Dinosaur Room Update + experiment

Ok... so about 8 months ago, I decided that my poor toddler/2 year old needed an update from his nursery:

I LOVED his pooh bear nursery, but it was time to give him a big boy room. Soo... I SLOWLY started making his room into a dinosaur room:

 I made a quilt... and curtains (which apparently I don't have photos of)

 I put chalkboard around the bottom of his wall... and started putting dinosaur wall stickers up

 Then came the ABC wall posters

 THEN a big boy bed :)

 This winter I made dinosaur pegs for his dress-up hats

 And he got a new toy shelf (not dinosaur, but bigger for him)

 I just finished a dinosaur clock

 And a dinosaur door sign and initial plates

 I'm slowly painting the toy shelf... I glued on these little wooden icons to try and capture what he loves at age 2.... woody, pirates, space, firetrucks

 Rocket ships, school buses, and robots. I'm probably going to paint some words on the shelf as well... but I'm not there yet

I painted a dinosaur puzzle-painting.

I'm happy to say that I only have ONE more painting to do and then I'm finished with his room (besides painting his toy shelf and possibly re-painting his bookshelf... both neither will be dinosaur theme, because I want him to be able to have them for longer)

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And now... what's the experiment?


A few weeks ago, I went into my storage of onions from the summer and found this:

 An onion had started sprouting... so I thought to myself. I wonder if it would grow in my house?

 So I planted that little bulb..

A few weeks later, it's grown large... it's about 2 time this height now! I'm going to replant it again, and hoping that it'll continue to grow. Hopefully I'll be able to plant it this spring, and get a LARGE onion in the fall. :)

Life is Beautiful... beautifying my life

I recently decided that I am going to beautify my life AND take all the pollutants/air pollen out of our air.. naturally. How? Plants my friend, plants. I've done quite a bit of research and found the top 15 plants that have been proven to be the most effective at removing air pollutants. Now they say for every 2,000 square feet, you should have 14/15 of these plants. I have a little over 1,000 square feet, so for the next 7 months, I will be collecting one plant of different variety until my house is both beautiful, full or green living wonder, and air pollutant free. :)

So what are these plants???

1. Philodendron scandens `oxycardium', heartleaf philodendron
2. Philodendron domesticum, elephant ear philodendron
3. Dracaena fragrans `Massangeana', cornstalk dracaena
4. Hedera helix, English ivy
5. Chlorophytum comosum, spider plant
6. Dracaena deremensis `Janet Craig', Janet Craig dracaena
7. Dracaena deremensis `Warneckii', Warneck dracaena
8. Ficus benjamina, weeping fig
9. Epipiremnum aureum, golden pothos
10. Spathiphyllum `Mauna Loa', peace lily
11. Philodendron selloum, selloum philodendron
12. Aglaonema modestum, Chinese evergreen
13. Chamaedorea sefritzii, bamboo or reed palm
14. Sansevieria trifasciata, snake plant
15. Dracaena marginata , red-edged dracaena

Now, I started with the peace lily (which I found at steins for 12.00):

I did research of course, and found that this plant grows well with little water and low light... perfect for me. :)
The next easiest is the spider plant (which is my October plant of choice):

 and the english ivy

So give it a try :)