LILAC HOME & GARDEN

 

I'm getting scared now.... only two weeks till I open LILAC HOME AND GARDEN, on the 12th of May (Mothers Day) . I've been so busy making sure all my other work is up to date, and organising all the behind the scenes stuff for LILAC HOME & GARDEN. Now it's time to knuckle down and make some goodies for you all. I hope I've got enough time to get plenty done. I have so many ideas running around in my head.... hmmm where to start! Bunting, potted plants, furniture restoration, hankie boxes, cushions.....crochet.....painted glass..
candles...

 

Stay tuned, my next post will be about what I have for sale and what Barbara, Chris, Val and H will be selling as well. I should have my Logo and business cards soon, so will be showing them to you too.

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

(PS) In case you were wondering, I've finished my de-cluttering task for April

(the filing system).

Don't know if I will get much more de-cluttering done over the next few months, though I will be trying to finish the quilt for our bed, that I started four or five years ago!

 

Gotta run now!

xo

 

LILAC HOME & GARDEN !

 

 

 

 

My new venture this year is starting to fall into place, slow and frustrating at times, fast and out of control at other times. But I think I see a light at the end of the tunnel. I've decided on a name for my business ( LILAC HOME & GARDEN ), and a logo. I have some furniture ready to sell, plus some scented candles, some painted glass ware, some potted herbs and other plants in interesting containers and some sewn items ( bunting, cushions, pot holders, table cloths etc.). Some of the glass ware is decorated with vintage wall paper and the sewn items are made out of a variety of material from my stash. There will also be bird houses and other interesting rustic furniture made from old sweat box timber, pressed tin etc. by Val, and other sewn items and interesting curio made by Chris and Barbara.



BOX SEAT, MADE TO MEASURE.
This is an example of Val's work
 

I know you've heard me say this many times this year but once again I can't help myself,
 I'M SO EXCITED!!
Also, over the next few weeks my blogging is going to suffer again because l have to make sure my other duties are up to date and prepare for LILAC HOME & GARDENS opening.
But do stay posted for more updates, photos of stock for sale and a date for our
 GRAND OPENING!

Gotta run now... talk to you soon.

xo



Sauce Weekend 9/3/2013

I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but every year on the Labour Day long weekend in March, some of our friends from Melbourne come to visit and we have a great weekend making passata sauce and instant pasta sauce. 

This year we had the most successfully sauce weekend to date!

We are getting the process down to a fine art, and the tomato's from Mary were the most beautiful Roma's. In previous years the tomato crops suffered from rain/storm damage so we didn't have good tomato's to work with.  This year they were perfect!

First batch of passata sauce ready to be cooked.

 



 

 



The  cutting begins.

 

 

 

 





 

 



This is how we cook our instant pasta sauce.

We're working on a better cooker for next year. 

 

 

The Girls!

The hardest workers on the weekend of course! 

Taking a well deserved dip, after a long hot day.

 

 

 The other Girls (Ginger and Cider)

 Doing Life Guard duty!
 

 

We are always sad to see our dear friends from Melbourne head home after our sauce weekend. We work and play hard, its a fantastic weekend that we very much look forward to each year.

(PS) I've decider my de-cluttering project for April is going to be the office filing system. I started changing over to a computerised system a while back and its been neglected lately so.... time to fix it up and finish it off!

(PPS) I'm not sure if this would be considered as a de-cluttering project to some, but to me it is.... so be it! :-)

Bye for now

xo