A helping hand

What are you cutting there mummy. I like this green material it will make a nice bed for me.

what are you sewing now mummy.

I can help just let me have a go.

fine I'll just wait here then and help with the pressing shall I.

What a good girl I am helping with all this sewing mummy has been doing. I'm sure she is appreciating it and I'm not in the way at all!

More coasters

I think I have another one or two sets to make and I'm done. It's getting harder as I'm running out of scraps. So I'm really stretching the old grey matter. 

I've also been commissioned to knit a baby girls jacket and booties so I have also spent time doing that. While knitting thinking of what ways I can use what's left in my scrap pile without resorting to cutting up the bigger pieces. I want to leave them for other uses.

What do you think of my creations so far, not too shabby me things,

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Eleven weeks till Christmas.

I was told via Facebook that its it's only eleven weeks till Christmas and I panicked.

So I put my thinking cap on and was thinking what am I going to get everyone. I don't want to spend a lot of money as I have two major events to save for next year.

More on that later

So I started pulling out all my scraps and bits and bobs and started working.

I found some off cuts from a quilt I made about three years ago

added some boarders. 

Got some off cuts of wading and the backing from the candle wicking quilt I made about four years ago.

did some binding and viola I have made two sets of four coasters.

this is another set from a quilt I made to give to my aunt in Greece when I visited. I have also finished another one and half sets before quitting for the day. I'll post photos of the next lot on my next post.

I will give a set of coasters and two coffee cups as a christmas gift to each couple. Like my mum and dad, my sister and her hubby and for each other couple

If I get the coffee cups from the reject shop you can pick up some nice ones for $2 - $5 dollars.

That means each couple will only cost $10.00. 

I hope they like them, I have had fun designing each set with what I have.

Will post more pics tomorrow 

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Fencing

What timers it when and elephant sits on your fence?

Time to get a new fence!

Well an elephant didn't sit on my fence but after almost 20 years we need a new one.

We have been waiting for the ground to dry as it has been very wet and with the warmer weather 

Here don has rung his fencing mate.

Hopefully we will get that new fence soon, but as with mates and their cheaper for you rates we will have to wait until he isn't too busy.

But that's ok, it's been like that for a few years, only not that gaping hole!

The dogs love it as they can go and check out the stock and come back. Teddy goes to the front and gets my shoe and brings it back to chew while in bed. Grrrrr it's always my shoe!

So as you can see id like it done sooner rather than later. 

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Abundance

We have been busy here, collecting the abundance of our produce. While away the garden must of loved the weather as it was ready to harvest when we came back.
Over the weekend we collected cabbage, broccoli, coli, beet roots, and leaks.
The chickens have been going gang busters too, so cooking them up and giving away four dozen yesterday has made room for the next load to come in.
I'm not complaining, I'm very excited. It's getting my eager to get some new summer seedlings into the ground.
Yes the warmer weather is here now, I wonder how long it will last.
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A slight detour

While driving along hubby spotted a sign saying princess Margaret rose cave 13 kilometres next turn left.

He looks at me and says should we go? I figure sure why not!

So we detour and found a beautiful place with an amazing cave. The limestone cave system had some awesome calcite structures. The first one is called the wedding cake and is about 8 feet tall. The second one is called the chandelier and has taken hundreds of years to form.

so if ever you see a detour, consider taking it, you never know what you will find. For my fellow Aussies google this place it's on the boarder of Victoria and south Australia and it really is a gem.

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Apollo bay

A better nights sleep last nigh than the one before. We decided to put the tent up again and boy was that a bad call. We had the worst storms in thirty years. I spent the whole night listening to the tent and quick shade getting blown around. But I'm amazed that neither was blown away.

So as the weather man said we were getting more of the same we again opted for a room. And boy am I glad we did. I woke during the night and I could hear it blowing outside. So today we will start the last leg home and I will be able to upload some of the photos I took with my camera. I will start to post them soon after.

If your ever able to do  the great ocean road drive. Amazing sights to see. Even with the weather being so blowy it was fantastic to see things I have read about all my life. We will do it again with my big van and during better weather. 

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