My Etsy Shop is now open

Happy Fall everyone, I am hoping to restart my blog this month.

We started sewing & selling again, it has been way too long but the kids are a little older and I finally have an extra 5 minutes in my day to be creative again.  We re-launched our Etsy Shop earlier this month with some gorgeous Bucilla Christmas Stocking my very talented mom has made.  She is beyond skilled with making these detailed stockings, I checked out our competition and their work pales in comparison.

Just listed tonight are my handmade totes, all of them are one of a kind, I don't use any patterns just think up my design in my head and start cutting and sewing.  I am taking custom orders too so please contact me through Etsy.

Hailey Lane Designs Etsy Shop

*Bucilla Christmas Stocking*

We have many of the Bucilla Christmas Stocking Kits and she can get them completed in about a 4 days.  If you are looking for something in particular please contact us.  We have many stockings with the tradition Santa, we have the Sugar Plum Fairy and many more.

Thank you!~

Cullen Gardens July 2011

Wow this summer is flying by so fast.  We have been busy swimming, vacationing, planning a complete redesign of our master bedroom, my husband has been refinishing an antique bed for our youngest peep and of course we have been gardening.  I'm not sure if it was the rain, soil, sun or the PERFECT combination of them but our garden has grown beyond words...........just take a look.

My husband picks around 30 to 50 yellow and red cherry tomatoes every day!! By the afternoon there are atleast a dozen more ripe and ready to pick.  Our neighbors are very happy campers, fresh FREE produce right next door!  You can't beat that~

Bell Peppers, sweet banana peppers and mild jalapenos (or at least the ones I made fresh Pico de gallo last week were mild) CRAZY Yummy

  

Our Roma Tomatoes are finally coming in too.

 

And the flowers:

This is our first year ever planting Gladiolas.  Guess where I got them??? Dollar Tree of all places.  I think there were 5-6 bulbs in a bag for a $1.  So far I have had the beautiful peach color below, the dark purple and right now a deep burgundy red bloom.  Needless to say I am very pleased with my dollar store finds.

Crepe Myrtles are a southern gardeners staple.  This one is a Candy Cane Crepe Myrtle that forgot it's top half was suppose the match its bottom half.  All the bottom limbs are the red candy cane color and the top is white but still very beautiful.

~Happy Gardening~

The Cullen Gardens: April Update

I JUST squeezing in our April update:

We have been very busy working outside the last few weeks in between the crazy thunderstorms and tornado warnings.  I love working in my yard, although my manicure and pedicure don't like it, but I would rather have dirt under fingernails than a boring yard.  My husband tilled up the garden area and with the super duper help from a tough five year old the MAN WORK was done.

 Miss S. pulled all the weeds out of the garden spot:

 Apples are starting to form on the apple tree:

Joshua's zinnia seedlings:

Some of our plants:  We went up to a locally owned garden nursery last weekend and found some wonderful vegs. and flowers.  So wish I had waited and bought all of our plants there, half the price and better quality than the plants at the chain home improvement store.

Just a few of the plants are in:

 

~My helpers~

The front berm is doing wonderful I went out and weeded it last week and finally got the gladiola bulbs in (a month late).  I decided to go with a white/pink theme this year for the new plants.  I filled in the blank spots with white Sweet Williams (Dianthus barbatus) and light pink Periwinkles (Vinca).  The front flower bed just in front of the house has the light pink Periwinkles and white/green caladiums.  If the sun ever decides to stay out long enough and start warming up the soil the flowers will start growing and I can share some flower bed pictures.  We are expecting some more crazy thunder storms tonight. 

You know they do say April showers bring May flowers.  More so for us, April thunder storms with tornado watches hopefully bring calmer, sunnier May days.  ;-)

~Happy planting~

UPDATE APRIL 27th, after MORE rain, tornado warnings and flooding, this is what our garden looks like: Ugh!!!!!

  Our lap pool Veg. Garden

Our swimming hole Backyard

Update: After all the rain, this is what my peeps looked like! lol

I know, I know (to the ones cringing at their clothes) I have learned to pick my battles.

The mud washes out and the peeps slept really good that night.

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