My favourite place #10

This week we have the two SAs - Veronique in South Australia and Wendy in South Africa. Both ladies are focused on a healthy environment but from two very different perspectives.

Veronique writes:

My favourite places used to be my garden and kitchen where I grow, cook and preserve fruits and vegetables, but for the past couple of months it has become my sewing room. I have been sewing, knitting and crafting for most of my life and recently took up a new hobby which combines all my skills – upcycling abandoned dolls. This fits in nicely with my concerns about climate change, resource depletion and environmental pollution. While many continue to purchase new toys, millions of discarded toys are slowly breaking down in landfill sites around the world, contaminating groundwater and contributing to the growing waste of finite resources.

My work room is only about 5 square metres so has to be kept tidy and ordered at all times! I use re-cycled Styrofoam boxes (free from my local supermarket) for storage and second hand containers found in opportunity shops. I also source most of my material ( yarn, fabric, buttons…) from op-shops. My trusty sewing machine is now almost 30 years old and the little metal table it nicely sits on is from the 1950’s.

The dolls I find have often had a hard life and no-one wants them…

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And here, Wendy writes from South Africa:
I love my whole garden. When I need to take a moment for myself I always find a place to stand and look, to pull a weed or just to sit for a bit. We are a busy household and I am often pulled in many directions, but my garden always gives me a moment to pause.

The first photo is looking out from my kitchen door onto a small paved area that holds most of my herbs, chilllies, and one lemon tree. I am out here often in the day and always have something to pick or snip to add for a meal.

The second photo is of the garden patch beyond the courtyard. The beds beyond full of our winter veggies of peas, salads, brassicas, beets and coriander. On the walls are our strawberry plants, now resting in the South African winter.

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