and we're off ( again)

yep my daydream fund has now got some money in it again... so we're off with the grand total of............

wait for it................


£50..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



so my little piggy has now been fed...lol..




OTHER NEWS.....UPDATE.....

went to the farm auction on saturday with hubby, and we bought 6 bluebell chicks and 6 naked neck chicks..... sadly we lost one of the bluebell chicks, it was a very cold and damp day, there is one that still doesnt look right, so i havent gone into to work today, so i can keep an eye on it...

have decided i am going to grow alot more seeds etc than i will use myself to sell at the farm auction to raise some more cash...so this afternoon i am going to buy a kg of runner bean seeds and a kg of broad bean seeds and a box of 408 plant trays for 9 plants each, from a local bargin shop/garden supplies, this guy also has a storage unti by my unit so... he's giving me a goods price on them...i think the trays work out at 12p each and the runner bean seeds are £11 per kg so all in all i will make some money there..if not i will have loads of runner beans to sell and put in the freezer...lol...

Need to plant up some strawberry plants that i got today, which i ordered off ebay... i bought 20 runners, which are huge and healthy... so will pot them in individual pots and keep them in the greenhouse, to bring them on a bit earlier... cant wait.... strawberries and cream......mmmmmmmmmm


so my mojo is back on track...

catch you all later.....

oooo i am such a dirty girl .....'look'

i am such a dirty girl....'look' at these hands




hahahahaha.....'gotcha' ......what did you think i had been up to...ok dont answere that...lol...

well i have had a wonderfull day just doing bits around the garden and in the greenhouse..

i had to make a start on planting these seeds and garlic




so i got my trays all ready



and started getting my hands dirty with the compost..



and here we are the first things that i planted were the garlic..



and while i had my hands dirty.... i got the dreg ends of the potatoes that were at the bottom of the sack



and planted them in old compost bags, as its too cold to plant them outside... so they can stay in the greenhouse until i can put the bags outside...



i have got proper seed potatoes chitting at the moment on my bedroom windowsill... those ones i will plant in my m.i.l. garden..

also managed to sow some tomato seeds, sweet peas, lettuce, cabbage and some peas, so cant wait to plant some more things....

right better go and wash my dirty hands.....lol....

getting all excited now...lol... we went out and about yesturday as we heard lidl had apple trees for just £3.99.... managed to get a bramley apple tree, but we need to get another type of apple tree so they can polinate.... so i heard aldi are having apple trees in on thursday... so will take a nose..

hubby came with me, and to be honest it is genuinely taking an interest..and coming up with ideas, and things that HE needs to do.....mmmmmmmmmmmmm either he wants something or he has decided.. to give in to the idea...lol...

we bought some garlic, seed potatoes, some early peas and a rhubarb crown.. ok i know i have one in our garden, but i love making chutney... so another plant will not be wasted...lol..



some sad news......... my daydream fund has now gone down to zero...... to help pay for the clearing of the garden..... so will start again.... but at least i have some land to play with in the mean time.. unless the dreaded m.i.l. starts being awkward...

WOW.. its sooooooooooooo BIG!!!!!!!!!!!! its a whopper

WOW............i didnt realise it was sooooooooo big. its a flipping whopper..

Even though its flipping snowing, and freeeeezzzzzing cold, the tree guy has stuck to his word, and is working on my m.i.l garden to clear all the shrubs and brambles, and those dead trees...


and look.. i didnt realise how big the garden was







ooooooo cant wait ... we need to hire a cultivator and dig up all those roots etc... but hayho... then it will be ready for planting... better starting chitting a big sack of spuds...lol..

'this time next year rodders'

yep that is what hubby has been saying all flipping day to me....



sooooo much has happened since i posted last, but i have been keeping all my friends in the shabbychic cafe. updated

basically cut a very long story short...my mother in law have said we can use her garden.. for growing veg etc.. but it is sooooooooo over grown and has about 6 trees that are sooo dangerous they need felling.. i am now paying someone to clear it all, so all we have to do is dig up the roots etc... He is going to be starting this next week so will keep you updated on this ( promise).. I was going to use money from my business. but now this is going to be needed elsewhere ( tell you in a mo..lol..)

So basically my Daydream fund will be back to zero, and i will have to start again, but in my defence with spending my money i will be doing something that will be a bit like what i would be doing on a smallholding..lol..




So watch this space over the coming weeks/months..

Right lets go back to the begining...... ' this time next year rodders' hubby has been saying this to me ALL day..lol... My business has now go to a diff level,, so i a have had to buy a bigger van and take someone on full time...

He is also mentioning that you never know that maybe in the future we could afford a farm....( WHAT!!!!!! you are actually coming round to realise that i am not a daydreamer anymore...WOW) He took me to see a little smallholding locally today, so that is 2 now.. and i think he is getting interested in the idea himself...lol...

WONDERS WILL NEVER CEASE.....!!!!!!!


I promise for all you shabby chic'ers.... i will try and get some more material etc on ebay over the next few days....

Ta.... for now.... got to go and carry on daydreaming.....( well troll through the internet looking for smallholdings...hehehehe)

whats going on...ooo i mean coming down

i know i havent been posting like i should, but i have been busy.

For christmas hubby and the kids bought me a mushroom growing kit, some lovely hand tools, seeds.(about 5 packs).. and promised to help me around the garden, and true to their word.....today (boxing day) they started cutting back a HUGE budliea which has been blocking out the sun in one part of the garden. it is just outside our garden wall, in the waste ground, which used to be where all my chickens lived... so its time to get that back in order too...wink wink...lol..



While hubby and my eldest were doing that i cleaned mrs chook and duckywucky out, which i thought the duck was a boy.... But.. it has now starting quacking and it hasnt got a 'kiss curl' on its butt feathers....so hopefully some lovely eggs from her in the spring....

i had their house all nice with fresh straw, and what do they do.????? go and mess it all up .....there's no pleasing some people..... oooooo i mean animals....lol..

i'm nearly there

yep had an email last night from the website people to say its not going to be long before i can start listing my things for sale..hurrayyyyy!!!!!!

i thnk it was due to emails not being recieved from designer..

panicking a bit now,as i'm not to sure what to put on there now..lol..

but here are some tasters of the type of things that might be on there..hehehehe



1940's cc41 table cloth




some vintage material



granny blanket


and loads more.....