let's sunday reset together 🌼🧺 organizing my garage, my new morning routine & gardening updates

This week we are organizing, we are resetting, we are getting back into a nice normal perfect morning routine and most importantly we are planning the spring garden. What a fun nice cozy week at home and I hope you guys enjoy. I love you. I love you so much. So perfect. Good job. Fist bump. Let's do it again. Sit. Fist bump. Yeah. Good boy. You're so smart. Happy Sunday y'all and welcome to another vlog. I'm doing part two really of this home reset. Today is Sunday and I'm officially old and a real adult because I'm spending my Sunday cleaning the garage and doing yard work. Charlie's helping. We're going to organize the garage to the best of our abilities and then we're going to kind of start garden prepping the garden just because it's bad. There's lots of weeds. I haven't been there in months. I didn't really garden last year because I was living between Texas and Nashville and now I'm back here full time. So back to the garden we go. Bobby, who is my friend from the farmer's market who owns Bobby's Best Starts. Amazing stuff. If you guys are in DFW and you like seedlings or like literally anything garden related he's amazing. He's at Good Local's farmer's market and you can find him on Instagram. He's coming over tomorrow and he's going to help me plan my gardens and take us through the whole thing. Anyway it's actually like 40 degrees out so I'm wearing this active set. It's so cozy and we're off. I'm going to set a timer for the garage. This is what I do whenever I'm cleaning or resetting anything. I set timers to like weird amounts of times that challenged me. So I'll do like 28 minutes or something probably for the was what we were doing today. Also cleaned out from the dinner party and I reset the table. It's not exactly what we had for the last dinner party. If you guys haven't seen that vlog go watch it. It's like my favorite video ever but I like to just have all of this stuff out at all times because it feels cozy and like we could just sit down and have dinner. Marissa is just sitting here. Don't mind that she's just she's here really but anyway love this setup. It's so amazing and so incredible but if you guys haven't watched that video like how I host a dinner party 10 out of 10 recommend. It's my favorite YouTube video I've ever done. Alright y'all this is very vulnerable but here's the before of the garage. It is not great I will say. It isn't but when I did buy a Big Ben to put in my side yard for like the toys and stuff for my nieces and nephews out here. So that'll be convenient and that's going to be set up today as well but we have all of this. I need to get rid of this bar. It fell apart the first time we moved it. Charlie said he's gonna get me a new one so we will still have bars. It's from Wayfair. It's like $200 and it's the most beautiful looking bar but like he wasn't the one who set it up and I think we just need to have it like reset up. I mean the reviews were also that it wasn't amazing so like you know who's to say but anyway I want to set this up to be a little bit better of a gym as well. Also guys like I have this sauna and cold plunge. So this cold plunge I was doing for like a deal and they were sending me like the chiller that came with it. They sent me the chiller that came with it and it was broken and this is over the span of like a year like it was kind of like it's been like a nightmare experience. Okay so it came broken so I sent it back to get repaired and it just like never came back and I'm like hey just checking on the status of like the my chiller that I sent back for repairs and they were like oh yeah we're not like sending that back and I'm like but like it was my chiller. I'm like confused. So anyway all that being said this has just been like a nightmare of an experience and it's been you guys have seen I set this up forever ago like over a year ago. At this point I think I need to part ways with this cold plunge and just get a new one because I want one that is actually like chilled. I don't just want like a big container for water like I got it because it had the ice chiller and like now I'm like all right I don't like I don't want to deal with this anymore. So anyway if you guys have good cold plunge recs let me know. They help me so much like hot and cold therapy. It's so crazy what it can do for you like I actually feel like I could run for president after I do hot and cold therapy like when you're between the sauna and ice plunge you do like 15-3, 15-3, 15-3 like literally I've never been more clear-minded in my life so I do want to get back to that like desperately and honestly I can probably use that just because it's cold right now and like add ice I just want to add ice every day like I know myself and like I just will not do that therefore I will not use it like I have to make things easier in like a health standpoint if I want to use that so anyway the chairs that were here for the dining room I gave to my sister so that's gone I've got some wrap to put away and yeah we just have a lot of like random stuff honestly like it looks really bad but I don't think it's gonna take I don't think it's gonna take as long as you think in the dream world as you guys know I want cabinets up here closed cabinets so we can actually organize and get things going there but it's just a lot this stuff too a lot of the frames and everything I use them like this and this like I use them dependent on what I'm hosting so they kind of just stay out here and I have a beautiful custom art piece that probably will also go to the lake house I'm moving some stuff to the lake house eventually okay we're beginning now I kind of wish it wouldn't even move this chair out of my bedroom I think I would put it back and eventually we are going to just move it to the lake house because I don't even have space for this right now but like that lamp will go to the lake house I need like a u-haul that's actually 26 minutes nice here we go this is my favorite thing to do ever goodbye it's so fun all right y'all I did not meet my self-imposed deadline this took more it was closer to like 45 minutes um I think I went through actually the entire life of a show album so however long that is but this place feels so much better honestly looking on camera it looks messier than it feels in real life um the stuff over here all of that is going to be for the most part is going to be taken to the lake house um my dad has a lake house and I'm just going to start moving stuff over so he can use it there and it's perfect over here we finally have a usable gym space my dad moved recently and he gave me um just some of this gym equipment because he doesn't really have space for it right now so loving that we have the cooler out here we swapped for like the bar cart that I take outside it's over there my garden station is up and Adam which is really my motivation to get this back because there's nothing better than having homeworthy on this tv or just like a nice chill playlist on in gardening and like doing my things and stuff out here it's incredible and then over here we like