Moving plants and finished office/sewing room

Hello again ☺☺

Slowly slowly knitting that sock but enjoying.....I really can spend a lot of time doing nothing at all.......

Thank goodness all of these plants do not have to move for the extension as these succulents are really growing well ☺

The Mint has come back and going crazy in this little patch of our yard

So on Sunday I moved some of those herbs into the garden bed ready for them...Coriander on the  right and then a bush of Thyme 

Looking from this angle 2 plants of Sage with Oregano next to that and hoping.....really hoping they cope with the move......

And here is my new sewing area all set up with my little corner computer desk ready for surfing the net ☺☺

Oh and got to love having Jack Sparrow to watch over me ♥

And the man's corner is set up and he is very happy ☺

View from my sewing desk looking at the backyard ☺

The empty office/sewing room

Ready to bring in the beds

And there are the 3 beds, 1 king single and the others are bunks but as singles for now.

Currently we can sleep 5 extras if needed or 7 if using the Winnie van ♥

Today the weather was wet wet and cold cold.....typical as we often get 4 seasons in 1 day

but it was good for the oregano and sage, they look happy 

Don't know about the Thyme or Coriander 

I recently experimented with musk sticks and some vodka and here it is after being filtered....

Pretty looking and quite a nice little tipple, not to sweet either

How are things in your world?

Getting closer to my youngest boy's wedding which is rather exciting ☺☺

Take care and see you again

Changes and Lemon problems

Hey there my visitors..... not a nice picture but, sabotage of the lemons!!!! And I destroyed the culprit and then went inside to collect......

this great spray, have used it before and really sorts out quite a few bug problems ☺☺

The lemon tree has grown heaps and we have even cut it back a few times....I gave it a real good spray....the tree is under 5 years old and we have had PLENTY of lemons from it ☺☺

I have just made up this concoction using a lemon with ginger and honey recipe in this blog and going to see how it tastes in a day or 2, possible a tsp with hot water ☺☺

And used some lemon peel in this strange looking mix with ginger, sugar, vanilla bean and vodka......homemade-ginger-liqueur recipe source I am on a roll with ginger at the moment lol 

And just grated ginger with vodka ginger-infused-vodka recipe and going to have a wee taste tonight as only needed 24hrs, so let's hope it tastes good with soda ☺☺

Tiny ginger bits in the vodka, next time if it tastes ok will just use thin slices ☺☺

And back to the room changes.....here is the room we used for our office with computers and sewing now looking rather empty ☺

The spare bedroom however is in a bigger mess for now........

But the shed room now has my horn sewing cabinet, computer desk in corner and the bigger desk for the old computer.....

And the man will have his little corner computer desk in that corner and we have filing cabinets in place and just need to setup our printers.....we even have the Internet working out there ☺☺

Another task which needs to be done soon is most of this garden bed, my herbs, need to move as we are slightly extending the house........

And those herbs need to move into this garden bed, lets hope they survive the move......if not will just have to replace....

How are things at your place this weekend?

We are having 2 good days of weather which helps, although not enjoying the hay fever lol 

See you again real soon xoxoxo

Vodka Rhubarb ready!!

Well do you remember when I started to make this??? post here It has done the 2months wait so yesterday I decided to strain it off.

Isn't it a great colour, wonder what it would be like eating the pieces of fruit, slightly intoxicating.... lol

Goes well in the red square bottle and is now living in the freezer to sample when we feel like a little kick. It tastes rather nice, not too sweet with a hint of rhubarb ☺

Here is something we were hoping to pick up from aldi's as one of their specials starting on Saturday. The man went down to our local Aldi to see if they had any left on Sunday, but no.  So a drive over to another town and they had 3 left, one white and 2 black so we chose the black one's and got 2, 1 for each of us.

Look!! The fold up bike all unfolded, rather neat. We are now going to take these away when we are in the caravan or not wanting to have our mountain bikes hanging off the back of the car as they fit nicely in a bag in the back of the car. Now no excuse for not getting extra exercise.

And here is Mr 11 happily enjoying Granny's baby computer playing Plants_vs._Zombies a different game for young and old lol. ☺☺

Decided on a BBQ out the back after picking up some chicken sausages as Mr 11 was getting pretty hungry.

