Catherine Campbell

icecream and berries...

I had quite a weird and tiring day today, I won't bore you with the details as the point of this post is to express my glee at realising, after such a long day, that I had icecream and berries in the freezer! Before I started to munch I popped the bowl into my new miniature light box photo studio (which I learned to make here) and da dah...

Donna Hay eat your heart out! Wow when you actually write 'eat your heart out' it sounds kind of intense... no offense dear Donna, I do quite like your recipes.

Anyway, the other piece of news I thought I'd mention (much more exciting) is that a shop in Melbourne by the name of Douglas and Hope are now stocking some of my work in their city store. Any Melbourne people out there, you really need no excuse to visit... they are the most lovely, heavenly stores!

You can check their website above for address details of the City and Fitzroy stores.

winter garden...

This afternoon, after I finished work, I came home with a box of seedlings ready to plant my winter vegetable garden. I haven't had veggies growing for a few months now and I was starting to miss it... so I went a bit crazy at the nursery.
If all goes to plan I should have celery, silverbeet, broccoli, bok choi, beetroot, lettuce, parsley, brussel sprouts (yuk! only growing them for the rabbits), snow peas, normal peas, rosemary, mint and strawberries!
Hopefully I will get lots of healthy strawberry plants growing... home grown strawberries taste amazing. Oh my goodness I'm going to turn into a vegetable!

crab apples...

We are quite lucky to have a few fruit trees in our backyard, one of which is a crabapple tree. Instead of watch all the fruit drop to the ground and be eaten by my rabbits, as I did last year, I decided to make jam! For my first attempt I think it went very well... it set properly and it tastes really good. I will hopefully be able to make another batch while there is still some crab apples left on the tree! Here is a little picture on a lovely sunny autumn day...

And here is one of my rabbits, Mr Bunny, who still managed to find many to eat amongst the grass!