Feeling better

​after three days of not doing much at all I woke this morning feeling a whole lot better. I needed to go to the pharmacy to pick up meds and deliver another encyclopaedia of prescriptions to them. 

They keep it all there so I don’t have to remember anything. They even send a notification saying my meds are due. 

From there I went to art you can walk from art to the pharmacy in two minutes. Bonus 

I got home thinking I’ll clean the fireplace and get it ready to light tonight 

Rains are coming and a drop of temperature. We will see. 

But I didn’t need too hubby had done it and has been outside organising more wood 

He’s using the forklift to move the steel crates from the wood pile to next to the house 

There they are all lined up ready. 

The closest one is the current crate. 

Me I’ve been on a mission 

I’ve been out to check the water trough 

And given Dobby some carrots 

I’ve been in the kitchen cooking everything that needed to be used 

Tuscan meatball in the casserole  pumpkin and potatoes roasting 

The punnets of tomatoes and cucumbers that I cut up for Ana’s grazing platter I’ve cut up into a Greek salad  I’ll add onion and feta just before serving  

The strawberries and a few blueberries I’ve stewed and will be used in a dump cake for dessert 

So easy  

I took the scraps to the chickens 

They were out free ranging but I locked them up when they came in to eat  

Now they’re safe and sound  I don’t fancy going out in the rain to lock them up  

So I’m ready for an evening of staying in and just relaxing  

A person Saturday night I think 

Lonely Friday

​yesterday I had a conversation with my beautiful daughter in law and told her how I was 

Not well. I had caught Georgias germs and felt yuck

I was still happy to take the girls but DIL told me to rest and that she really didn’t want 

The girls catching it again. 

Which is totally understandable and why I told her about how I was. 

So I slept in and Ive pottered around not really doing much at all 

I did finish the iPad cover 

I added some Velcro and it shuts nicely 

I am feeling better than I was yesterday 

And I’ll be totally back to my normal self by next Friday 

I Have missed the girls today, but appreciated the rest. 

Sewing

​iPad finished loading and all is well 

I will go over the weekend and organise the eSIM 

Meanwhile I wanted to sew something a little taxing to see 

How the machine would work. 

I decided I needed a quilted case to keep the new, expensive, toy 

Safe and sound 

I grabbed the bag of too think to use as binding, but too large to throw away 

And some batting and I set to work 

I slowly stitched all the pieces in a haphazard way, quilting as I go 

I kept at it  mixing and matching  trying to make it pretty  

I then sewed a backing fabric and bagged it all out  

I even decided to add a binding  to keep the two sides safely bound together 

Front and back view  

It’s too thick to use the plastic poppers  right now I’ve left it as is 

But I do have a plan  

If it works  I’ll show you 

It is thickly padded and it fits exactly, so the iPad doesn’t move about 

So I now have a very secure case, used more scrap fabric and tested the machine   

Which I am so happy to report worked like it was brand new 

So it really was my tools, not my ability that was causing the problems 

I was starting to doubt myself 

 

On the home front

​I’m pleased to say I have been a good girl and resting. Well as much as I can

Yesterday I went into Cranbourne for coffee and catchup. I had too. If I cancelled again they would be here dragging me out 

After coffee I had to go and get my talons redone. It’s been well over a month and I was starting to look the one of MacBeths witches. Well how I imagine their hands look like 

After that I ran into the reject shop and then headed home. 

As I was getting into the car I got a notification in my phone saying I had a package to collect from the post office 

My faithful, traveled the world with me iPad had finally gone terminal. 

After ten beautiful years I had to admit defeat and purchase a new one. 

I dragged hubby with me and headed off. 

Now the reason I took hubby is this. I always will go the cheaper way which not only means I’ll go for the slightly less memory, or last years model or just take whatever they have in stock. 

I started off true to form. 

I didn’t get the cheapest but I did go for the middle model 

Hubby said that we are spending all that money and since I’m so good about looking after my things I should go for the top model with the most memory. 

So we did. Then the really lovely sales man asked what colour I preferred. 

I answered what ever is in stock. Well they don’t have stock and they will order it in. 

Only one colour could be ordered into the shop. The other colours were online only. The colour available in the shop was blue. And honestly I’d of been quite happy with it. But since it had to be ordered anyway I chose pink. 

Well why wouldn’t you. That was the package at the post office 

I started to move all my apps and information onto it yesterday. But something went wrong. 