He came out to check if all was cooked. Don't you love my hanging arrangement amongst my wind chimes lol. It is great when the weather turns hideous, which is often here, but as luck would have it the sun came back and I could have left all the clothes out on the back yard clothes line, oh well lol.

One a day Tuesday tomorrow so I better get one with adding rows to that granny stripe blanket.

Visiting distillery, Newcastle and other fun.

Hello again!! On Thursday we were expecting a warm day, well for us, very warm of 30 Celsius. Where we live currently the high is around 12 lol. Soo we thought we would check out a few places that had been suggested and this distillery was one of them.

Water feature bottle out the front in the herbal garden.

Got to love lavender ☺☺

Here is the selection of  liqueurs that were up for the tasting.

A gin that the man here makes and won a Silver (world wide) for this.

The equipment used to make the many fruit and herb types.

He can distill up to eight times, so we are talking beautiful, smooth liqueurs without the higher alcohols. Less chance of hideous headaches and nausea. Have a few shots of our purchase later down the post.

We then drove on to a fruit winery (no grapes used here) but no opportunity for photo's. Then as getting near lunch time was advised about a neat spot with BBQ at the ready.

We then headed off to have a BBQ lunch and this lovely kookaburra thought he might get a chance at pinching one of our BBQ hot dogs(we like them that way).

So the man was keeping a close eye on the cooking and that bird lol.

Couple of low fat type hot doggies and onion on our special non stick mat. It means if you come across a filthy BBQ then can just put the mat down and cook away. Crisps and bbq's wonderfully.

Just some Aldi wraps to hold it all together, yum.

 Then off back to van as the wind was really picking up and it did get very hot, but with air con in car, just fine for us ☺.  Got back and the heavens opened up and that is where vanning can be fun, running to the loo in a mega downpour of rain lol lol. Good for my fitness levels eh??

Today (Friday) we headed  to Newcastle link for info which is about 75klm from The Entrance and expecting another good day but only about 21.  And came across the sea baths there which are apparently one of the biggest in Australia.

Lovely view from across the road where we parked the car.

Amazing path/road in the distance going up that hill.

The large salt pool.

The smaller salt pool running across the end of the larger one.

Picture obviously of both pools.

And still can't help myself with the zoom. Could see many seagulls way out in the water and thought I would have a look and take a snap. I think I can just see one or two fins which could belong to sharks or dolphins.

The original salt water pool which is just a fenced part of the sea, so sandy bottom and tidal. We went to find the information centre as the man likes to see what other things we can visit but after over 1hrs walk and no sign of it apart from a road sign, we found out it had closed....... 

Then we drove on over to check our Redhead beach just out of Newcastle where they had this wonderful beach sign fall  of warnings. Despite all of these warnings there were a few people in the water. They must like sharks lol.

View across Redhead beach.

View from the other way, gorgeous day.

Oh and a little sea daisy for you to enjoy, well there HEAPS but just got this one.

Off back to the van for the night.

Here are the Liqueurs we bought. A wonderful Gin, tasted fantastic, nothing like those cheapies. The lemon myrtle was great too and he recommended straight up with ice or tonic water.  And the man's favourite, short black which is coffee beans and really just tasted like a short black with a bit of sweetener. Lovely.

Now these are the 2 wines, which as you can see is Lemon wine and a Blackcurrant and Coffee wine. 2 very different tastes, but we like lol.

Now for a bit of fun here is my little Doll Mishap sitting up on the railing with a small rubber bat and my special cushion of Jack Skellington from Nightmare before Xmas. I like different things and these guys travel with us.  While the man was out an about on one of the days he came across a shop he thought I would like. 

And here is the little girl we purchased, her name is Vile-ette, isn't she sweet lol. And if not to your taste I fully understand. I have 2 other's of this type of doll back home and they are out of their boxes and hang out in my old doll's cot, but this one we think we will keep in the box as they can become a rather expensive collectors item.  Hope I have not scared anyone way.

Thank you for visiting and also for the comments I have been getting. It's nice to share our travels and the crafty things I can do in between. take care and tomorrow we are thinking of checking out "Gathering of the Clans" at Norah Head, so should be great ♥☺