-Do Tomatoes

Craft- Air Dry Your Flowers

Isn't this just the prettiest way to air dry your flowers? And who says it has to be just the flowers? Bundle up those herbs and get them hung, too.

Happy Lammas!

I hope you're enjoying your Sabbat by baking bread and enjoying the warmth of summer with fun things to eat and good friends to share with. I'll see you on Monday!

Lena