Tomorrow I am going to take a blog day off. It snowed a few more inches in the night and I can go nowhere anyway so I am going take the chance to spruce the look of The Kitchen’s Garden blog up a bit.
Up my game if you will. I think we all deserve some new curtains. You and I have been working hard all winter!
I am going to attempt to load a new theme, new backgrounds and layout, and clean up the widgets, the result will encourage me to take better more thoughtful images. Everyone needs a challenge. I hope it is a smooth transition and that you like it. Many of you are reading on your phones and tablets now and I have been wanting to have pages that can be viewed and read easily by these tiny devices. Though it will be framed with a little more jazz, in a crisper more image friendly format, basically everything will be as usual in our own very unusual way.
But still the same old blog, after all it is all about the animals, the food and living a simple invigorating life full of thought. The blog is just my way of documenting the life we choose to lead. Having you along for the ride means that my learning curve is well supported with trusses and good wide straps.
The calenders are being printed. They are big and glossy and gorgeous and will cost 19.00 each to print. I have ordered 10 to begin. In my blog page overhaul I shall add a paypal button (I am not sure how to do this yet either but google is a marvellous thing) and then when they arrive you can order one, paying through paypal, plus postage and add on whatever you would like to donate for Sheila’s feed and new summer housing. I think that will be best. I will order more when I have the numbers. Next I shall look about for the cheapest way to print really good ‘Sheila the Sassy’ T-shirts for us all. We want American cotton. Any ideas?
Sheila and I went for two very good walks yesterday. I always have a little snack ready at the end of the walk so she is trained to find her doorway home then she gets her reward. 
On the second walk she had to be discouraged gently from bringing her bowl with her. Just in case I might want to feed her somewhere along the way I suppose.
The glasshouse, which I should really call the Glass Room, is all enclosed. John’s work has been put off a few days due to the latest storm and ‘bitterly’ cold weather. So we may be able to move some plants in there soon. Which is just as well as Marcel has taken a liking to my big pot of thyme.
Good morning, off I go to work on our surprise, updating the look of the blog. If I make a serious error we will have to go back to smoke signals and pigeons.
Stay tuned.
Your friend on the farmy
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
58 responses to “Sprucing things up…”
Ooops, I think I may have just eaten the Pigeon 🙂 Your little greenhouse looks wonderful. Have fun remodelling, just don’t lose yourself. Cold and wet here today, morning miss c. Laura
As if you don’t have enough on your plate C, you still find time to make changes to your blog. You are a wonderful inspiration, thank you! Looking forward to seeing all the wonderful changes. Sending you warm sun rays to help melt that snow.
🙂 Mandy xo
Looking forward to seeing the Farmy spruced. Personally I think it’s great the way it is, but I understand the urge to improve…
If you get stuck I have a nice tractor and heavy chain. I’ll use a raven; I don’t like pigeons 😉 Quothe the Baker.
(laughter!!) morning peter.. c
I always enjoy reading your blog in the morning. For custom tees, I poked around and found this site which allows you to create a design and then people order directly from them.
http://www.logosoftwear.com/shareandsell.php
Thank you Lisa, i shall have a look, it sounds like an easy to run option.. c
I can’t wait to see what changes you make! For the t-shirts, you could check out Redbubble – they print on American Apparel t-shirts (US made, sweatshop-free) but I don’t know if their setup is what you are after.
Redbubble.. thank you darling.. I shall look.. c
Spring cleaning for the blog? Lovely. If I look at it on my phone, by the way, I always check it out again when I get home so I can get the full effect of the photos. Don’t want to miss anything! I think Sheila’s wise to want to pack her bowl along…you never know when you might need a snack. It’s like always having a granola bar in your purse. 🙂
morning susan, when i change over do let me know if you are getting the full screen on your phone. (esp of you compare when yu get home) .. I am excited about this but there is a lot of learning for me to do today! c
I need to find time to do the same on my blog. Spring cleaning! Look forward to what you come up with. I’ll have a think on suppliers for the shirts.
Enjoy your “day off” and have fun sprucing up the blog. We’re finishing our prep for the next round of ice followed by snow that’ll be here shortly. Want to make sure we have extra water available in case we lose power which for us could be several days if the ice is bad. I don’t mind the snow so much but I don’t like that ice! We have so many trees. I think I’ll start some seeds today. Love your glass room. Have a great day Celi!
You are so ambitious!!! I am sure your blog will look fabulous when you are all done tweaking it! Good luck!
Good luck on your redesign! I have not thought about people reading my blog by phone. Uh-oh. Is there a way to see (on a computer) what a blog looks like on a phone?
I love the way Sheila thinks. “Long walk? May get famished along the way…best be prepared!” I’m sure she would have filled her bowl before starting out, had she been able to do so 🙂
More snow predicted for me, so I must try to get the car back up the driveway today, to unload hay. If too icy, back to dragging the little sled. Still easier than carrying bales up that hill! Gosh, I feel like I myself would benefit greatly by being “well supported with trusses and good wide straps” at this point.
Enjoy your day 🙂
all my children read the blog on their phones so i have very good feedback for that one.. it will be interesting to see what they think!.. c
Love the glass room! And I love Sheila’s cheeky face too! Good luck with your renovation work.
Christine
Good luck with the update. I’ve been thinking of it too but I’m frightened I might lose something. We got dumped on again about 10cm of snow last night. Not happy about it at all.
Just love the Glass Room! Do you enter it from the main house, or from The Coupe? And that Sheila is just too adorable! xo
The glass room is entered through the Cloak Room.. and no sun today! but it is warming up a little already.. c
Have fun redecorating. 🙂 Have you tried RedBubble? They do all sorts of things including t-shirts. I use them for my calendar and prints.
I was just looking at red bubble. good thinking. i like them! c