Embellish: outside

7.13.2011

{free printables} Lemonade & Sweets Stand

While visiting my family in Utah this last month I saw a zillion lemonade stands and I got to thinking how cute it would be to have printables for just that. Afterwards I went home and started googling it and discovered I'm not the only one that has thought of this. So I started making these printables and then I sat on them for almost a month because I wanted to take pictures of them in use. During that time, more lemonade stand printables became available online, but oh well... I still think mine are super cute and run with the best of them. :)

I had every intention of putting some yellow jelly beans in these cupcake wrappers, but when I went to the cupboard to get them, to my surprise they had disappeared. Hmmmm... I thought my husband said he was on a diet? ;)

The LEMONADE/SWEET STAND printables include: road sign with arrows, tented food labels (some with wording some without), lemonade banner, price toppers/stickers, drink tags and 3 coordinating digital papers.

Attach this sign to a yard stick with the arrow pointing the correct direction to drive in the traffic. To add a little frill you can always add some tule or ribbon on the stick.

Place these tented cards next to all of your homemade baked goods. Also you could cut the top piece off and stick them directly on your baked packaged goods.

"LEMONADE" banner-- I envision this strung together with yellow tule to give a bit of a frilly feminine touch.

Use these digital papers to make paper chains, paper flowers, and/or paper pinwheels to dress up your stand. Possibilities are endless.


Tape these price toppers to a lollipop stick and place in whatever sweetness you bake up. Also, these drink flags will make just the perfect touch to your delicious and refreshing lemonade.

I wish I had gotten these out sooner, but hey we still have close to 6 weeks left of summer and there are still a plethora of hot days calling for our kidlets to get out there and sell refreshing lemonade and make a buck or two in the meantime.

EMAIL ME FOR THE PDF-- Scribd is acting weird right now!
kirstenfuller{at}gmail{dot}com

4.22.2011

{tutorial} Upside-Down Hanging Tomato Plant

Have you seen these? They're ingenious!

I love the idea of an upside down hanging plant. I've been wanting to do this for awhile and bought the plants to do so about a week ago and then FORGOT completely about them and they died. So... while my mother-in-law was in town I decided to use her gardening expertise and hunker down and get 'er done!

Needed:

Hanging basket and mossy-like insert
Perlite
Potting soil
Plant food
Tomato plant yielding medium sized fruit
2 Basil plants (or any other herb you desire)
Shovel, hose, bucket, scissors or a knife & gloves
sunlight, water, love, patience, perseverance...yada yada yada

Okay, so first you'll need to take your handy scissors, knife or sharp edged shovel and make a slit in the bottom of the mossy-like insert.

Next, ever so kindly shove your tomato plant through the slit, plant-head first.

Now, I'm NOT and let me emphasize NOT like three more times...NOT NOT NOT an expert in gardening and have always killed my plants. Keep the kids alive first, then the dogs and if the plants are lucky they get fed. So I had to do some research online before I dove into this endeavor and I read that one would need to use Perlite. Perlite is a product that helps the plant retain moisture, which is needed in hanging plants with their roots being more exposed.

I (I should say "we", because my talented mother-in-law was there to hold my hand the entire way) mixed 3 parts potting soil to 1 part Perlite in a bucket before pouring it into the hanging basket.

Doesn't that plant look lonely and bare on top? I think so too! So onto the basil.

I dug out two holes and inserted the basil plants. I was a little worried that the two differing plants would compete for nutrients, but I read online that some plants actually do better together. However, because tomato plants soak up a lot of nutrients from the soil a good plant food is required in order for both to thrive.

All done! Now feed your plants. That's really a reminder to myself. My plant food requires that you mix 1 tablespoon of plant food to 1 gallon water, but make sure you read the directions on any plant food you buy. Oh and also make sure your plant receives approximately 6 hours of sunlight/day.