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Tweet Phillip Island … bird watching … picnicking … drawing … comic writing … strolling … exploring … delighting in the notion that when we stop and really look, there’s so much more there then we’ve ever before realised. cape barren geese – these are the sweeties that drew us here Abby met them on [...]
Tweet :: A simple recipe for a warm winter’s eve :: light the lamps pull on your fleecy slippers and a cosy flannel skirt snuggle a soft knitted shawl round your shoulders share steaming cups of tea & whilst brewing tea, make hot water bottles add a wee glass of muscat – warms the throat [...]
Tweet I am pleased to report that the May Gibbs/Blue Cross Quilt – known in Bootville as the Squishy Baby Bums Quilt – is finished and there was no further loss of fabric. In fact, the final stage went smoothly and quickly and all were satisfied with the outcome :-) Very satisfied. Thank goodness [...]
Tweet Remember the May Gibbs fabric? I made pillowcases and laundry bags, fat quarters and goodies were posted to a lovely reader, and I even tried putting together a block that by the end of the evening I hated. Then the moomin quilt didn’t fit the blue and cream checked vintage blanket – entirely my [...]
Tweet Life in Bootville is by no means perfect. Like most folk, and as I’ve sometimes shared, we struggle in many ways. Some days – some circumstances – are certainly harder than others. There are many things we have not yet achieved – home ownership being a glaring one of these. Some long held hopes [...]
Tweet Yeah, yeah. You’re sick of hearing about the chessboard. And I didn’t live up to my promises last week. I know. The week kind of wobbled off course. These things happen. But today! New week. New to do list. Board FINISHED. Family playing. Good stuff! It only took an hour to move the board [...]
Tweet I know. I promised there would be a quilted/upholstered chess board to share this evening. And truly – it was going to happen. Except that when I settled all my tools and fabrics on the kitchen table, I discovered there was nary a staple to be had for my staple gun – it being [...]
Tweet goodness me! Sometimes these days just hurry by, don’t they. Here we are and it’s Tuesday night already. Mum has been and gone – she’s in Brisbane now, visiting with old Nanny and Grandad who are relishing every moment of having their eldest child at their beck and call :-) Lucy is having her [...]
Tweet We are so very fortunate to live in a neighbourhood that is filled to bursting with beautiful trees. In spring, streets of frothy blossoms fill me with speechless pleasure. In summer, thick, vivid green canopies cast a beautiful, peaceful light upon us. In winter, gnarled trunks and branches stand to stiff, cold attention. A [...]
Tweet I love baskets … especially old ones. Each time I find one by the side of the road, or at the oppie, home it comes. After a good scrubbing they are usually filled with one of my many “current” projects. This means there seems to be a perpetual need for extra baskets in Bootville [...]
Tweet You might have noticed, here at Bootville, that we’re rather fond of seagulls. When I look through my photos here, and Julian’s photos that scroll through our tellie, lots and lots of seagulls pop up. So when I found some darling seagull fabric last December, I just had to have some. Seagulls on a [...]
Tweet Oh the sun. So nourishing. And I so needed it today. Monday, when popping on my spectacles, I realised that the right side of my nose was very sore. The kind of sore your nose feels after meeting a cricket ball. Not something I’ve experienced lately … cricket balls that is. There was no [...]