House plant love

 Hi everyone

I know I have not been posting much but we are housebound at the moment as Hubby has Covid. So I have now found a little me time to tell you of my latest love, house plants.

Over the years I have had house plants in our sunroom but never seemed to be able to get them going and healthy.

Well lately I have made it a routine to feed and water on a regular basis. I water on Sundays and mist spray every day when the weather is warm.  We are now into autumn and we are still experiencing quite warm weather.

I feed liquid fertiliser monthly and sometimes slow release fertiliser too.

I have wanted a pretty face pot for so long but they are very expensive.  To my delight I found this sweet girl in the reject shop for $8.  What a bargain.  

I wanted to give her hair so went shopping at Bunnings and found this Peperomia which is perfect and grows quickly,  so I’ve taken some cuttings from her and potted them up.  Here’s hoping.

Now apparently, there are quite a few different peperomia. This is peperomia Jade

She has grown a little more since I took this photo, so I am delighted.

This is an umbrella tree and doing  very   well too.

Ok now I am back into the swing of things again and looking forward to visiting some of you.

Thank you for visiting xx jeanetteann

Pretty china

 Hi everyone

Who doesn’t like pretty china?

I can’t resist looking at it and using it.  I have a birthday coming up and decided to have family over for High tea.  My son said Mum, what’s high tea, are we going to play golf.LOL. I mean, I thought everyone knew.

So a good opportunity to get out the pretty china.

I decided to also change my dresser display from blue and white to pink and floral and I’m so pleased I did, it’s such a nice change especially coming into Spring

Have a nice week xx jeanette ann

Sweet little dresses

 Good afternoon everyone

Well this week hasn’t been the kind to go for a walk or potter in the garden.

It has been a very wet few days,I think the wettest August on record. So I caught up on lots of sewing.  I love making smocked baby dresses and rompers.  It’s so relaxing.  I sell them in my Etsy shop,Etsy.com/shop/JeanetteO’Donnell,all lower case.  It’s just a hobby I enjoy.  Selling some allows me to purchase more fabric. Who can resist pretty fabric.  I had such a lot of scraps from making them, I decided to give them away.  I mean I had a humungus bag full so advertised them on market place giving them to anyone interested in using them up.  I thought it would be a quilter who would be interested. I have made a couple of patchwork quilts in the past but couldn’t seem to get around to do another.  So give them away I would.  I was a little disappointed that the first person to contact me only wanted them to make jam pot covers, I mean she would need to make a million to use them up.  Quite a few quilters contacted me too, but I had already given them to the first caller.  I used to take them to our library where a group of ladies sewed quilts for charity,but the library closed and I don’t know where they went which is a shame really.

Soooo I just forgot about the scraps and started making more LOL

These are some of my creations

Thank you for visiting xx jeanetteann

Last month of Winter

 Hi to all 

It feels so nice to finally get back to blogging.  I have so missed it but just couldn’t find the time. Life seems to be so busy what with sewing the little smocked dresses and rompers to sell in my Etsy shop, Etsy.com/shop/JeanetteO’Donnell. all lower case. The computer keeps changing my name to upper case for some reason LOL.  My garden, which is very cottage and full of flowers 💐 draws me out there whenever the weather allows.  We are in the last month of Winter, it has been extremely cold but still the garden has continued to bloom with so much. Now the roses are starting to shoot and almost all my cottage seeds I sprinkled around are starting to peep through.  It’s so exciting planting from mixed packets of seeds as one never knows what will appear in Spring.  Exciting.  I planted 13 different veggies and have been picking greens constantly through Winter.  Just waiting for the red cabbage, cauliflower and broad beans to be ready,

Happy gardening xx jeanette ann

Our sweet little baby now at peace

 Rocky has been in our life for 14 happy years. He has shown us so many happy days.

He was constantly under my feet, followed me everywhere. Daily walks were fun, that is until the last weeks when he no longer managed to walk far or even manage to eat much. He lost his hearing and became restless.  ULTRA SOUND 4 months ago showed he had masses on the liver and in his gall bladder

It’s been difficult knowing when Its’s time to let him go. He never showed any sign of pain, but how could we really be sure.

We spent the weekend with lots of cuddles.  Monday came and spent the morning in an emotional state wondering if he knew.

The vet was so kind and explained the procedure.  Rocky just went to sleep very peacefully. He will be sadly missed.

Hope all well with you all xx

Jeanette ann

 

Chistening gown and more

 

I made this Christening gown to fit size 6 months and just love it on 1of my many dolls

It has a matching petticoat, bonnet and shoes. It is available in my Etsy shop.   Etsy.com/shop/jeanetteodonnell

This is Rocky on one of his good days. He is now 14 yrs old and really struggling now.

It’s a sad time when you love them so much, but at 14 he’s had a good life.

I had a nice day searching op shops yesterday and scored the most beautiful set of parfait glasses

I can’t wait to use them

Well that’s it from my part of the world today.

Keep warm and stay safe

Xx Jeanette ann

Happy days pretty finds and more

 

I’m so happy to have found these little lovelies in my local second hand shop

The teacup is so fine you can see through it cost $1.  The little pot is, I have recently discovered, intended for a roll of postage stamps. The stamps pull out through the slit in the side. Cost me $2 

and is a House of Prill. So happy with it and knowing what the use for it was, can’t get rolls of stamps these days I don’t think.

I crocheted this throw rug in lovely bright colours for our sunroom. I usually like pastels but decided I wanted red accents in the sun room and so pleased with it.

Well have a nice day and stay safe my friends

Xx Jeanette ann