The Red Wren

Winter Gardens

I've spent more time in the garden this winter than previous years. There's been tidying of veggie patches, pruning of roses, controlling of dozens of weeds. While my winter garden isn't as pretty as the garden in other seasons, I've enjoyed being out there in the crisp air and have discovered that the there is beauty in the winter garden, you just need to look a little closer… This post also serves as a bit of a test. I purchased an ipad mini last ...

Life and Outings

Chesterfield Farm

My little boy was two last week! It’s such a cliche, but seriously? Where has that time gone? It was a crisp but sunny winter’s day, so we took him to Chesterfield Farm. We all loved it! Lot’s of open space to run around in. Looking at animals with his dad. Feeding deer with me. He was rather ...

Sewing and Craft

Hooray! It’s done.

I finished Elijah’s quilt just in time for his birthday. I ended up simply quilting in the ditch around the sashing as I wanted the quilt to feel squishy rather than sort of stiff. I used a loftier batting than usual and it was not much fun at all to quilt! I think this is my best binding ever! ...

Sewing and Craft

Outfoxed Quilt Top

The first time I saw Outfoxed by Lizzy House I knew I had to make a quilt. I find a simple pattern in a quilting magazine that would feature the prints, then hastily ordered my fabric. A few months later I began to doubt that my fabric was ever going to arrive, so I ordered it again. Two weeks ...

Sewing and Craft

Marmalade Table Runner

A few months ago I shared the finished top for my marmalade runner. I can finally share the complete project; hooray! When I first purchased the marmalade charm pack I had no idea where I’d put whatever I made because it was so ‘pretty’ and we tend to not have a lot of ‘pretty’ around. My first ...

Sewing and Craft

Waiting.

A lot of my projects are waiting at present. Waiting to be finished, waiting for another one to be finished so it can be started, waiting for my motivation to sew bias binding on to return. We know I don’t like bias binding, I’ve mentioned it before. One must question why I continue to make ...

Gardening

The one where I declare war… on Lemon Balm.

Lemon Balm. It’s so pretty and lush in spring. This plant is a number of years old now, but every spring it regrows and looks fantastic. I was pleased to see it also self seeds and welcomed the sweet little seedling that came up in my veggie patch. My lemon balm, possibly through human error, ...

Gardening

May Gardening

The weather of the past few weeks has mostly been glorious. We’ve been out in the garden a lot trying to get some things done before winter kicks in. I’m not going to share photos of the clean up jobs we’ve been doing of late as none of them are complete, and it all still looks rather messy. ...

Our Home

Pin board

In a never ending effort to become more organised I put up a new pin board in my craft room. On it is my weekly goals, weekly planner, monthly calendar, craft projects underway, home projects underway, and a list for ideas. I’m pretty pleased with the result. Now I just need to use it! The ...