Blue Jean Lotus

Some things take me a while to get back to, and I still persevere and aim to complete them.
This is the story from my Kombuchas that we're ready about 2-3 months ago.

I just got them done today lol.

I'm proud to say, I still got them done.

I'm excited for Rememberance Day with Tupperware!

For those friends who don't know, I'm a Tupperware Lady. Feel free to message me if you need help with something or finding an item.

Today, 11/11/2023 Tupperware are offering 24hrs 11% discount sitewide.

And the best bit, I'm hosting an online PARTY.

Please feel free to check out this link to shop through, or DM if you need help finding stuff!

Thanks for your support!

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The real kitchen when making butter!
Instagram might show you pretty kitchen but we all know we make a mess!

Here's my making butter from cream mess 😆 🤣

1.5L cream + salt into 700g of butter.

Yum yum yum

Let's see if I have an allergic reaction to this, without preservatives.

So I became a Tupperware Lady!

Bear with me ❤️❤️❤️❤️🤣

There is an amazing offer until 2nd November .

Become a member for $39.99 or $99 starter kit, and I'll recieve a pantry package. see below

THEN RINSE AND REPEAT if a friend of yours joins your business and YOU get the complete MODULAR MATES PANTRY STACKER for FREE!

Please PM me if you want the PANTRY STACKER set for free or just want to buy any other stuff.

I'm learning and I'd love to help!

We have been harvesting!

I haven't planted much this season but have been looking after what is still growing or re shot from last year!

Yummy

We love home grown, free range, colourful eggs boiled for breakfast!

This speckled one was egg-stra special

Helping out at a great friends place getting her raised garden beds set up, and plants in, happy herbs and 6 new citrus repotted.

Helping Alane aim for growing her own food, now she's set up on her new farm!

A new part of my kitchen routine.

Buying goat milk, then making goats cheese feta!

Wow!!! It was so much fun in class with Barbara & I'm So happy with the final outcome.

Thanks Hayley for the motivation to cut cost and make from Scratch my own goats cheese!

Kombucha success! Can't wait to split this in to 3 scobys for drinks!

So I've freshened up both olive trees now, pruned all dead branches off, tipped all good branches, refreshed soil and more water.

These are the cuttings from the tips, in honey. It will be interesting to see if any take, even half would be amazing . About 20 cuttings.

A bit of our harvesting & processing in the last couple of weeks.
Got beautiful strawberries that we feast on every couple of days. And Eggplants ready to harvest!

Warning - graphic photos to some

What a fabulous morning turning roosters into dinner. Thanks to my friend Donna Ranfurly for the support and techniques ❤️
We refreshed skills & learnt well for next time.

Very satisfied to grow my own meat. Now onto making chicken soup, dog gets legs, Donna gets feathers, carcass & guts for garden

Nothing wasted ❤️🤗😁👍& a soft educational for my little one 💗 who purposely missed the kill /chop legs/wings bit but chose to see the roosters dead and getting skinned.

Yesterdays harvest from our garden. So happy with growing our own food ❤️

Crushed bones & egg shells for chickens.

I'm trying to provide more calcium and protein for my hens to increase their egg production and health.

We had pea & ham soup, slow cooked 15 hours, so the bones were soft ish.

Then, once the bones were stripped of meat, I stuck them in the oven. But it wasn't long enough, so I changed them to the air fryer

Here we are grinding up the bones to feed back to the hens. With them ground up, they can access the minerals inside the bones, which I'm sure will help their health.

GRATITUDE

I am greatful for a fellow leatherworker, in 2009, gifted me an even older fellows (deceased) leatherwork collection. This was when I first started leatherwork, with Allan Hartley as a mentor, and our Tuesday night group, Brian, me (Sapper Sal as Al called me), sometimes Renee Matthews (when she was in high school 😃).

The reason I reminisce tonight, I've finally got ready to purpose zippers for leather bags. In this old fellows collection, was a bag of zippers, something I never really bothered to unpack, or look at closely, I just knew they were zippers.

