October meanderings

Wow what a  busy month this is shaping up to be! Sadly I am not spending as much time I would like sharing inspirations and stories here, so this post will be chock full of the inspirations I have been up to!

The end of the week last week brought a few short hours of sunshine and so I was busy as a bee packing up the bees for the winter, giving them yummy reserves of syrup and pollen patties, cutting up Styrofoam for insulation against the cold and wet winter months ahead and tucking them in for the winter. This year being the first year on my own, I have been a bit of a worry wort, but I am trying to be easy on myself since we lost all of our bees last season.

This year my bees are local{Not from New Zealand} where it is dry and warm, not wet and cold, so I am feeling hopeful that they will be sturdier for that reason, and I have also learned a few new things to do to keep them warm and cozy for the winter that I hope will be affective this year!

There has also been much canning, pickling and preserving over here, but this week it is all about red pear and lavender jam and rosehip cordial. Blog post and recipes for both of these luscious things coming up tomorrow!

I have also been working on painting and transforming a few great roadside finds into stands for my jewelry, for I am hoping that this year I will be accepted into a few winter markets I have applied to–fingers crossed!!

Speaking of jewelry a month ago I got in the most beautiful Turkoman and moon pendents and a beautiful array for beads that I have been playing with….

Lastly I have been knee deep in planning our book launch party, we have been blessed with an amazing response and are excited to have some local companies donate everything from wine to chocolate and gifts of honey, candles,  jewelry, organic shea butter and gift certificates for our raffle basket, which is coming together beautifully, I can’t wait to see what the final basket looks like! This basket will be raffled off with all of the proceeds going to the Lunapads Pads 4 girls program!

Can you tell I am excited?