"Oh I can't stop drinking the coffee. If I stop drinking coffee, I stop doing the standing, and walking and the words putting into sentence doing."
Adding a Gilmore Girls Quote To My Keurig
When To Start The Seeds & Plant The Plants, In Central PA -
A Week By Week Planting Guide for 2020
There's a great frost calculator here: https://morningchores.com/frost-dates/ . Of course this is just a guideline, based on past years, but for our area, we get the following results:
February 22-March 6th
8-10 Weeks Before The Last Frost
bell peppers,
celery,
eggplant,
leeks.
"Most pepper seeds sprout in about a week at a temperature of 70-80 degrees F., but germination can be spotty depending on variety. Hot peppers can be very finicky. To speed the process, place the seeds between damp sheets of paper towel, put them in zippered plastic bag, and put the bag in a warm place (the top of the refrigerator works fine). As soon as the pepper seeds sprout, carefully plant them in individual containers such as pea pots. When the first true leaves develop, move the plants to a sunny southern window until you can transplant them into the garden. Don't set out your pepper transplants until night temperatures average around 55-60 degrees F." - Read m ore about growing peppers from seed, here https://www.burpee.com/gardenadvicecenter/areas-of-interest/seed-starting/growing-peppers/article10252.html
March 7-March 21
6-8 Weeks before the last frost
Start Seeds Indoors For:
Tomato,
Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts
Lettuce
Most annual flower seeds are best planted directly into the ground outdoors in late April through late May.
Plant outside this week - Radishes, Peas, Spinach
Radish seeds can be planted outdoors, directly in the ground, around now.
"Radish seeds can be planted in both the spring and the fall, but growing should be suspended in the height of summer, when temperatures are typically too hot. (Hot temperatures may cause radishes to bolt, making them essentially useless.)
Otherwise, radishes are one of the easiest vegetables to grow."
More tips for growing radishes - https://www.almanac.com/plant/radishes
Wondering why you would grow radishes? Try them in a creamy cucumber radish salad, or roasted garlic radishes.
We can also plant some of the early spring bulbs around now too! Crocus, snowdrops, early daffodils, early tulips can all be planted 6-8 weeks before the last expected frost.
March 21 - April 4
Planting Outdoors - Last week was a good time to start planting Rashes, Spinach, Peas, and spring bulbs such as crocus, snowdrops, early daffodils and early tulips, outside. This week it's time to plant the carrots, Onions, and Turnips outside as well.
Indoors, it's a good time to start seeds for:
Cantaloupes, Cucumbers
*Pumpkins
Watermelons
Sweet Potatoes - This is also a good time to start your sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes are started from slips, not seeds. You can purchase a sweet potato at the store to start your plants, but that can make it difficult to tell whether it is a bush, or vine, variety. Ordering slips online will make it easier to know what you are getting. Here's a step by step how to grow them - https://www.diynetwork.com/how-to/outdoors/gardening/how-to-plant-and-grow-sweet-potatoes
Pumpkins - While it's fine to start your pumpkins now, most of us want our pumpkins for the fall season. Most will take 75-100 days, from planting the seed to harvesting a pumpkin - so mid may to early June is a typical time to start the plants, and they do really well just by planting the seeds directly in the ground around then.
We have more than 140 acres here on the farm - but most of my garden is grown in two 4 foot by 4 foot garden boxes. It is amazing how much I can grow in those two boxes, and its very little weeding! The method is called "Square foot gardening" - https://amzn.to/2ut6qku
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Where To Find Free Dr Seuss Cut Files
Dr Seuss Inspired Fonts:
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This is a studio file - for silhouette.
There is a free converter here that will convert studio files to svgs -
The way this is designed, when you upload it to design space you will see two copies - one already "assembled", and one seperated. Delete one, and delete the text at the top right telling you it is personal use only, and just cut one of the design.
You will find the largest selection of files here:
As for how well they cut... well, results will vary.
Don't get me wrong, this is a great site! But many of the files here are just ran through conversion software to convert photos to an svg. Some of them are great, some of them have a LOT of little cuts. Definitely make sure you attach each color (select all the black, attach. Select all the blue, attach, etc) before you cut.
NOT FREE
$3
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Find more free svgs by theme
Find LOTS more free svgs, tips, and tutorials, in the facebook group here:
Where To Find Free Memorial Themed SVGS
How To Split Up An SVG To Use Up Vinyl Scraps
It's Not The Home That I Love
It's The Life That Is Lived Here
This svg was free from Dezartisan during the February Love Event in 2020
If you missed it, it's no longer free, but can be purchased here:
It's difficult to imagine now that I have been doing this for years and have an overstocked craft area - but at the time, I didn't have a large enough piece of vinyl to cut this. So I split the svg up and cut it on scraps, then lined the pieces up on the pillow case. Here's how:
How To Clean & Restick Cricut Mats
Three tried and true methods for cleaning your cricut mats, and one tried and true way to restick them when cleaning is no longer enough.
How to Clean Your Cricut Mats -
My favorite go to method for cleaning mats is using diaper wipes. You want scrub lightly, but hard enough to pull up all of the lint. (I've read that you should use alcohol free wipes for this. Those are easy to find - I usually grab huggies at our local Dollar General) The mat will be sticky again when it dries again. If you are in a hurry, this is definitely your best bet. Not only will it work great but it will dry the fastest of all the methods here.
I love these dishcloths from the Dollar tree with the netting on one side.
My second favorite method is plain old soap and water. The blue dawn dish soap is what is supposed to work best, and it is what I typically have in my kitchen anyway.. but I have used others over the years. squirt on some soap, scrub lightly, rinse. When the mats dry, they will be sticky once again!
LA Awesome Cleaner - $1 At Dollar General & The Dollar Tree
This is a popular method, that I used when I first started, but I think soap and water and diaper wipes work just as well, and they don't smell nearly as bad. But if you want to try it, just spray this stuff on(from the dollar tree) and rinse it off. Let the mat air dry.
When That Stops Working - Tack It Over & Over
I have mats that are two years old, and have been used hard for everything from paper and vinyl to faux leather. Some of them are just not sticky any more, even after a good cleaning. Two coats of Aleenes Tack It Over and Over and I think they are stickier then when I first bought them!
Do not apply it this thick - its not necessary. Thinner coats. :-) That little bottle is going to last forever, even with all the mats I have here.
Mix the Alenes 50/50 with water, and paint it on. This was the first time I did this, and I went pretty thick. I ended up going back later and brushing some of this off to make it a thinner coat. Wait 20 minutes, then apply a second light coat. Let the mat dry for at least 24 hours.
This even worked right over the spots on my mats that have lost their green.
(The new, no flowers on them, cricut mats are not nearly as good as the old ones!)
I ended up letting mine dry for a few days - I would recommend at least two. Maybe less if you use thinner coats. But when they were dry, they were SO sticky! I could use them for faux leather again! I would not use them for paper right away - I'd cut vinyl on them a few times first, they are too sticky for paper right away.
Buying New
Watch amazon for sales - mats go on sale frequently! A two pack of 12x12 mats is almost always $10 or less on sale.
I've used the 3 pack of Nicapa ($9 normally)
and I think they are pretty much identical to the Cricut mats. I'm not fussy about brand names, and own Xinart, Nicapa, HTVRont, and probably more...
The long, 12x24, inch mats are 3 for $24 normally
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