Another Wednesday with Esther but the last for August I can not believe we are 3/4 of the way through the year!!!!!!
I woke to a beautiful sunny if chilly for us morning around 14C now 10am its around 25C.
7am this morning.
Now we are bathed in sunlight and a stunning blue sky 12midday.
My internet keeps dropping out very very frustrating when you are trying to write a blog!!!!!! Specially when you loose photo’s and the writing below the photos!!!!
Working on my wee triangles for TSG I still have 8 more to make!!!!
I sew my bias stems down first they make me laugh as they look like science fiction aliens to me LOL
I have my Gollywog quilt blocks out on my table again hopefully will be back sewing the last 6 blocks together soon. Love love these wee blocks they are so happy.
Playing again with my cone flowers finally have some new black to add, this will become a square not sure what will happen after I add the black??????
Love how the outside black pops my centre right out.
Clenaing out a draw two weeks ago and found these wee treasures amongst a lot of things I no longer need.
This was my mothers and she called it a fanny hoop????? You slide the kidney shape between your legs and under your bottom and then you don’t have to hold the hoop!!!!!! My hands are so sore now I’m going to try it!!!! Will let you know the out come!
I’ve been working the last 2 days in cleaning and restoring an area in the garden just wish I’d taken a before photo!!!!!
Behind my new false fence!
Monday I added this large piece of plywood, a mirror, and the wooden gate on the side boundary as my neighbour has been clearing so much from her garden we had lost our privacy around the swimming pool area as we also lost a HUGE tree from this area that left a big exposed area. It use to be so private you did not realise there was a neighbour so I’ve added this false wall to give us the illusion again of been lost in the rainforest!!!!
Yesterday while at the shop some one had dropped off 6 steel very very rusty frames that they were going in to the tip, I grabbed them and brought them home thinking to clean them up and paint them to use for climbing frames for plants, when I looked closely at them they were made with pull down hoops attached for pot plants so yesterday I screwed them to my false wall as is all rustic which softened the gate and huge piece of plywood. When you are in the swimming pool area the mirror reflects the pool area and gives the illusion there is another pool area!!!!!
We need to keep this ground area clear all the time as a lot of water rushes down here in the wet.
Now with false wall in the back ground.
Before !!!!
At last the concrete path is safe to walk on as the mould has finally died.
New tomatoes’ and beans waiting to be planted out today, DH brought them home last night.
My herbs just love this planter box that DH gave me in June.
A few orchid flowers there should be clumps of around 20 or more but it’s been so wet!!!!!!
Even my red and yellow poinciana’s are struggling as its far far to wet for them.
Today I’m digging up a soak hole area as it’s become clogged with palm seeds, I have removed the stones now need to dig out all the seeds and small stones then replace stones for the next wet, this is one of the runoffs in front of the house.
Time to stop and link with Esther. Not sure how many times I tried to downloaded these photo’s then lost them with the internet dropping out before they were downloaded .
Thanks so much for dropping in, I do enjoy travelling to your homes in return to see what you are doing. Cheers Glenda
Dear Glenda
Your applique and all your patchwork is looking beautiful. As for all your ideas and giving all the things you find new leases on life, it is just amazing. You inspire me to do the same. Those tomatoes will be so tasty!
Hi Maggie you have just wound down from all your gardening projects and mine are just starting. I keep forgetting we are in different seasons. We have to grow out tomatoes in the winter as its far to hot for them in the summer down here. I think Im dreaming about the beans growing and producing I think they will grow far to fast and go just leggy and no beans. I was so lucky with those rustic plant holders this avo the plants have sprung to life and they look like they have all ways been there. Now thinking of doing some machine sewing I just hope I don’t get side tracked before I turn the machine on LOL Hugs Glenda
I would hate to have had privacy then all of a sudden loose it. Good idea with wall. When we bought our land there was one acre of wooded land that someone owned but never built on – on the other side is someone else’s place. When the one acre became available for purchase we bought it. Now we no that no one can build right between us – it was the only area that someone could have built too close to us no longer giving us privacy on that side.
Hi Karen When we bought the place we did not realise there was a house so close as the growth around the houses was so thick, over the last 20 years we have had 3 new neighbours and each time they have cut more trees out, latest one has cut all the palms down and now just has small gardens and paths and it’s a tropical rainforest area!!!! I dread the sound of a chain saw from her property. So sad to see. We have a policy if we have to cut a tree down we plant two new ones to make sure one grows up. You were lucky you had the chance to buy the empty section to keep your privacy. Cheers Glenda
Your projects look great Glenda. I have a fanny quilting frame, I like it for small projects. It does keep your hands free. I hope your tomatoes grow nicely. I’m in the middle of tomato harvest here. There is nothing more delicious than a ‘real’ tomato, luscious!
No matter where a person lives, there is a lot of work involved in having a nice yard and flowers.
Hi Gretchen, well you have a farm to look after too I’m not sure how you find time to quilt with all you do. When we were on the farm I was lucky to even sit down LOL SO now I make the most of my time I hardly read a book just pour my heart and time in to my quilting but do watch a lot of DVD’s history documentaries and movies, more listening than watching!!!!! I’ve put a brake on starting my endless new designs LOL and trying to finish some of my old ones> My tomatoes and beans look like they have grower over night they are so happy to have their wee feet free of those small small seed pots. Now to keep the grasshoppers and caterpillars off them long enough to grow, we have these night caterpillars that if they come will eat them over night to just a stalk, they grow up to 5inchs long and as thick as your fingers. Hugs Glenda
You are one busy busy person from your quilting to all of the work in the garden. You’ll have to remind me what part of Austrailia you live in to have such a lush tropical landscape.
Hi Kyle sewing has been next to none but lots done in the garden and my back tells me so LOL I live in a little village in the FNQLD called Kuranda its in the tropical rainforest . Check it out on the web its a very very pretty tourist spot. Thanks for stopping by all ways cheers me up seeing messages. Back in tot he garden just stopped for a coffee break !!!!! Cheers Glenda
Gosh you have been so busy again!
You have brought together some great materials for your false wall – love the idea of the mirror ‘borrowing’ your own landscape and extending it, whilst offering privacy.
Love the applique too – and wish you every success with your hoop. I’ll be interested to hear how you get on with it. How lovely to have had a needleworking mother too!
Dear Plum as I said to Marita I forgot about my blog this week I’ve been lost in my jungle or what would be come a jungle if I did not slash every thing back this time of the year. Every day I think I must catch up on some sewing but it just does not happen my garden calls to strong. This last hour I ahve repotted 3 hanging baskets that were all most at bed rock as far as the soil was, I could almost here them sigh with relief when they had the new soil added LOL. My mum was a beautiful beautiful needle women and very talented, she designing her own embroidery designs as there was no one around to teach her, she dreamed of doing a course with the UK guild but it was before her time and NZ was a long way from the UK for correspondence course. Hugs Glenda
Hi Glenda,
your applique is wonderful! The block with the black background….. I love it!!! Oh, your garden, I love it too. I’m dreaming … I’ m lost in it.
Greetings, Marita
Thank you so much Marita sorry I have not answered sooner I’ve been buried in the garden this week and forgot about my blog. Glad you like that block it is quiet big around 24inches and with the black when I applique it to that it will be a good 36inches square. My garden takes all my time at present, Ive just now been out in it taking some photos for this weeks WOW or WIP’s LOL Lovely to meet you Cheers Glenda