Well February is a short month and i'm sure, like me, the end has snuck up on you too!
Eleanor here with another allotment minibook.
Yes, not only is it a short month, February is a somewhat dull month at the allotment, not much going on
apart from general maintenance and tidying, so our family talked about
what we wanted to grow this year, before making the seed order. That
gave me the idea of a seedpacket style tagbook.
The little
colourings and paintings I've been doing this month were with that in
mind, to fit on the front of 6in x 4in kraftcard tags shaped to look
like open seed packets. The fronts lift open to reveal a little
handwritten journalling about each vegetable. I thoroughly enjoyed
doing the illustrations, and have managed to gain more confidence in
using colour - watercolour pencils with a waterbrush.
So here is the seed packet tagbook, tied together with string:
A few cabbagey quotes
A pest problem
Not many left
Cornish savouries
No more about the theft, just some anagram fun
A long time coming
Big is beautiful
The idea was to fill in the blank squares with random letters and make a wordsearch, but I couldn't bring myself to for some peculiar reason :)
Of course there are 2 more recipe cards for the outer pockets of the minibook bag, this time Minestrone soup, a good February warmer, using up all the odds and ends of veg from the freezer, and carrot cake, even though we can't use our own carrots, with philadelphia cream cheese frosting.
See you in Spring!
Eleanor
Caz
Looking back at my yearly photo folders I think February for me has always been really quiet. It's cold and dull and I think it's my worst month. I don't think i've been out much and if I have it's not been for long or with much enthusiasm.
But I have been crafty and got loads of layouts done and knitted a shawl and a scarf. I've also got loads of enthusiasm to declutter and get the house organised and tidy. Must be nearly Spring Cleaning Time!
And here is March 2008s layout. You can see that as Spring Sprung, things came back to life and so did I, and with any luck the same will happen this year.
Thanks for visiting and haPPy March :)
IACW team
xx
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