Grapes and Envelopes

What a funny title huh? You'll see why at the end!

I've been doing a little gardening on our nice warm days. We even have had a 92 degree day here!

I received some grape cuttings from a friend in The Dalles, Oregon. These are from mature grapes that he was pruning. Some are white, and some purple. Oh I love the purple ones!

This one was a root ball, so I planted it about a month ago. It's leafing

out wonderfully! I stuck the piece of driftwood I happened to have, in the ground, so my son wouldn't weed eat it to shreds!

Here are the other 2, that were already leafing out in the jars of water. Glad I had those driftwood sticks! My neighbors collect driftwood from the beaches around here and have a pile all along the side of their house. They've told me I'm welcome to take any! He carves the larger pieces with his chainsaw and makes gorgeous bears, seals, turtles, rabbits, and whatever else the piece tells him it wants to be.

I planted them 4 feet apart. Will need to put some tall fenceposts in the ground as they grow taller. 

The rest I gave to my sister in Washougal, WA, and another neighbor here in the park, who has room. I don't have room for many.

The last few days I haven't had much mojo, so have been making kraft colored and neutral colored envelopes for the Kraft cards I make. 

I ran out and was going to buy some, and then said "self, you have TONS of neutral colored papers so why not make some?" So I did. Was fun rummaging through all my pads of papers!

With the leftover papers, after cutting 8x8 inch squares, I made a cute little junk journal. 

Its full of the pretty papers and I added some pages for writing on. I may keep it or sell it. I have a bunch more strips to make something else too.

Waste not, want not, right?

I love the colors, and lined the insides of the ones that had only white inside. Some scrapbook paper is double sided, and some only have a design on one side, and the other side is white.

And on another day, I made a "neverending card". It opens one way, then another, and another, and another! Is for my 6 year old great nephew. I hope he can figure it out!

Front.

Open once in opposite direction.

Open another way.

Final side for signing and writing a message.

Heres a little video of how it works. A friend wanted to see it in action!

Have a great week everyone! I think summer is just around the corner!

Hugs... Marilyn