Feather your Nest Friday, 22nd January, 2021.

Reviewing the week is so good for me.  I just noticed that I did much more than I thought!  My list and photos remind me and I see it was good!   Otherwise I would have said the week was a bit of a blur! 

I am sorry I didn't reply to everyone last week.  Normally I try to but the last few weeks of many extra things caught up with me.  

Some of the ways I built up the home this week were:

I filled some spaces in the veggie garden with hay and mulch.  

I made Apricot jam from some fruit I was given.  Also some stewed apricots which I just love.

Thinking in terms of making the most of things I made two large zucchini slices.   These used up twenty eggs and five zucchini!  One went to Chloe and Luke and fed them.

In the backyard I have two huge and lovely plant pots.   I planted them both with miniature apple trees. 

I love adding something productive.

It was Mum's Birthday.  She had seen some fabric she really loved.  I was able to hunt down something nearly identical and made up two bags and then used the left overs for a pot holder.

In the op shop (thrift store) I found a few things to add to my sewing pantry.  Some pure wool yarn,  a woollen blanket that was a bit worn so I will use it to fill pot holders,  Ric Rac braid, some black cotton fabric and some lace.

Mum gave me meat for Scout and grain for the chickens.

It was also Lucy's birthday.   Mum and I had a lovely day visiting.   I made Lucy's favourite cake which is Armenian Nutmeg cake.   

For Mum I made the same cake with Gluten Free Flour.  It made no difference at all so I will just make them all GF from now on.  

Sidney is eating well now and so I turned one of my homegrown pumpkins into baby food.   Mum sat and shovelled it into his mouth.  He is like a little bird. 

Good thing he liked it as I made twelve so Lucy could freeze them.

Now I am planning the next lot to have some beef broth as the base then the pumpkin cooked in that.     When Harper was a baby I worked out that if I filled my slow cooker with veggies and pureed them that this was $60 worth of baby food from the supermarket.   So it is probably more now.  However I think the real benefit is much more!  

I hope I will be picking apples next week so I can do apple puree for us all and Sidney as well.

Another use it up project is my wash cloths/dish cloths.  I have made a lot now, all from my odd balls of cotton.   As I use up the cotton I will probably end up with some with stripes and contrasting edges to use up the little bits.

I will start making up my bundles of three next week.  I might make up some kind of little label to tie onto them.

Many of us are in lockdowns, quarantines and other worrying circumstances.   It has been a massive week.   When we get hit with what seems to be endless things it wears us down.  We had a run of things that really added up to a stressful time over the last weeks.  So I pray a lot! God is in control.  The Word of God doesn't change.  We need the full armour of God!   We need to keep our home as much of a sanctuary as we possibly can.   My bed is my sanctuary within the sanctuary!  Snuggled up in comfort with a cup of tea on my bedside table I read and write and restore.   Then you can think properly!   When you don't know what to do "do the next thing."   It adds up.  It really adds up!   We can't control the world but we can look well to the ways of our households!   So that is what we do...xxx