cleaning supplies we'll probably get something to like hang that wrap that's just a rod of fabric that I have that I need to bring to my go and yeah there's some stuff but there's just like not really room for everything right now so anyway it feels like amazing like you can actually like walk in here which is really just such a great amazing step that I'm personally I'm obsessed with and I'm so happy and then we had some more stuff to organize in here so I went through and I hung up some stuff sneak peek of this this is the first sample they're not exactly what I want them to be but they are really stunning so we might have some tabletop coming soon I'm really hoping like look at how beautiful and stunning it's our custom twall custom what did I say like that I don't know but anyway it's looking amazing feeling even better like I feel like a million bucks now and like a real adult every time I go through you guys know you've seen me do this like five times but it feels amazing this pantry is actually the bane of my existence there's so much stuff so unorganized so it's just oh my god it gets so bad and just we throw things in I'm the worst about it like I I'm not gonna do a full like insane pantry organization I'm just gonna do a little refresh to get things going a little bit better I'm not going through everything I'm not gonna do a full thing I just don't have that in me today but I'm gonna do a little something all right y'all the pantry like the 25 minute little refresh you just did night and day it's not amazing it's not perfect like I definitely want to take a day and go through all of this and check every label and like reorganize it to the way that it was when I actually had it organized but we're definitely making some real progress here and this feels so much better and it took me 25 minutes like it really does not take that long at all now it is time to go grave the garden we're not like actually mending the beds or anything yet I just need to get rid of the weeds because oh hello the weeds are crazy it's really bright out oh my gosh all right let me take you guys through what we have now I also need a ton more soil cute I still have my cute little like bistro set here um those are actually for like worm compost which is gross actually I cannot believe how much these have gone down it's crazy and it stresses me out because the beds are like expanding this way do you see that these beds are all vago garden and I just don't have like supplies and stuff in here um I don't love that but I'm just gonna get all of this like the weeds and stuff on the ground and then of course like down here guys this is crazy first up oh welcome to my garden that sign needs to go back up I need the hose to be hung back here I need to replace this it's been broken for like a year and then all of this stuff just weeds in this is normally where I do my chaos garden so I need to like get rid of all of that but we're gonna go through and just clean it up a little bit for when Bobby comes tomorrow and then we'll actually like do mending the garden beds and all that stuff also I really need to get this stained my neighbors extended our fence and I just like haven't gotten it stained to match because I still don't even know what color this is so that's another thing but anyway just getting rid of this it's gonna take 10 minutes like really no time at all but it will be so worth it guys I'm really excited to be back in my gardening era there is truly nothing more therapeutic and calming actually than any of my grandma hobbies than being outside on a beautiful day doing yard work gardening tending to my garden it's amazing so clearly this isn't really what's not to be happening here like what even is this like I don't think it's like oh my god I don't even have a trash bag for this right now I'm just getting it all out but it's also so nice because this whole garden I just turned my side yard into a garden like and this is my living room so when you look at the windows it's like all the garden it's so pretty and fun but this is just not working for me oh wow and now this year thank god I have charlie because when you go through and you're like mending your garden beds and having to break up the soil I think I had to do that myself in the past couple of years it is such a pain such a bitch it really is it's so awful and I just love now that I don't have to do it I think that's the best part about gardening yay yeah you're gonna love it so anyway it's looking better back here we did a little 10 minute refresh I'm gonna put that in the trash bag later but one thing about Coco is like she is always finding her way to the garden like there she was she was just crawling her way out she loves the garden so anyway I'm excited for my garden planning this is oh I think that I was stung by a bee I think that I was actually anyway I'm so excited to get back to it and I'm so excited to plan my garden tomorrow I even got my 2026 garden planner in which is very very very exciting but that concludes the little house reset today so I think I'm gonna shower get into really cozy pajamas a robe and I need to needle point I have a goal of doing like three icons on the belt per week so that I'm able to get this done within like a month so I'll show you guys because I'm like pretty close to meeting that goal today my my self-proclaimed deadline you guys know how I feel about those is Sunday I need to get to that it's actually freezing outside my god it is 2 p.m on a Sunday afternoon and I have cleaned and organized my house uploaded my YouTube video gotten back into bed after a nice bubble bath well it was like a bath bomb bath kind of thing I have my candles lit my water here a new book so I'm reading the women by Chris and Hannah finally or I just started it and like it's already incredible and I know everything she writes is amazing like I should have read this long ago but now for some reason this year I'm like actually wanting to read books that are like more mature and not you know what I mean like I feel like when I was younger I remember when I recorded with Jackie from the toast on the podcast and she was talking about all these like historical fiction books and stuff that she was reading and I was probably like 25 when we recorded that and I was like it's not there like I just know like eventually like I will know that I am actually like a real adult whenever I'm wanting to read that kind of stuff and like I'm craving those kinds of books oh my god yesterday guys I like to let me just let me set you up for this one yesterday I finished the correspondent by Virginia Evans and guys when I say that is one of the best books I have ever read in my entire life I will always think of Sybil I would have like but if I was by myself when I was reading I would have sobbed like it was just oh my god and like don't essentially it's about this woman who writes Monday Wednesday Friday she like corresponds with people through letters she writes Monday Wednesday Friday like 10 to 12 every week and she's really into her letters it's always been this thing she was a clerk to this judge and it's like later in her life she's a very complicated