Archive for the ‘family’ Category

pottering

May
2013
14

posted by on books, chatter, family, patchwork, quilts, thrifted, woodwork

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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 [...]

warming the bones

May
2013
02

posted by on chatter, embroidery, family, our furry children, sewing

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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 [...]

posted by on cooking, crafty, family, homely, knitting, patchwork, quilts, sewing, ~ loveliness found ~

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Tweet  if you would like to share your ~loveliness found~ moments from this week please leave them in the comments or share a link to your place! ~ a basket filled with beautiful but under-appreciated yarn, bought many years ago, now being knitted into something warming & special for someone very loved ~ ~ dragged [...]

pretzel

Apr
2013
20

posted by on books, cooking, family

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Tweet We cracked open our copy of Good to the Grain this morning.  Such a treasure trove of yumminess.  This morning, the pretzels were calling.  I feel a bit like Maria in Sound of Music when it comes to baked pretzels.  You know that bit where she sings … “somewhere in my youth or childhood, [...]

posted by on books, christmas, family, moomins, patchwork, quilts

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Tweet Well … this afternoon, Julian, Abby and Sacha headed out to the airport.  I was left standing in the kitchen wondering what to do.  Research for next week’s essay or studying for tomorrow’s philosophy quiz were completely out of the question.  Vacuuming … could be very valuable given the amount of Fu fluff that [...]

friends

Apr
2013
08

posted by on books, dolls, family, woodwork

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Tweet Abby and Sacha have been friends since they were wee little cuties in Mary Janes and striped school dresses.  From the moment they met, they were kindred spirits.   When we moved to Melbourne, Sacha came too to help Abby settle in.  And she’s been back again and again and again.  We call her [...]

posted by on beach, chatter, family, far south new south wales, homely, patchwork, sewing, travels

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Tweet if you would like to share your ~loveliness found~ moments from this week … & I would so love it if you did … please leave them in the comments or share a link to your place! ~ picnicking at a magical spot where rolling green hills meet the glittering blue sea underneath a [...]

beach play

Apr
2013
03

posted by on beach, family, far south new south wales, travels

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Tweet Ahhhh … you know where we are, don’t you.  Yes, Abby, Sacha and I have made the trek across the Gippsland and are spending a week with Mum in marvellous Merimbula.  Oh how I do love this sweet seaside village.  Only a few more years and our family will be moving up here.  Until [...]

a cosy easter table

Apr
2013
02

posted by on crafty, family, festivals

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Tweet Such a lovely Easter Sunday breakfast.  The sky was still leaden and dark with the occasional misty sprinkle of rain.  But in our kitchen, all was golden and warm and fragrant. I just LOVE setting the Easter table.  I wake up early, turn on the lamps, make a pot of tea, heat the coffee [...]

posted by on books, chatter, dolls, embroidery, family, knitting, needle felting, nursing, our furry children

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Tweet  ~ very simple, very sweet and oh so very soothing ~  ~ new friendships were cherished, endings that arrived so quickly were lamented & promises were made ~ ~ an early morning prac was rewarded with a steamy, creamy bowl of coffee in the sun ~ ~ knit, knit, knit, knit, knit … & [...]

posted by on beach, books, chickens, crafty, family, knitting

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Tweet if you would like to share your ~loveliness found~ moments from this week … & I would so love it if you did … please leave them in the comments or share a link to your place! ~ making some time to put one little square of fabric with another & finding just as [...]

posted by on chatter, family, travels

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Tweet We went to the zoo!  On the hottest day of our heatwave so far ….. (that sound is me hissing through my teeth)  … it was lovely.  But excruciatingly hot.  The best part was when I stood under the canopy sprinkler with the kookaburra.  I just wish they’d turned the tap on a bit [...]