Foraging for Vegan Treats

There is just one more box to check before we make the financial commitment and the tiny house idea crosses the line from concept to reality. And that is to spend some time living in a tiny house (two nights counts, right?). Season One readers will recognise this one - MAP! Leaving our kitties in the capable care of good friends The Dans, we travelled northward. A delicious breakfast at Straight Up in Hobart, a pit stop at the very excellent Willow Court Antiques in New Norfo

Building a tiny house without having ever been inside a tiny house seems like a bad idea. The movement has been around long enough that there are tiny houses all over the place, so you can probably find a friendly owner or an AirBnB for rent somewhere near you (we did both). We happened to have some friends-of-friends (Sarah and Todd) who live in a tiny house not too far from us. So, we introduced ourselves via the old Instagram and set up a hang-out-and-chat-over-curry-we-ma

Armed with Sketch Book and SketchUp, we have boldly galloped towards a design that we think will work for us. There is a lot of value in the iteractive process! The Tiny House we build will look nothing like our earliest sketches, which isn't particularly surprising. Here is a little gallery of some of our earliest sketches: We also worked to create a 3D digital model of our design. The first ones looked like this: You can see we explored a few different design concepts in sh

Happy start to October. I hope September treated you well. I have been getting back into sewing recently. I have mended two dresses (one had a frayed hem and the other the neckline was fraying). I have a third dress that needs mending but I'll need to buy matching thread. Luckily the first two dresses I had matching thread, which is surprising since I only own five colours (white, black, grey, yellow and green). My latest achievement was to make Adam a shopping bag that he ca