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sharonnz sharonnz saturday november 12 2011 let s just call it summer thus declared miss nine this afternoon first bbq of the season done best thing i bought this week an egg slicer a must for the hard boiled eggs atop my summer salads posted by sharonnz at 11 48 pm labels family food summer sweetpea i had a blissful weekend hosting my mind twin we hit petone for a wander and found sweetpea for a wee bite to eat i grabbed half a dozen of their scrummy cupcakes for afternoon tea i did share them delicious we saw another cupcake place the cupcakery is going to open too so petone is clearly now a cupcake lovers mecca posted by sharonnz at 10 56 pm labels cupcakes friends sweetpea tuesday november 8 2011 sewing it my parents have joined the e reader revolution and bought themselves kindles this was a super easy fun project it just about took more time to select the fabrics than do the sewing posted by sharonnz at 6 35 pm labels family kindle kindle sleeve sewing wednesday november 2 2011 sustaining it wendell berry how can a sustainable local community which is to say a sustainable local economy function i am going to suggest a set of rules that i think such a community would have to follow i hasten to say that i do not understand these rules as predictions i am not interested in foretelling the future if these rules have any validity it is because they apply now supposing that the members of a local community wanted their community to cohere to flourish and to last they would 1 always ask of any proposed change or innovation what will this do to our community how will this affect our common wealth 2 always include local nature the land the water the air the native creatures within the membership of the community 3 always ask how local needs might be supplied from local sources including the mutual help of neighbors 4 always supply local needs first and only then think of exporting products first to nearby cities then to others 5 understand the ultimate unsoundness of the industrial doctrine of labor saving if that implies poor work unemployment or any kind of pollution or contamination 6 develop properly scaled value adding industries for local products to ensure that the community does not become merely a colony of national or global economy 7 develop small scale industries and businesses to support the local farm and or forest economy 8 strive to supply as much of the community s own energy as possible 9 strive to increase earnings in whatever form within the community for as long as possible before they are paid out 10 make sure that money paid into the local economy circulates within the community and decrease expenditures outside the community 11 make the community able to invest in itself by maintaining its properties keeping itself clean without dirtying some other place caring for its old people and teaching its children 12 see that the old and young take care of one another the young must learn from the old not necessarily and not always in school there must be no institutionalised childcare and no homes for the aged the community knows and remembers itself by the association of old and young 13 account for costs now conventionally hidden or externalised whenever possible these must be debited against monetary income 14 look into the possible uses of local currency community funded loan programs systems of barter and the like 15 always be aware of the economic value of neighborly acts in our time the costs of living are greatly increased by the loss of neighborhood which leaves people to face their calamities alone 16 a rural community should always be acquainted and interconnected with community minded people in nearby towns and cities 17 a sustainable rural economy will depend on urban consumers loyal to local products therefore we are talking about an economy that will always be more cooperative than competitive f rom a speech delivered by mad farmer author and cultural critic wendell berry november 11 1994 at the 23rd annual meeting of the northern plains resource council sourced here posted by sharonnz at 2 55 pm labels community sustainability wendell berry sunday october 23 2011 quilting it i finished a very simple lap quilt for the young man of the house last week very simple but it still produced a satisfying sense of achievement of a completed project and of using stash fabrics posted by sharonnz at 4 25 pm labels michael miller patchwork quilt sewing sunday september 4 2011 wearing it i m working hard on improving my sewing from the slap happy beginner i am my main struggle is with getting the fit right i finished this dress back in june just when it got too cold to wear it next time i ll downsize the top even more and attempt a proper small bust adjustment it s a forgiving fit being a wrap dress i bought pip s sew la tea do purely on the basis of the wrap around skirt pattern the fabric screamed holly hobbie to me just the thing i was right into last time i wore wrap around skirts yeah t shirt doesn t match will sort that out before summer and the tunic dress from sew la tea do again i started out making it in the wrong size then realised that women of a certain age and figure can t really wear tunics without looking like they re wearing a paper bag so a bit of hacking and sewing makes this more wearable just posted by sharonnz at 7 49 pm labels clothing colette patterns crepe meet me at mikes sew la tea do sewing sunday august 7 2011 winning it i was blessed to win a giveaway sweetp had on her blog a while ago i scored this fun tri coterie self striping sock yarn which i whipped up into a pair of plain toe up socks for me despite begging from other residents it s maylin s red queen colourway and i love the fun of the stripes sweetp also sent a sweet project bag cute owl stickers and sweeties it was such a lovely parcel to receive mwah posted by sharonnz at 1 55 pm labels knitting mahi and aroha socks socks from the toe up tri coterie older posts home subscribe to 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