Sewing for a cause

A friend of mine has started a charity that helps children that need to leave their home for whatever reason 

Usually it’s a rushed thing and the kids leave with nothing more than the clothes on their backs 

This is where my lovely friend sally comes in 

Her charity pack backpacks with essentials and each child receives one full of things they need 

https://www.backpacks4vickids.org.au/

This is the link to their website 

You can also find them on Facebook

She tagged me to a sewing page for their charity and it says they need bags sewn for toiletries and some for stationary 

I’ve made stationary bags with what I have 

I’ll have to go searching tomorrow to see what other fabric I have that I can use 

I just need some cord to finish these off 

I’ll make a bundle and deliver them to her 

So if your kinda local 

And feel like this is something you can do 

Jump on board 

Unfortunately the need lots 

There are other things they need and if you check out the website it will tell you 

I hope you can help her and her band of helpers 

See ya xxx

Life

I hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend 

The weather is has been lovely and we got some much needed rain 

I’ve been swimming and walking and slowly getting back into a routine 

I finished my table runner 

The quilting is stitch in the ditch. It’s not perfect 

The weight of the runner would pull and pull it off line so there are more than a few 

Wonky bits 

But I’m happy with it. Once I put on the Christmas decorations on it. You won’t notice it 

Here are a few,  much smaller, Pieces. I will pin them and quilt them and get them finished 

In the next few weeks. Then I’ll put them away for Christmas presents 

Nothing like getting a head start I say 

And I’ve stared on my stash of bendigo wool mills yarn 

These are fifty fifty wool and bamboo 

So they are nice and soft

So there is nothing exciting happening right now, just life 

Uncomplicated, boring comfortable life 

And I like that. 

See ya xxx

Wordless Wednesday

Experimenting in the kitchen

I had a craving for fish cakes 

But I didn’t want the potatoes or heaps of flour 

So I put my thinking cap on and came up with this recipe 

I bought some salmon 

I had cooked cauliflower and broccoli at home in the fridge 

Two eggs 

A handful of three mix cheese for pizzas 

Two tablespoons of gluten free flour

And extra shaved Parmesan cheese 

I mixed it all together 

Except the Parmesan cheese and rolled the mixture into patty’s 

Then rolled them in the Parmesan cheese and put them in the refrigerator until ready to cook 

Because they were basically already cooked, except for the two eggs, I only had to shallow fry them for a few minutes until golden brown 

And I served them straight away with a salad 

Hubby loved them and has asked to have them again 

So I’ll be able to look back on this post and recreate it 

I hope lol 

Going through my yarn stash I’ve found lots of small balls 

As I never throw anything away lol 

So I’m making a scrap yarn blanket 

Not sure for who or how big I’ll make it. 

But it’s slowly growing 

I’ve had a busy few days 

Life is plodding along 

The smoke has cleared for now 

And may places around the country are getting rain 

Hopefully those that need it get enough

Up north they have received too much and have had to deal with floods. 

But that’s Australia. A land of extremes 

But we are all used to it and we all chip in and help one another. 

It’s the Aussie way 

See ya xxx

Keeping up on the weeds

This garden bed is a no dig. So we don’t have heaps of weeds. But we do get the grass from the lawn growing 

Through it. 

So hubby helped me pull them out and and add more of the organic sugarcane mulch 

We had to go to bunnings to get more as I only had one bag left 

I love it. It’s easy to use and breaks down adding body to our Sandy soil 

While we were there we saw some nasturtiums 

So I’ve planted them throughout. Hopefully they take off and cover the area with lots of colour 

The olive tree is loving being in the ground 

It even looks happy lol 

One of the dogs had dug a hole here. I filled it in twice and it got redug 

So I put an old pot in and planted a lemon tree 

Fill it in around the out and mulched. 

I hope that has put a stop to the digging 

So it all looks nice and neat again 

I’ve been going hard for days now and of course the old body has said very loudly 

Enough 

So today will be spent resting 

I don’t want to have a full on crash and flare 

So I will listen and I will act 

Haven’t I got wise in my old age lol 

Be well everyone 

See ya xxx

Down the garden path

The recent rain we had has been lovely for my garden 

The roses need deadheading which I will endeavour to do over the next few days 

I don’t know the names off all my flowers as I will by from the bargain bin and they sometimes 

Don’t have tags. Plus if I’ve planted it a few years ago. I forget anyway. 

So these are my pretty yellow buttercup flowers although I have no idea what they are really called 

These are the same. They are a bulb that come up year after year. 

I call them my bulb roses lol 

I think these are dahlias

Can you see the bee. 

There were lots of bees buzzing around for which I am very grateful 

Someone once asked me why I had so many flowers when I could plant more vegetables 

Well. Flowers feed the bees which pollinate the veggies so you can’t have one without the flowers 

Besides. Flowers nourish the soul and that’s just as important I think 



And another bee sitting on the leaf 

And another 

There was one on this flower as well. But I think she was shy. She flew away lol 

I had to cut these gladioli 

They were laying down. 

How do you keep them from laying down. 

I’d much rather not cut them and leave them out for the bees. 

I hope you enjoyed a stroll down my garden path 

I’d love to see yours 

Enjoy the rest of the weekend 

See ya xxx

A day out

Today I went out with hubby to a caravan and fishing show at geelong 

We drove to sorrento and caught the ferry across to queenscliffe 

This is where we got on at sorrento 

This is as we are leaving. 

It’s a forty minute crossing. Not long at all. Just enough time for a coffee 

And then you have to get back to your car to get off 

The caravan and fishing show was nice enough 

Being a Friday it wasn’t busy at all. Which was good 

And the back to board on the ferry here at queenscliffe 

It was nice to be on the water and it was nice to just get out and about 

Home now and relaxing 

Hope you all have a lovely weekend 

See ya