The Red Wren

From the garden

I bought myself a DSLR earlier this year. I’m still very much a beginner when it comes to taking photos with it, but I do notice the difference between them and the ones I took with the old point and shoot. Especially when it comes to background blur! Here’s some snaps from the garden. Just for a bit of fun I’m posting the original, and a version I’ve popped a filter on in PicMonkey. The last coneflower. I love coneflowers and think they’re just as beautiful looking tattered and torn as ...

Life and Outings, Our Home, Sewing and Craft

Easter

This is Elijah’s second Easter. Last year he was too young for chocolate so I just gave him a little bunny I made. I’m not a religious person, so Easter doesn’t have a lot of meaning to me in that sense. I celebrate it as a family day where we receive a bit of chocolate and that’s about it. I ...

Sewing and Craft

Return of the ‘sewjo’.

It’s taken me a long time to get back into sewing after Christmas. I didn’t touch the machine for two months; it was too hot, my sewing room was too messy, and I had no motivation were among the excuses. Now that the weather has cooled off I’ve been sewing up a storm. This isn’t a finished ...

Life and Outings

Beach fun!

We spent the long weekend down at Ocean Grove. It was quite lovely, and while we didn’t spend much time at the beach due to the fact that we burn very quickly, we did head down early in the morning so Elijah could experience it. He loved it!

Gardening

Veggies!

More veggies; The golden nugget pumpkins were a good choice as they take up a fraction of the space that your usual spreading vine does. The corn was harvested a touch early due to a grub infestation. This year has been our best for zucchini. Time to make some fritters! This is what happens to ...

Gardening

The veggie patch

Something I find interesting is the differences between each years veggie patch. Last year corn was a raging success, this year not so. Two years ago we had a tomato forest, this year we’ll be lucky to have five. This years high performers are the golden nugget pumpkins, zucchinis, and ...

Freebies

New direction and a free download!

This has been retired. If you would still like it, please contact me. I’ve been thinking about goals this year and things I really enjoy doing and one of those is creating blog banners, buttons, and printable things like invitations. This year I’d like to delve more into digital design and ...

Sewing and Craft

Visit Your Local Quilt Shop

Tomorrow is Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day. As part of the day bloggers have been encouraged to join in a blog tour and write about their favourite independently owned local store. Did you know within five minutes of my home is a quilt shop that currently has over 12,000 fabric bolts in stock? ...

Sewing and Craft

2013 – where to begin?

I had planned to do a wrap up post of 2012 complete with photo mosaics of everything I made.. but I’ve lost a bit of enthusiasm for it. Instead I’m going to share my crafty highlights for 2012. The Red Wren: Opening the actual store after many years of procrastination was huge for me. I may ...