Jackie, over at Canton Village Quilt Works has some right goodies up for grabs, should you be the lucky one, and who would not want to be the lucky recipient!
So pop on over and add you name to the list - gotta be into win!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
go have a peek...
...go on over and have a look at this will you, another great giveaway indeed, not that I should be telling you, lessens my chances, but then that is the name of the game!
Jackie, over at Canton Village Quilt Works has some right goodies up for grabs, should you be the lucky one, and who would not want to be the lucky recipient!
So pop on over and add you name to the list - gotta be into win!
Jackie, over at Canton Village Quilt Works has some right goodies up for grabs, should you be the lucky one, and who would not want to be the lucky recipient!
So pop on over and add you name to the list - gotta be into win!
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
well hello... ages and ages since I been in here, and see what everyone is up to. My my my you have all been very busy indeed!
I am now ensconced in Twizel, the weather today is lovely and sunny, it is lovely and peaceful (one may even say a teeny bit too quiet!!), I can hear the clock ticking and the birdies cheeping cheerfully. The mornings are great for lovely long walks, Rowing Man heads off for an early morning row about 6am, it is just a teeny bit too cold for me then, so I snuggle in bed until he gets back, or take a cuppa back to bed with my book. Non-working people can do that you know! I am sure that will all change in a few weeks once it gets a bit warmer in the mornings, I will be out walking before it gets too hot!
We had the most wonderful long weekend just gone by, Monday being a public holiday over Labour Weekend, (which of course is really to celebrate the instigation of the 8 hr working day/40 hr working week, which in some respects is a bit out of date now that we are pretty much open 24/7, and can exchange at least one week of annual leave for a cash payout - wonder what Samuel Parnell would make of all of that?).
Anyway, Saturday started off rather lazily with a Pink Corner (boys were off rowing) coffee meet at a local cafe, and off to the local plant shop for these goodies...
we all managed to get one of these lovely Banksia rose bushes, they are just such marvelous climbers, and so prolific with the dainty flowers. Looks marvelous alongside the weeping japanese maple don't you think?
...then in the afternoon, we traveled over the Lindis Pass...., ( a very beautiful drive with very wonderful surroundings and scenery - there is a marvellous NZ artist - Graeme Sydney who is very well known - in NZ Anyway - for his brilliant paintings of the scenery in this neck of the woods - or rather NZ countryside. Have a peek here at some of his work, truly wonderful).
..to historic Clyde (Until fairly recently Clyde was a sleepy hollow, a popular place to retire to for many people from Otago and Southland. It really comes alive in summer when a huge influx of holidaymakers – up to 5 thousand – descend upon the town. Many of them own land or holiday homes in the area. But that is all changing, The impact of the rapid economic development in Central Otago during the past two or three years has seen a significant increase in the price of land and houses as well as large subdivisions and houses being built, and there are a number of lifestyle blocks. The major activities and industries in the district are pastoral farming, orcharding, viticulture, and hospitality. Much the same as Twizel really!)
.....to stay with friends at their holiday house, for a barbeque tea. Rowing Man, and mates, competed in the long distance row, on Sunday, from Cromwell to Clyde,which is something like 18k's. Quite a feat, and absolutely spectacular to watch, all those rowing boats on the water at one time, AMAZING! They let them off in groups, i.e. all the singles first, then the doubles, then the quads, and lastly the eights. Then it is open slather to see who can get there first, and in the quickest time.
here are some of the eights pretty close to the starting line, so they are still pretty close together..
I love the eights, they are really impressive to watch, and they make the most amazing whoosh/thud sound as the blades hit the water..
and here is Rowing Man about half way..
and at the end...
Lots of sore bums and thighs!@!! Guess that I am lucky that I get the easy job of driving from one end to the other... and a LARGE flat white on the way! The rowing season is upon us then...
Back to Twizel after the race, Rowing Boy and French Chic joined us, and we had a lovely evening with all. Hmmm, must have been tired after such a big day, as most of us were in bed by 10pm!
Now, I do need to be saying just a few thank you's...
