After cutting the grass the other night and enjoying the freshly manicured lawn I noticed a cute forget-me-not growing out of the rock wall... how sweet. Sadly a few feet away I discovered my kiwi is being chewed up... weevils perhaps. I need to find a natural way of getting rid of these insects to stay true to my organic gardening practices. Any ideas most welcome.

Wow, yesterday I went through a huge learning curve with trying to customize my blog. It took me all day and into the night but I think I got it. Just a few minor tweaks to go.Yes and thanks to my friend Stacy who got me involved in blogging in the first place " you should start a blog"... never should me, I caught the bait.

Stacy and I had tea yesterday and so I took advantage of some of her know how with blogging. I just needed to understand some of the language, and I was off and running. Thanks Stacy. So now I feel good and ready to spill it all out on the pages or blog I should say.

I originally planned on just blogging about the adventures of building my tiny house and how I had a vision of building it for almost free, but it's more then that. This little house will be the future home of my studio and the creative goings on of CRAFTINA, yes that's me and where I will be creating for my etsy store. My plan is also to have the studio open to the public 3 mornings a week.

As you can see by my latest published photo's the process of the building and the final tarped up house to stay dry over the winter. I'm getting a bit antsy to get back on the job and the fine weather is coming so I'm hoping to have it up and running by the fall. Wish me luck!

Well it's about time I got this blog under way.... so here I go.

It all started.... OMG that sounds like once a upon a time....

OK.... so I have been visualizing a studio in my back yard for some time now and finally plowed into it by the end of last summer as I was anxious to get it going.

This was not going to be any ordinary space. The idea was to make my little house for free or almost free. I had found a few blogs over the summer with this same idea that were most helpful in particular houses being build out of free pallets. This was so inspiring and with the help of my neighbour Rick who is a handy man knew of a very good supply of pallets. These pallets are very special as the crates are full of steel from Europe.... therefor they are heavy duty.

The deal was I would give him a hand with another shed that was being build for our new neighbourhood community gardens in exchange for his expertise, storing all the lumber on my property and to keep a couple of bee hives in my garden. A fare exchange!

The other element to this project is not only the free aspect but there is so much stuff in the world that is just tossed into the dump with no thought of maybe this stuff still has life to it and lets stop filling up those land fills! It was my plan to recycle as much as possible.

So here are a few photos of the beginning stages of building