Gardening: building mode ON

My boyfriend is leaving on thursday night for New York and will be back only on sunday night. That will be a long weekend alone with much stuff to do! I want to do a garden this summer (it was a project when we bought the house....4 years ago) so I might start it this weekend if it's not too cold. See, our backyard is not really "growing things" friendly. It's a big pile of sand, like the whole village actually. St-Lambert-de-Lauzon is a huge sand pit! So I have a lot of work to do before being able to grow anything in there. Also, we're surrounded by the forest so I will have to secure it if I don't want to feed the little ones more than myself. Now I have to plan what I want before getting started and there's SO MANY possibilities that I absolutely don't what I want!


This is a great idea to work in your small garden without crashing everything.

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This one on top of the chicken coop is really a good idea to save space. But my backyard is large enough to have them both without pilling.

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This one is really cute but I think that I will need a fence higher that that.

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This is closer to what I need (sorry for the bad quality picture...)

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Ooooooooh! This could be cuter with a bright color painting but that's a neat and cheap idea! And we can have a ton of those pallets at my boyfriend's job. I think I found exactly what I will do.

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(I need to find cute dividers...imagine one you like here. By the way, as you can see, my blog is still a work in progress)

Now, remember that book I told you about? Well, why not fill up another list today?

The list of all whom I am

1.   I am a mother
2.   I am a girlfriend
3.   I am an animal lover and defender
4.   I am an archivist
5.   I am impatient to see the summer comming
6.   I am a single kid
7.   I am a not so good friend
8.   I am a loner
9.   I am a cocooner
10. I am a procrastinator
11. I am a french speaking person
12. I am not very patieny
13. I am happy in the woods
14. I am a dreamer
15. I am a HUGE fan of Duran Duran
16. I am really cheap. I mean REALLY. I hate wasting my money on things. But,
17. I am a compulsive buyer. But I only buy things on sale...
18. I am an adult with a child-ish mind
19. I am a nostalgic
20. I am happy of my new blog and followers!

Have a nice day!

Becoming vegetarian or how did i manage to get that much spices!?!?!

The boyfriend and I became vegetarian last summer. I was not a big cook before but when we made that move, I began to have a sort of relationship with my kitchen. I have my own apartment for over 18 years and you can add all the spices I had during those years but you won't be as near as what I have in my pantry right now! Vegetarian recipes need lots of spices, let me tell you. But it is soooo good! So after a while I did have to face the problem: how am I going to store that much spices??? 

Right now, I have them in a big bucket in my pantry because, honestly, my old cardboard box cover was not the best....If I had a bigger kitchen it wouldn't be that much of a problem. But our kitchen is really small and I don't have lots of storing space so I don't want to use it for spices. I've seen some very interesting ideas and the drawer one is one of the ones I like the most.

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But I don't have a drawer to sacrificed. Also, I don't have lots of empty walls to put a rack and the one i have is right over the heat trap and I'm afraid that it could ruin my spices. This one is a really good idea that could fit my kitchen though.

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It's a cabinet built on one side of her island. We could totaly do that and it would be perfect. A little low for my taste but it would save space without taking the one I already have. But if I had space, here are a few things I would like to have.

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And you, how do you store them?