3 Mar
Hello! I say it every year; I can’t believe it’s March already! February seemed to fly by and I haven’t finished half of my craft projects. March intends to be the month where I make myself lots of clothes- we’ll see!
I looked out the window the other day and saw these two hanging out on the tomato stakes! Aren’t they sweet.
14 Feb
I noticed while harvesting the tomatoes that they look like little hearts!
A few weeks ago I showed you the tomatoberries! Well – there’s piles of the now. The blue container is today’s yield! Do not be fooled though – the fruit may be tiny but the plant is a huge monster held up by five stakes!
10 Feb
I was just out taking some photos of veggies (more on those later) and noticed that the weeds are out of control and the lawn needs cutting (again). Far cry from last year where we barely had anything.
February 22nd 2009
February 10, 2010.
Of course the later is two weeks earlier than the former, but I can’t see the garden dying off that much over the next 12 days.
31 Jan
I planted a ‘tomatoberry’ tomato this year, named for the small strawberry shaped tomatoes.
It’s been a real success, every morning I’m bringing in a handful of tomatoes and there’s many more to come!
30 Jan
The crepe myrtle disappointed me a little last year by not flowering. This year it well and truly made up for it! It’s gorgeous!
A redheaded lass called Ren, located in Melbourne, Australia. Likes to make, cook and grow things.
A few weeks back I enthusiastically signed up for Pip of Meet me at Mike’s Granny a Day 2010. It’s taken me a little while to get started and there’s been a lot of pulling apart failed first attempts, but today it finally clicked and I made my first ever square! It’s wonky and my [...]
I spent some of this afternoon sitting in a sunny spot in the lounge room finishing the last of this quilt;
I really enjoyed working on this and it will be sad (in a good way) to see it head off to it’s new owner – a sweet little 18 month old by the name of [...]
Today we’re going to make a doily garland. It’s essentially a string of doily’s and paper circles sewn together.
You need:
1 packet of paper doilys. My garland used 32 (plus one extra for your circle template)
Christmas themed paper
circle template – cut the centre circle from your spare doily.
scissors
sewing machine, thread
1. Using your circle template (the centre [...]
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