Well blow me down with a feather.

Well, what do you know, they arrived. Now will they germinate? Unlikely, but you never know.

Splashback Tiles - Part 2

I picked the tiles up on Tuesday and tiling began on Wednesday. It's looking fantastic! It's been a looong wait for this tile to arrive, and today I'm glad I did not cave and get something else.  The grouting will be done today. More photos to come soon.

Almost finished tiling.

Looking good already!

More pot projects.

Ok, these may be a little more ambitious than the first pot project, but they do look wonderful.

The box below uses:    1. Orlaya grandiflora, 2. Papaver commutatum 3. Dianthus Carthusianorum.

This one below is a stunner. It uses hardy drought tolerant perennials, and plants I would like in my garden some day.

1. Achillea 'Landsdorferglut'  2. Eryngium Planun  3. Achillea 'Terracotta'  4. Scabiosa columbaria 

5. Agastache 'Painted Lady'

Ahhh, can you tell I'm ready for Spring.  Our garden is slowly transforming from an overgrown mess into something resembling a type of order. I keep wanting to jump into the fun part of buying new plants and planting them, but alas there is still more weeding and mulching to do first.  

A little garden project.

I love this planter box. It's a simple combination of Seaside Daisy and Geranium Pyrenaicum sown from seed to create a lush, wild,  meadow in a container. It should flower for around 6 months of the year and be reasonably fuss free.

Seaside Daisy is a no brainer, grows just about anywhere, but loves coastal areas. Geranium Pyrenaicum is a little harder to source. Grows wild in Turkey and eastern Europe.  I have not been able to find it here anywhere so I have purchased a small amount of seeds from the UK. 

I've never bought seeds from overseas before, am not even sure if your allowed to bring in seeds from overseas hence they may never arrive. I only parted with $5.00 so I'm not too concerned. However wouldn't it be lovely if they did arrive, and germinated even. 

I'm keen to make some beautiful pots for xmas presents this year.  If the seeds arrive this will be experiment No. 1. Fingers crossed.

Splashback Tiles - Part 1

Finally, my tiles dock in Australia tomorrow. I should be able to pick them up on the 25th. I've rung my tiler and he is ready to go. Not long now.

Cushions complete....

I've had these large cushion inserts  (70cm x 70cm) for a while. When I purchased this sofa I got a couple of extra metres of fabric so I could whip up some cushions and have never got around to doing it, until now. Being a cushion fiend I quickly tire of the ones I have already, fortunately it is quick and easy to make replacements. I now just need something colourful and contemporary to team with them. 

Spot of sewing.

Such a cold weekend, thought I would pull the old sewing machine out and blow off the cobwebs. After a few hours of mending clothes and patching up ripped knees I thought I would make Mack some warm flannelette duvet sets. A fun little project to test my very rusty sewing skills on.

Don't think I saved money making them (probably cheaper to buy). But it was quite satisfying to follow  through on a project and say "I did that. " 

Anyway, I've been rather absent on this blog recently. Not a whole lot to report on. The boys are keeping me busy and off the computer mostly. Hopefully I will have more to blog about soon. Possibly cushions (next sewing project). 

 Side A

Side B

Second set