BITS OF THIS & THAT!!!!

Another week nearly gone since I last posted.  Gee, what have I done?
Let's have a peek at the garden.

Julia's Rose & Eryngium in front of the blueberries.

Shasta Daisy.

A yellow Kangaroo Paw.  I showed one of the large red ones back in December in a vase.

My pink Achillea is finally flowering.  Brought it with me from Ballarat garden.

Our very small Hydrangea I planted last summer.  Bluer than I thought.

Although it's been hot, some parts of the garden aren't doing so bad after all.  I'll admit that I've not planted anything in the veg garden, 😞, but as we were away about the time of getting it all ready, I'll wait till autumn now & start again then.

A DAY OUT.

As yesterday was a little cooler, we decided I needed some sea air (I really do crave it), after being cooped up in the house, for it seems likes weeks in the heat.  I do get outside, but it's not the same as that salty fresh breeze you get off the water.
It was San Remo, which I've posted about before, but I did take some rather quirky photos & also got my face a little sun/wind burnt into the bargain.  I've had fun with these snaps.

Looking out towards Phillip Island, (I've blogged about this a few times).  The stairs on the far left go down to the beach, where we walked for a bit.

Clammy like critters.  Not sure what they are exactly.

More shells clinging to the rocks.

Interesting!  Smooth one side & rough the other.

Back along the path at the top of those stairs.

A creeper spreading through the bushy shrubs with copious amounts of fluffy seedheads.  It was quite amazing.

This was more of a vine, growing up some trees, with leathery leaves.

I do love looking at flora and fauna.  You may have noticed this before?
Back along the path I noticed the different colours of the water.

It nearly looks like stripes.  The colours were gorgeous, with the darker one actually being  drifts of seaweed.

We went back down the steps & walked back along the beach, where we saw these kite surfers.

Back home, what has been happening on the crafting front?

Hubby's been busy with this lot.
All will be revealed when he's finished, but it's a beauty!!!!!

I've not got very far with anything at the moment.  Backing fabric still slouching over the quilting machine.
A half finished project is sitting on the floor so I could do some ironing.

It's something to go with the needle and hook holders.  

Fabric from my stash, that I've been playing with.  Some of it fat quarters I purchased many years ago from Keepsake Quilting in USA (mail order), which was a bit a 'thing' at the time.  Their catalogues, with mouth-watering images of fabric, was a bit too much at times, and I relented & made several purchases, which I'm now trying to use.  I've designed a small quilt for this lot on my Quilt Wizard program & hope to make a start this weekend.  I'd like to think I could piece the top in that time, but it probably won't happen.

OK, one last photo.  It's not the best, but I was trying so hard to get Buddy & her 4 little ones into the picture at one time.  Birds do tend to flitter about, and being siblings (I think), they also started fighting, so I only captured four of them together.

I'll admit to feeding them, but I do love them coming, even if it gets extremely noisy at times.

Going now to serve up our tea & settle down for the night.  Tomorrow we are off to help some car club friends to fix a hoist into their new shed.  HE is "only" 80 years old & just built this shed, basically by himself to house & work on his collection of old cars.  Yay, to him.

Take care all and hope I've not bored you too much.
Huggles,  Susan.