character she's a very complicated woman and she's a flawed which I really appreciate one I love reading about women like over 60 and two I really like when they're flawed because it's realistic like that's everyone you know so anyway it's all of these letters and the stories told through her letters which I didn't think I was gonna like that style of writing at all because I was like I don't want to read people's like that's not really like it wasn't really like doing anything for me but it was so good like and then I started to think when I was reading it I'm like well reading a book is kind of like reading a letter anyway it's really not that different but like oh my god one of the best books I've ever ever read if you guys have not read it yet please read it I think of Sybil I will think of Sybil for the rest of my life I'm not kidding I think it was such an amazing book like literally the best thing ever so anyways now I'm reading the woman by Chris and Hannah I did see like if I want more of like a palette cleanser easier read I might read Colleen Hoover's new book just to like stay up to date I haven't seen that many people talk about it and I loved Colleen Hoover like my earlier 20s but I just got the PR package actually today for the book so I don't know I think it's a thriller I might give it a shot I love verity so like you never know and anyway oh I need to show you guys my needlepoint belt so I have all this stuff because I'm working on a couple different projects but I'm really working so heavily right now on the needlepoint belt I started this a week ago today and this is where I'm at I'm trying to get through and do three icons a week so that way I can finish it within a month but I am traveling to Chicago this week and I'm hoping that I get a lot done so I'm hoping that I can get this done in like three weeks it'll just depend on if I want to start other projects because I've also I can show you guys a little whip since it won't be Wednesday when I'm recording but I have a couple other things that I want to get stitched and again I have so many big stitching plans this week or this year with all of the friend of mine launches so I want to get like this stuff done this is for my dad for his birthday and then I'm going to have it finished for father's day but I'll probably give it to him before that if I actually like have that but what I have in my project bag right now there's some bigger projects that I'll be getting in February we'll be launching two hopefully ideally for a friend of mine in February so I want to get this stuff done as much as possible so that I can able I'm able to like run into it or I'm able to like start those whenever I have them so this I did in essentially a night and I need to do the background turn it into an ornament this I started stitching and like this it's just it's a mess but um Harrison and I just recorded a stitch of this episode and I started stitching and I'm using very velvet so it's really fun these are friend of mine canvases we will be restocking all of these we're just switching over who is manufacturing our um like needle points but I've sent them in if you guys are wanting a restock like do you want to pre-order because that actually would be helpful because if we do a pre-order we can we will still have like a max of whatever it is for like the order but that way there's less of a chance of it all selling out you just might have to wait a month or two months like what is too long for a pre-order and do you guys want pre-orders I do think it's different I need a point where it's like people are like more down for that I still need to and I really want to get this done this week I still really need to finish the Jeffrey it's gonna love this little four inch round it will take me two seconds and now that I'm a basket we've grown like I wish I would have basket we've did but I need to get this done but I've just been so hard at work on the belt and then I have this that I had custom-made for Charlie it's gonna be a key fob and CC needlepoint that's who I have to do my customs and she's amazing like so nice she also has the like Nancy Meyers directed this like needlepoint canvas it's like the cutest thing ever so anyways I'm gonna spend my afternoon trying to get through here and then I might get to work on the I know one just to catch up with my deadlines I've also been using these little smaller bags and I have from Oregon Julia designs in here to like keep the different projects organized and it's actually been really nice but also we're out of stock I think of the friend of mine project bags like do you guys want these should we restock them let me know anyway I think I'm gonna drink a coffee watch Top Gun and what are you doing I'm gonna get you coffee oh thanks and well we might watch football but I think we're gonna watch Top Gun today and I'm gonna need a coffee and that was the plan look at how sick this looks behind me my room divider if you guys didn't see the last vlog where I got this on basic marketplace for like 200 bucks there's trim on the other side and it is just perfect and it's exactly what I needed for this room I thought I was gonna do matching wallpaper curtains and then I saw this and I'm like this is so much sicker and it's just cooler like I some people were commenting like that does not match I don't like a super like perfectly matched house I like things to feel like lived in and like I like to mix patterns that is more my vibe I am gonna replace the wallpaper and I'm trying to find the perfect like thicker muted stripe either it's green or like creams or something so anyway happy Monday today's actually a holiday I'm drinking my coffee currently 11 but as of this morning I am back in business when it comes to my new slash old morning routine we're bringing it back also this Jones Road like I don't even know if I'm supposed to put this is the like transparent one miracle balm all natural I don't even know if I'm supposed to put this all over my face but like I have been because this isn't like tinted so I don't know anyway this morning perfect morning routine and I'm back and this is my updated morning routine okay guys I am going to be waking up at 6 and then from like 6 to 6 45 I'm gonna be marching my butt over to the living room turning on the fire having some hot lemon water and that is what I'm going to be reading and writing so I'll do my morning pages my journaling in the morning and then I will be reading speaking of guys oh my god update on the women it is I don't even know oh my god I'm only 20% of the way through and like all I want to do is read that book it is so unbelievably good and like my coach Erin has been telling me and she's also my friend hasn't telling me for like years to read the women and I'm like I don't know because you know I said like I feel like I was too busy reading like smut that like was written by like a seven-year-old you know to me like it's not really actually a lot of smut is good I don't um I was too busy reading like not that kind of vibe of books right then I for whatever reason like the other day once I finished my favorite book now the correspondent by