Super simple and amazingly delish salad dressing!!! for all your garden goodies!!!

As many of you know I love love love to garden and I also love to pick fresh goodness from it for a quick lunch!!! I just picked these goodies and whipped up a super quick salad....and thought I would share one of my favorite dressings! Some olive oil, wine vinegar, finely rasp grated garlic, old fashioned grainy dijon mustard and salt and pepper!!!! So good on any salad and also amazing on grilled veggies!!!

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Just trimmed my boxwood garden.....

As many of you know, I am in love with gardening....from my flower gardens to my vegetable garden to my boxwood garden....so I am happy to report that I just trimmed up my boxwood garden....this garden is special to me....we put it in on our 3rd Anniversary.....every year we try to do something special that we can enjoy for years to come...I do all the trimming and my sweet husband vacuums up all of the trimmed pieces....he is a sweetheart! I also have two teddy bear topiaries that I just trimmed up and they are as cute as can be!!!

I am off to get some work done....hope you all have a super amazing day and Happy Memorial Day to all of my American friends in blogland!

Happy Monday and Happy Creating Everyone.....

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Illustration Friday....better late than never....theme "cultivate"

Hi Everyone...I have been without my computer for almost three days now and I am finally back....can't wait to see all of your blogs....and catch up....seeing things on my blackberry was not that easy on the eyes...

so I ended up doing some Spring cleaning and painting....wall painting that is.....I will have to show you the colour that inspired me this Spring.....

What will you be cultivating this year?

Here are my submissions to IF this week....the theme is "cultivate" and I think we should all help people grow and help children learn to take care of the land and grow something.....

Happy Friday!!!!

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I just love gardening!!!! Come visit the garden with us!!!

What a wonderful year for gardening!!! I have two amazing helpers in my gardens and we all have so much fun working and enjoying the fruits of our labor!!!!

Have an amazing long weekend everyone!!!

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Diana

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Happy 4th Birthday Cole!!! You are amazing my sweet little Pumpkin Pie!!!

Today is Cole's 4th Birthday!!! He is such a wonderful child...he is the reason I get inspired to work each and everyday on my picture books and my projects. He changed my life in so many wonderful ways and I am ever so grateful to be his Mommy!!!

He is my biggest fan and I love it when he says things like..."When you come back, I'm going to give you a big hug and a kiss."

He makes my heart grow each and every day and seeing him grow up is truly a wonderful gift...and I am so blessed to have him as my little boy!!!

Cole helping with our vegetable garden....this is when we first planted it...you have to see it now!!! it is HUGE!!!!I will add a photo .....

The next few days will be all about Cole so I promise to visit you all when I get a chance...we have so many fun things we need to do....and I will have plenty of photos to tell you all about them!!!!

Happy Birthday Cole...WE love you with all our hearts!!!or as he would say...

I love you all day long....

one of his favorite books right now!!!

Hugs
Diana

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Mixed Media Monday and some weekend updates....

Hi Everyone!!! I am back from taking a break this weekend...we called it our Thanksgiving in August Weekend...we had both our families up at our cottage in Huntsville and we had a wonderful time filled with great company, great weather , great sports, and great food.....The piece above is my submission this week to Mixed Media Monday...the theme is Together and this weekend was all about "Together" ......The illustration is a rough from my latest book that will be coming out soon!!! It is written and illustrated by me!!! and I can't wait till you all see it and read it....I hope you will love it !!!

Here is Minnie....she loves to run up and down and dive off the dock!!! she is a riot .....

here are some of our tomatoes...picked and ready for eating!!! with some of my yummy herbs too....and below I sliced some so you can see them....these are my favorite .....tomatoe and mayonnaise sandwiches...oh yummm I think I will have one !!!

and I just had to show you more of my cauliflowers from this season...they are monsters!!! we love them.....I had to buy one to show you all the difference in size....I always prefer my home grown organic goodies!!!

Have a wonderful Monday!!!!

Hugs

Diana

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The fruits of our labour....

Hi Everyone....we picked up some yummy treats from our vegetable garden...I had no idea everything would be so huge within a few days....the weather has been perfect for zucchini and cauliflower....then we cooked up some yummy food ...a recipe for zucchini that you should all try is here.....and I also made some yummy chocolate zucchini cupcakes...(gotta sneak in all the vegetables I can into treats for Cole) he loved eating the food we picked....

Have a wonderful Saturday!!!

Hugs

Diana

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The Spring Bunnies are early!

Hi Everyone...what a pleasant surprise...the big bunny in our garden had her babies....Minnie found them...and they are as cute as ever....I took some photos to share with you....

The one in it's bunny hole is so cute....I always feel special when I see animals on our property....
As long as these little guys don't grow to love my vegetable garden I will be happy!

Have a wonderful Saturday!!!

Hugs
Diana

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