Love

This amazing Guardian Dryad and the Gnomes were made by the etsy seller Rjabinnik, His toys are so unique and well worth the wait. I did have a little issue with customs as there is some bark on one of the pieces, and I had to have it gramma irradiated.. but I think it was all worth it in the end. It was to be a gift for Alyra for her birthday but since that's been an gone and Christmas is just around the corner this will now be what Santa is leaving under the tree.

Dinner roll time

This sweet roll dough is the best i have ever tried, you know when you try a new recipe and its a instant hit. Well this is one of thous  recipes.

A Pallet Cubby

Remember the pallet chook pen, well we had some left over pallets still sitting around and what better way to spend the weekend but to use them up. It was really quick an easy, we pulled apart 1 pallet to join two together, all up it took around 30 mins  and the kids having been playing in it ever since.

Harvesting

First tomatoes of the season

 More beets

 lots an lots of seeds these are bok choy on the right and on the left is mizuna.

Late afternoon rides, we did have plans to get home an mow the lawn, some how that just didn't happen.

 Ninny the nosey beak..... I think she was more day dreaming about attacking the fruit trees AGAIN!!! she has learnt how to open the gate and has gotten to them twice in the last week.

 I don't know that photographing Lincoln as he did this was a good thing...........I didn't want to encourage him

stockpiling

Do you do this... Whats your reason?
In the last year I have started slowly building up a stockpile. My reason for starting was that hubby had hurt his back and while he was covered under work cover the pay he got of them was close to half of what his usual pay was. It made me realise if i had had a well stocked cupboard we would of been fine at least food wise. How I have built up my stockpile is every time I go shopping I buy something extra that we don't need  and slowly what we have has built up I also rotate it all regularly. 
Today I decided to give my cupboards a tidy up an it got me thinking about the reasons people keep a stock pile. I do also have a small container of emergency stuff I have stocked pile, such as wind-up torches, heavy duty tape, zip ties, water, candles, matches etc.

 I also have two 20 ltr buckets, one with white flour and the other with wholemeal.
I have found that since I started stockpiling, I have also started buying more things in bulk and this has helped me save more money, overall I spend around $300 less a month then I was a yr ago.

More Bargins

It rained last night and today, so Rob got they day of work. Yay for me, we went op shopping.

A pair of curtains $2

how cute are these the two of them cost me $3

$1 for the two

$1ea, First thing I want to make is the bonnet

Sheets and a table cloth for camping $2ea

I love this I plan to use it for storage $4

I have been looking for some large jars like this for ages to store flour in so as soon as I saw them I just knew I was going to buy them- $3 ea.

Lucky last is this beautiful blanket it was the dearest at $10 but its new and even though its acrylic wool it would of cost more for me to buy the wool to make one.