What could I do today?

This is a list of things I want to try out. I will update it whenever I’ve got an idea for a new project.

Personal Care:

Food:

  • Make ketchup (tomato sauce)
  • Make fresh pasta
  • Make tofu
  • Grow sprouts
  • Make cheese
  • Smoke salmon in a cookie tin (like Jamie Oliver)
  • Preserve fruits / make jam
  • Bake bread
  • Make ice creme
  • Make sushi and sashimi
  • Make chocolate

Housekeeping/Household:

  • Make all-purpose cleaner
  • Make laundry powder

Crafts:

  • Screenprint a tea towel
  • Make silver jewellery
  • Make fridge magnets
  • Make cufflinks
  • Make candles
  • Knit a sweater
  • Sew a hoodie
  • Make paper
  • Etch drinking glasses
  • Make felt
  • Make pottery
  • Crochet a blanket
  • Make glass beads
  • Make a pair of shoes
  • Weave a scarf
  • Knot a friendship bracelet

DIY:

  • Build a shed

This is only a start and there are a lot more tasks to come. I’m looking forward to your suggestions.

4 Comments to “What could I do today?”

  1. I would like to try it myself. Very interesting.
    congratulations for this wonderful website.

    Margrit on 9. July 2008

  2. Hi Marianne,

    Your blog looks great! I have some ideas for you too -

    - Earthworks course run by Sutherland Council, which teaches how to make environmentally friendly cleaning products, no-dig garden, composting & worm-farming. It is on the Sutherland website

    - I will ask Justin about the Community Garden at Sutherland… i think you can get yourself a garden plot for free, which you can tend and grow things in yourself

    - If the community garden doesn’t work out, you can make our vegetable garden work! I don’t think Bradley and Craig use it at all… so you could ask them if you can go over regularly to make the vegetable beds neat and tidy again, and grow food.

    - You could do a mechanics course. Sally would love it!

    - I did a glass fusing course with Mum a few years ago in Penshurst. It was great! Ask Mum for the details… we made platters and plates and all sorts of useable things.

    … and you can build a shed at our house if you want. Justin needs someone to store his bicycles.

    Talk soon!

    -Amy

    Amy Foxe on 9. July 2008

  3. John & I will be making Seville organge jam and Cumquat marmalade in a few weeks - you’re welcome to join us. BYO glass jars.

    We have a bumper crop of Seville oranges this year so I’m looking for additional things we can make with them. Last year I made a chutney which was quite nice. The fruit itself is sour, so you can’t really eat it. If you have any ideas or recipes, I’d be very interested ~
    How about Seveille organge soap? or Seville orange ice cream?

    Crafty Foxe on 15. July 2008

  4. There are life drawing classes on somewhere at one of the universities/colleges in the city I think. I will ask my friend for details as Im keen to go also. As far as I know they are free.

    Laws on 5. August 2008

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