:: weekend love::

shoot me down necklace

Was given a loan of this fantastic book the other day - The Thrift Book by India Knight

Found this great tutorial to help me make my first skirt by the angry chicken

Got some great tips for my vegetable garden - BBC Gardening

We got a new edition to our family last Saturday. Her name is Flame and she has 4 legs. Photos will follow when she sits still enough to snap her!

Happy weekend x

Green Fingers

My heart is filled with excited flutters.

It all began on Sunday.

A neighbour popped by with 6 lettices and a bag of peas and beans.


On Monday the sun was bursting through the clouds, streaming onto my little garden. My hands were covered in soil and I was surrounded by little pots, bags of seeds and hope.


Stuart assembled a little green house for me, Pablo oversaw the whole operation, of course!


I re potted my tomato plants and 3 tiny pepper plants. I planted 50 basil seeds and these are now all housed in their nifty new home.




The lettice is already looking lush and I am going to have a beautiful salad this weekend with home made dressing.


But thing the tiny thing that has me so ecxited is this:

Either a pea or a bean sprout, poking it's little head up through the soil!



As you can tell from my almost child like emotions about my little garden and growing things I can eat, that I am new to all of this. I have been reading this great bit of the BBCs Gardeners World website, Grow your own grub! And I have a vision. I have established my herbs, am moving on to salads and next year I'm aiming for veggies! (I am 31 not 60, but am so into this right now, maybe I need to make a collection of jewels to garden in!)


Do you have a green thumb? What are you growing just now?

Seedlings # 2

Let me cast your mind back to my post from 1 month ago seedlings # 1 . I planted 5 tiny seeds, water, hoped and watched for 3 weeks. Then to my delight I had little srouts of green!

Well my front room is blossoming now with plants, and dreams of tomato recepies. They are coming on so well, each night I sit beside them to eat dinner and I'm sure they have shot up by another inch. I now have this strong urge to grow more and more veggies. I have dreams of a secret garden like plot with green beans, lettice, courgettes and peppers, Californian Peppers no less!

No less said than my friend Katie came for tea a little while ago and brought me another little grow bag! It has taken about three weeks for anything to happen, but last night my heart lept when I saw these tiniweenie sprouts in what looks like dry cork!

Now for the fun part, when I have my first crop (listen to me!) what should I make?

I'll have tomatoes, peppers, sage, thyme, chives, mint, marogam and rosemary all in my garden so give me your suggestions please!