Garden Week is Coming, and You’re Invited!

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By Becky Striepe

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Published on April 2nd, 2014 |
by Becky Striepe

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Spring is here, and we couldn’t be happier! Next week we’re going to celebrate with Garden Week with some of our favorite DIY bloggers, and you’re invited to join us!

We had so much fun with Spring Cleaning Week that we are doing another themed week this month: Garden Week. We’ve got lots of gardening goodness planned, from some container gardening DIY goodness to encouraging beneficial insects in your spring garden. Garden Week is running from April 7-13 here at Crafting a Green World, and you’re welcome to participate!

How to Participate in Garden Week

Our list of participating sites is lookin’ good, and you guys are invited to participate, too! All that you have to do is write your own gardening DIY on your blog during the week of April 7th. You can download the Garden Week header graphic below and use it in your post, so everyone will know that you’re participating! When your Garden Week post is up during the week of the 7th, drop it in the comments on this post, so we’ll have all of the Garden Week goodness in one place.

Garden Week Participants

We’re super jazzed about the awesome folks that are teaming up with us so far for Garden Week. I hope you’ll take some time to check out their sites, and I can’t wait to see what you guys come up with for Garden Week!

• Crafting a Green World
• Glue and Glitter
• The Green Divas
• Five Little Homesteaders
• The Homesteading Hippy
• Mod Podge Rocks
• Sustainablog
• Eat Drink Better
• Feelgood Style

DIY Gardening Inspiration

Need some garden week inspiration? Check out a few of our previous gardening posts to whet your gardening appetite:

• Grow a Magical Fairy Garden
• DIY Upside-Down Tomato Planter
• 5 Upcycled & Unique Garden Ideas for Spring
• Use Junk & Trash to Help Your Garden Grow
• Recycled Garden Bubbler
• How to Build a Rain Barrel
• 5 Simple DIY Plant Markers

The countdown is on! I can’t wait to see all of the gardening goodness roll in next week!

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How you know you’re becoming an Angeleno

When does a person who’s moved to L.A. officially become an Angeleno, anyway?

Now that I’ve lived in L.A. for eight months (how did that happen?!), I feel fairly established in the city and know my way around pretty well. While some locals would say you’ve not a true Angeleno until you’ve lived here for some arbitrary number of years, I’m of the belief that you’re a member of your community as soon as you start actively participating in it. I might’ve only scraped the surface of what L.A. has to offer, but already I’ve already noticed some telltale signs that I’m assimilating.

Here are just a few of the signs that you’re becoming an Angeleno:

Smoothies, tacos and avocados are all a regular part of your diet, thanks to their abundance. (The avocado tree in front of my apartment is arguably the best part about living here.)

You dress up to go out… to Trader Joe’s.

You ask everyone you meet where they’re from, because so many people here aren’t L.A. natives. And despite your best efforts to talk about something more interesting, you inevitably end up commiserating about traffic and talking about the beautiful weather.

You follow stalk food trucks on Twitter. (Grilled Cheese Truck or Let’s Be Frank, anyone?)

You’ve driven or walked to the grocery store only to turn right back around… because you realized you forgot to bring reusable bags and are too cheap to pay 10 cents for a paper bag.

You constantly face FOMO (fear of missing out) because there are so many events, restaurants and neighborhoods to check out, and you can’t possibly visit them all.

You’re more familiar with the map of Los Angeles than you are your own hometown’s because you’ve spent so much time taking alternate routes to avoid traffic.

If there’s one thing you want police to give out more tickets for, it’s all of the fake placeholder license plates half the population seems to be driving around with.

Unless you live on the west side, you’re constantly explaining to friends and relatives back home that the beach is not just steps away from your front door.

You’re excited to have visitors come and stay with you so you have an excuse to do all the touristy things like see the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

You complain about sub-60 degree weather. Seriously.

You never want to leave.

 

Now make a list about your town/city!

When has someone officially become a Portlander, Austinite, Nashvillian etc.? Angelenos—do you have anything else to add?

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You’re Not Worse Than Other People

By Leo Babauta

I was talking to a loved one yesterday about her fears, and several times made the comment, “Everyone has these fears. Everyone.”

And this is true. The fears and problems you have are not unique to you.

We all have them, usually secretly, oftentimes even hidden from ourselves.

We think we’re alone in our fears, but we’re not. We all share them, a common thread that connects us as humans.

We think we’re worse than others in our failures, but we’re not. Everyone has the same failures, everyone is ashamed of them, no one can avoid them. They are a part of who we are as human beings. And not wanting these failures to be a part of us is also human.

Everyone else has the same fears you have: fears of failure, of embarrassment, of uncertainty, of discomfort.

Fear of not being good enough.

Everyone else has the same failures you have: procrastination, selfishness, jealousy, insecurity, not being happy with ourselves, not being disciplined, being afraid and shying away from the difficult and terrifying.

You are not alone.

You are not worse.

You are human. And in your failures and fears and weaknesses, you are connected to me, to everyone else on this planet.

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