Virginia Evans I was like you know what I feel like I could really elevate the books that I'm reading because I felt like that one did so then I picked up the women and when I say like that oh my god I cannot wait to read that I just had a big makeup order and I forgot that I needed more eyebrow gel anyway then around 6 45 go and throw on my workout clothes and go out to the gym which is usable now huge and go walk on the treadmill for an hour and work on my laptop so I get all the emails done just like random miscellaneous stuff because I do have to work out at 8 30 which feels very late to me but I just like love the people that I work out with so I'm keeping my 8 30 workout I like when I get things done before the 8 30 workout so that I feel like I've like kind of started my work day and I'm like ahead of it you know I hate when I get there and I'm like oh my god I feel rushed and I have too much to go right then after that 8 30 my workout that is the perfect morning routine at least for me like it truly is just the best morning routine so anyway tomorrow we are off to Chicago and I need to pack for that I actually just pulled a couple things that I think I'm gonna end up wearing it's gonna be obviously very very cold there and I need to get on that I need to get a bunch of works on this morning and I'm so excited because Bobby is finally coming over and we are planning my garden for hopefully the year probably just in the next season but I do have just a lot of questions for him I'm gonna take you guys through the entire process but it's just gonna be so fabulous like actually the most fabulous also I need more blush this isn't enough blush blindness for me oh that is definitely too much I really want to try toasted teddy the road blush because Macy keeps telling me I would love it and she's really passionate about me trying it so like I need to just get it oh yep blush blindness here we are but I actually forgot that I'm filming today so I should probably do like a little bit more makeup these tower 28 mascaras are amazing I like the brown one I love brown mascara sometimes mascara especially when I'm not tan it just feels so like stark on me you know this actual mascara oh my god it's the perfect mascara also I got my nails done I'm trying to figure out like a very natural go-to nail like I feel like everyone has a go-to nail that they do and I just don't have that I don't even check the colors I just go and I'm like red sure whatever that's fine and then I'll get tired of red then I'll move on to the next but I want to find one that's just really classic and more elevated that I like so I've been going through and I just go on Pinterest and I ask them I go on Pinterest I go through those nails and then I like try to recreate them or whatever anyways I'm nail salon today and I wasn't paying attention at all it literally took them 25 minutes Castle Nails on Mockingbird by the way in Dallas I used to go there all the time I'm not like a ritzy nail salon girl by any means like I just go to whatever is like close to me but Castle Nails on Mockingbird I got there at 9 25 then I mean up until 10 because my workout was over and I didn't realize that they hadn't opened well there were people in there so I actually think maybe they were open anyway they had me come in they and I was in and out of there by 10 a.m. and like my nails are good it's not them that like I don't know I'm just like iffy on the color because I feel like it's too sheer I got two coats of the sugar like dnd gel no that's dip two whatever it was something I'll figure it out but I almost feel like they're just a little like I needed like another coat but then the more I look at them the more I actually like them I'm like okay this might be this might be it but if y'all have a good nail combo though please please let me know see this mascara I just love it it's really great all right I need to figure out I'm gonna figure out what I'm doing but so I've been using the divi scalp serum but I have more than I thought I've got three of these I bought a pack I've used this in the past and I swear that it works but I've been consistent again with it just the past couple of weeks and I'm really excited to see what happens I don't necessarily want my hair to get longer like I don't really have a problem with it growing longer I don't really care about the length I want my hair fullness back like it's just I want it to be as full as possible like I need Kate Davis hair and I need to be getting my glimmer eye mask or my glimmer mask I need to be consistent with neutral like so desperately that is like number one and I really really need to be doing my infrared headband that I just got also while we're here amber saffron this perfume smells amazing it literally smells like a baker out one but it stays on longer I think in my opinion than those dossier it's a great I love them they do like knockoffs of perfumes and stuff I'm not really like a spend a lot of money on scent sort of girl so I really appreciate this stuff and this is my favorite scent in case anyone's wondering and I also really love the rare beauty perfume that perfume is so good I just looked up the weather for Chicago this week just to see what we're working with currently right now it's three degrees oh the high today is six isn't that nice my cute outfits are out the window okay today's colder than normal it's gonna be a high of 28 and a low 14 oh but don't worry this weekend Friday high of three low of negative two Saturday high of 13 low of five Sunday high of 19 low of nine that is your weather report for this vlog I hope you guys enjoyed what the hell am I gonna wear I actually used to spend a lot of time in Chicago when I was younger and I spent like New Year's Eve there and I was like I'm literally gonna get hypothermia so okay guys I'm back with Bobby do you want to give a little intro yeah sure been on the vlogs before we did my garden like two years ago but for those who are new to the channel just give us a little background on you so I am a an avid gardener when I was a little bitty kid my mom bought me sugar cereal and there used to be really good cereal and really good really good prizes in cereal and there was a little geranium and I put in alfalfa seed and it's exploded into this amazing mass of plant matter and I was hooked this is my mom and I just basically started gardening as a bachelor I would woo my lady friends with a whole balcony on the third floor of like watermelons and strawberries and peppers so that's kind of how I got into it during the pandemic I have a big huge garden and I'd started way too many seeds and I said hey I want to see if anybody would buy them I put a Facebook post out and a bunch of people bought plants and you'd have thought I sold a million dollars worth of plants and here we are five years later and if you're in Dallas you can find them at good locals farmers market that's right good local markets and 1450 old gate lane and uh on bobbysbeststarts.com yeah so perfect he has a lot of like content even if you don't live in Dallas like a lot of gardening content online and stuff so you guys should go follow okay so what