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Stuff

Well Hello Again,
It's me here although i don't really feel that i am here in mind but i am in body. Still nothing to report on the stitching front, but i have been cookin up a storm in the kitchen. Cakes, Cakes, muffins and scones and the occassional meal, only cause apparently the king and the ferals can't live without real food every now and then.
We have been hot here in sunny, humid Carnarvon and the pool has been put to good use as have the aircons. Today we have a public holiday and of course on these days i have to go to work, so i'm not happy Jan.
Yesterday was a slightly productive day in the kitchen, it got a nice clean and is all shiny and crumb free, for a couple of days anyway, i have discussed with the king that if i had a you beaut steaming machine the rest of the house could be this way too and my powers of hypnotic suggestion must have worked as he said i could get one, i am going to go and order it tomorrow, it is going to cost a fair bit of money, but if it is anything like my vaccummmmmmm we will have a very nice relationship and live happily ever after.  AAAHHHH love with appliances i hope thats not illegal. I hope the vaccumm doesn't get jealous, i may have to keep them apart and the affair a secret.
We got a nice surprise on Saturday morning when my cousin and her family called in for an hour on their way to Exmouth for a stay with family, and she has 2 GORGEOUS kidlets you would just want to eat them up. Ishi is so cute and Tali is such a butterball he should never be allowed to grow up.
This morning i decided to look through my Sew Pretty Homestyle books to get a little inspiration and i believe it may be working. I have almost completed the I hate this quilt quilt top (Kaleidoscope), it has one more border to be cut out and sewn on and then i can send it off to the quilters. I have to say i will be very glad when it is finished it has taken me over 12 months to get to this stage.

Anyhoo that's folks ciao for now.xx

Movies

Well Hello All
I have been a wee bit absent in the last couple of weeks due to bad mojo and it's not getting any better. But that is another story you don't want to hear. Today after work i came home to an empty house and watched Julie & Julia and it was FABULOUS DARLING. What a fantastic movie and Meryl Streep was great. Wouldn't it be lovely to try and do something like that but i unfortuneately don't have good mojo for that at anytime so i am in awe of Julie Powell for sticking to it and finishing it.If you don't know what i am talking about then get the movie. Life is very hectic at the moment and i am in need of a desperate health and mental overhaul and a holiday would be welcomed enormously, sunny beaches,cocktails and men that look like greek gods would be good, but on the other hand i am partial to cold weather, hot chocolate and snuggling up to greek gods,this also sounds good. So if you have a spare greek god send him my way please.
We are finally getting some hot weather at the moment and the aircon is cranking again, thank god for aircons or this little black duck would be very a cranky black duck. Roll on winter i say. Anyhoos this is a quick post so ciao for now and blog you soon.

Something Old, Something New.

The last couple of days i have been working on a project for a friend of mine another mermaid. and today i finished it so i thought i would post a picture of it for you, so what do you think?

She has her pearls, and her bag of goodies full of treasure, so i hope my friend likes her. The ferals have almost finished their first week at school and i do believe they have had a good time as far as school goes. Tonight i am doing up the school agenda so i know where they are during the week as they have different days for sport, library and music and not to mention the school help for me to do, so i have done a laminated sheet of A4 with their names and classes and my stuff too just so i know where i am too, as i need to be super organised or everything goes to pot and i have absolutely no idea.

Their is not much else to report so until the next time, same bat time, same bat channel, ciao. xx

A Stitch in Time.

Yesterday my feral fairies started back at school and the youngest is now at full time school so i have a small amount of time to myself during the week, so who knows i may get some projects finished this year. This is the ferals in their uniforms.

So after the kids went to school and the King went to work i decided to do some stitching so i went to my books and picked out the Melly & Me Kaleidoscope book, and took out the pattern for the Kokeshi friends stitchery, although i only copied one of the dolls onto some fabric just to keep me amused for the day.

and this is what i have ended up with but it is not quite finished yet. But i believe it will look cute when it is done. I may put some Japanese fabric as a border and then put it into a frame as the Ferals will have some birthday parties to go to so it might make a nice pressie for someone. Or it could end up as a bag. But anyhoos that is what i have done in the past few days. Ciao xx

Happiness that won't make you fat.

As i have not done anything noteworthy in the past couple of weeks i thought i would show you some of the yummy fabric i picked up last time i went to Geraldton, i think the bottom fabric is going to be the backing for a quilt i have yet to finish and the pinks, greens and blue will be to make a bag or two for some birthdays that are coming up. Next week i should be a wee bit more organized as the ferals are off to school and the #3 feral is at full time school this year so i should be able to get lots of things done. Cross fingers because it might not happen. Anyhoos nothing else to say so i'll just say ciao.xx

The Griswolds Camping Trip

Well for the last few days the Ferals (my Family) have been out of town enjoying a wee bit of R & R and we went camping up to a place on our coast line called the blowholes. It's pretty much where the desert meets the sea and is a fabulous place to unwind. But the weather was awful. It was stinking hot and the flies were our best friends but it was nice to get away all the same. 3 days was enough for me though and it is nice to be home with all my creature comforts. I did take some photos for your enjoyment so enjoy.

This is the Feral Family in front of the HMAS Sydney Memorial Cairn at Quobba Station just north of Carnarvon. The HMAS Sydney was in a naval battle with HSK Komoran a german navy ship during WWII and sadly there were no survivors from the Sydney but some of the surviving Komoran saliors were washed ashore at this point of the Western Australian coastline and taken as prisoners of war by the locals, and therefore to commemorate the heros of the Sydney a cairn was erected in their honour. The final resting place of the HMAS Sydney is south of Carnarvon near Shark Bay and was only discovered last year after a 50 year search.

This is Feral Fairy #2 she asked her father to dig a hole and bury her in it and give her a pair of boobies.

This is FF #3 and as she was not to be outdone asked for the same thing as FF #2.

DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER  WARNING the next photo is of a dead animal

This cat here may look like it is a cute little thing but it is actually a pest in these parts and this feral cat is not  tiny, in the flesh it was about the size of a small dog, think along the lines of a small Border Collie.When these animals get loose and start to live in the wild they threaten the native wildlife species of our country and many have become near to extinction because of feral cats, so do not feel sorry that it's life was ended, it's death may have stopped a native animal from being eaten. It was one of two cats seen around our camp site over a two day time frame and the other one was even bigger.

The only thing wrong with our little sojourn was i have no photos of any crayfish (Lobster) to show you because the the old boy, ( sorry the King ) wasn't able to catch any, but there's always next weekend.

Ciao xx