The winner Of Teddy's giveaway for the two glass platters is: Millie!!! I already received your shipping info and they are packed and will be shipped out on Monday.
This week Teddy is giving away this wonderful handmade Oberon journal. It could be used as a spellbook! This is handmade from fine leather and finished with a cast pewter button. The designs on the button and book are Celtic.
The interior is filled with blank pages. To enter, leave a comment on this post telling how you would use this journal. If you are not already a follower, sign on to follow. The winner will be announced next Saturday and a new giveaway will be posted at that time.
Oberon is located in Santa Rosa, California. I bought this journal in Seattle.
I think my raised bed vegetable gardens which I built last year in my formal gardens are going to be returned to mother earth this fall. They just don't get enough light. I have only 2 tomatoes so far. The tomato plants are 4 feet tall as they reach for the sun but barely have any flowers at all.
I have a few cherry tomatoes but not enough to be excited about.
The Salem Witch Day Lilies are blooming but they are not particularly attractive because they don't get enough sun either.
My magnolias continue to bloom and smell wonderful.
My berries are sparse in the upper gardens though the bushes are loaded down below.
Do you dry your hydrangeas? If so, how do you do it?
There are not going to be many peaches this year either. A late frost took care of most of them. This doesn't bother me much though since canning peaches is not my favorite activity!
And for any of you that are as excited about the World Cup as I am........GO USA!!!!!!! WIN....WIN....WIN!!!!!!!!
This week Teddy is giving away this wonderful handmade Oberon journal. It could be used as a spellbook! This is handmade from fine leather and finished with a cast pewter button. The designs on the button and book are Celtic. 
The interior is filled with blank pages. To enter, leave a comment on this post telling how you would use this journal. If you are not already a follower, sign on to follow. The winner will be announced next Saturday and a new giveaway will be posted at that time.
Oberon is located in Santa Rosa, California. I bought this journal in Seattle.
I think my raised bed vegetable gardens which I built last year in my formal gardens are going to be returned to mother earth this fall. They just don't get enough light. I have only 2 tomatoes so far. The tomato plants are 4 feet tall as they reach for the sun but barely have any flowers at all.
I have a few cherry tomatoes but not enough to be excited about.
The Salem Witch Day Lilies are blooming but they are not particularly attractive because they don't get enough sun either.
My magnolias continue to bloom and smell wonderful.
My berries are sparse in the upper gardens though the bushes are loaded down below.
Do you dry your hydrangeas? If so, how do you do it?
There are not going to be many peaches this year either. A late frost took care of most of them. This doesn't bother me much though since canning peaches is not my favorite activity!And for any of you that are as excited about the World Cup as I am........GO USA!!!!!!! WIN....WIN....WIN!!!!!!!!
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The journal, well, I would write every thing from soup to nuts and in between. Daily doings and thoughts, poetry snippets, recipes, track the moon and stars and me, a spell for this and a spell for that, book notes, and art - biddie bits of art. Hearth & Home!
Happy Day.
xoxo to "Teddy Strawberry Moon"
Just want to let you know that I was in Salem för the third time three weeks ago. Had a wonderful holiday, stayin in N.Y for 3 days and in Middelton Mass the rest of the time. Our host is born in Salem and left the city just some years ago. The city of Salem is a wonderful spot and I would like to go back again!
Regards, Monica
The journal is gorgeous!! Teddy was so thoughtful to have such wonderful giveaways. :)
That new give away is truly beautiful! When I saw it I was thinking that would be great for anyone interesting in herb medicine to write down their recipes for ointments and such things.
My tomatoes hasn´t even started to flower yet :-) :-) But there are rather a lot of buds now. If this heat we´ve gotten now stays for a while I might get some this year :-) :-)
If I remember correctly You just cut of the flowers from the hydragenas and hang them upside down in a warm and dry place. The colors will dissapere though. But I know there is some kind of salt or something like that, that You put the flowers in and then some color will be saved too.
Now we´ve tried the pudding :-) I was a bit surprised how many doesn´t eat bananas though. But we who does ate for them too :-) :-) This pudding will be made again over here :-)
Thanks!
Have a great midsummers day now!
Christer.
My tomato plants are still growing up, and my blueberries still look very green, not many ripe ones on the bush.
It's absolutely gorgeous.
Lovely flower photos too!
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I was just reading about drying hydrangeas. It said wait to until Aug. or Sept. when the flowers are just starting to dry themselves on the bush. When they get a vintage look to them.
Then just cut them and let them dry the rest of the way.
I have huge blooms, the white one that turn chartreuse.
Thanks for another wonderful giveaway!
we so don't even have tomatoes yet blueberries are still flowers here too .
I so want to eat green tomatoes !
this weather is still horrid here too if we could grow peaches here I'm sure they'd be stunted and behind in growth like everything else. not much to do but sit and write I guess ☺
I love the Salem Witch Day Lilies....where did you get them?
The little journal is lovely, but I know I would never write in it. I haven't started a spell book yet..but daughter has. I am wondering if she would like it. I am betting she would..then again, so would I. :)
It is a truly nice giveaway.
Would you believe I have never eaten green tomatoes?
It's a beautiful book.
I'm sorry about your peach harvest. I love peaches. They don't grow so well here.
Kisses & love from us.
kary and teddy
xxx
-Lauren
lauren51990 AT aol DOT com
So sorry about your raised beds...and the US loss... come visit when you can...
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I've been reading your blog for over a year now and enjoy it so much!
Another wonderful giveaway... I love the brass candle stick I won earlier this year... and seeing that I am somewhat of a journal whore... count me in...
blessings
And that journal would be perfect for my poetry and creative writing at work. It's hard to find something you can write in standing up =).
(I'll be away on vacation with limited email and internet access for two weeks. If I happen to be the lucky winner please be patient with me until I get back home July 12th)
I'm glad you asked about the hydrangeas. I've tried 3 methods this year: hanging them - they just shriveled up on me, dehydrator - zapped all the color but kept the shape, and silica gel - which seemed to do the best, but left them very fragile (and took them the longest to dry). Hope that helps.
Thanks to Teddy and her mama for another great giveaway and post.
Teddy sure knows how to do a giveaway!
I finally made your homemade bbq recipe. Oh my word! It was a huge hit!
As always, I love your blog, and the newest post on crab cakes really makes me want to try my hand at making them for the first time, they look so delish!
Anyway I love the look of your blog, it would seem we have a lot in common. Glad to have found you.
The journal is beautiful!. I have recently began keeping my dreams in a journal and this one is quickly filling up with dreams! So I would definately dedicate it to dreams. I'm discovering so much this way.
Thank you!