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Thanks for entering the giveaway for the Homegrown Kitchen cookbook. I combined the entries from here and Instagram and drew a winner at random – congratulations to Sian! I hope you'll enjoy making the recipes

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a) Protea stems on the mantelpiece, a gift from Tom's mum who visited recently. I love their pale pink and softness, almost like velvet or felt.

b) More found treasures: freshly washed and waiting-to-be-ironed fabric. The pink is a vintage cotton I found at a flea market and is still awaiting a fate, and on the right I have some beautiful Nani Iro double gauze in my favourite print ('rakuen'). I hope to make a top with it if time allows.

c) This photo could best be summed up with the caption: 'Excited by the seemingly endless possibilities of a day off work, I brought a number of books home from the library and settled down to read them, before realising it was time to make dinner.' 

I'm especially excited to read M Train as it's been on my list for a while, and I also found a couple of books about making natural dyes for fabric.

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Wishing you a happy week ahead!

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5 responses to “found treasures”

  1. Jo McMahon Avatar
    Jo McMahon

    I read M Train a while ago and really enjoyed it! Jo M, Toowoomba

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  2. muenzeeins Avatar

    i love the fabrics that you’ve got! i’ve got a similar pile of books on my bedside table, always bigger then the time available 🙂
    let me know how M train is, i’ve read “just kids” and really liked it, but have been hesitating about M train… which books did you get about natural fabric dying? i’ve treated myself to one recently and have been collecting oignion skins to try out soon :)…

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  3. tinyhappy Avatar

    hi cecile, yes ill let you know about m train – ive not read just kids but would like to. maybe next! which book did you buy? i borrowed a book called the handbook of natural plant dyes by sasha duerr – and another one about making dyes from new zealand plants. im excited to give it a go too! X

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  4. tinyhappy Avatar

    hi, jo! thats great to hear 🙂
    n

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  5. Meg Avatar

    I’m glad someone else’s reading pile is too big for their bedside table too;) I love that Nani Iro fabric, aren’t her fabrics just so beautiful! Meg:)

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