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my cath kidston dressing gown....I've been wanting a new one for a while as my present one is bleach stained and a bit ratty. I've also made a couple of pairs of pj trousers from some lovely liberty prints & have a camisole style top in the pipeline. Whilst I am feeling chipper and not too tired I am trying to make war on the 'to do' list before the bump hinders progress...
I've been trying for a while now to do as little supermarket shopping as possible and when neccessary only those with more ethical efforts than not and only go once a month for a stock up. So I thought I would give a mention to a couple of my local food heros.
Luckily we have an organic co-operative in the village 'Growing with Grace' which has a fab range of produce and I buy my large sacks of bread making flour from them....friendly staff and a excellent ethos and I feel good about spending my money there! Then the main reason for this post was to celebrate my fabulous farm find Sillfield Farm....
We had these for Sunday Lunch this week...
chicken parcels stuffed with wild boar & wrapped in bacon...they were delicious and the prices are highly competative with supermarket meat, the taste is far superior and no plastic cartons to deal with! (and a lovely warm welcome & service with a smile) and they look really cool too! plus I can also say that I will never buy sausages from anywhere else.
The other real treat is that when you drive up to the farm you get to see the wild boars roaming about in the woods, shuffling about in the mud, chickens clacketting about the place and a sense of harmony that animals are being well treated and cared for before their eventual fate.
So I salute you local heros keep up the good work.
Baking done for the week, Archers caught up on and so I thought I'd do a spot of blogging...I have finally completed several of my projects this week and so I am posting a few pics for you to have a gander at if you so choose!!
I would just like to say that I don't have any intentions of turning this into a baby blog but obviously in preparation for the little one I am beavering away on various things. I am trying my best not to have to buy anything for baby in a bid to be as eco as poss, live by the principles of reducing, reusing & recycling etc that I firmly believe we all need to adopt to protect our childrens future, being inspired by several fab blogs like becoming domestic & down to earth and so far so good...plus freecycle has yet again been brilliant.
The first project completed is a baby bouncer that had already had use for 2 generations in one family and is now off to a new home. The cover had seen better days so a new one was whizzed up with some fabric from the stash.
We tried it out on baby Hector when we looked after him earlier in the week ...he seemed to like it but I think he was a little overwhelmed by the attention from Jake and Tom not quite understanding that 4mth old babies aren't really into star wars yet!
Next to be finished are a couple of crocheted cot blankets....
Lastly a quilt in progress, I am just handstitching at the moment so when that is complete I will bind & finish the edges...
The nursery is progressing slowly (actually a big fib beacuse I haven't done anything in there except make a bigger mess sorting my fabric stash) but I am holding out until 18th June for my next scan when we will hopefully find out whether its a girl/boy. So then thing will busy up until I am too heffalumpus to move!
My next project are some wool nappy wraps. I have been kindly given lots of washable nappies, I plan to make some also and have found this great site selling fabric for that purpose and would prefer not to use any plastics for the wraps. SInce I had used traditional terries & the Kooshies with the two boys I had not heard of using wool (in the dark days before the www) before but it came highly recommended by a lady that had given me some nappies earlier in the week. So on doing a little research found a few sites with patterns to knit so I will be giving these a go and will post info links later if anyone is interested.
