T is for Tins, Tins and more Tins

Hello ladies, Ive made it back , last Tuesday I went shopping and it was lunchtime before we had breakfast, I felt out of sorts all day for some reason so I just decided to chill out, I didn’t even feel like crafting either, I was fine the next day, I think it makes me stressed, crazy I know!

With all the rain we’ve had in Spain we had a small leak in the conservatory, where they screwed the polycarbonate roof in place, they seal it with a small circle of rubber, one of them has perished in the sun, and then the gas boiler wouldn’t fire up, it’s only a few months old and Steve thought it was the gas regulator, we only have bottled gas in Spain, we can’t go out to get one so he asked our friend and also our odd job man who lives around the corner if he had one, luckily he had a brand new one so he pushed the box under the gate and also a tube of silicone sealer, Steve managed to fix both the leak and get the boiler working. Hopefully now the weather has cleared we can go back to solar heating for the water

We did have some excitement, Steve saw that the local Feretteria, (hardware shop) was making home deliveries so he rang and they delivered that evening, a massive tub of white paint. We have painted the back wall on the outside of the villa, it's quite high in parts but Steve has an extending pole that the roller fits onto, some parts he could stand on his raised veg plot to get a bit of height too, who knew we could get so excited about painting.

I've been keeping busy crafting, as I think we all have, inspired by Elizabeth's recyling and Erika's beautiful tins that she covered I also started on mine.

This was a small Chocolate box, my first effort. I covered it with decoupage paper, I bought it years ago and it's been sitting in the drawer, waiting!

A shortbread biscuit tin, I got quite carried away with the lid, it started off with gold but I didn't like it so I carried on with other colours, it went on for two days, i still have to finish the sides!

This is the ribbon holder I made a few weeks ago, I still would like some silver rings to put around the holes where the ribbon comes through but unfortunately Steve didn't have any in his tool box so that's another job for "after Lockdown" seems we are saying that quite a lot!

This was our evening meal last week, Roast Belly Pork, Mashed potatoes with Swede, Rutabaga in Spanish and I know they call it that in the USA, cabbage and cauliflower, we usually have more variety of vegetables than that but we were using those up. Steve also made roasted onions with garlic gravy, it's a good job we couldn't go out after eating, the smell of garlic would have knocked everyone out, LOL Also home made apple sauce and the crackling, teeth braking but we love it!!

My drink related photo is a coffee jug I bought years ago when we were touring France, I’ve never used it but I think it’s quite nice.

The back and the front

Hope you all staying safe, it's rumored that on Saturday they may let us out for a walk here in Spain, oh the excitement, watch this space! Jan x