The Good Life...Ish.

Hello all! The Polygreen is all finished!  Also, not only is it finished, you may noticed it has been moved too!  With the garden being so exposed, i decided it would be better for it to be side on to the wind, rather than head on, that way, hopefully, the wind will just go straight over the top.  It's been quite a learning curve, figuring out how to keep it all together, stop it from flying away or collapsing! A new sign for the garden gate. The back wall being put up. A bench for the plants to sit on It's also just nice to sit in and just chill out with my morning coffee, as well as to grow plants in. Last week saw me being given rather a lot of plants! A friend down the road gave me 6 tomato plants, and the bloke who gave me the blackcurrant bushes last year turned up with MORE tomato plants, so i now have 11 to try and keep alive haha. He also brought some pepper plants, courgette, rosemary, borage and sage. I origi...

When life gives you an opportunity, grab it with both hands! A wonderful friend is possibly giving up her allotment, and last year her poor greenhouse got blown to bits in a storm and she decided it wasn't worth trying to put it back together, so i asked if there was any parts that were salvageable, in the hopes i could at least save some of it to build one later on. I was gobsmacked when there was so many parts that were useable!  The two sides were perfectly fine, she took the broken glass out for use in the stained glass course we are about to start, and she had a lot of black plastic that will work perfectly fine (I hope!) so that is being put to good use.  When i first started collecting the useable parts, i was going to build it the traditional way and create a triangular roof, but it would have been too difficult to piece back together, so my friends husband had the idea of creating an arched roof instead, which was much easier!  (Please ignor...

In a world where products are increasingly being over packaged, landfills are overflowing,and, quite honestly, being quite poor, it makes sense to to reuse as much as possible in our house. Yesterday, i had a sheet that was unrepairable, so rather than chucking it away it has been turned into teatowels, cleaning and dusting cloths and i am currently making an apron, and there's still lots of fabric leftover waiting to be turned into something else. I also made a "feather duster" from a wire coat hanger and strips of the sheet. We got some easter eggs the other week, and while we couldn't reuse the outer box it came in (having a plastic coating means i can't compost it, natch.) the egg itself was placed in these rather sweet little boxes made to look like baskets.  One is being used to hold my recycled dusting and cleaning cloths, and the other is being used to hold eggs when the milk glass chicken we normally use to store them in is too fu...

Hi all :)  I finally got around to writing a new post :)  I know, i know! It's been ages! It's not like i didn't have time, i just kept forgetting haha  I found a compost bin on freecycle, thanks to lovely friend who helped with a lift to get it home (i can neither confirm nor deny that we got lost trying to find the house...)  and we are working hard on getting it filled. I made myself a wee sewing box from a cardboard box and some fabric samples and an apple pie, which we haven't had in ages! yummy!   Little met large when we puppy-sat on Saturday, Angus quickly established who was boss He is quickly growing up We celebrated our 6 year anniversary of being together on sunday :) i got merry on a bottle of rose and poor Bearded Wonder had lemonade as his medication means he can't drink alcohol :( The garden is making progress, we have taken advantage of the hot weather and The Bearded Wonder is digging out my side...

Hi guys!  I can't believe how long it has been since i blogged! Sorry! As usual, life took over, and the decorating began in earnest. We are almost done, i shall do another post on that though later in the week. Firstly, the wallpaper arrived! Woohoo! The first thing i did, of course, was add it to my beautiful dresser :) So... Ta-dah! It finishes off the dresser perfectly, and i am so very proud :) The second Ta-dah comes in the form of my "new" dressing table, if you remember, i got a new dining table from a friend who was clearing his late mother -in-law's house, well the day after i got the table he rang and asked if would like a dressing table and a wardrobe, so i of course said yes , i am in the process of painting the wardrobe so will share a pic of that when i'm done  I forgot to take a before picture, but it was a rather 50's/60's style teak style, and i was just desperate to brighten it up and add my ow...