soul treat stitching

Woke up today to a very misty morning…

quite pretty in it’s own way!

the mist/fog cleared but the day has been cloudy and dull, with little patches of sunshine.

I finished my Haute Boheme french general quilt… I bought the kit from Craftsy.

quilted it by machine.

…happy with how it turned out!

Writing a blog post on my iPhone while waiting for my husband at the dentist. And hoping they aren’t running late.

I went to the op shop and that filled in half an hour. Found this cut glass container, not sure what I will use it for.
It will look shinier when I go home and wash the dust off.

i do intend to post more this year…but things come up and I just don’t get around to sitting down and deciding what to write.  So, this is a quick post while I have a  cup of tea and toast for breakfast on our verandah.  Sunday, was our first quilt group day, and we had a lovely day catching up with what everyone has been working on.  The last few days have been really hot and humid which only makes me want to stay inside where the air con is on and not in the sewing room.  I finished the quilt top I got for xmas, I need to take some pictures and the plan was to have it quilted before the group day, but that didn’t happen.

My plans for this year is to spend a lot of time sewing and quilting…finish some quilts and generally relax and enjoy days!  And keep my garden more maintained.   While we were away, the house was painted outside and it was so nice to come home to a freshly painted house.

What I wanted to post a picture of today, is the galahs that have arrived at the bird feeder. This is what happens, when the seed I bought is large bird seed, instead of the usual small bird seed.  We usually only feed a couple of rosellas but with big bird seed the galah’s have arrived.

These are baby galah’s…I’ve never seen so many young galah’s as there is around here this year.   And they are so funny…they even sound like babies.  The one on the right, in the picture below is very young.

We really need to replace the brush panel on the fence, possums run up it at night which is breaking pieces off it.

We realy

One of my presents was this quilt kit from craftsy…by french general.

It’s the beautiful Rue Indienne fabric…intend to make it very shortly…when I have a free day!

Today, is a very slow…raining and cricket on the TV…

We came to Canberra for our nieces wedding…Elle and Michael.

…the tables were set with flowers in jars and candles.

…everyone had a wonderful time.

Early morning view from where we are staying in Canberra.  We arrived in Canberra on Wednesday after spending a few days on the NSW south coast.  My grand mother came from the Milton, Berry area of the south coast, her family moved to the far nth coast of NSW when she was about 14. So we spent a few days visiting places that she talked about all her life…she never went back there for a visit.

Yesterday, we went to Parliament House for question time, it was the last day of parliament for the year.  We had lunch in the cafe there and wandered around the corridors for a while. This xmas tree was the the foyer.

And the view from Parliament house.