Tuesday 16 June 2015

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. 
  • 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 daffodil tea cosy. 

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.



12 comments:

  1. We are Moccona coffee drinkers (at home and at work) and I have been using the jars for pantry storage. Great for soup mixes, pasta, lentils, bags of leftover choc chips (if there's only a few left, I mix them all together), open sachets of spices etc.

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    1. You are lucky! I have to beg jars from other people as I am a tea drinker (although I am tempted to change to coffee just to get more jars!) and my daughter drinks Nescafe. They are such great jars!

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  2. You did well with your list last week, here's hoping this week is as good. Love your tea cozy.

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    1. Thank you! We have three weeks of school holidays coming up, so I think my lists will become a bit sparser! Unless, of course, holidays means I have extra helpers!

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  3. You had a really good week, I love seeing items crossed off.
    I need to do freezer inventories myself, but right now it is so hot here I think
    that chore will have to wait.

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    1. We are the opposite - so cold here I am putting off handling all that freezing food!

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  4. Wow you are getting quite a lot crossed off your list Jayne! The saying "a woman's work is never done!" is so true...I know I never get to the end of my lists lol!

    Those Moccona jars seem to be popular on a few blogs I read. They do look good. We don't drink that brand of coffee, (mostly tea in the teapot drinkers here) but we have a mountain of jars all different sizes that kind friends have saved for us.

    Your tea cosy is looking good. Wont be long now and it will be cosily wrapped around your teapot.

    xTania

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    1. I do love collecting jars - drives hubby crazy! I keep all sorts of things in them, and there are so many lovely free labels to print to make them look pretty.
      I finished all the flowers last night, so finished tea cosy photos today - yay!

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  5. Wow you achieved a lot this week. Must feel great to get so many projects completed. My grandmother used to drink Moccona and collected her jars as well. Do you feel that buying in bulk from whole foods saves you money? I do our main grocery shopping at Aldi and it drives me crazy having to go to Woolworths as well to buy baking items, such as cocoa powder, they don't stock. I was considering buying some stuff in bulk. And yes nuts are soooooo expensive. My hubby eats lots of nuts and we spend $20 a fortnight on just almonds/macadamias/cashews. I can't seem to find how to save on them anywhere.

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    1. I shop at Aldi for all the basics. The bulk food definitely saves me on things like nuts as you can buy them in bigger quantities than the supermarket. If I lived near my brother, I could save a fortune! He goes to one of those bulk co-op stores and I could not believe the prices when I went to visit him. I wanted to fill the whole car with food! I have registered with Honest To Goodness for a wholesale account - problem being you have to spend $500+ to get the discount. And have to pay for shipping. Still works out cheaper than buying the smaller packets from the supermarket.

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    2. I think I'll look into it. The problem is having the money to outlay front up when the budget is tight. Maybe if we have a lump sum from Mr Taxman I can convince hubby to do a bulk shop. I think it would be way more convenient.

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    3. That is always the problem! I had to work up to it by putting aside a bit from each week's grocery budget until I could do my first bulk purchase. Then once I had the first lot of bulk food, I didn't need to spend as much as the supermarket, so it was easier to put aside some each week for the next bulk order. If that makes any sense!
      If I had a bulk store nearby, I would shop there, but there aren't many choices in our small town. 4 supermarkets, but not much else!

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