So tonight I unpacked them to see what was there. Still in the original blue bag, tied with the same piece of string, from the kind family of this deceased gentleman. I just feel really touched that someone saw something in me, to gift me this collection.

And I am so GREATFUL as to how leatherwork has grounded me and shaped me right to today.

And all the amazing people I've met along the way ❤️

30 zips - WOW I knew this was going to be a handbag year lol

Accidental pumpkin update!

Gorgeous pumpkins growing under my hedge.
I gave the hedge a prune yesterday to let more light in for the pumpkins! About 6 so far

Dimensions In Leather 2023

2 day workshop with Lurgen Volbach
Handbag Panel with butterflies

Learnt alot doing this, so many new techniques and I loved that it was butterflies as that would not be something I'd usually do.

So happy to have done this class, thanks Lurgen!!

Helping bees

I so happy I had the courage to let this little guy crawl from the leaf onto my finger. I really wasn't sure about it!

But he didn't sting me and sat there for a few minutes to dry his wings n recover. So then I put him on a flower out of the rain.

It's the little things I guess.

And saving 1 bee at a time. ❤️🐝

Dimensions In Leather


January 21-28th
St Lucia Campus, Uni of Qld @ Brissy

1 day course #1 with Rick Rowbottom was a 4 strand roo leather plait over a leather core to make a necklace.

It took alot of repetition with doing and undoing to get it tight enough which made for great practice 😅

Very happy with the end result!

My free stuff arrived!

Throughout the year I accrue Essential Rewards Points through my Young Living Essential Oils shopping and I cashed them in!

Nature's Home Essential Kit

Wolfberry Eye Creme

Thieves Dish Soap

Animal Scents Pet Shampoo

So pumped for all this for free!

Please feel free to reach out if you want to know more about any of these!

Welcome to my natural living and creative expression page Blue Jean Lotus

I am a lady who is passionate about clean living, growing my own where I can, like minded people and trading goods, incorporating gardening, farm living and animals into my and my daughters life.

It is important to me that I provide for us, in a food and lifestyle kind of way and that I significantly reduce chemicals in my home. For this reason, I choose to align myself with

Please enjoy what we have to share with you & contact me if you have questions 😊

We were out in the yard this morning and noticed that our grass that has seed heads was attracting a large number of bee-utiful bees!

After explaining to Pippa about bees, that they were collecting the nectar, the yellow stuff on their dangley legs and that their bum bums had a stinger, so we look with our eyes but don't touch, we took photos.

Check it out & bee appreciative! These guys give us food!

This is one reason why chemical free living is so important to us and in turn, to the bees!

There's always time for a campfire!

I need to do thos more often ❤️❤️

Mulberry cuttings - WINNING!

I made 11, I think 10 are successful.
I've found rooting liquid or powder helps alot, as does putting them in full shade with the pots in a bowl of water.

And then do a whole heap of waiting, then give up, and just leave them there anyway.

And voila! They come back to life.

Got my Young Living Essential Rewards monthly order today!

Got a Ningxia Red juice kit
And a BLOOM Brightening Skin Care Kit! (A self present for my coming birthday!)

And bring on the free stuff!

So, I got these for FREE!
🔅 15ML Grapefruit Essential Oil
🔅 5ml Elemi Essential Oil
🔅 5ml Stress Away -- I love this!
🔅 Lavaderm Cooling Mist
🔅 And a Festive Necklace

Just about to place another order to use up my accrued Essential Rewards Points! About $350 worth of gear! Wait to see what I order!

If you want to place an order for Essential Oils

Home-grown, picked yesterday. Cooked today with our chickens eggs into fried rice. ❤️ this lifestyle

When your brunch omelette gets more & more homegrown!

Proud

Such a great morning with my friend Kurt , hanging out, catching up and looking in the garden.

He left with some pineapple sage & rosemary cuttings to grow and a bunch of oregano to dry & some turmeric to plant.

I kept on gardening after he left, repotting, digging out tiny basil's & repotting for mum & I.

Harvesting pineapple sage and a big bundle of rosemary for drying.

And the girls gave me eggs!