30th December 2019

With January 2020 around the corner I am going to focus on setting a goal for every month and in January it is going to be to plan for 2020 and see what I can achieve by 1st February 2020.

So what is January about?

What events are happening in January?

I will find out and see what I can achieve in the first 31 days of the year.

Hawthorne Love Heart Token Hand Made Canal Art Wedding Engagement Valentine

Hawthorne Love Heart Token Hand Made Canal Art Wedding Engagement Valentine.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hawthorne-Love-Heart-Token-Hand-Made-Canal-Art-Wedding-Engagement-Valentine/253259550781?hash=item3af772103d:g:3OcAAOSwm3paC3Rd

Natural Hawthorne Log Candle Tea Light Holder Hand Made Canal Art Craft

Natural Hawthorne Log Candle Tea Light Holder Hand Made Canal Art Craft.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Natural-Hawthorne-Log-Candle-Tea-Light-Holder-Hand-Made-Canal-Art-Craft/382284148144?hash=item5901e92db0:g:idAAAOSwPAxaC3if

Oak Driftwood Ship or Harbour Timber - Possible Mantle or Decorative Feature

Oak Driftwood Ship or Harbour Timber - Possible Mantle or Decorative Feature.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Oak-Driftwood-Ship-or-Harbour-Timber-Possible-Mantle-or-Decorative-Feature/252297914676?hash=item3abe20a934:g:7JgAAOSwPc9WzP4n

UK MADE Stainless Steel CD DVD Shelf Support Angle Bracket Iron Bridge Style

UK MADE Stainless Steel CD DVD Shelf Support Angle Bracket Iron Bridge Style.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UK-MADE-Stainless-Steel-CD-DVD-Shelf-Support-Angle-Bracket-Iron-Bridge-Style/383026327875?hash=item592e25f143:g:CA8AAOSwhBBdFJ5p

This Auction Is For A Single (1) Stainless Steel Shelf Support Bracket. 17cm x 17cm.  3 Screw Holes Per Side (See Pictures) Lightly Brushed Stainless Finish. Two Piece Slot Together Construction - Will Be Pre-Built As Per Picture. UK INSPIRED, DESIGNED AND MANUFACTURED We Only Have 50 Of These Available From Our Production Run. We Have Designed This Piece Based On What We Saw Of The Famous Iron Bridge In Shropshire, England.  The Circle And Slot-Together Construction Reflect Design Features From The Bridge Itself.  Only We Used Stainless Steel And Not Iron.

2020

Over the next few weeks we are going to be focusing on a range of new product and services fore 2020.

We are looking at bring out some New lines that also include interior products for the traveling life style.  This is to enable your mode of transport to be more of a "home away from home."

So no mater how long your are traveling you have the product and service that you are looking for, we have been looking hat having product made that are bespoke by using the following business that we have listed on our blog.

We are also slowly adding to our own CAD Catalogue, use of reputable suppliers, manufactures and branded products.

At the moment we are updating our Spoonflower online store please click the link below for more information.

https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/volksbolts_kabfa_designs_?sub_action=designs

Like with any thing that we design we can have proto types made and order them in house for you to view.  So if you have seen any thing on line you like but are unsure about buying it them please get in touch to find out more before buying.

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https://youtu.be/ujxpk2IdDmM

https://youtu.be/ThnQ9JkEC2Y

https://youtu.be/s6BfHz4iHgw

https://youtu.be/qhD9z2pXcEc

https://youtu.be/FCSiKBjAETQ

22 Amazing Inventions That Will Save Our Planet

What Magazine?

Over the next few months we will be scanning the shelves to see which magazines that we would recomend buying or possibly subscribing to in 2020.

With all magazines on line now and on social media is it worth buying them in paper back?

We will also be looking at advertising some of our new products in selected magazines in 2020.

So please stay up to date by clicking on the subscribe by email button on our blog, and Facebook page.

We will also be adding a magazine review page to our blog(s) pages too.

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4th November Blog 2019 Two

Week 2 day 3 of the Bite Study Trial for Warwickshire University and Not...

Monday Day 6 Week 3 of the Bite Study Trial for Warwickshire university ...

