tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368851222024-03-05T23:51:45.639+11:00Joe BloggsJohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14637514558512570458noreply@blogger.comBlogger381125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36885122.post-16224240925436026132016-10-22T00:33:00.002+11:002016-10-22T00:33:48.947+11:0010 year blogaversaryI have been writing this blog for 10 years now. It has been a way to document my life, talk about things that are <a href="http://craftyjoe.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/family-holiday-tuross-heads.html" target="_blank">important in my life</a>, that <a href="http://craftyjoe.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/i-dont-have-children.html?q=children" target="_blank">I struggle with</a> and in the past has helped me connect with and <a href="http://craftyjoe.blogspot.com.au/2010/05/sew-it-together.html?q=sew+it+together" target="_blank">meet amazing, like minded people</a>.<br />
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I haven't blogged for ages and probably won't again for a while, if ever. Most of my time (outside my full time job) is taken up by <a href="http://www.minniesyass.com/" target="_blank">this venture</a>.<br />
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<br />Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14637514558512570458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36885122.post-53886531687213863112016-02-27T15:43:00.000+11:002016-02-27T15:43:13.356+11:00Klimt blanketMy new project is a crochet blanket for <a href="http://www.minniesyass.com/" target="_blank">Minnie's</a> in colours inspired by Gustav Klimt's The Kiss.<br />
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I ordered wool from Bendigo Woollen Mills (BMW) and got started with help from some local crochet experts and YouTube .....<br />
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After many pulled apart granny squares, I think I am onto it now. I still find changes colours challenging .....<br />
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So many amazing things happening in Yass. New shops, restaurants and businesses:<br />
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<a href="http://clementine restaurant" target="_blank">Clementine Restaurant </a>- about to be featured on Sydney Weekender - amazing food<br />
<a href="http://traderandco.com.au/" target="_blank">Trader & Co</a> soon to open<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ThymeToTaste/" target="_blank">Thyme to Taste </a>for great coffee, deli goods and a glass of wine and cheese plate after work!<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Kaffeine2582/timeline" target="_blank">Kaffeine</a> for yummy coffee, great service and cute homewares<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/birchandco/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Birch & Co</a> for amazing flowers and giftware<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/peoniespineapples/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Peonies & Pineapples</a> for gifts, homewares and fashion<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/yazzbaryass/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Yazzbar </a>for local wines and live music<br />
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Exciting times in the little town ......<br />
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<br />Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14637514558512570458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36885122.post-55214345285704892222015-10-15T14:18:00.001+11:002015-10-15T14:18:28.565+11:00Moose CottageI have finally done what I have wanted to do for ages with my old cottage. It is on Stayz as a short term holiday rental. I think it would be a nice place to stay with a group of friends or a small family of a couple?<br />
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Yass has lots of things to do and see, with surrounding wineries and restaurants, cute shops, lovely small towns to visit nearby and is close to Canberra. <br />
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It has been rented out for a couple of years and needed some work inside and in the garden after the tenant moved out.<br />
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The kitchen is my favourite room. Light with lots of space.</div>
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I am setting the house up with loads of books, magazines, music and arty, crafty items so that there is plenty to do in the house. </div>
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Since my first post in <a href="http://craftyjoe.blogspot.com.au/2006/10/first-post.html?updated-min=2006-01-01T00:00:00%2B11:00&updated-max=2007-01-01T00:00:00%2B11:00&max-results=3" target="_blank">October 2006</a>, I have lived in Canberra, Melbourne, back to Canberra and then Yass. I have lived in 7 difference houses, renovated 2, married, changed jobs several times, completed a Masters degree, become an Aunty, a Godmother and a Step Mum! Wow.<br />
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I still have my two cats, they are now 10. I still have most of the same friends and some new ones, am close to my fantastic parents and family. For these things I am grateful, along with my new family; my husband and his children, a different job and with it a new challenge and more learning to do.<br />
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I am happier, more confident and in a much better space than I was in 2006, straight out of a divorce, in a rented, unaffordable apartment in Sydney, in a job I didn't love and feeling like I had no future. I was also struggling to accept the reality of never having my own children.<br />
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Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14637514558512570458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36885122.post-40771134969381855242015-05-09T09:07:00.001+10:002015-05-09T09:07:45.777+10:00MelbourneI had a trip to Melbourne last week, first time in a long time I have attended a conference and visited Melbourne!<br />
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So there was lots of food, one thing I miss living outside the big city! Mexican breakfast, Greek and Chinese for dinner and lots of good coffee.<br />
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First time using an iPad to order dinner. Great idea, you order as you feel like it and it arrives really quickly!<br />
