Fabric paper...

Watched Barb Owen live this morning on ustream from How to get creative.  Barb was making fabric paper and as I had everything to make it, I had a go this afternoon. So it was just lots of decoupage glue mixed with a little water and tissue paper, napkins, deli paper. All torn up into pieces.. Glued all onto Calico or as some call it Muslin fabric. 

Then when its wet you add paint.. Hmmm well not sure about the paint part. Think I might have used too much or needed more of a transparent paint. 

This is after the paint not sure if I like it. Might look ok when its cut up into sections. Maybe might just get cut it up for flowers or add some more layers of stamping.. But hey not everything works the first time you do it.. It might grow on me.. 

Talking of growing here is the same Broad bean seedling and the coriander photo bombing again from last week.. Thought it might be fun to do a weekly update of the same little plants. 


So day 14 of the #90daysofblogging accomplished. If you would like to pop over and see what the others joining in on this challenge are up to today.. 
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Tamiko McCurry
Donna Lueders
Sandee Setliff
Sharon Estes
Yvonne Armatage Gebauer 

Have a great day

Sandy :) 

Mothers Day...

Look what I got for mothers day.. Woohoo just what I needed a little greenhouse. This is just the perfect size for me. I don't need a huge one just one big enough that I can grow the few punnets of seeds, that I need for my vegetable garden.. It just a little over 4 foot high. It has the one shelf but has a bit of a garden bed part at the bottom. I can now plant things in to experiment growing things out of season. That will be fun to try to do.. 

So its all in place and ready to go. We assembled it in the lounge room last night. Lots of little nuts and bolts, so easier to put it together in there. It is very light so when we put it outside we dug it into the crushed rock, just a little and filled it with a couple of bags of organic potting mix. 
Tomorrows job is to put some plants in it and move my seeds to the upgraded spot. 
Hope you had a lovely Mothers day. 

So day 10 of the #90daysofblogging accomplished. If you would like to pop over and see what the others joining in on this challenge are up to today.. 
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Tamiko McCurry
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Sandee Setliff
Sharon Estes
Yvonne Armatage Gebauer 

Have a great day

Sandy :) 

The veggies are growing...

 Well here they are the veggie garden photos.. 
In the first photo we have carrots at the front.. Mixed in the row with them were the seed did not sprout we have some lettuce. At the back is green beans they have nearly finished now but have fed us a lot.. We planted the seed really late so we were happy to get anything out of them. Few stragglers of Zucchini and a pile of chicken Manure ready for spreading when the beans and the Zucchini come out.  

Above is the Broccoli at the front and then we have some more carrots.They germinated much better than the other ones no gaps in these 3 rows. More lettuce at the back on the left. We pop lettuce anywhere there is a spot.. On the right at the back are onions.. They don't look much but we always get a good crop of onions.. Only just finished the ones we grew last year so we did well. Thinking we maybe might put in some more. I have some red onions growing in the little green house. We have all those to plant in a few weeks.

 Not much happening in the broad beans yet but got a close up of them just coming out of the ground for you.. With a little bit of coriander photo bombing. We have coriander growing in all the corners of the veggie garden.. The chickens and the rabbits love it. 

Look at my Lemon tree there is lemons everywhere. You would not think I have already picked 2 buckets of lemons off it. They are a bit small but they are full of juice. The bees must have been really busy.. Will have to give it a prune after the lemons all come off as it is dragging on the ground. I don't want the branches to break, so will give it a bit of a shape up. 

So day 8 of the #90daysofblogging accomplished. If you would like to pop over and see what the others joining in on this challenge are up to today.. 
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Tamiko McCurry
Donna Lueders
Sandee Setliff
Sharon Estes
Yvonne Armatage Gebauer 

Have a great day

Sandy :) 

In the little Greenhouse...

I have not been getting as much art done as what I normally do as we have been planting out our winter veggies.. We got this little green house and I planted seeds of

Rocket, 

Spring onions, 

Spinach,

Leeks,

Red onions,

Curly Leaf Parsley.

 This was after 5 days the rocket was already up and peeking through. 

After 2 weeks everything was up except the Curly Leaf Parsley. That takes 21 days to germinate. I am lucky that I live in a climate where I can grow vegetables all year round.  I will do another blog post about the other vegetable beds tomorrow. I thought it might be interesting to keep a bit of a photo diary of what is happening in the veggie garden.. We have a 6 bed vegetable garden each one is a raised bed 3 x 3 metre.. Approx 10 x 10 feet square.. We grow nearly all our own vegetables this time of year and have a much bigger winter vegetable garden than a summer one. So hope you found my little green house interesting I love planting seeds and watching them grow.. With a little seed raising mix, a few seeds and a spray of water and you can grow your own food. We have always grown our own veggies and have something growing that we can eat for us, the chickens and rabbits. 

So day 5 of the #90daysofblogging accomplished. If you would like to pop over and see what the others joining in on this challenge are up to today.. 
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Tamiko McCurry
Donna Lueders
Sandee Setliff
Sharon Estes
Yvonne Armatage Gebauer 

Have a great day
Sandy :)