we're doing today is we're going to figure out what I can plant yes in the spring season for sure and the first thing we talked about earlier today was that we just need to get the beds refreshed all together you can see there's a ton of the soil has settled a ton so we would just raise it up meantime we'll make those look a little bit straighter and get the soil right up to the level as you can see here you don't have a giant window for direct sun so we're going to need to get the plants as high so that the walls of the bed don't inhibit it getting as much sun as possible and then we're going to pick plants they're going to be really good for that narrow window so things like lettuce and herbs we're going to try which we talked about that was a really great idea we're going to try and do maybe some vining things like cucumbers and tomatoes that'll let you be able to take advantage of that little bit shorter time window of sunlight but so exciting okay so i have four beds oh the back you know it looks really good back there i know you're probably really proud because it looks amazing right it looks fabulous so that i typically was doing like i did a chaos garden one year just because i had nothing else and i just had the seeds and it actually did really well but is that a good like spot for it yeah so what i would probably do there where's and the sun sets where for you right now good question i have no probably that way i would assume so i would do maybe even just some cut flowers or something like that here we're going to we have deep soil we're going to do really well with things are going to be able to drop down into the roots to get nutrients and water with that just as it's it's your farthest place you want it to be as carefree or not have to deal with it all of the time so let's put in some things like zinnias that can do really hot weather so we did last time and that was great and i would just fill it with that maybe just a ton of different kinds we can do some um other hot weather flowers marigolds do really well from the early season into the late season and cosmos so let's think about marigolds zinnias and cosmos in there and just beautiful colors i've got a ton of great colors this year that we're going to be able to put in so that'll be great perfect okay we're going to go inside and we're going to draw out my garden beds and just make a plan and my garden planner of course let's get it done so we're going to go over this bed right here in the backyard that has a lot more direct sunlight one we're going to pull it off the wall no big deal move it down to where you want it but think about this like for pretty cheap you could put in a um a really cute rain barrel they're the really cool tie-ins to these downspouts that will allow it to take it in until it can't anymore and then the cool thing is is that you have this sort of natural rain water by far like dallas city water super duper we're really go check it out we're really high on chlorine levels in our water which is not good for the soil microbes the rain water that you would catch and water this garden with way way better the cool thing about rainwater is that as it pulls through the atmosphere our atmosphere is mostly made up of nitrogen you think what's oxygen is what we're breathing well it's mostly oh mostly nitrogen and as the rain falls through it it catches that nitrogen and it dumps it into the water so essentially what that's why when you look at a prairie that's kind of brown fresh rain or they'd say everything greens up nitrogen is the thing that that makes plants green so when you pull that in it's so beneficial for the garden so if you could be watering this most of the time with a cute little setup for a rain barrel it would be awesome so we can totally do that this thing we take it apart we pull all the charlie and i will pull all this soil out put it in a wheelbarrow move it into place we'd save that little nasturtium and then we fill it full of new compost this is probably enough soil you can see that it's kind of got some woody bits to it so it needs to be broken down a little bit more so i would add like really well sifted compost that doesn't have any wood in it anymore because you've got enough of that little bits in there and then we put in some micro life fertilizer the really good stuff and then done we'd be planting in here like we said we wanted to do like maybe four tomatoes yeah and then some intersperse some other things a couple peppers maybe an eggplant or two and this would be if this is your best son super productive i guarantee out of these this little bed perfect i'm excited for this one and then i thought like in a dream world i would put a potting bench here so that's why i think i'm gonna move this that's why i like i'm not good that would be really cute and really fun for you to be able to tie in with everything perfect here's the problem um depending on obviously you're going to have noon sun but if you're going to grow something back here it has to be a zero fruit berry thing so lettuce that's a great thing really um herbs that are arid you want to keep them together so like rosemary oregano and thyme which you would use all the time especially if it's this close to your yeah to your kitchen would do really well this is sage if i'm not mistaken already i used to have this like really up and going and i was using it all the time and i had it i had too much stuff in here i think but i did have a lot yeah so that one already sage already what we i would probably if i'm if i'm in your shoes we could come in and trim this totally back trim up the oregano really refresh the soil if you didn't want to immediately put that bed put the um potting bench if you did what i might do is just like push this right to the edge you know we can make it you know put some gravel or whatever you want around it to look really kind of nice but you've already got such a good established setup here that we would add maybe some some time i think rosemary would be really good in here this bed especially does that come on like every day or whatever no well right now we have them off right gotcha i think he turned them off yeah we yeah so then what the great thing is that if you had rosemary sage oregano and thyme you don't have to have any um you don't have to have like a regular watering schedule those things thrive they're desert plants so they thrive on soil that isn't like super wet in fact i have to pull rosemary out of my garden and put it in pots so that i don't over water it or else it just dies like what are you doing i'm giving you all the nutrients and water you need but it doesn't like a lot of water i think what you've already established would be really really good and then another thing here i'll give you her name um but i started working with this lady um who's in lake highlands and it's her she has a a subscription-based um landscaping business but she also does come to turnkey fixes and whatnot it's called marigold landscaping she is awesome and does really good work so she might be able to come in and give you some pointers or whatever you know can have a conversation online or whatever