Monday Day 6 Week 3 of the Bite Study Trial for Warwickshire university ...

9 Things Poor People DO That The Rich DON'T!

15 Reasons Why You'll Always Be Poor

Bite Medical Health Study for Warwickshire University and Nottingham Uni...

https://youtu.be/OxNy7rLGAZs

10+ Popular Foods That Are Different in the US

https://youtu.be/gsJCk6WIaEk

Scarborough fair

https://youtu.be/-BakWVXHSug

The Highwayman poem number two

https://youtu.be/bEEHihQ3CPk

The Highwayman poem

https://youtu.be/ryu1JZiSbHo

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

https://youtu.be/50PE5EZrruY

The story behind forget-me-not flowers

https://youtu.be/dogEBzRJnIY

Another room to maintain.

What I find with having a garden again that it is another room to maintain.  When you have three children to take care of and a house to run, I love being in the garden.

It gives me time to myself espically on the evenings.  But also another room to maintain, which at times can become more like a chore that a joy.

Over the past three years I have been maintain the garden where I currently live and this year I have been bold.

I am going flowers, herbs and vegetables.

I will see how the rest of the summer goes.

https://youtu.be/y9142Q5i-jY

Flight of the Bumblebee over a field of poppies in Nuneaton Warwickshire...

"Nan's homemade chips. Cooking in olive oil and rapeseed oil.

PLANT me don't plant me up cycling plastic tubs

PLANT me don't plant me up cycling plastic tubs

PLANT me don't plant me up cycling plastic tubs

Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply (Official Video)

Making my own home made future juices from scratch reducing my plastic u...

Gardening

Maintain the flower beds and cutting the grass today. Also some potting up.

https://youtu.be/Lx0aUk2AiNQ

Wheat straw straws.

https://youtu.be/8tyK3FZviso

https://youtu.be/mE2VWojDb1g

https://youtu.be/HO5sXzGZAjg

https://youtu.be/FQbvBGPaMuw

https://youtu.be/ZTNsmd5ETl4

https://youtu.be/_oYdH8devFs

Children in the garden "The Bargee Boys"

The Bargee Boys ate working well together fetching and Ceri g all of the posted plants to safety.

We managed to get them all in the shade and watered in an hour.  I was so proud of them both.

This year I would love to get my own work unit so that I can continue to grow and sell my plants and produce.

A lot of what I will do will have to be on line to start off with and then I will look at markets, shows and events.  I will also look at selling to local small independent bussiness too.

Lemon Balm

This Lemon Balm lives on and is from my grandfather in law. I have managed to pot of up and nurse it though the winter of 2018

I now have a health plant that I can take cuttings from.

I have posted it due to it being able to grow well and spread.

I am aiming to not just maintain the garden at 409 this year but also two other gardens once a month to grow more shrubs, shedges, grasses and fruit bushes.

I shale see how things go this year and how involved the children can be.

Home grown Rosemary

For about three years now I have been growing my own Rosemary in pots.  I have done this due to never truly having a fixed abode. That way I can take my plants with me when I move.  It also makes watering them more manageable if there is a drout.

What I am planting to do this summer is split the plant and see if in can grow it on. That way I can look at possibly selling on the offspring or seeping them for another plant that I would like in the garden.

 

Happy Easter 2019

Since January 2019 I have been looking at different ways of cooking and reducing my carbon foot print.  One of my pet hates in Single use plastics, yet everything seam to be coted in the stuff.

So I have been using my Healthy Start Vouchers to by fresh fruit and veg and not frozen.  Sadly you can not use Healthy Start Vouchers to buy tined fruit or veegeables.

So buy buying fresh I have been aiming for UK produces only to begin with and then European.  I have been looking at preserving fresh fruit and vegetables and trying different ways to give them to my children.

So far I have used the following ways, blending, drying, juicing, blanching, storing in glass jars, fridge and freezer.

I have found so of these only take a few minuets and other hours and even days.  When time is important to many of use it to more convenieant to just "shop and go" instead of home grow, and to prepare foods that are in season so that you have food for when the season change and the bad weather kicks in.

