From My Heart
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Scrapbook Journey + Freebie
Monday, June 9, 2025
Propagations - begonias and coleus
Part of this plant journey that I find fascinating is propagation. What's that? Taking a cutting of a plant and growing a new plant from that cutting (or at least growing a new vine to go back into the original pot to make the plant look fuller). For the past year, I've done easy propagations like golden pothos, cebu blue pothos, marble queen pothos, and heartleaf philodendron. I also propagated an adasnonii monstera from a vine my mother-in-law gave me that I've managed to keep alive. Oh....that may be what those NOID small leaves are that I just potted up from my node propbox. I guess we'll know in a few months.
So today I got brave and took some cuttings of the beautiful coleus plants that my husband has growing in our shade garden. Crossing my fingers that these root in a couple of weeks. The first photo shows some coleus cuttings I got from my friend Jane a few days ago. She has a small plant shop and I love getting plants from her!
Here are our cuttings from today.
I hope this inspires you to try propagating some of your plants. I have a couple cane begonias that I want to chop back a bit and propagate but they both had new leaves emerging up top today so I put it off again to let those come on out. That's going to be a new adventure!
Thanks for stopping by again and checking out more of our plant journey.
~Susan~
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Our Jurassic Jungle + a card freebie
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Plant Corner #1, Begonias, and Hoya Australis Lisa
The hangers are up there with thumbtacks but all the plants are in nursery pots and are pretty light weight. There are a few more plants on the side table below these as well. Here are a few close ups of some of my begonias in this area.
My begonia maculata aka "Dotty" is right below the ones on the wall but she's in need of a trim and I need to start some propagations from her. I've been trying to talk myself into that for about three months now. Maybe tomorrow will be the day where I'll get brave and go for it.
I did take some photos of one of my favorite hoyas tonight though. This one was one of my "wish list" plants that I got for my birthday in April, Hoya Australis "Lisa"!
I love the variegation on this plant and how the new leaves come in pink at the beginning. This has been a easy and fast grower and I love it so much! This stunning beauty can make me smile even on my tough days.
Friday, May 30, 2025
An introduction... of sorts
So, hello old and new friends. I hope to see you all around here from time to time!
My newest "hobby" started off in the Spring of 2024 when my husband and I stopped in an area garden center to look at some plants to do our annual "spruce up the planters in the front of the house" during Spring Break. While he was deciding what plants he wanted to try, I wandered into the houseplant section. Here we are a year later and we have three rooms that are considered our "indoor jungle." Part of the reason it's three rooms is our classroom plants have migrated home for the summer. They'll get a couple months at the plant spa (aka our house) and then they will go back to our classrooms. Here are a few of my current favorites.
Right now my favorite types of plants growing in my collection are pothos and philodendrons. I also love begonias but I'm still figuring those out.
Friday, July 16, 2021
Life, crochet, and ramblings... FREEBIE word art and printable
Every time I think I'll get this blog up and going, life gets complicated and I let it sit there in the background, neglected. Not on purpose, but yet, neglected. Tonight I decided to try again. I can't promise to engage and stay consistent but I'm going to try to do better.
Where has life taken us? Well, last year we were on a journey of survival with my husband and I both teaching in the year we all felt like we were scrambling every day with each new curve ball thrown our way. I'm not going to spend any more time talking about it though because it's now behind us and this year is already looming on the horizon with the 21-22 school year starting for us in another week. Actually I have three days of in-service training next week and then the following week, our son starts his Senior year with Summer Band Camp in full swing.
Our oldest daughter, Hannah, is a Junior in college, Nate is a Senior in High School, and Rachel is an 8th grader. I'm starting my 25th year of teaching in the public school and for the 4th year in a row my job has another twist and bit of chaos involved with it. I am getting to go back to teaching 5th grade music and 6th grade choir, but due to the wonderful pandemic wrecking havoc on the choral world, my choir is half the size it normally is and lucky me, the dance classes filled up so I'm now teaching dance to 6th graders. That's right, dance - to 6th graders. I'm totally out of my comfort zone and honestly this has consumed me all summer. Stay tuned for the humorous stories that are going to come out of this experience.
So, to settle my nerves I've turned to my self-care stress reliever of crocheting. If you get to looking for me, you'll find me in the corner crocheting up a storm. I've made baby blankets galore, which turned out to be a blessing for my husband since 5 of the staff on his campus were expecting a new addition to their families by the end of last school term. I've spent the summer replenishing our stash. I just finished up a shawl for me that I need to take a photo of and started another baby blanket this week. I think this about sums up my feelings...
If you like the text in the middle of the card, you can pick it up HERE for free. It's in png format so you can size it down (never try to re-size things larger because that distorts it when you go to print).
The graphics I used on the card are from the 2021 June: Strength digital scrap kit by North Meets South Studio. I kept it simple because I wanted the text to stand out a little more but this kit has a lot of lovely elements in it. The card is a printable 4X6 size and if you would like it to print for yourself, you can pick it up HERE.
Sometimes I'm inspired by random images I run across on Facebook. This was shared in one of the crochet groups I'm a member of and I thought it was really cool! This is Malaga, Spain, where the women who lived there crocheted and put together this shadow-giving miracle. Below this is a pedestrian street with shops and cafés.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend. I'm going to crochet, work on some motivational prints for my two classroom spaces, and maybe go take some photos outdoors. That last one may not happen but the thought is there. I'd love to hear from any of you that stop by the blog! My plans for the blog as of now are to still share scrapbooking ideas, inspiration, freebies, recipes, crochet ideas/inspiration, faith based posts, and just life in general.
See ya later!
Monday, June 1, 2020
Choose Joy Free Mini-kit
I'm off to crochet for a little bit and then off to bed because I have an 8 am class tomorrow.