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It is almost over stimulation being in a big city now. The shop windows and crowds and temptations!!<br />
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<a href="https://www.haighschocolates.com.au/" target="_blank">Haigh's</a>, <a href="http://www.magnation.com/" target="_blank">Mag Nation</a>, <a href="http://www.outre-gallery.com.au/" target="_blank">Outre Gallery</a>, <a href="http://www.thecatsmeow.com.au/" target="_blank">Cats Meow</a>, <a href="http://www.basementdiscs.com.au/" target="_blank">Basement Discs</a>, <a href="http://morrisandsons.com.au/" target="_blank">Morris & Sons</a> all regular visits when I am in the city.<br />
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And a haircut and colour to top it all off! A very indulgent trip - but the conference was very useful too! My scarf/hoodie came in handy as it rained most of the weekend.Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14637514558512570458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36885122.post-26162680122564917202015-04-06T14:40:00.001+10:002015-04-06T14:43:19.290+10:00Easter and autumn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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4 days off over Easter means coffee in our favourite local cafe/shop (Kaffeine in Yass).</div>
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As much as I avoid <i>going to</i> the beach, the feeling of standing in the sand with the sound of waves and the endless sky is very cathartic and relaxing. It is the sand, sunburn and heat I try to avoid.....<br />
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The excitement of the children at the seaside is also priceless as I watch my niece's increasing confidence in the sea and appreciate the precious time together for parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren.<br />
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I graduated with my Masters degree.<br />
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I presented at a couple of events, small but good experience.<br />
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We sold our lovely 1950's wooden caravan.<br />
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and bought a 1960's aluminium one - easier to look after. So this weekend I have been new curtains for the caravan - same fabric as the last one Frida Kahlo print. <br />
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Looking forward to a more minimalist way of life in 2015.<br />
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Less online shopping<br />
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Some things I will be practising from <a href="http://zenhabits.net/amazing-2015/" target="_blank">this post</a> in 201<strong>5:</strong><br />
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<strong></strong>Meditatio<strong>n, </strong>Healthy eatin<strong>g, </strong>Decluttering<strong>, </strong>Exercis<strong>e, </strong>Unprocrastination<strong>, </strong>Gratitude and<strong> </strong>Creating<br />
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We went for an alternative to the usual Christmas tree this year. As you can see in the background we are still renovating so we didn't want the hassle of a Christmas Tree to move around. </div>
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Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14637514558512570458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36885122.post-2564929668754408582014-09-14T12:33:00.000+10:002014-09-14T12:33:33.546+10:00Weekend awayWe had a visit and night at the coast last weekend. It marked the end of a difficult period for both of us with jobs and the start of spring and a new start.<br />
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It was very restful. Mollymook is lovely and we were lucky with the weather.<br />
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We had lots of these guys outside the hotel room - such beautiful colours....<br />
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On the way home we stopped at Mogo Zoo. I haven't been before but my husband and step-son had. It is a nice zoo, lovely surrounds, not too big and you get close to the animals.<br />
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Still don't like seeing animals in zoos but this one isn't too bad......<br />
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They had gorgeous magnolia trees at the zoo, thinking of where I can fit one in our garden now......Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14637514558512570458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36885122.post-59753745050688292142014-07-20T21:22:00.000+10:002014-07-20T21:22:38.045+10:00Holiday blues<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Wow, I had a clean out of my blog reader a few weeks ago. A lot of you have left blogging - moving on to Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter maybe? The people I met at 'Sewittogether' - Melbourne years back and other crafty bloggers I have followed over the past 8 years are slowly leaving.<br />
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Most of the blogs I follow now are home and design focused and less about people and sewing.<br />
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I am recovering from school holidays today. We have my husband's 12 year old son with us for the 2 weeks (longer over Christmas). His 18 year old sister has been living with us for 2.5 years now. I find the non-stop focus on food, shopping, planning dinner, arguing over sweets and soft-drinks hard work. Especially on top of full time work, washing -up, washing clothes etc. I struggle, I guess because I am used to my down time and my space in the house. They have been brought up eating and pretty much doing what they want to with food as a focus. I was raised differently and my friends and family appear to manage their children's diets. I am not sure how much to push this with my husband as he sees it as an attack on him if I try to restrict the 12yr old's access to sweets and soft-drink. I ended up accepting I can't change most things but made sure I left chopped carrot and fruit out all of the time, hoping he will choose those snacks over chips and sweets. He isn't over weight and does play sports so maybe I should give in?<br />
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The other battle is time playing horrid games on the computer and watching cartoons. Do you limit the time your children spend watching screens?<br />
