Rocks and lettuce

the wall is still standing and the Öland stones are in place

made two steps into the hill by splitting the last big stone and digging them in and pushing smaller stones in around the slope. Tried to cover the ground in concrete before placing the stones but it all just got mixed with the dirt so I just put some more over it all when I was done. 

then some water on it to make the concrete burn and get hard, and then lets see if the stones will stay in place or what will happen... it looks as I had imagined it at least, and the steps are placed perfectly :)

the Sambucus Nigra 'Black Lace' is blooming with pretty pink flowers :) not enough to make lemonade but hopefully in a few years I'll be able to make some pink elderberry lemonade!

bee buzzing by

looked like a storm was coming, but it blew over us quite fast thankfully

the clematis is blooming :) and climbing!

Digitalis flowers are just too cool!

I planted some pumpkin seeds earlier this year and now it's 1,5 m long and still growing. Gonna be so much fun if I actually get some halloween pumpkins out of this plant :)

got some basket strawberries from my mum and they seem to like it where they live now. 

and the tomatoplants are also digging it! No flowers yet but I think I'm just too eager for something more to happen than them just getting bigger and higher... 

and now we can have some home grown lettuce with every meal. It's growing like mad and it's so nice to know that it's fresh and without any pesticides 

Painting plans and tomato plants

Tomorrow our 40 year old water heater will be long gone and we'll have a new one that hopefully will last just as long (we're getting the same brand) and also lower our electricity bill! The isolation in this old one is probably not the best and a new one will also be so much more efficient.

A friend of mine told me about this amazing paint called Chalk Paint by Annie Sloan and after some head scratching to decide what colours to order I got Old White, Graphite and Provence + clear wax to apply after the paint has dried which is supposed to happen super quickly. I haven't had the time to try it out yet but hopefully very very soon! I got so many ideas :)

I'very planted five different kinds of tomato seeds and four of them have grown quite a bit in the past few days. Let's see where this will end :P

Vincent lyeing on my belly

I found these two benches on a flea market page on facebook and after much anxciety and abit poorer I could call them mine! I just haven't paid for them yet or picked them up but on Saturday they are moving to our yard! They will be painted with some Chalk Paint and maybe some black glazing paint, I'll know when i see them for real :)

I've printed out some of my instagram images and framed them in these special frames you use for old LP records. Turned out quite nice I think :)