Well a whole week

and still not in the mood for blogging and crafting is going nowhere!!! Its sleep deprivation - Cait is being a complete monster. Have also been a busy bee so not getting much timo to myselfo at the moment - work is picking up too so gotta go and do some of that boring stuff!!!

Allotment is slowly being dug and the raised bed stuff arrived this week although it is tippling down today so it won't be going in later!!!! Still means the earth is softer for digging when we do get to it.

Thats all for now folks - if I get chance will do a few cards just to show you some pretties!!

Rachel

Cutesy Christmas & DCM little extra

Well as promised here they are - and co-incidentally they also meet the requirements of the DCM little extra too - well at least I hope they do.... Big and small snowflakes, snowmen, marshmallows and squares.


I made 5 of these one lilac and 4 pink, they are stamped and watercoloured with watercolour pencil and water brush then a spotty background stamp around the edge and a small snowflake stamp in either pale grey/blue or light blue brilliance then a couple of the other single snowmen in a similar style.




































Also picked out a couple of trees I had stamped in green and glittered up in green and gold and just layered them up onto a smallish narrow white card - plain but rather nice.Then I finished off some notebooks I started a while back - cut everything on the robo and some of the decorations too then just used my magic wand to attach some gems and used the rollabind to put them together - I may yet do some more pages for them as they are quite slim. More little christmas presents I think. Finally two little baskets I rescued from the bin somewhere - my sisters I think - that I prettied up with a bit of ribbon and some paperchase stickers. Currently they are just hanging around the craft room so H2Os have found their way into one - you can see how small the baskets are as these are the small H2O's pots as well. I do have yet more to show you but I think that can wait till tomorrow.

We went down to the allotment today and have done yet more work on there to get it to overwinter state. I think we have a way to go yet! We are going to use some raised beds - which I am just off to order - to try and avoid the flooding that we had being too bad next time.

Enough for now.

Rachel

Sweet peas

Are here.....now need to find time to plant the little blighters!!!

Rachel

From small things

Well I have a plastic tent green house - you know basically a plastic tent for a set of shelves!!! And in it at the moment i have lots of seedling getting ready for the allotment. Peas and Beans went down there on Sat and I have waiting to go out eventually lots of sprouts, some sweetcorn which I am well impressed with - out of a whole tray - 20 seeds I got around 18 plants!!! I expected a much lower rate! I also have some herbs parsley tarragon thyme and one solitary rosemary! Plus the lovely toms and some weird tomatillos. I am still trying with basil but may have to do some more. Anyway here are some of the piccies.

Ooooh fruiteeeee

Well my fruit plants arrived - which means we have to go and do allotment stuff this weekend to get them planted up. Hmmm Raspberries - quite a bit of work to sort them out - whoops and should have done it two weeks ago - oh well!!!

I think for this fruit bed we will need to dig in some compost and also fertiliser - have to sus some out at lunch time as we try and stay organic but I am sure there will be something. Apparently we can heel them in in the mean time - learn something new every week!

Got loads of things to do today and here I am blogging - I suppose if I get on with my work work then I can do the Home work stuff!!

Laters

Rachel

The Lottie

A piccie for you, This is sort of the central strip - there is another to the left and right (so bean canes and down to the front, and back of the shed in the top right and down to the front.)

We have put alot of work in this year and are hoping to have most of it under growing rather than just a small section. We do need to keep on top of the weeding and stuff though this year and there is a stretch to the right we haven't touched yet but we need some rain before we even think about it as it is very clay - I think next year we need to think about lots of compost ad possibly even mushroom compost and such to mix all in and lighten it up ALOT! He he he anyway we need to be sure about the last frost before lots of things I have ready can go out from the little greenhouse. Can't wait!

Other than that not alot going on - really tired at the moment - I think hay fever is kicking in and am on some new tablets for blood pressure which are playing havoc with me system so worn out from that - shame is I don't think they are helping the BP! Ah well we will see.

Rachel

For those that do

Happy Easter well for tomorrow - just a couple of hours now

I have been busy today with organising a few things and planting on the allotment - so lots of seeds out now - just to keep them watered now for a couple of weeks till they start coming up.

So far planted we have
First Early Pots
2nd Early Pots
Red Onion sets
Normal Onion sets
Radish
Spring Onion
Rocket
Asst Lettuce
Little Gems Lettuce
Parsnips
Leeks
Coriander

Growing in the little green house I have
A Gazillion (well Ok around 30) sprout plants - two sorts - anyone got a recipe for sprout soup
A fair few Tomatillos - a new one on me but apparently good in Salsa
Tarragon
Thyme
Rosemary
Parsley
2 sorts of Pea
Runner Beans
More red onions
Basil
Oregano

Planted up the sweetcorn I couldn't find the other week as well today so that is in the little incubator thingy.

I am hoping this year will be more productive than last year on the veg front!

I also have a number of plants on order

Garlic - here and needs planting up really - bit late but hey
Tomatoes
Blueberries
Raspberries
Strawberries

Also going to get lots of Lavender I think to plant a hedge along the edge of the plot. Really ought to take the camera down one day :-)

Oh and I forgot - got some chillies coming as well


Rachel