A day of varied domesticity
Garden: We have 4 enormous tubs, 3 large pots, and a couple of middling sized pots filled with potting mix and/or various vegetable matter. For the big tubs, I raked up a heap of leaf litter and filled them 1/3 with that, 1/3 with chopped lucerne, and 1/3 with organic potting mix. There’s more lucerne...
Tin/Label OTP!
I keep meaning to take photos of my awesome pantry, but to be honest it’s a bit disorganised at the moment. All except for the spice and tea shelves, which I tidied up yesterday. These are my spices. I mostly buy them in bulk at Rainbow (a local natural food co-op) and put them in...
Uses for leftover bits of Kureyon
I’m making a Lizard Ridge blanket out of Noro Kureyon, and the result is I’ve got a bag full of odds and ends of yarn, not quite enough to make another square, but too much to throw out. A couple of weeks ago I sat down and made some random stuff out of these leftover...
Rearranged porch
A week ago, my friend Rach suggested I turn my back porch into somewhere nice to spend time. I thought about it a bit but wasn’t sure how. Where would I put all the stuff that was stored back there? But I managed to move things around and got some cheap, sheer curtains, and now...
Why I love linen
I guess you could say I collect vintage household linens. I have a big basket of linen tea-towels and another of napkins in my kitchen, and somewhere in storage I have a number of table cloths too. (The table cloths don’t get much use when I’m living in a small space with just the kitchen...
