well its about time I do a new blog post I do believe...

 I mentioned a while back that my friend Alison was having a pattern featured in homespun magazine (last November)
It happened that my local newsagent doesn't have Homespun (I wasn't surprised, its small so doesn't have much)
Every time I went to bigger towns during the month I would get home and promptly remember that id forgotten to get it again!
On the very last day of November Anneke and I were in Kadina and I finally got to the newsagent. Unfortunately they had already put out the new issue but the lady was able to find one last copy out the back of the shop for me, yippee!!! (I think she was a bit cross with me for making her have to look for it until she saw just how happy and thankful I was:)

 I made this adorable little elf boot from Alison's pattern (which was beautifully written and easy to follow, well done Alison!) I reduced the pattern to make it small enough to fit my tiny Christmas tree. I look forward to making some more next year, id like to make enough for the day care children to leave out for st. Nicolas to put a treat in next year

 Here's some pictures of my 'veggie patch tea' the other night.

 I was especially proud of my carrots, although their pretty small they were the biggest tastiest ones I've grown so far!

I sat at the outdoor table cleaning and chopping veggies, stuck them on a tray with some olive oil, ground salt and rosemary, roasted for half hour and enjoyed them sitting outside while watching the sun go down. Its not so bad running out of groceries when you've got the good stuff growing out your back door!

I feel like Ive hardly had time for my veggie patches this summer but after doing some much needed weeding and removing some old plants that I was leaving to go to seed I could see that I have a thriving of potatoes, A patch of cucumber plants covered in flowers ready to produce and a huge tomatoe bush. Now that the weather is beginning to cool again (for now) me and the day care children are enjoying getting out and will plant some seeds again (lots more carrots)