super-productive

yesterday, in the morning, after waking, dressing and feeding my children (while Nicholas is confined to the lounge it is easier to feed him) i dug manure through our vege garden. then i raked blood and bone through it and sprinkled some fertiliser on top. i watered. then i planted some basil and rosemary seedlings into pots. tomorrow i will plant the rest.
in the afternoon, i made this bag, in between cooking meatloaf and putting vegetables on to cook. i had the sewing machine set up, so kept going from one to the other. the bag instructions came from Handmade Home, by Amanda Blake Soule.
while it is not really the kind of bag you're likely to see in the office, i took it to work today, as i am super proud of it! these things do not come easy to me, so i am always pleased when something looks the way i expected it to!

i am also going to attempt the Bronte-along. the other day i told David that i was 15 when i first read Wuthering Heights, and it turned on the bibliophile switch in me. i said i was way overdue to read it again.
i came across the Bronte-along today. i have never read Jane Eyre or Tentefield Hall, but this sounds like fun! and my mum had bought me a boxed dvd set of Bronte adaptations. exactly these three.