Happy Spring, Happy Spring Equinox! Welcome back longer days, daylight savings, warmer weather, and all the wonderful spring things.
With Spring some people get a surge of energy, some get hayfever, and some get neither or both! I get both, lucky me.
I’m directing my spring excitement into seed sorting, planting, and planning, as well as creating a new website where I will eventually be able to sell some of my excess seeds and seedlings. I have brought over my old blog from my QuietRectangle blog, however the rest of the site is brand new.
I have actually had a lot of fun creating the site. I work with wordpress in my ‘day job’ but for some reason, creating my own site with a basic template has felt so easy and fun. In fact, I’m half tempted to say if you want your own website, hire me. I don’t do front-end customisation or back-end development, but I can get you set up from scratch with hosting, a domain, and a pre-made template customised with your own photos. Well the thought is out there… Yet it’s not really my goal to become a website creator!
Seed Envelopes
I have finally run out of previously purchased seed envelopes, which has kickstarted a plan for making our own. My partner Adam has crafted an envelope shaped deckle (mould for papermaking) and I will temporarily use it to trace and cut out envelopes from whatever paper is in the house, while long term he gets set up to create beautiful hand-recycled paper. We need to find some old flyscreen for the mesh, and he will look for a pre-loved blender for the paper pulp. I dream of a bicycle powered blender, but I don’t know if our mechanical skills are up to the challenge of building one just yet… Only time will tell, and time is the thing we seem to always be short of.
Ducklings
We are getting a lot of duckling visitors again this spring. They waddle through our street, doing a tour of each of the neighbours who have kids, as all the local kids love to feed the ducks.
NZ Secret Santa Seed Swap
I am participating in the Secret Santa Seed Swap again this year. This will be the 4th year I’ve done it, and every year it has been a lot of fun. Sign up has closed for this year, but if you are on instagram I highly recommend giving the page a follow so you don’t miss out next time around https://www.instagram.com/nz.secret.santa.seed.swap/