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Beautiful day today and peaceful without the boy. Fairy wrens in the garden picking at worms dug up by hubby who is preparing soil for concrete to go around my studio.Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14637514558512570458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36885122.post-42444144171808950792014-05-17T16:42:00.000+10:002014-05-17T16:42:29.594+10:00Autumn blooms<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jobloggs/14016722630" title="Pink by Jo Hicks, on Flickr"><img alt="Pink" height="300" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2907/14016722630_a65bce75a2_z.jpg" width="400" /></a>
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Amazing that there are so many flowers out at the moment. All of my plants are in pots while I wait for a garden, but it is lovely to have some colour!<br />
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I think there is a metre. Gorgeous blue cars fabric, med - heavy weight, with a checked border. I have a few fat quarters to throw in too.<br />
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I am happy to post anywhere in Australia - first commenter who can put it to good use gets it.<br />
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Comes from a crazy cat household, so can't promise it is entirely cat hair free.....Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14637514558512570458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36885122.post-22057976481882394832014-04-12T19:33:00.000+10:002014-04-12T19:33:25.583+10:00Studio updateSo now that I have finished my masters degree I am hoping to spend more
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Not sure what I will do but am keen on starting a garden. Worth waiting till it rains again (if ever)!!<br />
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I bought magazines today to celebrate and one involves making things!! There's a novel idea....<br />
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Or maybe I'll just take some time to enjoy my surrounds.<br />
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I still have a full time job mind you so I am not going to have time to REALLY enjoy my freedom. Although my Mr has quit his job, now if I can just get him and the 18yr old Miss to do all of the cooking, cleaning and washing ........ Hmmmm.<br />
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<br />Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14637514558512570458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36885122.post-23554128391349570502014-01-02T22:10:00.000+11:002014-01-02T22:10:30.946+11:002014 word - simplicity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I think my word for 2014 will be '<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>simplicity'</i></span></span>. For a while I have been trying to declutter the house and my studio. After phases of mad magazine, book, fabric, vintage teatowel and other odds and ends buying, I have accumulated quite a lot of ... well, crap really!<br />
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I need to simplify my home life and work life and try to achieve things by focusing on fewer, more important tasks.<br />
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I will finish my Masters Degree in Feb!<br />
Our renovations are getting on and this year I will have a garden!<br />
Also the step-girl has finished school and may be moving out .....<br />
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Lots of endings and new beginnings?<br />
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So this year - more of this: <br />
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Gardening<br />
Home decorating<br />
Sewing<br />
Reading<br />
Walking<br />
Travel<br />
Cycling <br />
Cooking <br />
Music<br />
Yass <br />
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nailpolish<br />
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plastic and packaging in the rubbish<br />
blog reading<br />
eating<br />
waste<br />
shopping<br />
cleaning <br />
Canberra<br />
Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14637514558512570458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36885122.post-12160980616964204022014-01-02T17:59:00.001+11:002014-01-02T18:02:19.429+11:008 days offSince Christmas Eve when I got off work this is what I have been doing:<br />
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<b>Making: </b>potato and green salad, ice cream, brandy butter, pumpkin and fetta salad, date and walnut brownies.<br />
<b>Shopping: </b>Christmas gifts, food, drinks and hardware.<br />
<b>Doing:</b> cooking, painting weatherboards, sanding weatherboards, filling nail holes in weatherboards.<br />
<b>Accomplished:</b> Hosted a successful Christmas lunch for 12, painted 42 weatherboards, survived 1.5 weeks of school holidays (so far so good), completed and submitted two essays for Uni.<br />
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<br />Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14637514558512570458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36885122.post-11564192662807770342013-12-15T21:03:00.000+11:002013-12-15T21:03:28.697+11:001 yearWe celebrated our 1st wedding anniversary this week. This time last year we were in Tasmania, eating our way around the island!<br />
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So this weekend we went to Tease and Tearaways in Canberra, had dinner at Bicicletta and stayed at the Diamant Hotel. We had breakfast at A.Baker and went to Pialligo for garden design inspiration.<br />
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<br />Definitely like this idea for garden beds, veges and other plants! This was a shared garden for units at New Acton near our hotel.<br />
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And I picked up my new toy! I have had a Bernina for about 30 years. I am getting it serviced and will give it to my Step Sister and niece. Looking forward to doing some making soon and considering joining the local Quick Quilters group. There is also a local Roller Derby club I have just discovered, not sure if I am up to roller skating again.... Looks like fun though!Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14637514558512570458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36885122.post-50991868031722764732013-12-08T19:15:00.000+11:002013-12-12T07:25:10.699+11:00Saturday in YassIt was lovely and sunny this weekend. After a day off on Friday to get my eyes tested, my hair cut and coloured (goodbye grey - for a while anyway) and lunch with a friend, I had a restful Saturday. Mr Bloggs and small boy (11) were off on a motor bike day trip.<br />
