Holidays: Day 6: Mum

Mum came up today to help MIL with a small sewing project.  A log cabin chicken.

I have made them before and MIL wanted to learn.  Hers still needs to be stuffed.  This one is mine.

While they started I got to the horrible task of ironing my hexagon flowers.  I hate that part of the sewing process.  But now all 30 that are made are ironed, ready for the joining hexies to be added.

I made us lunch - home made pizza again, oh how I love thee - and then made more Honey Oat Cookies since there are none left for me to take to my sewing day tomorrow.  Yum.  I added almonds again.  I think this will need to become part of the permanent recipe.

Tonight Ross & I are off to bowling.  He has joined a bowling league.  So he'll bowl, I'll cheer him on.  He started last week and loved it (he used to bowl many years ago so he is getting back into it).  I am looking forward to seeing him in action.

When we get home we are planning on sleeping in...

Our hiking tent.  We have never tested it out so we figured it was time, especially since we will be using it at the Rogaining event next weekend.  To me, it looks just big enough to squeeze one person into, but it is designed for 2.  Hmmm....  We will see.  LOL

I'll leave you with Shiva, looking very happy in Ross's arms....

xox

Holidays: Day 1: A Relaxing Day At Home

My holidays have started with a lovely relaxing day.  I got up early-ish - about 7.30.  I didn't really feel like getting up so I grabbed a new book from my library stash.  I paid a visit to the library yesterday and stocked up for the holidays.  I plan on doing a lot of reading in the next fortnight.  I grabbed a Laura Childs book.

Her books are pretty light on, but I have just read a couple of fairly heavy books so I need a break.

I spent the morning on the computer, just playing games and reading emails.  While at the same time watching NCIS on DVD.  And reading a chapter here and there.  It was lovely.

I also went out and took some photos of our garden.  While we did lose quite a lot of seeds in the storms several weeks ago, our snow peas and dwarf peas survived and are doing incredibly.

We also seem to have pumpkins coming up, which is interesting since we did not plant any.  LOL  We did put down compost that had pumpkin seeds in it (from pumpkins we had eaten) but that must have been enough.  We were going to plant them anyway, so I guess this saved us the effort.

Last weekend Ross and his Mum also dug out a new patch ready for us to use.  It needs some more preparation, but it is getting there.

Bit hard to see in the photo, but half the front yard will soon be filled with veggies.

I spent the first part of the afternoon doing some spring cleaning.  This will no doubt be a theme of the next 2 weeks.  We have quite a lot to go through.  Plus we have to go to our storage shed and get our summer clothes out and store our heavier winter clothes.  I ended up washing our summer quilt.  Since I hadn't taken a pic of it before I figured that I might as well while it is hanging on the line.

I made this when I still lived in Qld, probably 9 or 10 years or so ago.  It is one of my favourite quilts.  One of the few I made that I am still in possession of, most have been given away.

So I spent the rest of the avo sewing hexagons.  I have now done 24.  I have 48 to go which means I am exactly 1/3 of the way through the flaowers.  Considering I have only been working on it for 5 weeks, I am incredibly impressed with how many I have got through.

Overall, my holidays have started on a great note, and I am looking forward to the next 2 weeks.

To say good bye for the day, here is a pic of our youngest (and biggest) cat Starr.

xox