Things I am Loving

This week.......

.....The home delivery of fresh fruit and vegetables to our doorstep

......An op shop find 

......Lots of cups of peppermint tea and my kindle as a distraction to the forced fasting for a procedure

.....  Some quick and simple birthday invitations made up.

......My beginning exploration of treasures

.....New chairs to help with comfortable study.

....A most wonderful husband who has waited on me and shown huge empathy this week.

Have a lovely weekend.

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My Creative Space

 

 

 

I have been away from my machine for weeks now due to the busyness of the summer.

So to reacquaint myself  I thought a little school sewing was in order.

Nothing to hard or required much thinking.

New pencil cases instead of those cheap things that only last half the year

The kids chose their own fabric.... which then up the ownership value of them

It's the little things that make me feel like a real mumma....maybe because it is something 

my mum would have done for me at the same age.  

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Growing Lemonade

 My husband is the green thumb in our family..

 

He has lovingly nurtured our Lemonade tree

 The weeks leading up to us being away we were just trying to coax the flower buds to stay on....and now....

 my hubby says not too get too excited yet.....

Oooh I can just almost taste what they will be like.....  

Treasure Chest finds

Back during January , I was part of a school holiday programme that my church ran for a week.....the theme was treasure (pirates)

We were gathering props when I suddenly remembered in the back of my walk in wardrobe I had my "glory box", "hope chest" or whatever you may know it as.......

It was the perfect pirates treasure chest ...and so it got hauled out....emptied and used for the week.

So now because I really need to repack it and tuck it back away I thought I might show you some of the treasure that I have buried inside of it....  

My paternal grandparents gave me the chest when I was a young teen, for the purpose of storing and collecting all things that would set me up for living as a married woman one day or maybe even a single one at that....

My grand mother took great delight in gifting me for birthdays and Christmas' all manner of goodies.....towels, linen, crockery.....the idea caught on and soon I had other family members feeling that these were appropriate gifts too.....and so my hope chest filled.

By the time I married at 20 1/2 years old all the contributions, along with the things I had saved and bought myself were the  little bits of treasure that helped to begin our humble first home.

 Over time I have used alot of the treasures and have replaced them with other sentimental items from this journey of life....

when we moved into this  home 14 years ago ..we never quite found the right spot to have the chest out on display...it takes up quite a bit of space....

Over time it has found it's home in the back of the wardrobe.....very rarely opened... in fact probably never in the 14 years......

Until now...I didn't have the time a few weeks ago to be too sentimental but....now I really need to rehouse it and thought I would take some time to carefully see what I had tucked away and any stories attached to the treasures....

so firstly this pile of brand new, pure Irish linen tea towels....

 They are crisp and new...smelling of camphor....collected by family...mostly nan and some from my parents of places they traveled....

They are true Australiana... vintage???

Maybe...... to me they seem old ....they would be at least 25 years old..... 

Sorry for the unironed appearance....I can't bring myself to iron them just yet and take away that stiff new linen feel.....

What to do with them and the other twelve just like them from iconic places around our country...not sure...maybe they need to be out being used  rather than stuck away in the treasure box.....

Any suggestions?

I'll share more of my treasures next week if you'll indulge me.

Back to school 2013

Well, they went off today....WITH smiles......

No too many changes expected this year which made the little guy a little easier about heading off.....

 

I can't believe the summer holidays are over already and another year is beginning....

have you any new plans for the new year? 

Weekend snaps

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Catching up on sleep.....

getting reacquainted with my machine.....

some mumma sewing for school....

all things named...

A friend's published works....

family game of choice....

last days to indulge in technology...

bags packed...

Holiday hair ready for school....

Hope you have had a lovely weekend.....back to school for us tomorrow.

xxxx   

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5/52

 

My 52 weeks Project

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Time Out Pt 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spending Australia Day away from home was a low key event.....

Very sobering to pause at the "memorial" and see for real where it all happened....

The opportunity to visit a long thought about place for younger than us men to surf....

The highlight for me of the tourist bits would have to be Uluwatu at sunset...watching the sun set and being educated with a traditional fire dance story...

Then a seafood dinner on the beach serenaded by some talented locals who where very familiar with "Aussies"

So there ends our time out...nothing like planning for more some day down the track....but for now the photos will keep us attached to the fun we had.

Thanks for indulging me .     

Here and Here are also the things I am loving about our trip away.