Fast forward to today and I no longer have Frogs, don't know what happened to them, maybe they had an argument with the Toads or something, but I now have two Toads in the pond...
Tuesday 18 June 2013
The Toad in the Pond.
Just a quick update about the pond and how it's coming along, you remember, at the end of summer last year I pretty much broke my back digging through pure red Shropshire clay to put in a pre-fab pond my Mum had given me. Three weeks later I had already got two Frogs and a Toad in it.
Fast forward to today and I no longer have Frogs, don't know what happened to them, maybe they had an argument with the Toads or something, but I now have two Toads in the pond...
Fast forward to today and I no longer have Frogs, don't know what happened to them, maybe they had an argument with the Toads or something, but I now have two Toads in the pond...
Friday 14 June 2013
The Garden : After the Storm
It rained, it poured, it pissed it down.My god did it rain! I have never seen rain like it before, apart from a few years ago but that was the volcanoes fault and there aint been no volcano recently.
Anywho, thought you might like to see some photographs of my poor garden after the
Hope you enjoyed... please leave a comment!
Friday 7 June 2013
Free Macro Spider and Hoverfly Backgrounds for Widescreen or Standard
Yesterday I went up the woods with BF and took some shots of the insects up there, you would be surprised at just how many insects there are!
Anyway, as a big thank you to you dear reader, I offer you two images available as a free download you can use as desktop wallpaper...
All you need to do is click the word below the image you would like to download, this will take you to the filedropper website, just follow their instructions and you will have downloaded the image.
To install: Just find the image on your hard-drive, right click and then choose 'Set as Desktop Wallpaper' - Simple!
Hope you like them, let me know if you download one and how it looks :)
Anyway, as a big thank you to you dear reader, I offer you two images available as a free download you can use as desktop wallpaper...
All you need to do is click the word below the image you would like to download, this will take you to the filedropper website, just follow their instructions and you will have downloaded the image.
To install: Just find the image on your hard-drive, right click and then choose 'Set as Desktop Wallpaper' - Simple!
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Thursday 6 June 2013
Shabby Chic Embellishments... With a Great Idea to use Them.
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I had thought of this while in a lot of pain, waiting at the hospital for a doctor to have a look at my toe, turns out that dropping an iron on your toe will indeed break it.
I made a video of the process of making this mobile (not breaking my toe...) so please watch & enjoy!
Thursday 30 May 2013
Super cheap Washi Tape! :: Video
So I'm really getting into crafts and so forth, there isn't much to do in the garden at the moment, just weeding and I don't think you really want to see photographs of someone weeding...
I thought I would introduce some craftiness into the blog, as I know quite a few of you like crafts and such like, so here we go!
This a quick tutorial I did on Washi Tape, there are links below if you would like to know more about washi tape. In short, it's a paper tape with designs and colours printed on it; used to enhance and add interest to scrapbook pages and handmade cards, it can also be used for wrapping gifts and so on.
Washi tape is expensive in craft shops so make your own!
So that's the video! You don't need to buy the inks to do this, watercolour paints, felt-tip pens or even pencil crayons would work!
Give it a go and let me know what you did and what you used it for!
Leave a comment below.
I thought I would introduce some craftiness into the blog, as I know quite a few of you like crafts and such like, so here we go!
This a quick tutorial I did on Washi Tape, there are links below if you would like to know more about washi tape. In short, it's a paper tape with designs and colours printed on it; used to enhance and add interest to scrapbook pages and handmade cards, it can also be used for wrapping gifts and so on.
Washi tape is expensive in craft shops so make your own!
Give it a go and let me know what you did and what you used it for!
Leave a comment below.
Monday 27 May 2013
Dustbathing Chicken Dance
My chickens were let out for the first time this week and they have had a great time (and so have I) they have eaten all of the slugs and snails they can find and have scratched all over the bare dirt, diggin up weed seedlings - double bonus for me.
After eating and scratching they decided to have a dustbath...
After eating and scratching they decided to have a dustbath...
Saturday 25 May 2013
Craft: Upcycle Tin Cans. Shabby Chic on the Cheap.
Time: 25mins
Skill: Easy
Cost: 20p - £2.00 (depending on if you buy the tin)
Awesome: Pretty Cool
So I got a bit bored and decided to play around. I had an old long hot dog tin from the other day's barbecue which I thought would make a good holder for my incense sticks. Problem was, it looked naff, so I took the label off and gave it a good wash.
Once dried, I spray painted inside a bit with white gloss paint just to give it a nice finish and then using superglue and jute garden twine, I went to town. The actual wrapping took about half an hour to do, mainly because I'm a bit of a perfectionist, it wouldn't take as long with a smaller can.
My main tips from this are to use wet (not gel) superglue, that way you can simply squirt a bit onto the wrapping you have already done and it will seep through and attach the twine to the tin. I did this every inch or so of the wrapping and it's very solid.
The flower embellishment was from an old crochet doily which I gather up, tied with a short thread and cut off the excess. I used fabric glue to attach it to the twine.
Skill: Easy
Cost: 20p - £2.00 (depending on if you buy the tin)
Awesome: Pretty Cool
So I got a bit bored and decided to play around. I had an old long hot dog tin from the other day's barbecue which I thought would make a good holder for my incense sticks. Problem was, it looked naff, so I took the label off and gave it a good wash.
Once dried, I spray painted inside a bit with white gloss paint just to give it a nice finish and then using superglue and jute garden twine, I went to town. The actual wrapping took about half an hour to do, mainly because I'm a bit of a perfectionist, it wouldn't take as long with a smaller can.
My main tips from this are to use wet (not gel) superglue, that way you can simply squirt a bit onto the wrapping you have already done and it will seep through and attach the twine to the tin. I did this every inch or so of the wrapping and it's very solid.
The flower embellishment was from an old crochet doily which I gather up, tied with a short thread and cut off the excess. I used fabric glue to attach it to the twine.
Please let me know if you would like to see a tutorial on how I made this!
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