Janelle sent me her Audrey bag pattern that I won in her giveaway a few weeks back, and Kaaren sent me these absolutely wonderful goodies for the Stitcher's Angel Swap,
and a very BIG thanks to Helen for organising this wonderful swap!
which reminds me that my Stitcher's Angel swap goodies need to be taken up to the post office, and be on their way to my swap partner, who will be waiting eagerly for them I am sure, (I am a bit like the march hare at the moment from Alice in Wonderland at the mo'!)
This post has just taken me forever, if I am slow at getting back to any of you, please be patient with me, as yet, we do not have land-line telephone at our holiday home, we are in the process of getting one, at an enormous cost I might add! Hrmmph to big corporations - a fee to get the man out to see if we have a line, another fee to see how easy it is to put in a line,and paint marks on the grass where to dig up the garden, then pay another fee to another man to dig the trench, and another fee to get Telecom to lay the cable, and pay the man to fill in the trench (we are not allowed to do this bit ourselves for fear of disturbing other cables, wires etc), and you would think that we may be set by then huh, oh no - we then have to pay $250 to have the line connected! and that is after we have muddled thru all the providers and the appropriate plans for our area - total $$$ somewhere between $500-700. Can you believe that! AND then likely to do it all over again when we build - where did the simple life go? Anyway, my point is without a landline, I am muddling away on Rowing Man's new laptop (macbook pro sommat, that he just had to have before his recent trip to Washington!) with a Telecom dongle which keeps turfing me off at most inconvenient times!
Oh and nearly forgot, YES we have sold our Dunedin home over the weeken ! YIPEE, one less thing to worry about, altho' now we have to head back over the next few weekends and pack and organise where we are going to store everything... hmmmm..... but that is for another day!
and yes I have been stitching madly, and will be pulling out the trusty Elna as soon as I get off from this post! just look at my sidebar to see how busy I am and need to be over the next wee while, when on earth did I have time for work!!
you all have fun huh!! and enjoy your day...
I am now ensconced in Twizel, the weather today is lovely and sunny, it is lovely and peaceful (one may even say a teeny bit too quiet!!), I can hear the clock ticking and the birdies cheeping cheerfully. The mornings are great for lovely long walks, Rowing Man heads off for an early morning row about 6am, it is just a teeny bit too cold for me then, so I snuggle in bed until he gets back, or take a cuppa back to bed with my book. Non-working people can do that you know! I am sure that will all change in a few weeks once it gets a bit warmer in the mornings, I will be out walking before it gets too hot!
We had the most wonderful long weekend just gone by, Monday being a public holiday over Labour Weekend, (which of course is really to celebrate the instigation of the 8 hr working day/40 hr working week, which in some respects is a bit out of date now that we are pretty much open 24/7, and can exchange at least one week of annual leave for a cash payout - wonder what Samuel Parnell would make of all of that?).
Anyway, Saturday started off rather lazily with a Pink Corner (boys were off rowing) coffee meet at a local cafe, and off to the local plant shop for these goodies...
we all managed to get one of these lovely Banksia rose bushes, they are just such marvelous climbers, and so prolific with the dainty flowers. Looks marvelous alongside the weeping japanese maple don't you think?
...then in the afternoon, we traveled over the Lindis Pass...., ( a very beautiful drive with very wonderful surroundings and scenery - there is a marvellous NZ artist - Graeme Sydney who is very well known - in NZ Anyway - for his brilliant paintings of the scenery in this neck of the woods - or rather NZ countryside. Have a peek here at some of his work, truly wonderful)...to historic Clyde (Until fairly recently Clyde was a sleepy hollow, a popular place to retire to for many people from Otago and Southland. It really comes alive in summer when a huge influx of holidaymakers – up to 5 thousand – descend upon the town. Many of them own land or holiday homes in the area. But that is all changing, The impact of the rapid economic development in Central Otago during the past two or three years has seen a significant increase in the price of land and houses as well as large subdivisions and houses being built, and there are a number of lifestyle blocks. The major activities and industries in the district are pastoral farming, orcharding, viticulture, and hospitality. Much the same as Twizel really!)