yeah but i do think we save those things we prune it we put some a couple of new things but all arid herbs and you'd be fresh of set it'd be awesome okay great perfect i know i need to buy the potting bench yeah the potting bench um is cheap so i need to just buy one i just haven't picked one out yeah i just want to see if you would write this out a two-foot bed right so we'll deal with that so this is going to be a like a scaled down version like a the overall bed is going to have four of them what we need to do then is to think of each of these so essentially 16 plants can go inside of this guy when we get the um when we get the actual bed and the soil raised up what i think i'd want to do is maybe come in here and on the edges plant some chives maybe some carrots in the middle and that it's going to allow us to have some foliage in there and look really nice and also we have to cover the soil when we have especially in a raised bed when the soil is exposed the heat our texas heat will dry out not just like the top inch or two it keeps digging and digging for all of that water to kind of evaporate it out then the plants get really to where they're starting to struggle especially shallow rooted plants so what i would say is we're going to take this as that front bed we might want to put something kind of big right here like maybe a single vining tomato that we could then talk we talked about maybe putting up some strings to the to the fence then on behind that because we're gonna have some shade from that tomato and maybe we'll put it maybe instead of right there we'll put it a little more on the front front to um front square foot behind that we can come in with some lower slung stuff that can still handle heat like maybe a um do you like hot peppers where are you with peppers great so we could do like a chili piquin and a jalapeno and then now we're over again because these guys are going to be fairly low and kind of bushy we might come in here with another tomato of a vining type um and then another set of peppers here so i would say like maybe every other one we could be putting in a tomato and then two peppers a tomato and two peppers and the tomato so um with that the soil is covered we've got plenty of of coverage for uh plenty of sun to get everybody going but in between all of those things is where we might want to come in and plant the the chives the carrots um we could take the next bed and do something a little more vining like a um like a squash how are you with squash i'm also i love it i'm also the least picky eater ever like i'm happy for everything so we can just put things in right so one two we're going to think of it that way where we are trying to put some big anchor things in each one and we could use um by coupling them together tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers and eggplants let's say and we could put those together and then that final back maybe the little six foot bed could be something that we experiment with um i've got these beautiful they're um super specialty sunflowers from a guy named sunflower steve and he's in may or something but there he has been working on he has self select he's been selecting and keeping seeds i think it's like 10 years for this one really beautiful he calls it the van gogh sunflower and it almost looks you know van gogh um that impressionist painting everything is kind of wispy looking the the petals of the sunflower super wispy so maybe in that middle six foot bed we can plant and treat those because the sunflowers i don't know if you've known but like a big headed sunflower has a gigantic stalk and it needs to drive down into the soil pretty deeply but we'll put maybe those in um one every square foot and we can do it kind of diagonally so that space would have i think like six of them yeah six of these beautiful sunflower steve sunflowers and in between that we could put maybe some of that low slung stuff like marigolds or maybe more of the if you end up liking the flavor and the beauty of those um oh my gosh why am i drawing the blank on they are called the sunflowers no the little ones that we told you in the back oh wasabi um so we'll we can sling in a bunch of like pretty useful that's i don't love to to think things that are just for show like let's say a begonia which people put in dallas all in their front yards it's like why would you do that when you can have something that you could eat yeah that's and be beautiful so we'll we can play with getting on i'm all about making everything useful every single square foot of this house got to i mean look at it so great literally every square foot so your the goal here for us is um i can come up with the recommendations for these large bucket things and then i'll we i'll bring some seed over that we can plant once the plants are the big plants are in and we can start seeding or what we need to do is well here's what i would think let's start by really trying to get the soil ready like getting the bed set you need to call vigo and then try to say hey i've got two foot beds i need the little stabilizers because my those are 36 inch tall till my 36 inch beds are bowing i need to get some things and they'll send them to you like pretty quickly and i'm they're not super expensive so let's get those in let's get soil in and let's do that i don't know what your schedule is like but let's do that in the next 10 days yeah while we're super duper cold it's the right time because you're not going to plant any new plants anyway so let's get all of that set then once i've got the soil level up to the top i'll come in and i'll plant some carrots some chives all that stuff will kind of sit dormant until spring really springs and i'll i'll be really intentional with where i put it so that we can kind of leave these big open spaces for our big plants and then we're off and running the not tricky part but the fun part will be it's easy to do it all you know in one big bang at the beginning of this of the spring and everything will be really up and going but we have to be thinking in march april like may we've got to be thinking about the super heat that's going to hit in august so we'll have to like pull some of the things out like maybe the carrots start to you're starting to eat them they're coming out we've got to put in some new things that can handle the heat maybe more peppers maybe some sage that kind of thing so that we can get ourselves bridged over to september which is where we'll put in like your new peppers i mean your new yeah your new peppers new cucumbers that sort of thing to be able to get it um ready for the late early fall late fall if i wanted to start some things from seed myself because i'm a whole setup like what should i do and should i just do like do you think i should wait for that stuff to be like planted obviously like in fall no what you so what we're always thinking about is right now you're trying to be a whole like three months ahead so you're thinking about what is early spring going to look like so we're we're we'll call it mid-january so mid-february mid-april to mid-may that's your big season for brassicas things like cabbage broccoli