Welcome back to another Links I Love post where I share some of my favourite links from the previous month. Today I am looking back at some of the great posts that I saw during November. My featured photo this month is paying tribute to our vegetable garden which is roaring back to life now that we are officially into summer! The tomatoes that are pictured were from a volunteer tomato bush that popped up at the end of last summer. I managed to keep the plant alive over winter inside a cold … [Read more...]
Spooky DIY Solar Halloween Lights
Why go out and buy Halloween lights when you can make you own solar ones. In this post I’ll show you how to make your existing solar lights creepy for Halloween! Halloween is not a huge event here in Australia although it is getting more and more popular each year. We haven’t made any Halloween decorations at our house in the past because we don’t get any trick or treaters where we live. The distance between houses is a bit big for the kids probably! Still I started thinking about … [Read more...]
Drying Gourds for Decoration
Once you have successfully grown some gourds the next step is to dry them. Here I share what I have learnt about drying gourds for decorative uses. A couple of years ago I probably wouldn’t have been able to tell you much at all about gourds. I had seen the cute little pumpkin like fruit that are often used in decoration but I didn’t really know what they were. My mum became interested in them when she started learning about floral art and that is when I found out what a gourd was! We had … [Read more...]