.....to stay with friends at their holiday house, for a barbeque tea. Rowing Man, and mates, competed in the long distance row, on Sunday, from Cromwell to Clyde,which is something like 18k's. Quite a feat, and absolutely spectacular to watch, all those rowing boats on the water at one time, AMAZING! They let them off in groups, i.e. all the singles first, then the doubles, then the quads, and lastly the eights. Then it is open slather to see who can get there first, and in the quickest time.
here are some of the eights pretty close to the starting line, so they are still pretty close together..
I love the eights, they are really impressive to watch, and they make the most amazing whoosh/thud sound as the blades hit the water..and here is Rowing Man about half way..
and at the end...
Lots of sore bums and thighs!@!! Guess that I am lucky that I get the easy job of driving from one end to the other... and a LARGE flat white on the way! The rowing season is upon us then...
Back to Twizel after the race, Rowing Boy and French Chic joined us, and we had a lovely evening with all. Hmmm, must have been tired after such a big day, as most of us were in bed by 10pm!
Now, I do need to be saying just a few thank you's...
Janelle sent me her Audrey bag pattern that I won in her giveaway a few weeks back, and Kaaren sent me these absolutely wonderful goodies for the Stitcher's Angel Swap,
and a very BIG thanks to Helen for organising this wonderful swap!which reminds me that my Stitcher's Angel swap goodies need to be taken up to the post office, and be on their way to my swap partner, who will be waiting eagerly for them I am sure, (I am a bit like the march hare at the moment from Alice in Wonderland at the mo'!)
This post has just taken me forever, if I am slow at getting back to any of you, please be patient with me, as yet, we do not have land-line telephone at our holiday home, we are in the process of getting one, at an enormous cost I might add! Hrmmph to big corporations - a fee to get the man out to see if we have a line, another fee to see how easy it is to put in a line,and paint marks on the grass where to dig up the garden, then pay another fee to another man to dig the trench, and another fee to get Telecom to lay the cable, and pay the man to fill in the trench (we are not allowed to do this bit ourselves for fear of disturbing other cables, wires etc), and you would think that we may be set by then huh, oh no - we then have to pay $250 to have the line connected! and that is after we have muddled thru all the providers and the appropriate plans for our area - total $$$ somewhere between $500-700. Can you believe that! AND then likely to do it all over again when we build - where did the simple life go? Anyway, my point is without a landline, I am muddling away on Rowing Man's new laptop (macbook pro sommat, that he just had to have before his recent trip to Washington!) with a Telecom dongle which keeps turfing me off at most inconvenient times!
Oh and nearly forgot, YES we have sold our Dunedin home over the weeken ! YIPEE, one less thing to worry about, altho' now we have to head back over the next few weekends and pack and organise where we are going to store everything... hmmmm..... but that is for another day!
and yes I have been stitching madly, and will be pulling out the trusty Elna as soon as I get off from this post! just look at my sidebar to see how busy I am and need to be over the next wee while, when on earth did I have time for work!!
you all have fun huh!! and enjoy your day...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Boo Hoo
Well, auction night has come and gone, and I still own this property...
hmmmm how do I feel about that- disappointed? devastated? optimistic? hopeful?
so now, we .. or rather I, 'cos Rowing Man is in Washington as I write, and I am thinking, wishing that maybe .. yes maybe I should have, could have run away with him.. Houston is some way from Washington huh? but it might have been fun sorting it all out to get there....
Never sure about auctions, but there had been quite a number of homes that have sold recently at auction, and the real estate market apparently is on the up, and houses are still selling despite the recession, and if you are a Gareth Morgan follower and believe in his financial forecasts, real estate is on an upward trend line.
The house down the road has just sold, and probably similar in some respects (of course I think that our house is much nicer, but then I am biased, and I have lived in this one), so I ask myself, and the real estate agent, can I get a similar price?? The half-a-million dollar question???
Sooooooooo... do we now put an asking price on the house and give it 2-3 weeks (and pay the man the advertising fees - maybe a buyer will be there); or will we sit and see what happens next, or will we just hold on to it as a town house????
