Dear Blog, I'm sorry

Dear Blog,

I am the worst. I have neglected you for so long. I wish I had a good excuse, but I don't. In the span of my absence I have moved into a new apartment, started a garden, and learned how to crochet and play the ukulele. I didn't blog about my awesome birthday or the awesome cake waffles I had for breakfast (you basically just cook cake in a waffle iron, it is in the best thing ever and I want to eat it every day). I didn't share my recent craft projects. I didn't even post pictures of my cousin's visit! I have fed you all these empty promises about being a better blogger, but this time I mean it. Please forgive me.

Yours forever,
Cait

The new apartment. Craft corner, living room, and dining area.

Pineapple plant, new bedroom, dress I finally finished sewing, first harvest from the garden, our favorite dinner as of late: lemon cream pasta with garlicy green beans, my sweet baby pineapple uke

Meet my new sewing machine!

I'm spending my summer vacation in Portland,OR with my boyfrand and he bought me this vintage Sears Kenmore sewing machine yesterday so I can continue to do my crafting! I'm so in love with it. It comes in a cabinet, so when I'm done I can fold it upside down and put the lid on top and have a regular table. The top part folds to the left, and give me plenty of room to put my computer and other projects I'm working on. Right now I'm still trying to unpack and organize my craft supplies, but I'm hoping a little bit later I'll be able to start sewing some new pouches for the shop. The next few days we'll be exploring Portland and the surrounding areas and clearing up the back and front yards, so I should have some fun gardening and general posts next week!
Don't forget to enter my little giveaway, going on for a few more days!

Back to school

Today was my first day of the new semester. I woke up bright and early at 7:30am to go to a class that I ended up dropping, anyway. Because one of my classes ended up being for graduate students (how I somehow ended up in there I have no idea) I had to change my schedule all around. I think I'm happy with it, but I ended up adding an art history course that is all the way across campus (over a mile walk for me) and an anatomy course with a lab, and I'm a little paranoid it's going to involve cadavers. I used to work at a funeral museum, so I'm not freaked out by dead people... I just don't want to cut one up. Or touch one. Or really even look at one. I guess I'll find out what the class is like tomorrow!
Other than that, it's great being back in my apartment. I love being surrounded by my stuff. I have a decent collection of cute vintage knick knacks, and once I clean my apartment I'd like to re-do my apartment tour with my nice new camera.
I'm also so thankful that I get to bring my cat to live with me in Austin. When I came home from class this afternoon I immediately laid down in bed and he ran over and jumped on me and was smashing his face against mine. He's a good kitty.

I made his collar! He scratches up all the ones available at the store, but his claws can't get into the cotton I used.

p.s. The back to school sale (coupon code BACKTOSCHOOL) for 15% off total purchase is ending tonight! It's running in both of my Etsy stores.

Garden update

It has been a while since I updated about the condition of my container garden, mainly because not a whole lot has been going on in that department. All of my eggplant blossoms end up dropping, and I'm just waiting for things I planted as seeds to grow.

L to R: hibiscus, eggplant, window box with spinach, radishes, and carrots, Russian heirloom tomato, red and green bell peppers(cut off). Miserable basil plant in the pot on the ledge.

apartment part 1

I've been trying to spiffy up my apartment. When I first moved in the living room walls were a dark grey, and the kitchen was brown, along with the bathroom. The bedroom was a weird sort of sea foam pastel-y green that everybody said "wasn't that bad". I'm not going for a place that's "not too bad", I want something that I will love. It took me forever and a day to prime and paint all the walls, but it's finally done. The living room is "jalapeno", the kitchen "wading pool" and the bedroom "lilac fancy". The bathroom has been spared for now, because honestly I'm pretty sick of painting.