home improvements...

I'm currently working on a mini book all about growing a little vegetable patch and getting two new chickens for our back garden. The vegetable patch was going to be in one section of our front garden so we cleared out all the rubble and weeds in preparation.  My hubby then came up with the idea that a bike shed would be a much better use of the space!

So I needed to think of a new plan for my veggies.  After some re-arranging of plants in the back garden and getting a couple of patio tubs, I now have the same amount of space :)  We also wanted to make use of the dead space at the bottom of our back garden so decided to build a chicken hutch/run.  My dad worked really hard at building a super duper hutch complete with ladder, perches, two egg laying boxes and an easy open side for cleaning them out.  My dad and hubby then built a fully enclosed run around the hutch.

Photos to follow with the completed run and our two new chickens...'Will and Kate' enjoying their new home.

Also completed a layout of our trip to the Ideal Home Show at Earls Court in London.  We went with a couple of mates and had a great day out.  There was SO much to see that we barely got round it all but loved looking at all the goodies and clever little gadgets and sampling some yummy food :)

That's about it, will leave you with a pic of a wooden love word that i customised with my favourite October Afternoon paper. Its sitting proudly on one of my scrapbook shelves :)