​Making:
Fabric gift bags from leftover pieces of material, all different sizes depending on the size of the scrap.
A spa set - shower puff and face scrubbies

​Baking:
We ate from the freezer for morning teas and snacks, to make room for Christmas baking.

All our meals were cooked at home using ingredients in the pantry, including some MOO convenience meals using canned foods:
Corned beef and potato salad
Spag bol sauce used a jar of mince, a jar of tomato sauce, some frozen garlic, dehydrated onion and oregano
Pumpkin soup
Wedges using canned potatoes

One dinner was simple baked potatoes, they needed to be used as they were getting soft, it was a quick and easy dinner. I stabbed the potatoes all over with a fork, then put them on a plate in a circle and cooked them in the microwave for 20 minutes. They were done to perfection! The toppings were simple: butter, coleslaw, grated cheese, sour cream and spring onions. 

Growing:
Started more tomato seeds
Started more beetroot seeds
Harvested rosemary and hung it to dry

Sewing:
Two sets of bowl covers made for orders

What did you make, bake, grow and sew last week?

Hello!

Another week has flown by. This time of year everything seems to speed up. Days have been busy, a combination of garden, baking, crafting and the usual household chores. 

Making:
Finished off some tea cosies with cute buttons and pompoms.
Tested a crochet pattern for a gift idea. It is really big so I'll need to rejig it to make it a better size.  It's for a gift so I'm keeping mum about what it is for the moment.
Two batches of Gardener's Soap made and ready to be wrapped.
Started putting together card in a box kits.

​Baking:
Meat pie using a little leftover pasta sauce and pastry scraps.
Bread for lunches.
Foccacia for lunches. 
Five kilos of tomatoes from the freezer cooked down to make sauce.

Growing:
Planted more lettuce and beetroot.
Fed the garden with compost tea.
Picked rosemary to dehydrate, it smells divine.
Picked broccoli from the garden.

Sewing:
Gardener's aprons - I'll pair with a cake of Gardener's Soap.
Dish scrubbies.

What did you make, bake, grow and sew last week?

Happy Monday!

I've just realised that last week's post didn't! It's out there in the virtual world somewhere. 

So what have you been making, baking, growing and sewing this week?

​Making:
​​I've emptied the present box onto the family room floor and started the sorting (and I'll do a show and tell once the parcels are in the post). I'm having fun finding everything and remembering who it's for. Thank goodness for a gift list.

Worked on Christmas cards so they'll be ready to send on 30th November. 

Baking:
​​More lemon butter using lemons found on my walk. 

The fruit is soaking to start baking Christmas cakes and puddings. I like to soak it for a week, giving it a little drink every morning. I'll start baking next weekend with the puddings so they have  time to mature. Then the cakes.

Banana walnut bread for Wayne's morning teas.

Onion jam.

Zucchini pickle to replace the jars that had dodgy lids.

17 pints mince; 2 quarts mince; 5 quarts meatballs for the pantry.

Growing:
​​Rhubarb - the plant Lacey-dog dug up has come back! And it is going great guns. Stalks were pulled from the other plant and stewed. I split the crowns and replanted to get three new rhubarb plants.

Planted out tomatoes, pumpkins, beetroot and lettuce. 

Sprinkled sweet basil, oregano and thyme seeds under the apple trees, and violas in some empty pots. 

Picked tangerines and oranges. 

Picked broccoli from the garden.

Sewing:
​Spent time each day finishing off the sewing for this year's Christmas gifts. While I was stitching on buttons and cutting threads I was thinking of next year's gifts.

​Yesterday Hannah helped me pull out the fabric boxes and they are now sorted into projects. Every piece of fabric has a project assigned to it, and it's been listed so I have an idea of what to work on. Next will be the cottons and then the wools.