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  • a little of this week

    _DSC0019these pretty french red hexies arrived yesterday from Rosalie…from Victoria, Australia

    love them …they will fit in perfectly!

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    This is a quick layer cake quilt I made recently…

    It’s a pattern from the Missouri Quilt Co on youtube

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    Now that I am looking at the photo I can see where I should have moved the red squares around a little more…anyway we can learn from our mistakes…

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    I woke up yesterday morning to the council cutting down the jacaranda tree

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    …and now the view from the front of our house looks like this!

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    …The kookaburra sat on the aerial all the while it was being cut down.

    see the nest in the tree…the bloke cutting it down did leave that branch till last…

    was it a kookaburra nest?

     

     

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  • Sunday…

    …this snake has taken up residence in our roof!

    We fill in one space it gets in and it just finds another gap…this time above

    the sewing room…I really don’t want it there…

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    …so next time we know it’s out we will have to fill in the gap on the corner of the house.

    The birds warn us where it is…they are so funny…squawking until we take notice.

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    ..this is my hexagons I have received in the hexagon swap…how many is enough for a quilt?

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    …our empty pool.  It has been painted for the second time since July.

    After it was painted the first time we filled it up, put in bags of salt…it looked great for a couple of days.

    Then what looked like a leaf from a distance turned out to be cement render that had fallen off…

    So then it had to be emptied and painted again…this time hoping it will be right.

    The painter has been by today to check on it and sweep out the leaves.

    He says maybe fill it on about Tuesday…

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    It’s been a really nice, relaxing Sunday…warm and sunny…

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  • love it…

    …after a trip to the Gold Coast yesterday to buy it, most of today has been taken up

    with getting email to send and receive on the new apple air book

     

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    …I love this computer!

    I’m newly inspired to blog….

  • Friday….

    Friday already…sometimes I wonder where the week went!
    So many spring cleaning jobs needed now the temperature has warmed up.
    The spring days are so nice….full of sunshine, open windows and doors and fresh air!
    This house is so much more pleasant to be in when the weather is warm…loving spring!

    …and I have been working on this

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  • old blog link

    Link to my old blog until I post more here
    christine-timeoutstitching.blogspot.com christine

    this new blog is making me feel inspired about blogging again.

    back soon with pictures…

  • Welcome to my new blog…

    I have decided to change my blog to timeoutstitching.com.

    I am still in the process of setting it up, so it will take a few days before

    I have everything set up…I hope you will now follow me here…