Miss Modish- Mojo Maker

August's Flowers

Sparkle Power

window watchers

The Mr's birthday!

We pretty much just ate all day!

exploring

meditation

Flowerspotting

celebrations

{most all these photos are by the mister!}

Morning

Spent my birthday at Trillium Lake

The End and The Beginning

Hello all you Petal/Pedal peddlers! As Modish prepares for changes, P+P must also change, and with that today I say farewell. Before the heat wave hit, we the stewards of Sweet Haven Homestead were working on a greenhouse. I'd hoped to have it finished before today, but ... well, the heat and humidity of the southeast will take the motivation out of anyone.

We followed Adam Fyall's instructions (as well as some tips from Eliot Coleman and Farm in My Pocket) and bought most of the materials from a farm supply hardware store. The poly for the cover came from a greenhouse supply website (this is what we got). Charlie and Mabel followed Adam's directions with few modifications, the cool thing about his instructions are that he used his design for a few seasons and went back and adjusted his design and instructions--he's has already done most of the mistake-making legwork!

With a relatively small investment for a greenhouse I now have a place to keep me gardening through the winter!

If you can believe it, I'm fighting back a few tears as I type this last post. Knowing Modish will grow and fluorish as an even more extraordinary blog is keeping my tears at bay. Thank you Jena, for having me here, and thank you readers for making me feel welcome. Keep on growing!

I hope you'll check in with me at Wolfie and the Sneak and (my blog) every once in a while to see what I'm up to and to say hi. I'd love to hear what you're growing, too!

Renee Garner has a passion to make things grow, although her brownish thumb wants her to believe otherwise.  When mud pies aren't on the menu, you can find her doodling the days away at Wolfie and the Sneak.

I'm 29 today

Birthday flowers and birthday breakfast! Now we're headed up to Mt Hood to bask in the sun and take a dip in some chilly mountain water. It's gonna be a good day!

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August Break

Happy August! I'll be participating in Susannah's August break this month which means l'll pop in every few days (or perhaps more) with a photo to share, but no wordy birdy-ness for the whole month (well, after today :) I need to get some space and time to work on some behind the scenes changes that are taking place, including a re-design and re-branding for little Modish to become the official Miss Modish blog instead! Plus, it's notoriously the most beautiful month here in Portland and I want to get outside more to enjoy it!

And then starting Monday, September 5th, I'll welcome you back here to the new Miss Modish blog! I'll be posting on businessy topics (ala Modish Biztips) more regularly as well as chat about personal stuff, but there will be no more editorial product talk and I'll no longer be accepting product/shop submissions. I'm really narrowing down, focusing and choosing my path- I'll hope you'll come along with me!

One thing I'd really like to do starting in the fall is host an "Ask Miss Modish" column here weekly or bi-weekly. So, anything you're wondering about marketing, branding, blogging, publicity, dealing with stress, distraction, self-employment... if you have a question about anything business related at all please email hello{at}missmodish.com with the subject "ask Miss Modish" and you may see it here answered on the blog!

So pop in this month to see some pretty pics of August happenings, and I hope you'll join me come Sept to get your marketing mojo on!

<3 jena