Holiday stuff : )

Hay everyone!!
School holidays.
The plan for the holidays is to get stuff done. So last Saturday I decided it was time to personalies a pin-board.
I have been meaning to do this for some time and have had the fabric to cover the board for about 4 months.
I bought a cheap pin board and removed the edging. Then I painted the edges in a glossy white paint. That did not go so well, the paint was not water washable ( I had it all over my arms with no turps to wash it off with) and when the edge was half dry it fell on to the newspaper and was very messy. After that I glued a piece of 1 cm thick cardboard on to the back, so pins won't scratch the cupboard it will be hanging on. After every thing had dried I used the staple-gun to put the fabric over. Last but not least the edging was nailed back in place and was then hung in my room.
This is the finished product. I'm always so happy when I see it.

For us late September and early october are full of birthdays. This week Little Pa and myself had a birthday. To celebrate we have a birthday breakfast, where we have pancakes or waffles or something which we don't usually have for brekky. We also have the present opening which is always fun.



You may remember we posted a pic of a friend's new puppy a few months ago. Well that puppy is growing fast. He came for a play date with Tim Tam the other week. Little Dude and Miles had a moment together picking the weeds. Such helpful young men. LOL

Till next time MnM : )

Hey
Haven't done much crafty stuff lately. I'm still playing catch-up with paperwork. Geez it drives me cuckoo! I'm not too far behind but I'm still just out of reach - you know what I mean. Crazy. I've even moved my spinning wheel to the attic. Hopefully it won't stay there too long. Even my knitting is uninspiring atm.

I did do heaps of weeding and in those areas chucked random seeds. I wonder what's going to come up.I think it was a mixture of flowers and veg. I don't do organised gardens very well. In fact I'm a pretty crap gardener, I'm always surprised when we get stuff to eat. I love the suspense of not knowing what's coming up though. Watching the little shoots poking out of the ground. If they grow enough to feed us well that's a bonus. Also MnM and I have almost finished the side fence. Have to buy 4 more sheets of galv and then we can start on a bigger veggie patch. Atm it's sprouting lots of wheat from the chook food. Wheat is actually really pretty. So I'll wait till it's ripe.

The before and after shots of part of the front garden.



My favourite garden stuff atm is anything that doesn't require me to harvest heaps of surplus and do something with it. eg parsely, leeks, chives, oregano, rosemary. I've got pea, beans, onions and some self seeded tomatoes coming up too. When I've cleared some more weeds I think I'll get cucumber seeds.


I spent one whole day weeding that area and snipping out dead branches from all our citrus trees and the jasmine vine. It was lovely until the blisters started. That's a good time to stop, isn't it.

Huggs Little Ma