Is it even worth trying?

Yesterday I got a few brilliant ideas. Let's experiment with a few things and see if I have any other hidden talents.

First off, my mom wanted to redo the backsplash in her kitchen. I told her it would be easy to do a mosaic design. I ran off to the local craft store. I decided to surprise her for her birthday by making a mosaic vase. Uh, yeah. Let's just say it didn't turn out as beautifully as I had hoped. I instead gave her a boquet of fresh flowers. :)

Secondly, I decided to start a garden. Is that a problem? I live in an apartment. I have a very small balcony. Sun shines on said balcony for a good part of the day. I have everything I need to start a small garden on my balcony. After hitting the craft store, for my previous experiment, I headed to Home Depot to get some gardeniong supplies. I only needed to get a couple of planters, some soil, and or course something to plant. Well, Home Depot didn't have any planters. After circling their garden area for about an hour I decided to give up an head to Menard's (another local hardward store). They had some planters but nothing that really appealed to me or fell within the budget I set to do this. They also had no plants to speak of and I don't think I saw any soil either. I was about to give up when I remembered that K-mart has a garden center. I really only go to K-mart for anything as a very last resort. I'll have to tell you the dreaded"K-mart" story another time. Back to the gardening. I stop at K-mart. This is after I have already been shopping for about 3 hours. I start to browse the plants they have outside. There are some nice vegetables that could work. There were some geramiums. There really wasn't much else to chose from if I wanted flowers. I go inside the garden area to see what planters thay have. Fantastic, planters were on sale. I picked up 2 recatngular boxes. This should work to start a small veggie garden. I figured I can put in about 4 plants to each box. I found soil. I am on a roll... I have to decide what veggies I want. I go back outside to make my selections. I proceed to go through just about every veggie plant they have. I think I spent about an hour picking these out. I did it. I picked up 2 green peppers, 2 cucumbers, 1 beefsteak tomato, 1 cherry tomato, and 1 patio tomato. I go back in and walk around the store a while. I am very wishy washy when it comes to shopping. I totaled everything in my head to be about $30. I started to think this is too much $ for a few vegetables. I finally ended up getting everything I has already selected. That was a big step for me. I go home and start "gardening:. That is, as much as you can call pouring some dirt in the planter and sticking a few plants in, gardening. The first thing my hubby says when I tell him how much I spent was "do you think you are going to grow $30 worth of vegetables?" Sometimes I wonder if he is in my mind. That was exactly what I was thinking. So far the plants look good. Somehow it looks like they already grew overnight. Is that even possible?

2 experiments.
1 failure. I learned that doing mosaic tiling isn't as easy as it looks.
1 success (to be seen).

It's definitely worth a try.