Archive for the ‘books’ Category
TweetA bit of shopping had to be done this morning so off I set to Toowong – certainly not my local shopping centre but a very fine place – lovely old fashioned butcher with lots of free range meats, a great fruit and veg that’s been owned by the same Italian family since it opened [...]
TweetIt’s permanently 5.15pm in the tumbledown house – that’s good, because I was worried it was getting a wee bit late! However, I simply could not go to bed before I added the final border to my “Gossiping with Jane” flimsie. Well, at least 1 side of the final border! And here it is! I’m [...]
TweetWell, the poppies are humming along nicely, the day is sunny and warm, and I think I’d like to work on something light-hearted today. The impetuous toddler in me clapped her hands and said, “Goodie! Let’s play – I mean sew – something new!” The responsible mother, who made her daughter go to school despite [...]
TweetThis weekend has been good but now it’s over – bummer! Julian and Little A spent Saturday sailing the Bay whilst I pieced some of the new fabric that arrived on Thursday last from the FatQuarter Shop. This is a wee bit of what I’ve been fiddling with – and fiddling is the important word [...]
Tweet Aside from some serious procrastination – at least I’m showered AND dressed – I have spent part of the morning turning my hand to the Crayon Box Block – from my favouritest patchwork book of course – “Once More Around the Block”. Now I did have new fabric for this in the shopping cart [...]
TweetWith all the cleaning that went on, there wasn’t a lot of time, or clean enough hands, for sewing. Just a little admiring of the lovely lines of background rickrack appearing in the V Block Quilt. The French Hen wash cloth grew enormously whilst Little A did her cello and piano practice and then utterly [...]
TweetWith Valentine’s, J’s birthday, and Grandad’s birthday all happening in the space of five days, there have been lots of lovely books wrapped and given. Valentine’s Day was so nice this year. J utterly surprised me with this … … with the most romantic inscription he has ever written! J said he looked through all [...]
TweetI am a Nigella admirer – have been for years and years. I remember the very first episode I watched – we were living in Melbourne, Little A was very little and Julian was out for the evening. We’d had something thrilling for supper like eggs and toast and then on came Nigella at 8pm [...]
TweetThe tumble down house fronts directly onto a shared driveway with no fence so the front door remains closed for most of our days. However, I live in permanent expectation of good things arriving at our front door – must be something to do with all that money of J’s we lavish on mail order! [...]
TweetJust explored some more lovely blogs and discovered a shared love for red on white monograms. So I thought I would post some of the great books I have bought in the last 12 months from Amazon.fr. I don’t speak French but the site is almost identical to the English speaking sites so it wasn’t [...]
Tweet Christmas is my favourite time of year – I love preparing our home for Advent and Christmas Day! I try to start in October – planning and beginning Christmas quilts, wall hangings and tree decorations. Little A’s birthday is the 2nd December so it is the perfect time to begin celebrating.Each year we read [...]
