Wednesday 1 April 2015

Blue Tits In The Box .. All Is Well In The Garden World...


Hello there .. 
hope Spring is springing in your part of the world .. or Autumn .. is it autumn down under?

All is well in the garden here .. 
the little Blue Tits have returned to the nest box that Will made for us some years ago  ..
 doesn't it fill you with hope to see (hopefully) the beginnings of new life.
They are so busy flitting back and forth.
This pic isn't the best ..
I took it out of the kitchen window .. 
and I had to 'zoom' a lot ..
 .. and 
.. well ... perhaps I should clean the windows!


 All is blooming ... just lovely!


 I don't know if you remember these
 Bleeding Hearts .. 
but they were planted on Fly's resting place
 (Fly .. our old dog .. bless her).
Well they are pushing up through the earth ..
 and unfurling .. 
reaching for the sunshine .. 
they even have a flower or two. 
I do hope we don't get a late frost.
Such pretty colours.


 Whilst I was out and about the garden ..
 filling the bird tables with tasty seed and tit bits for our busy little birds ..
 I gathered some green stuff for the Girls.
They enjoy a good mix of grass .. 
young Borage leaves .. Goose grass ..and any other 'weeds' I can find.
Not that its hard to find weeds .. 
the garden is full of them ..
 but I don't mind ..
10 minutes weeding and its a feed for the chickens.
Good bit of greenery .. 
lots of iron and whatnot to enrich the eggs ... make those yolks nice and sunshiny yellow.

   
What else this week ... well ..
 a few little Easter treats for the 'children' .. 
think the eldest is 33yrs now .. 
but still they like an Easter egg!

I usually make some of these chocolate bunnies .. I have had the same mould for a few years. 
I find its cheaper than paying for Eggs .. 
I can buy a few bars of chocolate over the weeks from Christmas to Easter then I don't notice the expense.
 And these little bunny lollipops are easier to post.

Not a lot really .. just a little something .. 
little sweet treat to say Happy Easter
 .. and we're thinking of you.


An odd Thrifty day too.
I had a bit of a wind fall with a 20% discount on my catalogue .. I think its because I just pay anything off as soon as possible .. so they want to encourage me to keep buying.
Well I don't mind .. 
I keep an eye on their sale department .. 
only really buy .. On Sale
... clothes are so expensive. 
Anyway .. I needed some new nighties and my dressing gown was rather shabby
 .. you know how it is .. you think .. 
my Goodness
 .. if ever I have to go into hospital 'what a shabby mess I would look' .. lol!

So I got a couple of new nighties and a new dressing gown .. posh or what!

Now these came packed up to the hilt .. 
lots of tissue paper and plastic bags.
So .. not to waste anything (of course!) ..
I got a pile of tissue for wrapping ..
 plastic bags for bagging up knitting wool for selling on the stall.
A pile of good soft rags from the old 'past it' nighties .. 
so useful for Hubby P .. painting and polishing and whatnot.
A few buttons off the old nighties and dressing gown. 


And the old dressing gown .. 
well it still had some useful fabric in it .. 
it was the sleeve/cuffs that were really grim
 .. so the nice fleecy fabric made some new cuddly hot water bottle covers.
Just a quick functional simple bag shape .. quick and easy .. and no waste.

So that's been my week so far ... 
been listing more vintage goodies on the dreaded eBay today ...
 Gosh its boring .. but it buys the tins of beans .. an all that!

What have you been up too .. 
anything Thrifty to share?

xx





8 comments:

  1. Love your chocolate bunnies so good. My chickens are the same like their greens. Great recycling of your dressing gown.
    Rosezeeta.

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  2. Thrifty items this week are 2 lovely cushions from the charity shop. £1.50 each and a DVD "The Reader" for £1.20. In my sewing room I used a pair of old jeans to make a bag and lined it with some vintage pyjama type fabric.
    I love your little primulas, with the back edging, how pretty they are.

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  3. nothing as thrifty as you I am afraid. Love the photos of the birds.

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  4. How thrifty are you - GO gal! I save tissue paper too - when reworking whip ends, you need a thin layer of paper or tissue to make it level before re-whipping the leather flap in place. Always useful for wrapping pretties that you sell on Fleabay too of course.

    The chocolate bunnies are great - hope they don't break in the post, or are they solid all the way through?

    Are those Lace-edged Primulas? I used to have some but I think the long cold winter of 2010 did for them. I still have shivering memories of that year as it was when the central heating boiler died on Christmas morning - with a foot of snow on the ground!

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  5. Brilliant idea for the hottie covers, I may just have to borrow that one, I have some bits of fleece lying around doing nothing. I had several nesting boxes in my last garden and nice thick stands of Pyracantha for the birds, there are so many cats here that I am wary of creating a "larder" for them.

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  6. Very interesting blog. A lot of blogs I see these days don't really provide anything that attract others, but I'm most definitely interested in this one. Just thought that I would post and let you know.

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  7. I should imagine you to have a sign hanging in your home, 'Waste not want not'! I try to use up/re-cycle packaging too.
    I've got quite a stash of those net-like bags you buy garlic,oranges etc in and plan to turn them into brooches to sell at a car boot or craft stall..........one day!
    Have a great weekend! xxx

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