This morning I turned it off and back on to try again 

Success. 

Well it says it’s downloading as I type 

Here’s hoping it finishes correct. I then have to take it back to the store so they can change the SIM card over. 

They no longer have physical SIM cards they have eSIM. I have no idea how to move that over. So the lovely salesman said they will do it for me 

So that’s where I’m at with that little adventure 

Meanwhile my little, again faithful, slow cooker has a crack in the ceramic bowl. 

It’s not right through but it definitely will get there in the near future. 

So onto Amazon I go. 

I found quite a few in that size. Brilliant 

Now I could have gone with another plain white one around the $90 to $100 depending on the brand 

But they had a pretty little Laura Ashley one for $125 

Guess which one I purchased 

I fought the impulse to get the cheaper one. They do after all work the same way. But I heard hubbys words in my head. 

You look after thins and they last. 

Lash out and get the one you want 

I’m taking that as personal growth 

By the way I used AI to add the background to that photo. 

Another, can’t fight it any longer moment 

I’m embracing our future. 

I hope John Conner with forgive me 

Rebellion

​not by me. But my body. 

After a full on week I’ve well and truly crashed and burned 

Pain levels high,

Having to go back to using me stick

Sleep gone 

My lip started to swell and has now cracked and is bleeding and painful 

And IBS has literally kicked me in the guts 

But above all that 

I’m feeling cold. Maybe this doesn’t seem like much, but I never feel cold 

This was when hubby knew I wasn’t well

So I’ve been ordered to just rest on pain of death 

He even sent wonderson to come and put wood in the fire 

Keep this hinder your hat. I had just done that before he arrived 

It’s sunny out and I wanted some vitamin D. I just strolled around checking to see if all the nettings had survived the wind and the heavy rains 

Very pleased to announce that they were all intact 

The first lot of seedlings are growing wonderfully. The replanted silverbeet, chard, have all survived and growing nicely 

You can see some in the second photo 

And here. 

The rhubarb as also come back to life 

The strawberries are thriving and have really responded to that TLC

The plastic terra cotter looking pots, all have started to grow. You can now see green seedlings over the mulch 

The seedlings in that first photo are still just popping up. Most are the onion seedlings that were tiny when I got them. 

I was worried they might have been too small and be taken out by the heavy rains. 

They weren’t. The netting actually helped to stop the damage.  So an unforeseen advantage. I’ll remember that and use it again in the future 

So even though I’m a mess in need of a little TLC myself, the garden is bouncing along very nicely indeed. 

Hopefully I’ll be back to normal tomorrow and I can get a little more done out there. 

I’m happy to sit and rest but not for days on end. That isn’t great for my mental health 

Beautiful Brianna

Our beautiful Brianna. 

Yesterday we all went to Brianna’s birthday party. What a wonderful time. Lots of laughter and fun. And especially love 

Birthday cake. Chocolate with butterflies 

Dancing and laughing having a wonderful time 

Happiest of birthdays our wonderful baby girl. You have brought so much joy into our lives 

Keep being you and shoot for the stars 

She’s back!

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Elly the elna is back from her hospital stay, and I couldn’t be more happy 

Although I had the spare machine it wasn’t the same. I tried to hem some stretchy Tshirts and I nearly lost my mind. 

Apparently having a  Walking foot helps 

Well you don’t say. My walking foot is in my quilting machine. 

Obviously I had to take her for a test drive so I chose a simple project 

I made towel toppers.  That very impressive tool is called a chop stick. It’s the very best thing to use to pop those corners out. 

Here they all are finished. I do still need to put the poppers on. I’ll do that in a few days. No rush. I think these will end up in the Christmas gifts basket 

The machine is sewing like she was brand new. Not bad for one that’s well over 15 years old. Best thing it only cost $160.00

Honestly if you live in the area. Get your machine to Craft Quarters in kooWeeRup. The machine man picks up all the patients and brings them back for collection 

If you live in the area drop off your sick machines and the machine doctor picks them up and then drops them back  while your there you might buy some pretty fabrics. They have so many to chose from 

I’ve already cut up the scraps for my hexies 

This will definitely be a long term project 

I won’t feel bad when I shift to something else in between working on it 

While I was in my craft room hubby was outside feeding the menagerie 

As you can see, they got stuck in 

We have a function on tonight, which I’ll tell you all about tomorrow 

Enjoy your day, create make a mess and have a great time doing it