RePlayGround - recycling with a twist!: DIY organizing

A Great way to recycle and get organized at the same time!   It might even inspire me to try and organize my bomb site - i mean my bedroom!

RePlayGround - recycling with a twist!: DIY organizing

DaWanda Blog - People and Products with Love

 

DaWanda Blog - People and Products with Love

 

Elizabeth's blog entry about her trip to dublin where some of my promo bottlecaps were included in her sample packs!

DaWanda sample packages!

DaWanda sample packages!
Originally uploaded by DaWanda!

My Sample magnets that went into a sample selection for a craft fair in Dublin that Elizabeth, the most wonderful admin at Dawanda went to!

Monday Seedling Photos #3

Top Left: red and white cabbages, Top Right: Broccoli and Cauliflower.  Middle: Kale.  Bottom: Onion

Top 6: normal tomato, Middle 6: tumbling toms, bottom 6: beefsteak toms.

Squash plants - not germinated yet: 2 New Zealand pumpkin  and one other (can't remember which).

Left (3 pots): Courgettes

others are french beans.

 

With the snow now gone and the sun starting to dry the soil out i might be able to get the rest of the garden dug and onion sets, beetroot, salad leaves, carrots, parsnips, spinach and chard planted.

The little green dustbin that we had converted to a compost bin went to a lovely Irish guy via freecycle this morning, so that's one less thing cluttering the garden.

Bottlecaps to go with the 25 questions swap

to go with the swaps i do try and include a little extra gift as a little surprise so for Renee i have included a bottle cap magnet i made for her daughter and one i made for her son.

and i also included something for Renee's sweet tooth that she said she loves but finds hard to get in the USA but it happened to be the one chocolate bar we do actually have in this house!  It's now all on its way to the states so i hope it gets there safely.

More April Snow Pictures

Looking out of my window - where did my car go??!!

The snow has almost stopped now but this is what it achieved in an hour
























And where did the rhubarb go??

i don't think my seedlings will be going out into the cold frame and the greenhouse today! They are sat in the porch right now as there's plenty of light there and despite the radiator there's a bit of a draft from the bottom of the front door.

It's Snow Joke!

Not i'm not kidding - it is the 6th April and it is snowing once again! i thought snow at Easter was bad - but then Easter was early this year. I thought all this global warming was supposed to be heating things up not causing unusual snow!

This was the picture at 7am (yes even on the weekend i still wake up at 7am, i don't do lie in's):

But it's being coming down solidly since then and its now almost 8am. I'll take another picture when i go downstairs for a cup of tea. It seems the snow might scar the birds and us gardeners away - don't think i'll be getting out there today! - but it doesn't deter some creatures....

The Squirrel was there for his/her breakfast as usual. Probably creating more holes in our bird feeders, but he/she is welcome in our garden.

25 Questions penpal swap

Haven't really been doing many swaps recently, maybe because i'm not feeling very craft inspired right now.  however, this swap is a letter/penpal swap which is always great fun and a wonderful way to contact people all over the world.  The person i'm sending to is in Maryland, USA and these are the questions i'm asking her:

I'm due to receive from a lady in the USA who reckons she might be the oldest swapbot member!  To be honest i can't wait to get my question because i still feel at least twice my age in my brain so kind of prefer to have a partner who isn't a young fashion and music loving energetic 20 something  - basically everything i should be but am not!

Eco Transport - The Magic Wheel

I get the Weekly Newsletter from Life Goggles and as part of it they do reviews in eco friendly products.

One review that caught my eye this morning was that of The Magic Wheel.  The Video on the web site for the actually product of course makes it look so easy to use but that you to Life Goggles who's product tester proved that not to be so.

You can find a link to the product web site on the review.

Great Green Giveaway

I have various "Green" Feeds in my RSS Feed and new updates come up in my Windows Live Mail. I can't actually remember which specific feed it was but one of the had a great link to this Great Green Giveaway.

Not only is it a fab competition but a great way to find and link to many other Green Sites and Shops. The competition is being hosted on Life Goggles. In fact there are 56 (but this may change it seems) competitions however some are only available to the USA and some only to the UK but there are international ones too. Prizes include a variety of green items, including clothing, homewares and cosmetic type stuff.

Also on Life Goggles there are interviews, fun stuff, articles, product reviews and a Green wall of shame for those places and products who aren't so green!!

They also have a free ebook on 100 ways to save the planet - so stop by have have a look! just think of the paper you're saving by reading an ebook!