And the winner is...

So dearies, the winner of the Make-a-Mess Mish Mash Giveaway was comment number 12... Audrey! Congrats lady :) Your package will be sent out in a week or so when the kid has returned to school and I have regained my sanity.



I've come down with a bit of a cold (thanks to my germy husband) and so I've been a bit discombobulated the past few days, and confined myself to the computer updating computery things.

I really need to get my act together because it's going to be a busy few months. I'm showing some stuff at the Journey Through the Arts gallery/collective in Port Hope. We're also doing the Applefest Craft Show and the Lions Art Show and Sale in Brighton. Last but not least we're setting up the house for a Christmas open house the first weekend in December.

To top it off the father in-law is coming for a visit in a week. Eek! I shouldn't complain because he's lovely and we are all desperate for him to come, but this mess! I don't think I've been caught up on laundry in two months and my kitchen floor looks like it's never seen the wet end of a mop. Don't even get me started on the kidlet's room.

I know, I know... he's coming to see us, won't care about the mess.... the thing is, we've been moving rooms around and it truly does look like a bomb has hit. I wish we had rugs I could sweep things under.

Oy vey!

Town in a teacup

More makings for Brighton's Applefest Craft Show. They are the absolute opposite of Hell in a Handbag ;)

Houses, mushrooms and moss, oh my!

We've signed up to do a craft fair next month. It's exciting but it's also a little daunting. I've been up late every night gluing my fingers together and straining my eyes. Here's one of the things I've been working on...

They are the teeniest things that you ever did see and are pretty precious. Much, much better in person (damned soul stealing photography!).

For the Keeper of Bees

Here's my second wee fairy cupboard. This one belongs to the Keeper of Bees and is filled with lovely golden yellow things. The total size is about 11" tall including the base. All items are fixed in place but the doors do swing open. :)

It's an absolutely GORGEOUS day out there today and I'm off to drink my tea in the sunshine.

A faerie gardener hutch

I've seen those wee hutches around and the wonderful things people do with them. I decided to try my hand at them too and bought up a bunch. Here's the first one complete, a teeny gardener's hutch filled with loads of fairy gardening goodies.

The whole thing measures just 8.5" tall. I used an upturned box as the base and then added a wee staircase I had leftover from one of the wee houses I made. The measuring tape is from an awesome sewing basket I bought at an auction two weeks ago that was filled with vintage goodies.

There's some pots filled with rose petals and lavender buds.

Inside there are bottles with dried mugwort, chamomile and rue, teeny tiny houses, a thimble, buttons, scrolls, books, a quill, the smallest spade you've ever seen :)

On top there's a nest carefully tucked away, and behind the cupboard there are snail shells and a lovely little shovel.

Swiping ideas = Summer Project

Have you heard of pintrest.com? It's one of those sites that quickly sucks you in. It's filled with lovely and wonderful things and provides endless inspiration. Yesterday I saw this ...

Source: goldenagegardens.blogspot.com via Nichola on Pinterest

I was smitten and immediately compelled to have a spiral in my own garden. So I pulled Big D away from the tv today and we weeded, collected rocks and created a fairy spiral in the front garden.

Not quite as grand as the inspiration but I think the faerie folk will enjoy skipping about it. If I play my cards right, maybe next year I can convince the husband to make a big and proper one so I can skip along too!

It's going to be a long night

Our garden is over flowing with veggie goodness right now. It's pretty damned spectacular out there. Just look as this huge basket of swiss chard I just picked.

Now I have to process it so that the fruits of our labour won't go to waste. For this giant basket of swiss chard I'll wash, trim, blanch, squeeze and freeze.

There's loads of other stuff back there too.

Too many eggplants to count.

Dozens of peppers.

Tomatoes that look like huge bunches of grapes.

The question is... can we keep up?