Well, the long dark evenings really do seem to be the time to spend being crafty and making things, in between my habit of wasting a lot of time on the internet which I’m getting increasingly annoyed with myself for doing.
This time it has been seed beading and I have been making little Christmas tree earrings. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’
Christmas tree earrings
Posted in Seed beading, craft, tagged Christmas, Christmas tree, earrings, Homemade on November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Christmas Carrots
Posted in Film/Video, Food, Garden, Home grown food, tagged carrots, Christmas, film, Garden, home grown, vidio on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a little later and not as long as I had planned (the camera’s batteries kept going flat, and of course I hadn’t even thought about needing such a thing at Christmas) so there are a few stops and starts but I think you can get the idea of it any way.
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Winter Solstice
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food, Homemade, Quail, tagged bucket, carrots, chocolate, Christmas, eggs hatching, garlic, leeks, moon planting, onion, peas, Quail, Winter Solstice on December 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today was the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. From now on days will be getting longer and everything with start to wake up.
As a sort of celebration I have spent this evening making paper pots and sowing peas, carrots (to be grown in buckets until the warmer weather when they can go outside) [...]
Getting ready for hatching
Posted in Quail, tagged Christmas, Eggs, hatching, incubator, May, Quail, thunder storms on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m getting ready to hatch some quail eggs, I’ve been collecting the eggs and turning them for the past two days and the incubator has been washed and is running ready to put the eggs in on Saturday.
It seems like an ideal time of year for hatching now, especially after the disaster of the lot of eggs [...]
Half way through November…
Posted in Day-to-day, tagged Christmas, Winter on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Already, things still don’t feel like they’ve slowed down in any way yet. I’m sure when I was younger winter felt slow and long, and summer felt busy and alive.
I’m back at work now after having a week off, things aren’t slowing down there either. Christmas is now upon us, then it will be the [...]
Yahoo! Reminders
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food, tagged Christmas, potatoes, reminders, Yahoo on July 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I got my reminder for Yahoo! today to start chitting my potatoes for growing for Christmas, just need to find some potatoes now!
Christmas Carrots
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food, Homemade, tagged carrots, Christmas, Christmas Dinner, polytunnel, potato on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know it’s a little bit sad that I’m already planning Christmas dinner, and really looking forward to it, but it would be really nice to have has much of what we can home grown.
I’m going to try potato’s again this year. I tried growing them for Christmas last year but was a little bit late with [...]
