Market Day tomorrow!

Hello friends.
I hope you are having a good weekend so far.

Well tomorrow is the long-awaited, much anticipated Market day!
My nerves are shot, but I am excited to go and hopefully sell one or two things! :)

I can't believe that it's nearly here, after months of hard work and creating!

I will share with you all the photo's of our table next week, but for now I thought I would show you some of the goodies I will be selling tomorrow. I say "our" because together my friend and I are running the table together, although we each have our own goodies. Together we call ourselves "The Rosy Nest".

Wrap Aprons.




Handmade Journals

Journals are made with high quality card stock and/or scrap booking paper, machine stitched.
They measure 8" x8" or 15cm x 15cm.
Each page is individually pre-embellished with tags, pockets,tickets, journal stubs/notes, ribbon, paper button flowers, and lot's more. They can be used as journals, as photo albums and as a notebook. Each journal comes with a little glassine envelope filled with little embellishments and journal cards.

some have a theme like this one "home". For photos of your family and home or maybe some thoughts of your home!
Travel Journals. Perfect for taking with you on a short journey as they are lightweight and small.


Paper garlands
{butterflies and flowers}


Mini Chalkboards.
These I made from coasters.
Each comes with a piece of chalk.


Headbands.
Felt ones, fabric, organza.


tags

crocheted jar covers

Other things I will be selling: scrap booking embellishments, brooch's, handmade notebooks, scrap booking kits, cards, gift packaging sets, postcards and lot's more!

My very talented friend, Sam, will be selling the cutest newborn hats (knitted), lovely shopping bags, crocheted cushions, crocheted heart garlands, brooch's, crocheted headbands (the cutest ones for babies!) tag's and other things too.

So if you are in the area tomorrow-Somerset West, Hathersage, Gordon Road from 9-2am please come pop around to say hi! Would love to meet you!

I am Woman! I make Fire!

Today was one of those truly unique days that I think I will remember when I Am old and gray. {well I mean when I am old, cos the gray has already started!!}

My daughter and I spent the day together at home, just her and I.
I had this intense craving for braaied (South African word for "BBQ) chicken wings. I LOVE chicken wings. They are so yummy. All they need is a bit of lemon and garlic seasoning and they are good to go.

I decided I would make a fire and a braai on my own!
so I bought the bag of wood, seasoned the chicken, got the fire started and began!
{excuse the bad photos, taken with my phone!}


The fire went out a few times, I cooked my own hand a bit, but I did it!!


*at one stage I almost fell into the burning furnace and bbq'd myself!!* ha ha.

The finished product.
It took me 3 hours from beginning to end but I did it! And let me tell you, they were scrumdiddlyupsious!!! I was so proud, so chuffed, so surprised! I had to enjoy a glass of wine with them!




We also had some very sad news and that is that my daughter's teacher died yesterday. She was suffering from cancer for a while, but I didn't realize how quickly it went...

Lessons learned from today:
*Just enjoy the moment.
*Just BE.
*Forget the washing, the unmade beds, the dishwasher that needs to be unpacked,
and just enjoy being with those you love.
*Spend time with them, just doing nothing, just doing silly things and laughing.
*Realize you can do anything you put your mind to
*Realize you are stronger than you think
*Don't be afraid to take risks and have the courage to face them!

A Spring Garden

Hmmm...I can smell the wine stock I poured over the beef to slow cook in the oven, whiffing through the house...

I thought I would share some spring flowers growing in my garden at the moment.
Enjoy!







It's so nice to see some color in my garden again and to potter around in it. I love gardening.

My birch trees are sprouting new leaves too...My mother in law kindly gave me a whole little "glade" of birch trees! I have my very own teeny tiny little glade!! *sigh*

Just the other day...

My little girl is growing up....
What is it with little girls and their determination to assert their freedom of choice? (more on this...read on)

My little girl is now 8. First of all that in itself boggles my mind as just the other day she was handed to me in hospital and I gazed into her tiny half-slit eyes and wondered if I had ever seen anything more beautiful and perfect than as at that moment...
Just the other day I held her tiny body in my arms while she curled her pink fingers around my thumb...
Just the other day I was changing nappies, sterilizing bottles, dragging my zombie-like body out of bed for the 2am feed...
Just the other day I was clapping excitedly as she gave her first smile, said her first word, took her first step...
Just the other day I cried like a baby on her first day of play school...
Just the other day I cried again when she graduated Grade R ...
Again when she started grade 1...
Again when she started grade 2...
And now is she is 8 and all the glorious, fantastic little hundreds and thousands of memories are tucked away in my heart forever as I continue to watch her grow...

And now she is insisting on wearing skirts and tops. She suddenly "hates" wearing dresses. I digress as she has a whole cupboard of beautiful dresses she once "loved"... She comes out her room wearing the strangest ensemble of clothes...

I want her to wear the dresses. I NEED her to wear the dresses as this change is all too much for me. I am not ready for her to become a little lady just yet.

She is still "my baby"....


*****


I have Been making paper garlands for the market...

Paper garlands



And little crocheted flower garlands.

Ruffles and Roses {and winner of giveaway}

Hi all.
Thanks for taking my survey, if you want to take it, you can still take it here.

I completely forgot about announcing the winner yesterday!

The winner is......

Nicole Austin said...

wow, what a fabulous giveaway. you are so talented! what i love best about spring is the warmer weather, the smell of blossoms, the beautiful colors and the promise of summer! (funny, we are getting ready for fall right now!) enjoy the beautiful spring weather to come! :)

Congrats Nicole!!
Please email me with your postal address!


I love Spring...so far we have only had a handful of nice spring days, and the in between ones make it hard to find suitable things to wear. Too warm for boots, too cold for sandals and T's.

I am loving the "look" for Spring this season...Ruffles! I am not one to follow fashion trends or brands, I wear what I like and what feels and looks right on me. I don't have the money or inclination or energy to keep up with fashion! As Heidi Klum says anyway: "one day you're in and the next day you're out" same with fashion-so why bother!
But I am happy as I normally have lots of ruffles in my closed anyway, so this season fits perfectly in with MY style *wink*.


What's your favorite "look" this season? {whatever season you may be in!}

Springtime flowers.

Hello there friends!
Today is a miserable day! Cold, windy, and drizzly! Yesterday was hot, sunny gorgeous! It's hard to believe!
We went to the local nature reserve and enjoyed our afternoon in the sun, lying on a blanket,

gazing up at the light flickering through the fresh burst of green leaves.


The kids made little rafts out of reeds and wood and floated them downstream.

We gazed at the assortment of wild flowers and even though we really wanted to, we didn't pick any!











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And don't forget to enter the giveaway in this post!

Cornbread

Yum...
Best fresh out of the oven and let the butter melt into it!


Enjoy with a cup of tea!