all those things that can handle really cold snaps and start to thrive as the temperatures rise just a little bit then there's this big changeover like in june where all of that stuff is going to go to seed it it's called bolting when it gets too hot it'll then we will be changing our mindset to i have plants zinnias cosmos marigolds that can take that massive amount of heat that we're going to come get in our summer months so right now your thought is i want to do cold weather plants you can go look up a book called cool flowers it's cool flowers um and uh the lady who wrote that book is amazing so she kind of wrote the book on cool season flowers so if you wanted to start some seeds like i want to do veg broccoli all those kinds of things and i can give you a little list of that but also like what what's the beautiful things that i want to grow as well is it gumfrina is it rebecca like what are those things and you once you you get the book she has a good timeline in the book to tell you much like um callie does in the dallas garden schools book she's going to give you a good timeline of hey here's when you start here's how to do it it's the book is great the thing that was most beneficial for me from cool flowers was the fact that i just didn't know cut flowers at all and um you're not just growing flowers for flower sake like in your mom's front yard or whatever it's like so yeah she always grew these things what these are and those flowers in particular she's talking about are for florists cut flowers so you're going to be able to grow things that you're going to cut and bring in and have a beautiful bouquet that'll last you know just like you would if you bought at a local florist but that's you grew that and you get to pick your colors your all that so that's my dream because like i want to have my hosting gift for people be like a you know i obviously grew this of course of course together and send them on home yeah i think that it would be great and you have so much great growing space out there that you just need to turn up the dial on your understanding of when yeah i mean the how is just a matter of doing it water it feed it no big deal but it's when to start the key every good gardener is not like the best at getting their fingers dirty although they do the best gardeners are those that understand the timing of the season they understand what's best for your particular growing area we're in zone 8b you know it's it's experimenting but you have to really know the seasonality of the things that you're planting and once you do you're you have upped your gardening game by tenfold yeah that's just that is what i want to learn yeah that's what we're good for and that's what so you're you've locked on to some of the best resources so this cool flowers lady obviously dallas garden school cali is the number i've never seen anyone with more knowledge about dallas specific growing i've learned a ton from her she's helped me so much so locking onto those and i can be your supplier that's right i'll be your guy so that's great perfect awesome this is great so now i have this planned i also this planner i don't think really talked about it it is from the dallas garden school so it's great for this season i'm sure there's so many different people who make them for different zones but there's notes throughout which is really helpful and specific to us so she doesn't try it she's not selling things in new york city no she's selling things to north texas gardeners and it's such rich information it's so helpful of us okay well so we're gonna work on the garden beds next yes that'll be good yes and then i will i'm leaving town this week but then i'm back and then i'll start great with some seeds so before you leave town i want you to make sure that you contact vigo oh i'll do that like today i need that that's my to-do list yes thank you so much you guys can follow bobby and we are really just gonna make this garden such a magical place it's gonna be awesome come see it and you guys can go see what the farmers market too okay i've been cooking and working but this is a monumental day because i finished my first hosting journal so i'm on to my next i went back and i junk journaled it's just such a special book i really want to go through because this is like a scrapbook at this point and do like a spoof of the vogue's like look throughout looks throughout the years but do it with like the dinner parties throughout the years a friend of mine that would be so good we don't have that many of these in stock by the way i just emailed saying we probably need to place a restock because we're pretty low on the um last restock but if you guys are interested in these like you should honestly order them now but oh my god i just love this thing i have my spaghetti and meatballs and i'm getting to packing we're in chicago we're snowed in by texas standards and my frame bridge package has arrived one of two the other one is a gift but guys are you ready for the rooster let's see it she is setting this is the rooster that i found antique shopping that was in a different frame and i saw her and i knew well i saw him so i knew it was perfect i took it to frame bridge to get reframed because i don't want this house to be like i say this in like every single video like to grandma like it needs like you know some things that are a little bit over with the time and i feel like this frame in matt just kind of brought it back to like what i wanted it to be i'm thinking i'm gonna put it over here and then i'm gonna move this over there um but i have to kind of see the visual so i don't know now it feels like yeah now it feels too small okay well we could the second thing is the kitchen okay that's no issue because the first idea was actually to put it in the kitchen which is more fitting anyway so brb we're heating up the water right now but this is what i'm thinking right here also i got stuff for storage for my linux spice village and from urban i ordered it over a month ago and it hasn't come in so i don't know what's going on what is oh this is the perfect size but it has to be like out a little bit more there's too many cards the problem is it needs to be i don't know it might be too big we can put a stopper or something or books behind it okay at first i was unsure but the more i've moved things around and just kind of redecorated i actually really love it up here the issue is that it's obviously not like nailed in and it's leaning and just a little bigger than i thought but this is just gonna be amazing like i will keep this piece forever and ever and ever it's so so good oh my god got it at frame bridge well i got the rooster antique shopping and then i had it framed at frame bridge but i do love this and feel like it brings the kitchen like it gives i don't like modern i mean this kitchen's very modern brings it more to the modern times but i love that this by the way is from pennyland it's a little acrylic like round for an ornament so once i finish the jeffrey one that i've been working on i'll show you in a second it's going to go in here when it isn't hanging on the tree and then we just have so many