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Given the awful suffering of many across the world right now, I am very grateful to be in good health, to be living where I do and to have a garden to escape to. We have been gardening at our current block for 3 years now. Let me show you a little of what we’ve been up to!
Read MoreI was tempted to sign up as soon as Wendy @ The Next Stitch announced the Free-Wheeling Single Girl Sewalong! I need a corporate project to get myself sewing again. I purchased the PDF pattern from Denyse Schmidt and have been agonising over fabric choices ever since!
Read MoreThis week, she is preoccupied with last minute costume changes, a lot of red and white, American accents and false eyelashes! She is excited and nervous and loving it!
Read MoreI had an unexpected opportunity to go to the Sydney Quilt Show last weekend. So many stunning quilts to see! The intricate workmanship and time invested in these quilts was mind blowing. Here are just a few that took my eye!
Read MoreI’ve been unwell for a few months now, with numbness in my hands and feet. I am booked to see a neurologist, but not until August. In the meantime, my instinct has been to keep my hands moving as much as possible. To that end, I’ve been crocheting!
Read MoreAs a little celebration and a gift to you, kind readers, I have put together a new tutorial for some cute felt accessories for every kind of maker.
Read MoreWe have been living at our new place for about 15 months now. It feels like progress on the new garden has been tediously slow. But then I look back through the photos!
Read MoreI'm drawn to Victoria's gardens, of which we visited many. I will share some of them in the next few posts. The most special of them belonged to Annie Flowergarden!
Read MoreWe have no electricity at home today, so I'm indulging myself with some paper piecing.
Read MoreThe weather is blissfully rainy today, my favourite sort of day for sewing ... actually, my favourite sort of day full stop.
Read MoreI suggested at this time 12 months ago that I had all sorts of grand plans for 2016. Little did I know what the year had in store; that my 'grand plans' would go out the window, replaced by other events.
Read MoreThey don't call these blooms 'Winter Roses' for nothing! When the rest of the garden is in its drab, winter dormancy, these angelic lovelies pop their heads up and put on a show.
Read MoreOn my good days, I philosophise with myself about how we arrive in this world with nothing, and will leave with nothing; that houses and gardens are just the 'stuff' we accumulate in between. I lecture myself about materialism, and force myself to refocus on what I have, rather than what I've lost.
Read MoreIt was an obvious choice to make her a snuggle quilt to remind her of how much she will be missed.
Read MoreFrom my garden today ...
Read MoreI am popping my head up from my summer hibernation just long enough to share this lovely thing with you. I spotted it in someone's garden next to Short St Cafe in Dubbo the other day.
Read MoreI get my best gardening done when I'm stressed! Our wheat crop is due to be harvested any day, and it is my job to deal with contractors, organise trucks and generally make it happen. One of the things I do to calm myself is to pop outside into the garden and pull a few weeds.
Read MoreWe have had a very wet winter, and our garden is so sloshy underfoot that the roses are still to be pruned! So my 'gardening' has taken a new turn: I have been planting in miniature and indoors!
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