Two punnets of watercress planted into some matching celadon coloured glazed pots that I had hanging about, makes a cheap functional centrepiece for dinner with the gals. By day the two pots of watercress live in a deep saucer which is always topped up with water – keeping them lush, healthy and incredibly abundant. By [...]
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Watercress is for soups, salads, sandwiches…and table settings
Posted in Something thrifty this way comes, The House, tagged Accents, dining alcove, garden on April 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Freecycling addiction
Posted in Something thrifty this way comes, tagged freecycling, furniture, Pretties on March 13, 2012 | 2 Comments »
In spite of my good intentions to not collect any more freecycled items… …and not 5 hours after the occasion of me firmly telling the Sea Capitaine that I would not, and I mean not, be collecting any freecycled furniture*… …I managed to collect an immaculate condition 50-60′s day bed with storage underneath. I know, [...]
Chairtastic
Posted in Something thrifty this way comes, The House, tagged bedroom, freecycling, furniture, her majesty on September 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Oddly I don’t seem to have mentioned in the same freecycling weekend that I found atomic planter #2 and retro mirror, that I also found another chair. Yes, another Parker era chair in need of restoration and TLC. The varnish and wood was water damaged (stained but not warped) and it needed new cushions and [...]
A quick freecycling conversion
Posted in Something thrifty this way comes, tagged freecycling, garden, Progress on April 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
During my period of work-life-sister-visit enforced absence from this blog, there has also been another bulk rubbish collection in ma hood…and several surrounding hoods. I think by now you know me too well to know that I would not pass up an opportunity to source free vintage / mid century / atomic items and anything [...]
Something thrifty: Vinegar, nectar of the gods
Posted in Something thrifty this way comes, The House, tagged bathroom on April 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I have another cheap, common but amazingly flexible item in my artillery of cleaning products. A product that, I would even say, equals bicarbonate soda in the range of uses up its sleeve. It’s vinegar of the humble white acrid kind that you can buy for a couple of dollars per 2L bottle. That humble [...]
Something thrifty: Goodness, gracious, great bags of kelp!
Posted in Something thrifty this way comes, The House, tagged garden on April 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My family owns a beach house north of Jurien Bay. It’s about 2.5-3 hours up the coast and situated in cray fishing and wind surfing country on a part of the coast where seaweed is pushed onto the beach at various points of the year. I say various points of the year, but really I [...]
Something Thrifty: Lawn Seed Shaker
Posted in Home-made Sunday, Something thrifty this way comes, tagged garden on January 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
After watching a segment about Lawn Care on Better Homes and Gardens, I came away with a couple of thrifty tips and ideas. The first was the one featured in the segement – using a small plastic plant pot to spread lawn fertiliser (1:40 in the clip at the link above) as opposed to paying [...]
What to do with loo paper rolls
Posted in Home-made Sunday, Something thrifty this way comes, tagged garden, Reusing on November 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
According to three of my three my gardening books, you need to blanch leeks about 1 month before you harvest them. Blanching in this case means covering the stems with cardboard of some sort to make them white. You do this so you end up harvesting a white leek with green leaves, as opposed to [...]
We save the seeds…
Posted in Home-made Sunday, Something thrifty this way comes, The House, tagged freecycling, garden on November 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The seed saving experiment at casa moi has finally reached the zenith. (At the risk of over tarantino-esquing my post, one so rarely gets to use the word zenith in a sentence). I harvested oodles and oodles of pretty garlic chive flowers and dried them: The seeds (the teensy little black spots) needed a little [...]
Some things are priceless
Posted in Home-made Sunday, Something thrifty this way comes, The House, tagged Accents, dining alcove, garden, Pretties on November 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Golly – it’s been almost a month since I last posted. Time flies when you’re having fun (doing things like planting trees, assisting le amazant Monsieur H fix one’s reticulation, collecting prints as part of Windows on William, catching up with the Coffee Fairy on her brief stop over between London and Melbourne or preparing [...]
