The two baby quilts are done and ready to be picked up on Monday, so now I can concentrate on my Xmasy bits.
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| The two baby quilts. |
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| DVD on whilst I worked, although I don't really watch it, I can hear what is being narrated and look up occasionally. |
I do tend to worry whilst working on other people's quilts, which is why I don't do many.
SECRETS THINGS.
I so wish I could show a couple of other things I've been working on, but, alas it's top secret till the festive season.
GARDEN BUSINESS.
Not much has been happening on the garden front, but these few bits have flowered and the veg seemed to have had a growth spurt (as well as the lawn).
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| My only stem of flowers on the blue ixia. |
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| The water lily is flowering and is actually pale lemon. Seeing they are only fully out when very sunny, it's hard to get a good photo. |
BARGAIN.
Whilst in one of our local supermarkets on Tuesday, I spied these being marked down "for quick sale". $3 for this small bunch and a couple of heads had fallen off, but lisianthus are so pretty. I popped them into the vase along with some pittosporum picked from the hedge along our back fence and put them on the hall table.
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Purple lisianthus.
AND WHAT ELSE?
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One of the baby magpies that seems to have adopted us. I've called "it" Buddy and most days he visits and hopes I have a little snack waiting. Not brave enough yet to take it from my hand, but does come quite close. We had a barbecue one night and he followed hubby about the verandah for a time. Best picture I could get as he kept moving.
LAST.
On Sunday we had a lovely drive down to the coast. Sandy Point looks out over Wilsons Promontory and you can drive along the beach., so we parked the car and ate our lunch, then went for a walk. The photos aren't great for two reasons.
1. It was a very hazy day.
2. I have a dirty mark on my lens.
Hubby checking out the view and a photo of Wilsons Prom on the horizon. This is a rather spectacular spit of land which once joined the mainland of Australia with Tasmania which is now separated by Bass Strait. Sorry to the lady who walked into the pic as I took it.
I'm having trouble with the photos jumping today and the narrative not going where I want, so will wind this up with a big gap between this and the photos.
Hope you are all having a good week and take care.
Susan.
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A lovely stretch of beach and a beautiful blue sky - in complete contrast to here today, just started to rain and there is a strange eerie orange glow. The trees are flipping around in the wind and their vivid red and yellow leaves are flying off. The quilts look gorgeous xx
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ReplyDeleteThere's so much secret crafting happening in blogland at the moment, I can't wait until it's all shared but I know that won't be for a while yet. Your day out looks wonderful, what a beautiful beach, I wish you'd send a bit of your weather this way, we've got rain today. Love your little magpie, he looks very curious.
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ReplyDeleteAlso highly recommend (nearly) anything filmed by Terry Abraham; his 'Life on a Mountain, a year on Scaffel Pike' is breathtaking and I am really looking forward to his Blencathra film which will be out soon. Terry seems to be between websites at present but you can get his stuff from Striding Edge, or Amazon.
Beautiful quilts!!! I am sure they will be much loved. There is a lot of secret making going on in blogland right now, and in my crafting too! xx
ReplyDeleteThose quilts are incredibly beautiful, you made a wonderful job on those. Someone will be very happy. x
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