Pansies and Buttercups Recently I have been chatting to different friends and have been surprised how many love to relax by doing colouring. Within recent years, thanks largely to the work of Johanna Basford, colouring has gone from child's play to serious adult recreation, and with good reason too. According to one health site, colouring …
How to Cure Your Own Bacon
Before we decided to buy our little pigs I did some research, not just on feeding and caring for them, but what could be done with them after butchering. I bought two Kindle books by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and read up on the subject and became more and more interested in the idea of curing …
How I Make Farmhouse Cheddar Cheese
I know that not all of you who have signed up to receive email notifications for this Blog also are following me on Instagram, so with that in mind I just wanted to tell you about my latest venture into video making and encourage you to pop over to my Instagram account and have a …
…and this little pig…
If you read my previous post you'll know we've been working on getting a pigsty built in our patch, it is as good as finished so today was the day for collecting the new member of our smallholding here in Nicaragua. Claudia, Carla and Josua This morning I woke with the idea that we were …
Pig Sty Adventures
The Pigsty Painting Crew For those of you that follow my Instagram account, you'll know that bit by bit our little farm is expanding. Our latest project is to have a pig. Since our house is not equipped to have a pig live inside with us, as we have seen many times here in Nicaragua, …
INTRODUCING ‘ELIZABETH’ a new design
Coming very soon...homeware products featuring this new design, I hope you like it!
Vintage Cottage Style
This hand drawn, watercolour design is now available in my shop - http://www.christina-mitchell-designs.myshopify.com. Look under Collections - Country Cottage Style, (you’ll find this right at the top of the Home page). The design is available on trays of two sizes, bone china mugs, biscuit tins, coasters (pack of four, each with a different design) and …
New Shop Open!!
So here it is finally, my very own online shop. You said you needed an easier way to access my products, and I can understand that...the other sites get confusing and you end up on someone else’s page of products. This shop will only feature my products. I’ve chosen carefully the manufacturer as one that …
The Olive Harvest
Our time in Spain is rapidly coming to an end, and I'm delighted to report that we have accomplished our primary goal, that of the olive harvest. However, during the last month, we have overcome several obstacles:*lack of electricity (due to very little sun on the panels, rain was shorting out on the batteries and …
