The Red Wren

Marigolds and seed saving

It was a glorious Autumn day on Saturday, perfect for pottering in the garden, harvesting the last few of the vegetables, and pulling up the summer vegetable garden. While pulling out the marigolds I noticed they were laden with thousands of seeds. Elijah and I sat on the lawn together and harvested… …and harvested. Until we had a bag filled with thousands of seeds. Some of these seeds will be planted in punnets in the green house in late winter, ready to plant with the tomatoes ...

Life and Outings, Sewing and Craft

Thursday Three – Edition Two

Welcome to this weeks edition of Thursday Three which is all about crochet. I’m currently working on finishing a crochet beret by end of March that, according to my Ravelry project page, I began in February 2011. That’s quite a while for a small project! Do you want to crochet the ...

Life and Outings

Thursday Three – Edition One

Over the years I’ve made many attempts at having some regular features to mainly train myself to consistently blog more. There have been sporadic ones like ‘stop pinning, start doing’, project type ones like ‘Stashbusting 2014’, and the downright silly which was ...

Freebies, Memory Keeping

Week Three and some labels

Hello! Here I am with week three. I’m slowly catching up, but rather than rushing through the weeks to get up to date as fast as I can, I’m taking my time and enjoying putting each week together. After last weeks white layout I wanted to use a bit more colour and pulled out an old ...

Memory Keeping

Project Life Week Two

Yes, week two! I’ve fallen a little bit behind because my attention has been focused on decluttering the house and repainting our bedroom. The painting is done, but the tidying and sorting is still a huge work in progress. I did make some time to start catching up on Project Life, because ...

Our Home

Magic and tidying up?

You may have noticed it’s been a while since I’ve blogged about anything of consequence, and appear to have pretty much done nothing for weeks and weeks on end… this is partly true; I haven’t blogged about much, however behind the scenes I have been tackling a rather ...

Gardening

Mini succulent gardens

Many years ago I had a wonderful succulent collection potted up in sweet little pots, and dressed in coloured stones. Years later most of those succulents are still surviving in a rather overgrown state at my parents’ house. They were always intended to make it to this house when I moved ...

Memory Keeping

Project Life – Week One

Week One. My layout isn’t quite as simple as I intended. There’s nothing fancy about it, but typing on vellum, cutting it up, stapling it on, using 12×12 paper which I had to cut up.. it was all time consuming and didn’t really turn out how I envisaged in the end. ...

Memory Keeping

Project Life- the cover

This is my second Project Life album cover. I did something similar last year and decided to keep the basic concept the same which is that everyday is an adventure. We don’t have grand plans to travel this year, but we do have a new greenhouse and plenty of renovating to do around the ...