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TweetShall we call it the Gustavian Piano? ;-0 That’s what I’m calling it. Yep, I did it. I painted the piano. The walnut burr 140 year old piano. Mmhm! Pale bluey-green. And I didn’t even flinch. Well, except for just then, when I downloaded the before photo and thought “Oh no! I seriously cannot show [...]
Tweet Today began sluggishly. I’ve had such hayfever all week – Wednesday my head swooned so, I didn’t think I would make it to pick up the little girlies from school. Melbourne’s infamous for inflicting hayfever upon its citizens at this time of year – I think my protagonists are the trees that line our [...]
TweetBit of this, bit of that. Lots of dusting. Strenuous vacuuming. A quick shuffling of chairs. Some rearranging of clutter. Breakfast baking for the school lunch – thanks so much Fiona! Some border work on an ancient project (what a good lily :-) Reproducing favourite parts of ancient project with scraps from current projects Building [...]
Tweet It’s about time! This has been loitering in the “I’m-still-working-on-it-pile” for over a year. Every few months, it’s been dragged out and there’s been a hunting down of leaves (they are scattered throughout the house and I even pulled one out of my pocket with a hankie in a tutorial on Monday), a burst [...]
Tweet(that’s the name of the quilt – “Mathilde & Cecille”) Oh so much colour! Yes, I confess, I am addicted to colour. Ah, but you already knew that, didn’t you :-) And there are so many of my old favourites in here … Oooh – see that rosy pink with the red cherries – I’m [...]
Tweet… and I’m in my holey nightie, with no pretty photos to share of quilty goodness … The pot plants are having intensive therapy in the shower – they hate the heating … We’ve brushed the dog with a new slicker brush and declared it more fun than scraping old paint off furniture or running [...]
TweetWell we have sunshine aplenty – but by golly it’s come with a fierce helping of wind! I hung out my weekend’s projects, all the better for you to see the lovely colours – vivid and wild on one side, gentle and cheerful on the other – but alas, these quilts they cannot keep from [...]
TweetWhat do you do when your girlie’s arriving home from camp and you have no idea what time the bus is pulling in? When you’ve pulled apart every receptacle containing random papers looking for that one piece with the magical time … When you’ve skimmed through every online newsletter, rung the campground (message bank), the [...]
TweetAt the risk of sounding big headed, I am absolutely thrilled with how the mermaid’s autumn garden quilt is coming along. Bit of a relief really. I had border colours floating around my head so this morning, headed back down to Amitie. As I stood there clutching my brown, orange and aqua quilt, holding it [...]
Tweet Ahhh! The sun was shining, all essays are finished and handed in, the chores were finished lickety-split – the sewing machine beckoned. But it wasn’t Tuesday’s crosses that were calling sweetly to me from across the garden. Eeek! See, I was at Amitie on Tuesday, stocking up on the grey floral fabric for the [...]
TweetTwo afternoons a week, I head to a nearby school and collect two little girls who I look after for the afternoon. We do homework, go to after school sports, they have their baths, I cook their dinner. Its a job – their parents pay me. I found it on a noticeboard at uni. But [...]
Tweetthanks to some sneaky cutting on Sunday morn when the family thought I was at my desk reflecting on global-service-learning and its application to Australian Indigenous communities … who am I kidding! … this morning there were 11 lovely cross blocks awaiting me in the sewing shed. Out I ventured, coffee in hand, camera under [...]
