Roannavm

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Abundance of noodle beans aka long beans

This summer my abundant vegetable has to be my noodle beans aka long beans. Everyday I pick about a dozen of them. When I miss a day I end up with some being a bit too mature. I have a variety of noodle - long beans. Two varieties I got from Bakercreek - red noodle beans and Thai soldier - and one I bought from Home Depot - Yard long bean.

The red noodle beans were introduced to me by Jessica from Roots and Refuge. She recommended it as she said it produces abundantly. Thai soldier long beans I bought because initially it was listed as a bush variety and I had space in my garden last year for a bush variety bean. However, after a month I noticed it started vining next to my tomatoes and peppers. It was uncontrollable about 2 months and grew every where. I had 5 plants last year. This year I planted about 12 and 8-10 are alive, of which 8 are bearing noodle beans. Thai soldier beans are not as long as noodle beans but not as short as green beans. It’s super delicious. Yesterday I picked this:

I had a friend over and I asked him if he wanted but he declined lol because three days prior he visited us and I picked the same amount and gave him in addition he took home a basket of greens (kale, Swiss chard and Malabar spinach).
Well today this is our harvest

As you can see another handful of noodle beans and a dried one too lol.

The melon you see that is a mystery for us. There dragon eggs cucumber and regular market more cucumbers. A couple okras and peppers.

I will be making some pickles soon. I’ll share my recipe with you when I do!
Thanks for reading!

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Garden Haul July 29, 2020

I love gardening but for the last couple of months I took very little care of my garden. More or less watering just to keep them alive, but that didn’t seem to bother them because they kept on growing and producing. Now they could have been more productive if I had spend a lot more time in caring for them, but I didn’t. Of lately my focused has changed as I realized that my garden should have been giving me free therapy... therapy I needed to help curb my anxiety (will explain in another blog post). But here I sit watching my evening harvest and feeling so grateful that my garden did not give up on me and kept producing.

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Project Polish 2017

As usual I'm starting the year doing all these #projectempties. And #projectpolish2017 is no exception. This year I'm starting this project with 5 colored polishes and 1 base coat. As I finish items I will keep adding. I'm starting with polishes from last year hoping to really complete those and get them out of my collection rather than just have a bunch of half empties. The 5 polishes are:
1. Kleancolor gel effect in g113 Sea ice
2. Essence color & go in 168 love me, cupcake
3. Essence color & go in 173 over the rainbow
4. Essie tour de finance
5. Essie navigate her
6. Jordana nails be strong 404 nail be strong strenghtener

I know some are minis but I still need them out of my collection. Will update every month.

Saturday, January 7, 2017

Finish 7 by Spring 2017

Here are the items I'll be using for my finish 7 by Spring

1. Estée Lauder Sumptuous bold volume lifting mascara travel size

2. Rimmel stay matte primer

3. Collection 16 lasting perfection ultimate wear concealer in cool medium 2

4. Kylie posie k lip liner

5. Stila stay all day waterproof liquid eye liner intense black

6. Makeup Revolution ultra contour palette middle bronzer pan

7. Halener Rustique pigments in baggie in amor and culture

Will try to do updates monthly or as items finish ....
Let's the #projectpan2017 begin ......

Friday, June 10, 2016

Sale: Bh cosmetics duo blush palette

Only swatched 4 out of 6 blushes

$50ttd

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Sacha Cosmetics Doh Blush Baby line

Picked up these goodies a while now and forgot to post

Line comes with three items: a blush, a lipstick and a nail polish

The blush is super pigmented and can be used as an eyeshadow. It's very hard for me to blend out on my cheeks and I have to use a very very very light and fluffy hand.

The lipstick strangely enough looks good on my even though it's a warm tone red. Not a matte formula. I would recommend a lip liner to be used with it.

The nail polish was disappointing. Applies very sheer. I had to put on three coats to get to some sort of opaquity.

Here are pics of the line