Weekend

The weeks are flying by 

Six months until Christmas! 

Ana decided yesterday that we should relax and take life easy 

I think children can teach us so much 

She took off her tshirt, it’s always warm at grandmas. 

Trixie decided to sleep on it. 

She really loves the girls 



Today after art in the morning. We headed off and saw my mum in hospital. 

She’s coming out Thursday and she will come stay here for a few weeks 

I started to sort out my scraps and decided I wanted to make something quick. 

I’d seen these pin cases. And I made one 

Very easy and effective 





It’s now in my sewing box. 

In the big stash of scraps I found the off cuts from a quilt I had professionally quilted. 





I’ve spent some time getting the fabric separated from the wading. 

I’ve still got a few big pieces to go. 

Once done they will go into the tubs and used for later projects 

Meanwhile. Hubby borrowed a truck and got hay for the menagerie 

If I didn’t have animals I’d be so much richer in the bank, but poorer in my soul 

Now we are finally sitting and waiting for the football to start. 

Who knows what we will get up to tomorrow 

Birthday boy

Today this chubby baby boy turns 36. 

I honestly don’t know where that time went 

At the time if felt like I had forever to enjoy, and stress, about your baby years. 

But in a blink of an eye you grew into a man and left the nest. 

So happy birthday my baby boy. Here’s to many many more years 

Hump day

Over the last two days I finished this quilt top

I did add boarders between all the blocks and one around the whole piece 

The second quilt top 

I’m calling this “ summer garden” 

Full of flowers and pretty colours 



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Predicted bread making today and she was correct 

She must be psychic  lol

Here it is before cooking 




And here it is done 

I wondered if the top would go brown with the lid on 

But it did 



The whole house smells wonderful 

Yes it is a cold rainy day today 

A perfect baking day 

Warnings

I had a doctors appointment today to get my scripts 

While chatting the doctor asked when I last had a blood test. 

Well I couldn’t remember so she checked on the computer 

My last blood test was 2021

We can’t have that right. 

Luckily I hadn’t had a coffee or anything to eat so I couldn’t remember do the “donating “ of my blood straight away. 

I was then given a little plastic container and shown to the nearest toilets 

When I left I was warned  to not lift anything too heavy for the rest of the day 

I didn’t listen. 

I headed off to Aldi and bought bulk dog food. 

Cat food 

And a box of  long life milk. 

A heavy box 

This happens when you don’t listen to warnings   

It looks bad but thankfully it doesn’t hurt 

I also bought this new bread oven 

Another heavy box. Just to add to my load. 

Aldi’s middle isle is a dangerous place that needs a warning sign 





Later in the day we received a weather warning 

I don’t panic. I just get organised 

Firewood was brought in and 

All loose items were stored 

The winds did pick up to gusty. 

And then the temperature dropped. 

We currently have rain. 

So I do listen to warnings and I usually do as I’m told 

But I really needed to stock up. 

At least now I have, I won’t have to worry about it for a few weeks. 

All that’s left to do is wait to see what tests will reveal 

I’m sure I’m pretty much ok 

Catching up

Sunday was a definite rest day  I couldn’t get up and do much at all. 

So of course I had fallen behind in my chores 

I’ve stripped the bed , washed the sheets snd now they’re dry and waiting to be placed back on the bed 

The weather today was warmer than usual. With strong winds. It didn’t take long for the bedding to dry. 

A load of hubbys clothes have been washed and are on the clothes horse  drying by the fire 

In between washing I was cooking and sewing 

These blocks just didn’t match with the others I had made. So they’re now going to be a quilt of their own 

Once I’ve sown them together I’ll add a couple of boarders   It will make a decent size quilt for using on the couch. 

This is the second quilt.  I’m trying to decide if I’ll add strips between all the block as well as a boarder.   

I’ll give it a thought and decide when it comes time to sew it all together 




After laying them all out. I had two blocks left over 

These have become the two cushion covers I still needed 

They’ll match the quilt and look like a whole set   Just like store bought 

I even made some scones while doing the meal prep for dinner



Dinner is done and waiting for hubby to arrive 

A load of towels will be hung up under the back porch to dry. And after finishing with a load of my clothes 

I’ll be back on schedule 

Then all I have to do is sit and knit while watching telly before finally going to bed 

Tomorrow I’ll start on the next set of chores. 

Hopefully after a good nights sleep. 

Busy days

Friday was Ana day. 

She asked if she could do some cut and paste. 

Of course grandma had the supplies 

She was working on her master piece for grandpa. 

She didn’t quite finish it so it’s still here for to finish next week

Watching Gabbys dollhouse with her best friend 



Today we headed off to the city to see my other beautiful girls compete in the cheerleading competitions 



Brianna on top. She is not scared of nights. 



On stage so happy 




Because they won first place in there age group. 

So very proud of their whole team. They were so good together. And you could see they were having a great time 



After it was all over. We headed to our cousins home for dinner. 

Finally getting home at 9.o’clock. 

I’m now in pjs, watching my team play football. 

It will be over soon, hopefully we can hung for the win. And then I’ll be so very ready for my bed 

Grandma is getting a little too old for two busy days in a row.  

Thankfully it’s Sunday tomorrow and I can have a sleep in and rest day 

Confusion and more squares

The older girls have a cheerleading exhibition that we are going to watch. 

It’s being held in the city. So hubby and I decided to leave home early to get there in plenty of time. 

I looked at the tickets and realised that we were a week early. Thankfully we hadn’t left home yet. 

Being a Saturday I told my art teacher that I wouldn’t be able to come to class. No problem. Unfortunately it then meant that I was going to miss two weeks. 

I didn’t want that. Do I had a lesson this afternoon to work on the new painting we started 

This is what I’ve now completed 

Much better than Trixies portrait. 

I’m back in my comfort zone 

I’ve also made more squares. I’m going to make a smaller quilt 

Going through the fabric the nice lady gave me. I found a piece with these pictures amongst lots of garden. 

I fussy cut out the buildings and then used the same process as the stitcheries to turn them into a block 

Further digging produced another panel with different flowers 



They’re ready to be sown with the first triangles boarder. 

There’s 12 of those. 

All up 20 blocks. That will make a decent 

Sized quilt 

I’m a bit worried that the stitches blocks won’t mix well with the others. 

I’ll lay them out and see once they’re all finished 

If the don’t, well I’ll just put them to one side and figure out what to add to them 

Now I’m sitting and waiting on hubby to arrive home. 

Dinner is cooked and I’ll dish it up when he gets here. I got a text saying he wasn’t far away