Make It Monday 12th February 2024

​Good morning!

The sun is shining and it is already very warm. We are heading towards 40C today, far too hot for me.

I've been out and watered and picked tomatoes. I picked raspberries too, but I ate the as I watered, a tasty start to breakfast. 

Last week's plans changed. That seems to be what happens when I make plans - they change! 

I didn't even sit at the sewing machine, and oh boy do I want to. Just a couple of hours to get through the pile would be lovely. Maybe this week. 

But I did get some cards made. I found a lovely template and bulk made some Happy Mail Project cards.

Then I attended an online workshop and made some new (to me) fancy folds.

When I couldn't sleep, I worked on beaded jug covers.  I learned to make these last year, crocheting the doyley and learning how to attach the beads, and I love how they turned out. In my stash were some doyleys without a project in mind, so I've been adding beads to them to make little milk jug or water glass covers for the present box.

​In the kitchen, all our meals were cooked from scratch, using our pantry. 

I canned corned beef.

12 quarts of meatballs were added to the pantry shelf.

I made tortillas for a dinner of street tacos one night. 

I made Penny Pinching Pizza Bases. 

I packed Wayne's lunch every day. He had salad sandwiches (that didn't go soggy); egg and lettuce sandwiches; ham, cheese and mustard sandwiches; chicken and coleslaw wraps; ham, cheese and tomato sandwiches. I've been experimenting with tomato, cucumber and beetroot on sandwiches so they don't go soggy and I think I've conquered the soggy sandwich problem. 

In the garden two beds have been cleared and enriched with compost, ready for autumn planting. I've started cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower seeds. 

I picked more rosemary and dehydrated it for the pantry. 

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