I have been busy…

Well what a week!  We have had beautiful weather this week.  My grandchildren and I decided it was time to do some gardening.  I owned 2 dogs so gardening was often really wasted.  But anyway we decided to do some.  One Tuesday afternoon we went to Bunnings and bought some plants and planted them.  While there I also purchased what I thought was dog friendly snail bait.  Alas …someone must have put a packet of the deadly stuff in the friendly stuff.  My grandkids and I planted out flowers and then we sat around throwing a ball and watching the dogs play.  The next day my husband called in and found one of our dogs quite sick and the other had died.  My lovely noisy, mangey, greedy but always happy dog was gone.  After 2 days in the vet , Ceda my blue heeler made a recovery.  The vet said just as well my Kelpie was greedy as both dogs could have died.  How lovely that the kids and I had played ball and such the day of his death.  That leaves nice memories for us.  Anyway…enough of that.  The days are still beautiful and I have been sewing a little.

I have joined a couple more crazy patch round robins.  The first will be Japanese 4 block round robin.  I have made 4 different blocks.  The green block is the modern funky japenese block, the pink is cherry blossom, the blue is tranquil and the burgundy is more traditional.  Each person in the swap will get to do a little something on each block before mailing it off onto the next person.  Here is a pic of the 4 blocks.

   The other one is a bible round robin.  I have decided to have plants from the bible.  I am intending to make my daughter a bible bag for sabbath school.  The other week I picked up a silk scalf.  When I was looking through my stash I found it and thought…emmmt that looks like cassia.  So of course I have used it.  My grandaughter is named Keziah which is also biblical and the name is derived from the Cassia shrub.  I will be mailing both these round robins off tomorrow. 

 

The other thing I made this week was a sewing dilly bag.  I was intending to swap this but after I finished it all and made the little needlebook and pin holder I realised that the base wasn’t a nice circle….grrrrrr.  So now it isn’t going to be swapped.  Instead my daughter will get it.  I’ll love giving it to my daughter anyway as she has always hated craft, doing it and receiving it.  Guess what!  She is doing some stitchery and also likes some crafty things.  I guess I will have to make another bag to swap next week.

  Now….for the very special thing.  No… I did not make it but someone else did.  When I left work I was always going to make my grandaughter a “theatre trunk” for her dolls clothes.  Well I never did get to make it but a friends husband made it.  Oh and what a wonderful job.  I just love it.  I have to paint it and I am intending to put some wallpaper inside it as well.  I will post a pic of it when I have finished it.  But in the meantime here is a pic.

  I will have to get moving if I want to have all the dolls clothes made for xmas.  Well that is it for now.  Thanks for dropping by.  Cheerio for now

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