Options, but at least we have options, and we also have our holiday house in Twizel to live in meantime;
9 days to go, until I am up there, YAHOO!!!
hmmmm how do I feel about that- disappointed? devastated? optimistic? hopeful?
so now, we .. or rather I, 'cos Rowing Man is in Washington as I write, and I am thinking, wishing that maybe .. yes maybe I should have, could have run away with him.. Houston is some way from Washington huh? but it might have been fun sorting it all out to get there....
Never sure about auctions, but there had been quite a number of homes that have sold recently at auction, and the real estate market apparently is on the up, and houses are still selling despite the recession, and if you are a Gareth Morgan follower and believe in his financial forecasts, real estate is on an upward trend line.
The house down the road has just sold, and probably similar in some respects (of course I think that our house is much nicer, but then I am biased, and I have lived in this one), so I ask myself, and the real estate agent, can I get a similar price?? The half-a-million dollar question???
Sooooooooo... do we now put an asking price on the house and give it 2-3 weeks (and pay the man the advertising fees - maybe a buyer will be there); or will we sit and see what happens next, or will we just hold on to it as a town house????
Options, but at least we have options, and we also have our holiday house in Twizel to live in meantime;
9 days to go, until I am up there, YAHOO!!!
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
another week rolls on by...
hey, look what I got this week... this was in the mail box today - all the way from Stephanie in the USA... YAHOO I won her giveaway recently - how wonderful huh...
I just cannot wait to put this to good use, and get this cute little bag made... we have a houseful of guests for the weekend so it will have to wait 'til next week - arrgh... the anticipation of it all!!
Our house is on the market - up for sale. Have a look here if you want.. So to make sure it was all presented neat n tidy n nice... I just had to go out and buy a new duvet cover..... brighten up the bedroom!
doesn't it look great, I love the poppy pattern...
and the reason that we have a house full this weekend .... could it be that we have a celebration...
yes! Rowing man is turning 50 - or forty ten according to Rosie... (yes he is younger then I am - no jokes about toy boys etc - but oh the mind can wander...)
so break out the candles ..... do I have enough???
and look at the finger - getting better every day! hmmmm need a manicure!!!
have a fun week!
p.s. have just heard from the real estate agent -a few potential buyers for the house when it goes to auction on Oct 6th, wish me luck!!!
I just cannot wait to put this to good use, and get this cute little bag made... we have a houseful of guests for the weekend so it will have to wait 'til next week - arrgh... the anticipation of it all!!Our house is on the market - up for sale. Have a look here if you want.. So to make sure it was all presented neat n tidy n nice... I just had to go out and buy a new duvet cover..... brighten up the bedroom!
doesn't it look great, I love the poppy pattern...
and the reason that we have a house full this weekend .... could it be that we have a celebration...
yes! Rowing man is turning 50 - or forty ten according to Rosie... (yes he is younger then I am - no jokes about toy boys etc - but oh the mind can wander...)
so break out the candles ..... do I have enough???
and look at the finger - getting better every day! hmmmm need a manicure!!!have a fun week!
p.s. have just heard from the real estate agent -a few potential buyers for the house when it goes to auction on Oct 6th, wish me luck!!!
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
OOOPS....
I got a bit connected to my rotary cutter on Monday nite, a very sharp rotary cutter, and now I am missing the tip of my index finger... guessing that will not grow back! Hmmm they do not look much like model hands anyway...
look at all these yummy fabrics.....
and these looking just a little bit Christmassy...
and aren't these just so so delic!!
I just love blues!
and look at this, a parcel was in my letterbox yesterday, and inside was this lovely mini quilt all the way from Penny in Ottawa, Canada. What a wonderful surprise, Penny was my swap partner in the "Good ol summertime mini quilt swap". Isn't it just so cheery!! I love it!! Thank you so much Penny!
and this is what I was working on Monday night at the Garage Ladies Quilting Group...too busy yakking, and not looking. That will certainly teach me, and hopefully you guys will not make the same mistake either! By the by, it's a cushion cover.have fun all, (but take care!)
