This is the first time I’ve worked with a kit by Bubble’s Bits, and I have to say that I really enjoyed it! Fish Tales is the PERFECT kit if you have little anglers in your home. This kit is chocked full of adorable elements and paper that work perfectly for both boys and girls (and grown men!). This cute kit, Fish Tales is available at Plain Digital Wrapper. I must say that while this is my first time working with Bubble’s Bits designs, it won’t be my last!
Here are a couple of layouts I created with Fish Tales
Here are a couple of layouts that I created with this cute kit!
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Aimee has an adorable new kit out called Choco-Lovin‘. I was thrilled to get a chance to work with this fantastic kit and just had to brag about HOW cute it is!! Choco-Lovin‘ is only available at Plain Digital Wrapper, so hop on over there and grab it!
Choco-Lovin' by Aimee Harrison Design Studios
Here are a couple of layouts that I created with this cute kit!
Choco-Lovin' by Aimee Harrison Design Studios
Here are a couple of layouts that I created with this cute kit!
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CREDITS:
Kit is Choco-Lovin’ by Aimee Harrison Design Studio
Template by Connie Prince
Fonts are My Type of Font, Wooden Nickle Black, and Pea Stacy Tunibug
We are in the process of starting to grow at least some of our vegetables using an aquaponics system. I’ll go more into what aquaponics is in just a bit. The first thing we needed to do though was build a greenhouse. We wanted to do something simple and inexpensive, because we honestly don’t have the money to build something really fancy, that and we tend to be homebrewers So Marty saw this post about how to build a $50 greenhouse, and built ours with the same basic idea, but adapted it to what we wanted. Well ours cost a bit more ($67)…inflation you know…lol!
We built ours with 9 pieces of 20′ x 3/4″ PVC pipe, 6 mil construction plastic (can’t remember the measurements, but it was a roll), some screws, a couple of t-posts we had on hand and plywood (which we used scraps that we had on hand. This gave us a 12′ x 20′ sized greenhouse to house our aquaponics system. The plastic cost us $25 and the remaining $42 was for the PVC pipes. Everything else we already had on hand. Not too bad! Here are some pictures of our greenhouse.
We’re really happy with it and it’s really hard to believe we got all this greenhouse space for only $67. It was really easy to put together too!
Now, one to aquaponics. Aquaponics is simply hydroponics (growing vegetable without soil, in water) with fish thrown in. Why add the fish to the system? Well the fish..ahem…poop fertilizes the plants that are growing in the water which means you do not have to add chemical fertilizers. It’s a symbiotic relationship that works out really well!
Here are a couple of youtube videos to see how aquaponics work.
Here are some photos of the beginnings of our aquaponics system, we’re not very far along yet, but we do have the beginnings of a system going.
These are our water barrels. The blue one will hold fish and the white one holds the water being cycled through the system.
these will be a couple of our grow beds, just a barrel cut in half.
We are really excited to see how this system will work for us. So, I will be updating the blog as things progress and posting status reports. We’re looking forward to try some of the yummy veggies we grow using this system in the near future. Now to just get it finished up so we can start planting!
Here are a couple of layouts I created with Fish Tales
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