HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

I was a bat (a 5 minute costume made with things in my bedroom  - a black shawl pinned to my cardigan and a pair of cardboard ears sellotaped to hair clips)

Wishing you all a scary halloween! xxx

Winter Garden...

All my summery veg, courgettes and tomatoes and spring onions, have gone to the big compost pile in the sky (well in my back garden really) but they've been replaced by some nice wintery veg...

Well, these aren't really wintery, but they've waited till winter to ripen, these are the bell peppers I planted in May and I also I still have some chillies :)  They've gone all yellow and droopy...

These grass like things are little leeks and we have some bigger leeks too...

This is the lace garden, aka the cabbage garden, we also have a cauliflower...

How do your gardens grow?? Any exciting winter crops?

Product Swap...Lunchboxes

I take a packed lunch to work 3 or 4 times a week (I only work 3 or 4 days a week! whoop!) and I've  been using a very classy old plastic vitalite tub to carry it in.  But not any more, I've bought myself some lovely stainless steel containers off ebay (I've seen lots in eco/green stores and websites too, but they go for anything up to £20, if you search for any combination of stainless steel lunchbox, container, indian lunchbox, tiffin or puri dabba then some lovely bargainous stainless steel lunch tins should come up)  Mine were about £6 for two including postage (in this photo you can see my reflection in my shiny lunchboxes - I'm wearing a green dress and am therefore a green blob!  You can also see my lunch bag, it's has trees and mushrooms and bunnies and hedgehogs and deer all over it!) No more horrible, plastic, chemical leechy lunchboxes for me (they've gone in the recyling, so tis ok)!

Rainbow Granny Square Crochet Cushion...

So I made this to use up some of the scraps of acrylic yarn I seem to have accumulated and to change things up in my room a bit (I'm going through a phase at the moment where I'm sick of my surroundings!)...the pink fabric underneath the fabric was the original cushion cover, so I just crocheted two squares and sewed them round the cushion.  The first side is my favorite, for other side but I ran out of coloured wool so had to use a lot of white.

What have you been making?