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
will you look at this!
what a clever one that Jenny and her crew are, marvels, all of them.they have all joined forces to produce some fantastic free patterns for us all,
Starting on Monday 5th October and each Monday for the next eight weeks, there will be a FREE Christmas-themed DESIGN for you to download...
and then, wait there's more!.....
Then after Christmas, on the seventh day of each month starting Thursday 7 January 2010, there will be one free design offered to you from each designer, in turn. So, one free design each month for you to use for your personal use.
So if you want to check out their new blog you will get a quick run down about each of them, who they are, what they are about, and if you click on our pictures you will find a full profile about each one, so you have lots of reading to do today, you can also check out our blogs by clicking on the buttons on the 'Among the Gum Trees' blog.
way to go gals!!!
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Just 'Cos
the other day, Jessica posted about a "just because" - her hubby sent her some delicious flowers,
...well on Thursday, I run into the courier man on his way into my workplace carrying a most wonderful bunch of flowers, I remarked to him that someone was a lucky gal to be getting these, and lo and behold - my name was on the card - yep - that's me!
these just so gorgeous!
how lucky am I, and just 'cos
now that is a favourite phrase of mine (Hmmm there's cobwebs on my number plate - don't use my car too often!), when the kids were teenagers, we always talked about having a reason or excuse for doing something, and if they came up with an excuse then it was likely to be something that they really should not be doing, but a reason - well now that was different. Having that kind of logical argument, and then leaving it up to the teenager to decide saved a lot of arguments, and taught them some really good values and lessons. I watch them make really good decisions now as adults, and I am so proud of them. So my boring "reason" or "excuse" really paid of.
However, as a parent, there was some leeway, and occasionally, it was my "parent prerogative" to just occasionally mind, encourage them to do something (the right kinda thing!) just 'cos!
and we were were very lucky to celebrate last New Year's in Paris - just 'cos
It is a beautiful Saturday morning, I have just got back from the gym (great to blow out the cobwebs off my body, and my car!),
and I am now gonna get stuck into this house - it goes on the market next week, first open home on Saturday next, and auction 3 weeks on Tuesday - unless of course some lovely buyer comes along and offers a ridiculous amount of money - now that would be very nice!
The job appears bigger then Ben Hurr, but it has to be done! and I just cannot put it off any longer...
With luck, I might get some stitching done this evening, if I can manage to stay awake after my cleaning and tidying marathon...
you have a fun weekend,
Shiree
...well on Thursday, I run into the courier man on his way into my workplace carrying a most wonderful bunch of flowers, I remarked to him that someone was a lucky gal to be getting these, and lo and behold - my name was on the card - yep - that's me!
these just so gorgeous!
how lucky am I, and just 'cos
now that is a favourite phrase of mine (Hmmm there's cobwebs on my number plate - don't use my car too often!), when the kids were teenagers, we always talked about having a reason or excuse for doing something, and if they came up with an excuse then it was likely to be something that they really should not be doing, but a reason - well now that was different. Having that kind of logical argument, and then leaving it up to the teenager to decide saved a lot of arguments, and taught them some really good values and lessons. I watch them make really good decisions now as adults, and I am so proud of them. So my boring "reason" or "excuse" really paid of.However, as a parent, there was some leeway, and occasionally, it was my "parent prerogative" to just occasionally mind, encourage them to do something (the right kinda thing!) just 'cos!
and we were were very lucky to celebrate last New Year's in Paris - just 'cos
It is a beautiful Saturday morning, I have just got back from the gym (great to blow out the cobwebs off my body, and my car!),
and I am now gonna get stuck into this house - it goes on the market next week, first open home on Saturday next, and auction 3 weeks on Tuesday - unless of course some lovely buyer comes along and offers a ridiculous amount of money - now that would be very nice!The job appears bigger then Ben Hurr, but it has to be done! and I just cannot put it off any longer...
With luck, I might get some stitching done this evening, if I can manage to stay awake after my cleaning and tidying marathon...
you have a fun weekend,
Shiree
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