the daydream fund challenge thread

alfie_1

cushions with two or three flowers??? i do like your flowers!!

Rummer

How about drawstring bag with a water proof lining so they can have a matching wash bag and makeup bag? Oh and you could copy the crayon rolls but make them wider and they could be used as a cosmetic brush roll. Then you could sell sets of the same colour with a wash bag, makeup bag and brush roll which would make a lovely gift for someone.

alfie_1

Rummer wrote: »

How about drawstring bag with a water proof lining so they can have a matching wash bag and makeup bag? Oh and you could copy the crayon rolls but make them wider and they could be used as a cosmetic brush roll. Then you could sell sets of the same colour with a wash bag, makeup bag and brush roll which would make a lovely gift for someone.

ooooohh! yes please to that too... i have the perfect people in mind as gifts...so my orders 3 MU bags ,A draw string bag,a brush roll thing and 2 aga pads..... NOW PLEASE....no sleep just sew CTC...:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

it wasnt totally a waste of time.... as i have learned some good valueble lessons...

You have, and it's not over till it's over, either!

£45k is more than either of us thought that land was worth, so unless the other buyers have a use for it that we've not considered, they're paying far too much.

Having been unwell, I've had time to update my Photobucket album for the year. It's not wildly exciting, mind, but for anyone who wants the link, it's here:

http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac150/Davesnave/2011%20Our%20Smallholding%20And%20Nursery%20Year/

Feeling a bit better tonight, but we shall be pushing it to get our plants together for a sale at the weekend. We really need to do it though, so we don't let folks down, and because we need the £££.

rhiwfield

Good luck to CTC and Davesnave for bag/plant sales this weekend!

Still dry here, cold this morning but no frost. All plants were covered just in case and will be tonight as well. Not even bothering to sow direct until the ground is wetter, and I'm guessing our crop of new potatoes will be affected by the lack of rain

And there was me thinking that 3 water butts would do fine

Davesnave

rhiwfield wrote: »

Good luck to CTC and Davesnave for bag/plant sales this weekend!

Thanks. It's not me who's in doubt, but my DW, who may be young, but isn't so tough. Because of a previous debilitating illness, anything respiratory is a real problem for her.

I was confined to the polytunnel yesterday. It made me realise that although I enjoy the smallholding side, my heart lies in the gardening. Here, we are probably battling with too much, so everything we do is diluted and I get frustrated at the lack of progress on the nursery part.

Still, we have some nice stuff coming along now. Just have to flog it!

wen3

CTC have you thought about selling them on esty?

Would just like to say how interesting this all is and I would love to do this we are trying to sort ourselves out in the money front at the moment we do have some hens and have an allotment this year which all seems to be going well.

RAS

CTC - My taste tends towards Amish - they are lovely but I would want one without a flower.

choille - so glad that you found pecked hen. L Blomfield (Malabar Farm and others) wrote about the WW2 situation where they were unable to look after livestock as they had before the war. Surprisingly the chickens were healthier and stopped feather pecking; they eventually realised that they were gettlng protein from two sources - cow dung (probably larvae) and the fungi growing on the un-disinfected house floor, with possible antibiotic assistance as well.

alfie_1

hi all.... talking of WW2 efforts, my grandad was a butcher/pig farmer. he always said "you dont keep an animal unless it has a use!!" he had a working spaniel just after war and as they were sort after ,when she got preggies by local mutt, he waited and she had 8 pups...2 looked like mutts[not on view!] ,6 like spaniels so he sold them for a premium !! i can remember him regailing the story with a big grin saying "gawd knows what they ended up looking like!".... my gran had a cat to which he said HAD to live in the shed and be a mouser! she snuck him indoors and gave food... after gran died he kept saying "the bl**dy cat keeps coming indoors and sitting on my lap when im asleep!" he would never admit that he adored that cat and both died within months of each other....

alfie_1

well i had my generator diesel nicked at sometime over the weekend....400 plus litres.... also my chainsaw and petrol strimmer.... so i am such a happy bunny at the mo....NOT!!
BUT i rang the insurance co today and within 3/4 of an hour i had a company ring me to arrange delivery of brand new saw&strimmer......
also they are paying to have tank refilled.... i had a hard time looking for a company to insure my gennie but this lot are excellant, never known such rapid response, and ok they are not cheapest but worth it in not having to battle and waste time trying to claim!!
so this bunny is slightly happier!!

had rain last 2 nights but cant say its done much! freshened all plants up though...