Hello peeps and welcome to my desk! Well, sort of its actually the garden table with a cover over it as I have been getting the varnish out and it stinks! A few weeks back I shared with you the wooden plant labels that I bought from a local charity, the Brandon Trust, for adults with learning disabilities and they make stuff out of wood and make these from the offcuts. They are a decent size (about the length of a paperback book) and are £1.50 for 5 and all the money goes to the charity so I often buy a pack when I go past. I paint them with acrylic and use a posca paint pen to create the lettering. I have been slowly making a whole load of them and these are the latest ones. I then give them 2 coats of yacht varnish to hopefully winter proof them. Takes a while for the coats to dry before I can turn them over and repeat the process hence it takes a while but I think they are worth it.
Also thought I would do an update on another make, my final batch of elderberry vinegar was ready recently. I do love this and have made it for a few years now. Its great over salad or even added to soda water to drink like a victorian shrub. Either way, elderberries are meant to be good for the immune system so its always worth me making some and it tastes delicious too.
Kyla
