The Red Wren

Sunday Stash #3

This time already? Wow, not much craft to show for this week! This week we have some sweet little toadstools. I bought these on a spur of the moment whim and have no idea what to do with them. Want to see more stash pics? Click here

Life and Outings

Clutter

Like my new brooch? I love it. It arrived last week from Meet Me at Mike’s. I debated whether to post this here on my home blog, or over on my craft blog, but decided it belongs here because the reason I brought this brooch is a tale of clutter. One without a happy ending… The ...

Gardening

Weekend Gardening

I didn’t get out in the garden this weekend – cleaning the house had my name on it instead. My husband got out there and started to put the new veggie beds in! Very exciting. Here he is removing some weeds from last years patch so we can put some new things in. Anyone know what ...

Sewing and Craft

Wildflower Necklace – Complete

I finished the New England inspired necklace today made from beads I bought in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I was going to add coloured beads to it to remind me of the wildflowers, but in the end I liked it better just green, which is still very reminicent of the NE we saw last month. While I was ...

Sewing and Craft

Sunday Stash #2

I love this old fashioned kitchen fabric by Michael Miller. I just haven’t found the perfect project for it yet!

Gardening

Spring Onion Flower

Photo by me from our garden

Gardening

Veggies!

This time last year we’d already put the veggie gardens in and planted lots of seedlings. This time this year we’re a little behind. Not a necessarily a bad thing though – last year a lot of our veggies went in too early, as a result we have year old leeks that still ...

Gardening

Mum’s Orchids

We’ve just arrived home from our weekly dinner at my parent’s house (where we consumed yummy chicken and beef olives and strawberries and cream- not together! I imagine that would be rather unsavoury) with a big bunch of mum’s orchids. Pretty, aren’t they?

Sewing and Craft

Sunday Stash #1

It’s been a long time since I participated in Sunday Stash. I stopped because my previous blog was becoming nothing but Sunday Stash posts due to a lapse in crafting. Given I’m midly more productive these days we’ll give it another go! Meet this lovely Japanese fat quarter ...