My gosh Wednesday nearly slipped by me this week. It has been very busy mostly with cleaning the house and garden ready for the wet season that officially starts Nov. Paint ing is on the agenda in some places it is never ending in the tropics. This week I started the wooden wall below and hubby finished it, it took 3 coats to cover the wood.
Same wall last Xmas!!!!! I did not realise how dark it made the room???????
Freshly painted it use to be just the colour of the wood but it was so hard to keep clean in humid conditions during the wet. Now it will only take 15 mins to wash down. I call this area my roués gallery?????
Over the last few weeks I have seen marks appearing on my 1930 GMFG I have been working on all year hemming and quilting, I could not work out were I was picking up the stains, then last week as I pulled it off my chair a recliner it was caught down one side and as it came out there was this HUGH grease mark, horrors old black grease of all things.
I decided I needed to remove it as soon as possible but I did not want to wash it with out quilting that area first; so I worked just on the corner and washed it using I old rubber dub washing board and hand made olive oil soap from France nearly all the marks have been removed. One of the things I have learnt from this is I will NOT now wash the quilt till I have completely quilted it, washing it has made the fabric shrink a little and it is a lot harder to quilt compared to the area that is not washed.
Above photo is where the thick grease was!!!!
The below flowers are taken this morning. last week the spider orchid was just opening and now one steam is fully out.
Below a wild banana it even looks like they will grow big enough to eat this year?????
Below some of the undergrowth in our rain forest area.
Below a Huge hand woven floor rug that came in to the shop it is sooooo dirty no one wanted to touch it, but as I have been a weaver I could not bear to see all that work been dumped so I have brought it home to see if I can clean it up, it is surprising what a garden hose and clothes detergent can do some times. I will let you know how it goes.
Below Hoya is in full bloom they the blooms are every where this year the best flowering we have ever had, and the perfume is heavenly.
I love stones and have them every where?????
Off to link with Esther http://www.estheraliu.blogspot.com/now,
thanks so much for dropping in Cheers Glenda
Your hexagon quilt is gorgeous. Such a shame about the grease but good to get it out.
The garden is truly beautiful, love your Hoya flower.
Hi Sharon and thank you for dropping in. Best part about the hexagon quilt is that I now know NOT to wash it before I completely quilt it LOL. I’m out washing that Navaho floor rug at present it has taken me 1 1/2 hours to wash it but it does look a lot more healthy now. May have to have it commercially dry cleaned to finish it off. It smelt like a wet dogs blanket when I first started washing it LOL. Cheers Glenda
just love that orchid!! I wish I had luck growing the inside orchids but I have tried with no luck. Now I have a new house plant and I wonder if I will be able to keep it alive!!
Hi Karen when we lived in NZ we grew cymbidium orchids as it was a cold climate but these flower just as easy for us as it is a very warm tropical climate. Yes you can keep it alive as long as you look and talk to it every day, then you will see if it needs water or not LOL. Cheers Glenda
Hi Esther wish I could send you some Hoya flowers but they don’t like been cut, there are so many on the vines this year. Every time I walk in side I get a surprise at how light the place looks now, and of course now we are going to paint the whole kitchen white LOL. I think Sue Daley has had a strong influence on bring the hexagon back in to fashion with her fussy cutting of hexagons a few years back well may be more than a few years back now !!!!!! I made her first hexagon quilt this goes with that what fun that was. Cheers Glenda
I would have been horrified!
I’m still on te debate on whether I am even going to attempt a grandmother’s flower garden with my hexagons.
Hi Marsha at least I learnt NOT to wash the quilt before I finished quilting it; that would of been a real disaster. I just wear nose plugs when I’m quilting it as it is so dusty and musty as it is around 85 years old and has not been treasured and stored as it should have been till it was finished. I’m just so thrilled I have the chance to complete it for that unknown quilter who made this beautiful quilt in and around 1930. Cheers Glenda