Posted in The Sewing Room
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This is one of the diapers I've been sewing. It's for dd1, its from the FattyCake pattern. I love it! The outside is an upcycled shirt, the hidden and inner layers are sherpa. Then there is a trifold sherpa lay in soaker.
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Posted in Just Thoughts
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I haven't had time to post here for a little while. I've been very busy trying to catch up with the gardens. We went from very cool and wet weather (yes even needing to use the wood stove!) to extreme hot and dry weather. Dh set up the AC a few days ago and that helped a LOT. I have a hard time breathing when the weather gets into the 30's C and humid. During the day we've been just trying to keep cool. Come evening I've been working non stop in the gardens. I'm not sure what's worse, gardening during the hot day or the bugs in the evening! LOL
The weeds had really gotten away from us during the rainy spell. Now I have almost all the beds cleared out. I just need to finish around the cabbages and some tomatoes. I will need to finish it up tomorrow as it looks like we are in for another week of rain. We had a cold front come through yesterday. It didn't make it any cooler then, although today is lovely! But we did get some nasty storms up this way. The worst of it just skirted around us, we received mostly rain and some thunder. But others had large hail and there were a few tornadoes.
This morning I went to the annual library book sale in a nearby town. It's pretty big and goes by donation. I look forward to it every year! There didn't seem to be as many books as last year and it was VERY crowded, but I still found some great deals. I'll share more about my finds tomorrow, but I picked up 30 videos on different topics from animals, science and drama. Lots of books on history and countries around the world. Perfect for our unit studies this year!
I've been busy sewing an knitting to. My dd3 is working hard at potty training (yahoo!) so I'm sewing trainers for her. DD1 started reacting a while back to the liners in her pocket diapers. They have a suede cloth liner that she doesn't do well with. So I'm switching her over to fitted and wool/fleece covers. Then little ds is an odd size lol so doesn't fit into many that I already have. He has a wide waist and long rise. Soooo yup I'm sewing up a new stash for him to!
I also have a big stack of skirts I've cut out and need to sew.
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Posted in Down The Garden Path
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It's still very early in our gardening season. Taking a walk around our property looking at garden beds, whats coming up and new projects. |
Posted in Down The Garden Path
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It's still very early in our gardening season. Taking a walk around our property looking at garden beds, whats coming up and new projects. |
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May 30th After the worst of the storm passed yesterday, the sun came out while it was still raining. We had a beautiful double rainbow out the front of our house. |
Posted in Down The Garden Path
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While tilling the potato patch today dh had an idea on how to build a tool to hill potatoes. It easy to build and works well. Much faster then hilling with a hoe. |
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Recorded May 27 |
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Recorded May 27 We finally got a break in our dry weather. After 2 days of good rain we took some time to wonder around the garden. Huge earthworms everywhere. |
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We are putting in a new strawberry bed. Sharing some info on how to grow strawberry's, planting root stock, spacing, mulch etc. |
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If you have problems seeing this video, you can also watch it on our YouTube channel HERE. |
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If you have problems seeing this video, you can also watch it on our YouTube channel HERE. |
Posted in Down The Garden Path
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If you have problems seeing this video, you can also watch it on our YouTube channel HERE. |
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If you have problems seeing this video, it can also be watched on our youtube channel HERE. |
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I haven't been online very much lately. So busy in the gardens! First I'd like to thank HSB for picking me as blogger of the week!!
I feel like I have 101 things up in the air right now...I'm in the middle of a huge spring cleaning and decluttering. We are also doing a lot of work out side. Today I planted our sweet corn. We have also almost finished planting our white potatoes. We have 3 rows left to finish tomorrow.
I will try and do some photos/vid of our gardens soon. So far our onions, garlic and radishes are doing very well. A few of the peas are up to.
Its been quite cool her the last few days, at night even below 0c! But today we were back to the heat. I hope the cool weather is over for a while. Normally this time of year it says around 10C at night. Its been cold enough we need to run a small heater in the greenhouse at night. I really don't want our plants to freeze! Hopefully latter this week I'll be planting out the cabbage, broccoli and celery.
Things didn't work out with the last property we looked at...But we have an offer in on another farm, 50 acres. It needs a lot of work, basically the same thing we just did to this place. LOL Good thing we have practice at fixing up older home eh? heehee. Don't know if it will work out or not but we'll see.
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Posted in Down The Garden Path
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Since we have had so many projects on the go this winter/spring, we decided to buy some of our plants. This will give us a jump on the season. I am still starting many of our own seedling but doing it this way will give a longer harvest time.
Many of the stores and garden centers in our area seem to be running week's behind "normal". We looked through many large stores for weeks and were unable to find seed starter mix anywhere! It wasn't that they were sold out, but they had not gotten any stock in. I finally found 1 small bag in a local Canadian Tire store. When I asked if they had more they were able to find 3 more in the back. It wasn't my preferred brand, I like an organic seed starter with out any fertilizers added. But it was better then nothing. lol
We've already planted our Spanish onions, garlic, radishes, carrots, swish chard, green onions and endive.
We went to a small privet garden center to get our plants. While the price at a smaller privet center is a little more then say one in a Wal-Mart or grocery store, the quality is better and the customer service to!
This is what we bought there. Each package has 6 plants.
I also picked up a few seeds while I was there. We still have our own potato seed we save each year.
In addition to these plants I also have seeds for the following that we will be growing this year.
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I hope you enjoy our newest video in the Homestead Series. Some tips on starting your own garden seeds. |
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We have been wanting to build a greenhouse for a long time. So we have been saving old windows for a few years. We were lucky that a friend was replacing some of his older windows. Then dh found a big stack of them in the scrap metal area of the dump. They were newer sliding type. So after looking over our stock pile we decided to try building a 6 x 6 greenhouse. Here are some video of us building it, I hope they help anyone else interested in trying it to. |
Posted in The School Room
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Hey everyone Currclick is having a wonderful sale. Discounts are up to 75% off! So if your looking for materials for this school year, or planning for next year don't miss out! |
