Basket Planter

I love Pinterest, what a time wasting app that is full of amazing ideas. Today’s inspired project, upcycling a chair and basket into a planter. 

I gathered an old chair and an unused basket and painted them white. 

After they dried I spread a garbage bag in the basket as a liner and poked a few holes in it for drainage. I put a layer of bark chips in the bottom before topping with a sand and potting mix combo. 

The finishing touch was to plant flowers - dahlia, fuchsia and a geranium. 

Daisy and pansy pot under the chair

Enjoy :)

Ann

Recycling Christmas Cards

What do you do with all the Christmas cards you receive each year?  

If you’re like me you don’t want to throw them out (sentimental reasons) but you also have nowhere to store them (practical reasons). Furthermore, what are you storing them for anyway? It’s not as if you’re going to drag them out and look at them again!

Further on from a previous post I am still recycling Christmas cards. 

This year I ran out of Christmas tags for gifts, so I decided that I would upcycle our Christmas cards and turn them into tags for next years gifts. 

I tore the cards in half and used my Sizzix Bigshot and tag stencils to create new tags. 

With 2020 being the year it was I am preparing early for 2021. 

Wishing you all a Happy New Year.

Ann

COVID-19 Baby Blankets

I have been busy during isolation making baby blankets for some extra special babies due during COVID-19.
I made 2 cot quilts using a pattern from "Gum Valley Patchwork" and the Daisy Daisy fabric range.

I had enough fabric scraps leftover to make a pram quilt.

During the evening I made time to crochet a warm pram blanket out of leftover wools. The border was a mix of patterns I gathered from Pinterest.

Now all I am doing is waiting for the babies to arrive as I'm sure the expectant mothers are doing too.  I can't wait to meet them in safer times.

Stay safe, stay home.

Ann
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What to do with all those Christmas cards

I love sending and receiving Christmas cards, but what do you do with all the cards after Christmas?

After researching Pinterest I found a lot of uses for recycled cards.

I spent a creative afternoon with my scissors and glue stick and made use of the Christmas cards we had received that otherwise would have been thrown out.

Bookmark

Gift Tags

Gift boxes

Gift boxes

Next Christmas I will be prepared with gift tags and boxes for wrapping, bookmarks as gifts and lots more ideas to upcycle the Christmas cards we receive.

Wishing you all a safe and healthy New Year.

Enjoy

Ann
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What to do with a surplus of capsicums

What do I do with a surplus of green capsicums?
I was given a box of green capsicums, there were too many to use quickly before they turned bad. I didn’t want to waste them.

Off to Google I went and found a delicious recipe for Green Capsicum Pickles - 8 capsicum, 3 onions, pickling spice, 2 cups white sugar, 1 tsp salt and 2 cups apple cider vinegar.
I didn’t have the spice mix they used so I made my own in the coffee grinder - mustard powder, coriander seeds, dried chilli flakes, ground ginger, bay leaf and cinnamon powder.

Simmered together for 5 minutes, pack into sterilised Fowlers jars and boil in the preserver for 30 minutes.
Delicious with a salad or BBQ meat.

In fact, writing this blog has made me hungry for more of them so I think I will have some with my lunch.

Enjoy life :)

Ann 

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