Our beautiful recycled life: a patchworking income, green living, dfw adventure!

Kittikins

Teehee, want to know how I avoid the stress of packing up? I took DD to London to visit a museum so she could do her latest homework early (she has 2 weeks but what with moving and then my op, I was worried that we'd not have time or inclination soon) We had a great time, took a picnic, met some nice people on the train both ways and came back tired but refreshed. Roll on tomorrow, when we have church, lunch out then more packing.......

troglodyte

Morning folks! Gorgeous sunny day here, really feels like spring, flowers opening, birds looking at nestboxes, rhubarb growing... I am full of the joys of spring! After 2 cups of coffee and reading stories to DD in bed I am going to sit outside with a late breakfast and then dig up the last of my parsnips ready to plant broad beans in their place.

Thanks for all the good wishes, yes we are fine (very lucky!) and I am now hunting for a new (to me) car; have a list of requirements and OH is researching for me to try to find what can best tick as many of the boxes as possible.

Thanks for all the bin-bag suggestions! Yes we get those unwanted charity collection bags as well, I never use them as I often wear my clothes until they fall apart anyway, and apart from that I want to support the charities I choose, not just the ones that shove junk through my letterbox (and many of them are not 'genuine' charities anyway!) For smaller bins I will think about the washable bag idea. In some rooms we have 'waste paper' baskets but I still use bags in those otherwise all the little bits of fluff, hairs etc get stuck in the weave, and anything sticky really make the inside yucky.

Hope you are all getting some spring sun today!

Kittikins

Gorgeous day isn't it - had lunch outside with friends, and am wearing a summer dress (with leggings underneath) and my favourite sandals Who'd'a'thunk it was still February?!

MatyMoo

Kittikins wrote: »

Gorgeous day isn't it - had lunch outside with friends, and am wearing a summer dress (with leggings underneath) and my favourite sandals Who'd'a'thunk it was still February?!

Ummm, and the packing?

*Waves hello - been lurking around reading and not posting much*

Pippilongstocking

MatyMoo wrote: »

Ummm, and the packing?

*Waves hello - been lurking around reading and not posting much*

Me too, sorry crazy busy weekend, hopefully catch up with you all tomorrow.

Invigilating tomorrow most of the day.

Hugs and kisses. Xx

rtandon27

MatyMoo wrote: »

been lurking around reading and not posting much*

DITTO!

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

crazy busy weekend

Ditto again!

Pippi - LOVE your cloth shopping bag initiative! - am going to ask the local knitting 'grannies' goup if they might like to form a pod - they are constantly telling me about how the frugal way of life was normal for them - so let's see if they will [STRIKE]buy in [/STRIKE]sew their way into the concept! - it may even encourage a few more of them to take up my offer to help them investigate the internet so they can check out the site!

Keiss - a belated thank-you for the potato growing advice! - and especially the link to the seed potatos - from what you have said my 'big' pots are probably small for the purpose - have a couple of fingerling potatos that have sprouted so will put those in the pots instead of the large baking potatos - have found out that the milkman will deliver both mulch and grow bags - yipee - and they are even less than the local farm shop!

XO
RT

Kittikins

Thank you girls, love you all for nagging me

There's not much to go on the packing.....I think, not sure if others would agree

Just watching a programme about home removers, tee hee! I will be doing some more packing in a moment.........just relaxing after my pre-op appointment at the hospital. I've now been told I'm booked for an overnight stay, yuk

Greying_Pilgrim

Hi Pippi hope you had a good day - quiet though?

troglodyte - a Frister and Rossman ........a friend has one of those (older though) definitely a workhorse. If I'd of got the machine I wanted in school, I'd probably still have it now too....sigh.

Still, whisper it very quietly, I may, just may of resurrected my machine from the jaws of the recycling crusher. So far so good, and all I can say is hurrah for internet search engines that take you to a single post, from a now defunct blog which, together with the comments that it generated might just of provided the solution that I was looking for. Fingers crossed, anyhoo.

rtandon27 - your post resonated with something i'd spotted whilst perusing sewing sites the other day (I blame Keiss entirely..... ). You talked about getting the knitting grannies into cloth bags, but I immediately thought about this (please scroll down to the second pic of the orange version of the bag - the white one doesn't exactly 'sell' the design ) It's another take on the reuseable bag - not dissimilar to the T*rtle bagz and another way to ditch the plastic.

And you mentioned that the group like to discuss how frugal and resourceful folk might of been in the past and this (click on the photo to enlarge it, then the handles don't look quite so 'thin' and 'ouchy' ) sprang to mind. I wondered whether someone might get a 'buzz' out of recreating a vintage pattern. Although it is a crochet pattern, not sure if your knitters do crochet.....

I don't know how easy it would be to recycle wool/cotton/yarn/string. Um, and folk might not be keen on those type of bags I suppose. But I was just musing on your post. As ever, feel free to disregard my witterings - I'm not out to cause work for anyone.

Greying

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, lovely links greying! thanks :T :T

Well done on rescuing your sewing machine too

Greying_Pilgrim

Oh, and I forgot, I really quite like this one too.

Last link - I promise.

Greying