Frankentrolly gets retired
Every Saturday morning I get up early and head down to our local vegetable market. My trusty trolley makes the journey with me each week but sadly it recently had to be retired. I brought […]
Tag: recycling
Plum and Ginger Chutney
As soon as Christmas is done and dusted for the year, I am thinking about the next one. I like to collect up recipes and gift ideas throughout the year and write them in my […]
Crochet / Handmade / Homemade / Me Made May / Me made wardrobe / recycling / Sewing
May project roundup
Me Made May was a good month to get some projects done. We have a fabric fair at one of the schools local to me every few months and when I went in November I […]
January project round-up
I thought I would do a round up of my January projects as they were a varied bunch. I took advantage of the Boxing Day sales to get some yarn at 40% off to knit […]
Gardening / homegrown / Homemade / Love food hate waste / No Waste / Preserving / Recipes / recycling
Zucchini Tomato Sauce
The next chapter in the Zucchini glut saga is making some zucchini tomato sauce. I have loosely based this on Nicola Galloway’s Roasted tomato and courgette harvest sauce recipe. I used tinned tomatoes as our […]
Gardening / homegrown / Homemade / Love food hate waste / No Waste / Preserving / Recipes / recycling
Zucchini glut!
We are currently experiencing a zucchini glut in our garden and in desperation I turned to Google for some ideas to use them up. I had already made this cake (it was delicious by the […]
Mini Christmas stockings
You might be forgiven for thinking this is a post about some stockings I made for Christmas 2022. I was super organised during the holidays and made these for gifts for Christmas 2023! I have […]
Handmade / recycling / Sewing / Sustainability / Vintage
T-shirt to cushion transformation
I popped down to Christchurch the weekend before Christmas to visit my oldest friend who had a significant birthday on Christmas Day. We have been friends since we were 11 when we became penpals, she […]
Vintage and Thrift
Here in Wellington we have a number of great thrift shops to choose from and I visit quite regularly. Recently we made a trek out to Upper Hutt as we hadn’t visited the shops out […]
Christmas gifts / Crochet / Handmade / Knitting / Lockdown Covid 19 / recycling / Sewing
Christmas Crafting
Now that Christmas is done and dusted for another year, I thought I would share with you some of the gifts I made. Most of these were made while we were under lockdown in April/May […]