The Red Wren

mmmm pizza

Tonight’s quick and easy dinner almost tasted too good for the minimal amount of effort involved. Take a small pizza base, slather with tomato based pasta sauce, randomly scatter sundried tomatoes, salami and bocconcini over it then add some basil and a drizzle of olive oil. Throw in the oven for ten minutes. Remove and enjoy!

Update

A new habit

One of my latest new habits (aside from the big one) is to log onto my PC in the morning, drink my cup of tea and peruse craft blogs. It’s a great way to start the day; very inspiring. However, throw an eight hour work day (ten by the time I travel and have lunch) in the mix and all my ...

Gardening

Spring flowers

Aside from planting more veggies today we also pottered around in the garden beds admiring the flowers, commenting on how much nicer the garden is than last year and how much better it will be next year. We planted some allysum, lavender and raspberry canes in the beds today. I have a shady ...

Gardening

And to think they scoffed when we put the veggies in!

The veggie patch is two weeks old now and aside from losing one zucchini it is doing well, really well! Col has been very diligent with putting the daily shower water on them thus keeping them well hydrated although I am a little concerned that they might not be enjoying my tea-tree shampoo ...

Our Home, Sewing and Craft

Won’t you sit on me?

We have a beautiful chocolate brown leather couch in our back room that my dear kitty, Cinders, thinks is a giant scratching post just for her! We’ve had said couch hidden under a throw for nearly a year, but I’ve really been enjoying colour lately and wanted to add some to that end ...

Gardening

The first rose

One of my rose bushes has already produced a rose despite not having many leaves yet! Very odd! Here it is along with some other pretties currently living in the garden; the marigolds are in our new veggie patch!

Our Home, Sewing and Craft

Busy Bee!

I haven’t done much over the past few days worthy of showing off because I spent all of Saturday tidying up my study. It was absolute chaos in here, completely uninspiring as far as making anything goes, so I decided enough was enough, bit the bullet and now have a lovely clean sewing ...

Sewing and Craft

Caterpillas and Ladybirds!

I made this bag for my friend Kylie’s daughter Ella a few weeks ago but didn’t want to post the photos until it arrived at their end given Kylie is one of my readers here and was bound to see it! I was really pleased with how it turned out, there were a few glitches here and there ...

Sewing and Craft

Chickadee!

A year ago I spotted some gorgeous pendants on Etsy by The Charm Lady. I never got around to purchasing them and as time went by I gradually forgot them. Fast forward to last month and I rediscovered her Etsy store and asked if she could still make the Chickadee pendant that I had fallen in ...