Chili harvest

I have been gathering my garden harvests as summer is nearly at a close. We have enjoyed lots of runner beans and tomatoes. I also love growing chilies, they are such pretty plants and my Hb and I like using chilies in some of our dinners.The fruits dry brilliantly and my harvest last year lasted right up until this May.

I buy them by mail order as plugs and grow them on indoors until June when I put them out onto my sunny west facing patio. This was them being potted on in early summer.

One of our favourite meals is choritzo with butter beans, mushrooms and tomatoes, a recipe my daughter came up with when she was at medical school. We had a few lovely warm days last week to enjoy some late sunshine and with this dinner I decided to try the last new Pimm's I saw in the supermarket. This time it is not the usual base, which lemonade is added to, but a cider base. It really is a lovely mix.

So this is a photo of probably one of our last evening meals in the garden this year. We are able to eat lunch outside from March til October but by 7pm now it's too dark and chilly.

 There is nothing like freshly picked chillies added to this meal.

My challenge piece today is a tag and was inspired by the colours of that late summer dinner and golden leaves of my little pot acer in the sunshine.

I made an inky and stencilled background

and created this

Lots of autumnal colours on my leaves and a mist of gold ink. I added little gems to represent dew drops and the spider was a fun charm I recently added to my charms stash. I edged the whole of the tag with gold embossing powder.

I would like to enter my tag into the following challenges

Frilly and Funkie stamps be gone
Our creative corner shades of autumn
Crafty Catz autumn colours
Creative Inspirations Vintage
Natalie and Amy Charming
Pixie's snippets playground 194 I have used snippets of card to make my leaves with from my snippets box. They were left over from my Spell book as was the spider'sweb die cut.
The craft barn stencils and masks I have used Tim's shatter and gothic stencils
We love to create anything goes mixed media 19
Mixed media world anything goes with autumn colours
Crafting from the heart anything goes
Artistic Inpsirations anything goes/twist of magic


I have take a day's annual leave today so after finishing my usual bits indoors I plan some time in my studio. What a great start to the week, no Monday morning blues here!  Enjoy yours and thanks for visiting today.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x