Pip's Game

Pip started this over at Meet Me At Mike's.

I am feeling a bit down and blah and uninspired lately, and haven't blogged. Hoping this will get me back into the swing of things!

Making : pyjama pants; birthday cakes; birthday presents; whoopee
Cooking : birthday cakes
Drinking : water, LLB
Reading: just finished 1788. About to start on some old fashioned chick-lit
Wanting: time. space. inspiration.
Looking: through photos, trying to choose prints for my sis' birthday gift
Playing: sea shanties
Wasting: time jumping through centrelink hoops
Sewing: pyjama pants
Wishing: I had the time and the money
Enjoying: my relationship; sewing; travelling
Waiting: to co-habit
Liking: my new grandpa vest; cookie jars; thermos'
Wondering: about stuff
Loving: massive birthday spoils
Hoping: for more massive birthday spoils
Marvelling: at people. good. bad. ugly.
Needing: more hours in the day
Smelling: lamb shanks in the slow cooker
Wearing: awesome sailor style pants, most comfortable boots ever, warm salvos jumper
Following: peeps on twitter, rafters
Noticing: that it's lighter later
Knowing: that there is an end point for the tough stuff
Thinking: alot about those passed
Feeling: furklempt
Bookmarking: so many places: craft, bloggy shopping goodness
Opening: deliveries from ebay/etsy (hello gocco!)
Giggling: @ that pesky pop up squirrel photo bomber
Feeling: still furklempt

So that's where I'm at.. 

Have had some awesome oppy finds, house stuff and clothes, and was whisked away to Tassie for a glorious birthday weekend adventure...

And I take great pleasure in saying that I got soaking wet at the swollen gorge on the weekend...

(feel free to copy the list and repost.. credit where it's due.. backlink to here)

Jam Club

This is an idea from quite awhile ago.. I never put the time and energy into getting if off the ground, but then that was a big part of the reason why I decided to adjust my life around my ideas and ideals.

The idea was borne on a road-trip down the coast from Sydney to Melbourne. It revolves, again, not dissimilarly to the Errol Plan, having a group of six or eight people, who would get together say, once a month.

Each person would make jam or chutney of their choosing. It would be important that someone would coordinate, so that we didn't end up with 6 lots of strawberry jam, though!

We would all get together in someone's lounge room (in my mental 

image, the set is warm and cosy, everyone has a nice cup of tea and we are all sitting on assorted pieces of furniture. At least one of us is sitting on a vintage vinyl poufe. There is probably a cat somewhere around the place...) and discuss the methods we used to make the jam, the origin of our fruit content and the choice of design for our labels.

The Jam Club would perhaps change to a Soup Club during Autumn and 

Winter, when fruit was not in ready supply. You would end up walking away with at least six different meals that you could freeze and take to work or have at home with your friends. 

It is still something I am definitely interested in getting up and running. I think one of the most important things to note, is that no-one would be expected to share their recipes!!!

It harks back to the days of, certainly my grandparents, where sharing the goods was the norm. Will work especially well if you can keep Errol away from the backyard orchard!!!