This Week's To-Do List

Linking today with Porch Swing Quilts for Make-A-List Colour Monday.

Last week's list - how did I do?!

Garden and homestead

• Veggie garden - continue weeding and mulching, plant out areas as completed.

• Finish new path in veggie garden. (Yay! I love it! I used the sawdust left after all our timber was milled and will cover this with wood chips eventually)

Once again, I ask you to ignore the weeds remaining and just say wow to that gorgeous path!

• Source native grasses for the bed near the back porch. (Found the ones I want but am waiting for a sale. It is one of those places that regularly have 2 for 1s for their email subscribers, so just waiting, waiting!)

• Start seeds and plant snow pea seeds.

• Sprout wheat grain for chickens.

• Stack firewood.

• Start new potato patch. (I have the potatoes here, ready to chit, and will start the patch as soon as the rest of the weeding is done).

• Plant strawberries.

Knitting, sewing, crafting

• Three hours of hand quilting on Miss Ballerina's quilt. 

• Finish back of Shoulder Rolls jumper from November 1933 Stitchcraft.

• Make item from February 1934 Stitchcraft. 

• Graph Minecraft quilt for Whirlwind's birthday, using this one as a guide.

• Finish daffodil tea cosy. (Nearly - four flowers to go!)

I haven't sewn any of the flowers on yet, so I can fiddle around with placement when I have enough.

Household

• Inventory pantry items and determine use by dates. Meal plan accordingly, then keep pantry inventory up to date.

• Write letters to my sponsor children.

• Clean up clutter corner in our bedroom.

• Make lemon and lime cordial.

• Bulk wholefoods order. ($582.00 later! Phew! Nuts are just SO expensive)

• Sort out and label spice jars.

These are Moccano coffee jars - fantastic for storage, and there are three different sizes.

• Sort out wardrobe - pack up summer clothing, bring out winter clothing.

Put away all the light, bright colours

Bring out the heavy, dark colours

• Go through bags of clothes that a friend kindly shared with my boys. Clothing always does big circles with friends and it is a great system. I hardly ever buy anything brand new but the boys have constantly got 'new' clothes! (Wow! This was the best bag of clothes ever! With only one boy, his clothes are so good! By the time mine go through three boys, there are not many that are worth giving away. But in this bag there was enough school uniform items that I will not need to buy uniform for, I would say, years!

For this week, I hope (and I say, hope!) to achieve this:

Garden and homestead

• Veggie garden - continue weeding and mulching, plant out areas as completed.

• Finish narrower new path in veggie garden.

• Start seeds and plant snow pea seeds.

• Start new potato patch. 

• Weed bed outside kitchen window and sow with wildflower mix.

Knitting, sewing, crafting

• Three hours of hand quilting on Miss Ballerina's quilt. 

• Finish back of Shoulder Rolls jumper from November 1933 Stitchcraft.

• Finish daffodil tea cosy. 

• Start Girl On Fire shawl.

• Start Minecraft pickaxe.

Household

• Freezer inventory.

• Clean up clutter corner in our bedroom.

• The boys finish school this weekend for a three week winter holiday. So plan some activities for these holidays, allowing for the fact that it will probably be pouring with rain for half of the time!

This week's colour theme is - pending for the moment! Just waiting for Jennie to pop it on her blog and then I will alter this post.