With covenant foods and shops on every corner people do not really have to think about what could happen if the corner shops where to close and food suppliers becomes rationed.

Yet I think that it is important to learn a few ways of storing and preparing food just incase the invertible happened and also so that the future generation now when food comes form the ways that is produced.

So I will continue to try and learn new cooking skills and use local produce when ever I can.

Making my own home made future juices from scratch reducing my plastic u...

Happy Easter 2019 a

Happy Easter 2019

Over the Easter Holidays we are updating or blog and adding new information for our followers.  Please do not forget to subscribe via email for get up dates.

Happy Easter.

K & L Swan Handmade Gift Baskets

The Artisan Centre Hinckley

I visited The Artisan Centre Hinckley today and found it to be a really nice place with up and coming small craft business.  This is something that I am really interested in doing in the future.  Setting up my own small local independent business in the Art and Media.

For more information please follow the links below.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/theartisancentre/photos/?ref=page_internal

https://theartisancentre.co.uk/

https://leicestershirepress.com/2019/02/22/new-arts-and-crafts-studio-opens-in-hinckleys-artisan-centre/

April 2019

Now is the time to do a new budget plan, 

With NHS Prescription are increasing, bus fare and postal costs.  Not to mention council tax, water bills, gas and electric so now is the time to look at where you could save money and lower your over heads.  With the lighter nights and warmer weather it is time to look at planting out and maybe growing your own fruit and veg.  This can even be done in a window box, an egg box, tin can or even a plastic bottle.

Not everyone as a garden so why not look at plants that you can grow in doors on your windowsill and indoor plants so help brighten up your home and help to purify the air.

You can even go foraging providing you comply with the foraging laws and are looking at making your own homemade jams and tinctures.

WARNING IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE PICKING THEN DO NOT PICK IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Instead of using the car or public transport why not think about walking or biking to work, to visit fiends and loved ones or just for personal recreation.

COUNRTY WALKS AND WALKS ALONG THE CANAL TOWPATHS ARE A NICE WAY TO SPEND THE DAY.

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Thank you for reading and GOOD LUCK.

Almost 2019

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At the top of my blog I have added a number of local charities that I have supported and have been supported by that are near to my home town.  I am a strong believer that charity begins at home and I am looking at setting up my own local charity in the future called "The Health Boat."

"The Health Boat" is to help to support the local community of my home town and to branch out to support people with in the midlands.  It is called "The Health Boat" due to everyone being in the same boat at one time or another and that being healthy is the most important thing that I believe helps anyone have a happy and positive life.

My aim is to help to support people in being healthy in Mind, Body, Spirit, home and away.  I aim to do this by selling Vegan products and items that are sold, made and produced within the UK. With the money raised to help to support people to help them self's.

To support other I would be looking at working in partnership with other local charities, services, business, training embellishments, the NHS and the local council.

To achieve this I will need the help and support from the local community to get the ball rolling.  For now all I am asking for is for people to like and follow my fakebook page(s) and group(s)

The Health Boat.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2755735084444430/

It is not a Fad  "It's a life style change."

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2503657229709719/

For more information please contact me.

If you have found any of the information on the bog of interest and would like to make a donation no matter how small please feel free top do so.

This can be done via the Pay pal link below or emailing me direct to get the address to send things to that are displayed on the Wish list.

paypal.me/KatrinaSlomczynski

kslomczynski@live.co.uk

Thank you for your support.

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Kylie Butlers New British Heart Foundation Advert For Dechox Month.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/dechox2019-miss-katrina-l-slomczynski

In the book “366 and more things to do “ISBN 0709706855.

In the book “366 and more things to do “ISBN 0709706855.

1. Nougat and other delights It talks about sweet things that are eaten during the festive holidays. It mentions in the book how children around the festive time of the year eat about half a kilo of nougat in Spain.

Today they are always talking about the health of children and how much sugar they consume every day compared to how much they should eat.

I have included some link(s) so that people can view some information and facts so that they can make up their own minds and chose what they should and should not eat and fid their children.

sugar swaps change4life

https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/food-facts/sugar