🍋When your fruit shop has 5 cent lemons, naturally you buy 100. Needless to say, after I bought my 100, a 20 limit per customer rule came into effect. 🤣🤣🤣 Sorry about that! We juiced the entire 100, froze some in ice cube trays or in 1 cup cubes, then made lemon cordial🥛with the rest. Tip: strain your pulp out before pouring the lemon juice into the syrup!I found this reel in my drafts from 6 months ago. Oops, forgot about it in there. 😅-Christy

Dan has started a new tradition of pancakes for Sunday breakfast. 🥞 As much as it's convenient to buy the shaker pancake containers, nothing beats homemade pancakes! All he needs to do is dump out the jar in a mixing bowl, add the egg, milk & vanilla, and mix it up. Super quick and easy! And I love that there's no additives or preservatives in our mix. Just simple ingredients that we know and can pronounce. 👌🏼 I've asked Dan for a portable jar vacuum sealer for Christmas, so that I can vacuum seal our jars with dry ingredients such as this to create our own "fast foods". It means they stay shelf stable for longer if we don't get through them quickly. I plan on doing up some muffin base and cornbread base jars soon! I love this concept as it makes baking something so much quicker and easier. Little things like this really do save time. Thank you Jessica @threerivershomestead and Chelsea @littlemountainranch for the inspiration! I don't have a lot of time to spend on food preservation at the moment with our new little baby, so little projects like this are quick and satisfying to get done! ☺️ -Christy

The rest of the week was a bit of a blur! Dan finished bricking in the hole from the AC, electrical was roughed in and another GPO added, I sanded, patched and painted the bedroom door, we bought all the trim, a new door frame, and new kickboards, had one thousand subsequent Bunnings trips because we kept forgetting things, bought and hung insulation, and got started on hanging drywall. Dan's been back at work this week so progress has been slow since. We have a couple of small pieces of drywall to get up then Dan can start cutting trim for me to paint, then taping and mudding can begin. It's going to be a slow burn as we try and fit in the work at night or on Saturdays. Hopefully we get it done in time! Only a couple more months to go until baby brother arrives! 🤰🏽 And still trying to get the winter garden in. 🫣 It only should've been planted 2 months ago, no biggie. 🤣🤣🤣 -Christy

Day 1 & 2 of the front room Reno. Not something we really wanted to do, but was much needed. The previous owners smoked in this room and 4 years later it still stinks besides our efforts. So walls had to come off and we'll start fresh. All the messy demo work is done, now we can start putting everything back together again! -Christy

We are excited about our annual Mother's Day market day! Held at our home 91 Ziegenfusz Rd, Thornlands on this upcoming Saturday 11th May 8.30am to 6.00pm. We will have a large selection of fresh and dried flower bouquets in various sizes/prices. We'll also have our beautiful dried flower wreaths along with our new pressed flower gift ideas. PREORDERS are welcomed, and must be paid in full by 8th May for your order to be valid. We will be joined again by Cathy from @flourishgifts16 with her beautiful range of candles, soaps, room mists and other gift ideas. We will be a one stop shop for Mum, your special lady, aunts, besties and nieces. Something for everyone! See you this weekend! 💐

ONLY 1.5 WEEKS TO GO!! Preparations are well underway for our annual Mother's Day market day! Held at our home 91 Ziegenfusz Rd, Thornlands on Saturday 11th May 8.30am to 6.00pm. We will have a large selection of fresh and dried flower bouquets in various sizes/prices. We'll also have our beautiful dried flower wreaths along with our new pressed flower gift ideas. PREORDERS are welcomed, and must be paid in full by 8th May for your order to be valid. We will be joined again by Cathy from @flourishgifts16 with her beautiful range of candles soaps, room sprays and other gift ideas. We will be a one stop shop for Mum, your special lady, aunts, besties and nieces. Something for everyone! See you soon! 💐

Am I behind in my autumn garden work? YEP. Am I in my second trimester of pregnancy? YEP. Do I have that boost of energy some get in their second trimester? NOPE. Have all symptoms of my first trimester disappeared? NOPE. So the autumn winter garden is going in late. I have SO MUCH TO DO. And maybe some stuff will be planted super late. Not much I can do about it as it's just the season of my life right now. I'm just doing my best, and best will have to be good enough. 😆 Growing your own food sometimes looks so glamorous and exciting. It's mostly just work, sweat, grit, getting dirty, and forcing yourself to go outside and work when all your body wants to do is nap every day. 🤣 If anyone wants to come help, I'll be happy to have you. 😅 I'm glad to have my sidekick who's never far away "helping" in her own special way. Which I love. 🥰 -Christy