AHHHH! FINISHED.

The two baby quilts are done and ready to be picked up on Monday, so now I can concentrate on my Xmasy bits.

The two baby quilts.

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).

My only stem of flowers on the blue ixia.

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.

Purple lisianthus.


AND WHAT ELSE?

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.

A GIFT AND GETTING THERE SLOWLY.

I am still here, packing, sorting, tired, but also excited.  Less than two weeks to go.
The weather has been atrocious for Autumn.  Feels more like the middle of winter already.

Now the gift I've mentioned came from my friend Judy from News from Jude, who I met in August 2013, but she also blogs and I won a gift on her giveaway recently, which was a real surprise as I didn't realise she'd had one.

I received this lovely sewing case full of goodies, including some sweets, needlecase, cotton, tape measure, glossy photo paper, covered notebook, tweezers and a lovely charm pack.  I'll think what I may do with the charm pack once settled.  I was absolutely amazed at winning and just love it.  THANKS Judy.

There's not too much to tell at the moment, but I have finished the binding on the Xmas Raffle quilt and am just about to label the quilt for my nephew and get it sent off.  The two baby quilts arrived safely, one just in time for my great nephews arrival.  My niece put a photo on Facebook of him lying on it.  Great!

We've taken our caravan over to my friends' place, along with a lot of pot plants that they are going to look after.  One that didn't go was my little cyclamen someone gave me about 6 years ago.  I had thought about repotting it this year, but haven't, but just look at it at the moment.  I brought it inside so I could see it flowering.

Can you see the tiny bud?  There are some more coming too.

Well not much more to tell, except that hubby and I wrapped the rollers on my long arm in cling wrap today and we will dismantle her over the next week, so won't be doing much machine sewing of any sort for a few weeks.  I've knitting and some embroidery to keep me amused at night.
Just for a treat we bought some of these, as our local supermarket hadn't had any for a few weeks, and they had a fresh lot in.  We will make them last (giggle).

Yummy!

Thanks for being with me on this our second move in such a short while and I value your comments very much.  I'm so looking forward to going home, being near friends, a lovely garden and just being more like the old me.  It's been a bit of a journey, but life is like that sometimes.
Hopefully I'll be able to post at least once before we move and that our internet doesn't play up again, which is one reason I've not posted.  We had 2 blackouts last week and had to have it reset.
All for now, take care and huggles,
Susan.