friend of mine card decks and stuff the reason the coloring is different is because some of these are samples of different things and i've also like left them in okay y'all so we are back from chicago it was really fun it was freezing i didn't even do or see any of the people that we were planning on because the weather was just so bad the city in chicago was like actually shutting down and then there was the ice storm here which is still happening i mean it's not storming but it's still below freezing so nothing has worn off thank you so much okay so i wanted to give you guys a little whip i'm just gonna be working it's really sad because macy was actually supposed to come this weekend and she was gonna be here staying with me when i got back and we were gonna have a surprise macy thompson party and it was a whole thing but she's coming next week which actually works out even better because we're doing the rodeo and next week is gonna be such an amazing week first off this weekend got the ina garden birthday party stay tuned for that video then next week i have the stars invited charlie and i to a game and charlie's like the biggest stars fan that's ever existed like he's went with his dad his entire childhood he goes to the games like hours early he's a huge huge stars fan and i posted something of him with the stars and then the stars reached out and invited us to a game so like actual coolest day ever so we're going on monday to the stars game wednesday's the rodeo friday molly gets here or thursday molly gets here and macy will be here for that molly's coming to visit and then we're going on a stitcher tree me harrison caroline and molly and it's going to be literally the best weekend ever look i actually cannot wait but anyway with that being said i was trapped it was also the like anniversary of my brother passing so this past week has just been like a not great week for me which means i got a lot of stitching done so um i guess i'll give you guys a little update i didn't film a whip this past week so i don't even know i think probably the first three icons is where we left off on like tiktok at least but i think last i talked to y'all i had just finished up to here and i've gotten past this way so now i am about i'm a little bit more than halfway through i do have a couple things to fill in over here just the threads that i forgot and i am very confident that i'm gonna have this done by my deadline which was february 10th i started this on january 10th and now we're exactly like 20 no it's been 15 days so i've gotten a lot of this done um and then also this is just on my list of things that i really want to get finished it's the jeffries i'm gonna love this needlepoint canvas i got this from one part whimsy she's a texas designer and these are so cute harrison got different ones these are like ina garden ones and i actually went in with velvets um for the words which honestly i feel like it just pops so much better than like a silken ivory any other kind of fiber and i love this i wish i would have had a different pink for the velvet um just for like the heart color but like i'm not gonna buy another pink when i have that it's ridiculous so love this um oh i started very briefly on the key fob that i had made for charlie this i get all my custom through at cc needlepoint on instagram she's amazing and i just did the initials here and i'll probably get going on that once i finish my dad's belt and then this is a mess because i just kept this in here and i don't have a needle minder on this one but our classic dolly love her and then for cowboy dolly i finished cowboy dolly in like a day or two actually i haven't finished i still need to do an eye and a beak here um and then i need to figure out what i'm doing for the backgrounds i did get four inch rounds to just turn these into ornaments to like circle to see what i need to do but i want them to have matching ornaments a part of me is like i kind of want to do like a cream corduroy stitch that is kind of sounding good to me i like that i don't know i haven't really fully decided but that's kind of what i've just been thinking um and that is pretty much it oh i went into um thirco stitches which is the chicago needlepoint shop and first off the women were so nice we were having the best time i fell back so i was just having like a really bad week so i was like more quiet i mean we were chatting like they were great but um they were literally first off cutest needlepoint store if you guys are in chicago they even have this area if you're new to needlepoint that is set up so perfectly for beginners like seriously the most incredible store so cute and they even sell it like a little area that's kind of like more boutique we got um a candle that was just like our favorite drink when we were there um and yeah it was really cute so if you guys are in chicago i know you guys have a lot of stores like in the suburbs we don't have that in dallas it's all in the city like our fifth store oh that's the other thing that's good about next week no it's this week me me is the new needlepoint shop is opening which i'm very excited about it's in bishop arts which is by far my favorite like neighborhood in dallas i don't go as often as i would like just because it's like a little bit out of the way but it is there's no neighborhood in dallas that compares to bishop arts it is the there's no neighborhood in general that compares to bishop arts like it is the coolest neighborhood everything ever everything everything is it ever they have everything and a lot of it is like local small businesses it's very creative it's just the coolest crowd the coolest people like it is just the coolest neighborhood and having a needlepoint shop down there makes you really excited because it's gonna like draw me there more but anyway i'm gonna be going to that as well which i'm excited about but this is my these are my works in progress i'm gonna try to get as much done as possible but today's monday so i'm getting back to work um we've been taking not that this is literally my whole i'm trying to do a needlepoint influencer we took some really good meetings last week about needlepoint where we have so many things we should have two drops in february fingers crossed uh but just for a lot of other like future stuff and we also have like outside of needlepoint my friend of mine we have um samples coming for a launch that we're hoping to do i don't want to like save the month but soon that is also surrounding one of my hobbies that i think you guys are really going to like we are restocking the overalls too shortly so if you guys are wanting the overalls get on the restock list because the second we restock stuff it's gone like so quickly because so many people are on the restock list so get on the restock list for the overalls we're also expanding um sizing so we're gonna have one more size which is really good because long term i want to be like obviously in as many sizes as possible but anyway i am gonna go for this vlog it's kind of been all over the place but i just need to be by the fire and working all day so love you guys and i will see you in my next video bye