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After an early massage, I bought a pre-loved Allanah Hill dress, white blouse and a cute clutch from Label Love in Yass. After a bit of a look around the Canberra Centre on my day off I think my local country town has more interesting clothing (missing Melbourne)!! Worth a visit, a trip from Canberra even?<br />
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I also stopped in at Wilhemina & Celeste (find her on Facebook), she stocks lovely gifty things. I am hankering after the set of black and stone moose towels and pair of moose earrings. I did manage to find a gift for someone else and some reindeer food for my nieces to sprinkle in the garden.<br />
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This is why the moose items appeal to me :-) Any ideas on Christmas decorations for Morris? I am thinking a red nose? <br />
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This is the lovely Yass Crafty Co-op shop - under the old art deco Liberty Theatre. Good for home made yummies, baby gifts, old magazines and plants.</div>
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And a stop off at the local farmers market for veg, a chicken, leek and proscuito pie for lunch and fresh bread.<br />
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Lovely! Sunday? Study, while Mr Bloggs takes small step-boy back to the coast. I did do a lot of cleaning and washing yesterday but the enjoyable morning made up for that!Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14637514558512570458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36885122.post-39877492042307346452013-11-28T15:05:00.004+11:002013-11-28T15:05:53.200+11:00Poem<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I just thought this was a nice poem. <a href="http://knowcademy.com/2013/11/23/leisure-and-cider-with-rosie/" target="_blank">Found here</a> while catching up on professional development :-)<br />
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W. H. Davies</h1>
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Leisure</h2>
WHAT is this life if, full of care,<br />
We have no time to stand and stare?—No time to stand beneath the boughs,<br />
And stare as long as sheep and cows:<br />
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No time to see, when woods we pass,<br />
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:<br />
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No time to see, in broad daylight,<br />
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:<br />
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No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,<br />
And watch her feet, how they can dance:<br />
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No time to wait till her mouth can<br />
Enrich that smile her eyes began?<br />
A poor life this if, full of care,<br />
We have no time to stand and stare.<br />
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Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14637514558512570458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36885122.post-5260693146787382602013-11-23T16:44:00.000+11:002013-11-23T16:44:38.753+11:00Sunny Saturday I mowed our lawns today. I get such a sense of accomplishment, I used to do it at my house and then sit out back with a G&T and enjoy the results of my labour! Shame I don't get that same feeling cleaning the bathroom .......<br />
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The garage construction is moving ahead slowly, we have two walls with windows fitted now. It is starting to take shape.<br />
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It is going to be a big garage. Room for 4 cars, or 2 cars, 2 motorbikes and a caravan in our case. <br />
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<br />Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14637514558512570458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36885122.post-45444064187375358352013-11-12T14:57:00.001+11:002013-11-12T14:57:45.201+11:00Garden planningSummer is a few weeks away and we have gone from hot weather to cold and wet again in the last couple of weeks. We had the open fire lit on the weekend!<br />
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The back garden is all mud and dirt now - ready for some landscaping. It is fun designing what can go where, herb garden, lemon tree, vege patch, camellias, cactus and succulents, ferns, natives. It will be a very eclectic garden!<br />
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The lemon tree was an engagement gift from my parents so I am keen to get that in the ground and the camellias were also gifts. I have herbs in pots and they may need to stay in them in order to catch the sun out the front.
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These poppies popped up at the back of the garden near our back fence - it appears there was a garden bed there at some point - there is a bit of half buried brick edging.
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We are going to build brick retaining walls and put rockeries above them, it is a sloping block. I will finally have a place to put my gnomes and their succulent home.
Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14637514558512570458noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36885122.post-44453813482127171222013-08-24T17:27:00.000+10:002013-08-24T17:27:03.980+10:00Nice floorsA small bit of renovation news. While my hubbie is away in the US I decided to get the kitchen floors done. We haven't done it so far, as we still have construction to do - move the staircase. I couldn't stand the mess and old lino and it could be ages before we get around to moving the staircase.....<br />
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See the lino in the before photo? All gone- yeah. We had renters who cooked on a stove on the floor in the kitchen so the floor has a dark stain. Good excuse to buy a nice rug?</div>
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Loving the cherry blossoms around town!</div>
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It was nice and sunny outside this weekend but cold inside, until I lit the fire.<br />
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The digger finally arrived to remove some huge tree stumps and invasive root systems. I am looking forward to lots of planting in spring! The garage is supposed to go up this week, fingers crossed!Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14637514558512570458noreply@blogger.com0