ANTICIPATION

The days roll by, and I wait with patience as my magnolia "Vulcan" grows its only bloom for the year. There were two buds on my tree, until we moved in May, but one got knocked off. I was very disappointed to say the least! But at least there is one - last year I had none.

I venture out each day to check my little baby and hope that one day soon it will show its beauty to the world.

SNOWMAN

I found the pictures of the snowman from a couple of weeks ago on my phone! Here is my picture study of "The life cycle of a snowman".

What beautiful weather we are having

The cold has really hit Ballarat over the past few days, but when it snows, I don't care about the cold really - it's just too beautiful!!!!

The boys made a snowman on the trampoline, but unfortunately we didn't take of photo of it last night. It is still around 24 hours later, though.

I wonder if it will be there tomorrow morning???

Hey Lawrie, I thought you were sick!

WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING?

Hello my friends, I has been a while since my last posting, so time to think about what I have been doing.

1. MOVE HOUSE
SORT NEW HOUSE



2. BUY NEW SEWING MACHINE




3. SEWING DAY WITH SOME FRIENDS




4. LAWRIE PLAYS FOOTY




5. LAWRIE GETS CHICKEN POX




6. LAWRIE GETS A COLD




7. MITCH GETS A NEW PET




8. QUILT FOR A FRIEND'S FRIEND

Is anybody out there?

Hi I just got the urge to put something on my blog, and wonder if anybody checks it from time to time. It will be interesting to see how long it is before anyone leaves a comment. Personally, I don't blame anyone for not checking - it has been a while.....

Holidays, holidays, holidays

Well here we are in the suburb of South Brighton in sunny, HOT Adelaide. This mornign I went down to the Curves gym at Glenelg and undertook a good workout. Got there in the nick of tie, as their holiday closing time was 10am and I was lucky he girl let me start at 9:45. The boys are down the beach, having walked down there about half an hour ago.

We had a lovely Christmas with our families and are looking forward to catching up with friends this week.

I have just about finished my car craft, and so have made a visit to the local Lincraft to buy some more wool for my crochet. Although having a good time, it is with mixed feelings that I am here at the moment.

Our lovely neighbours had th job of minding the cat, chooks and fish. The dogs were put inot boarding on the Friday before Christmas, and are having a good stay there.

We do get annoyed with the dogs barking at possums in the night, but it also seems they keep the foxes away, as it only took two nights before the foxes came and had a lovely Christmas feast. Poor neighbours had to phone me tell give me the bad news on Sunday.

On Boxing Day, I received another call to let me know that my lovely puss "Spooky" was taken to the Emergency Vet that morning. To cut a long story short, he vet thinks that Spooky has a problem with her central balance system, but is improving each day and is now eating. She will stay in the 'hospital' until I get back to pick her up on Saturday 5th January.

I feel really sorry that my neighbour has had to do all this and none of it is her fault. Spooky could have got sick at anytime, and the fox could have taken a chance any night, as we usually tie the dogs up at night.

I look forward to seeing my friends here, and back in Ballarat when we get home.

Wishing you all a Happy New Year!

PS Annie: I promise not to SMS you at midnight on New Years Eve this year!

Pain D'épices - Paris - Pain D'épices - Paris

Pain D'épices - Paris - Pain D'épices - Paris

this is the web site for a lovely craft shop that found in Paris. I especially LOVE the wool felting things. I don't know if they will ship to Australia. Sob, sob.

Bonjour from Ballarat!

Well, we made it home safe and sound from our "Excellent Adventure". Dave and I had a wonderful time together, and saw a did lots of amazing things.

Europe is such an historic place, we really don't understand the ages here in Australia. An example of this is as follows: Part of our holiday took us to Cremona where the violin was developed as we use it today. We saw violins there in the museum which were 450 years old! That is much older than our nation!

We met lots of interesting and wonderful people, and even exchanged details with a lovely Belgium couple who we met at the end of a champagne tour in Epernay, France. Hopefully they will come and visit us here in Australia, or we might even see them again in Europe!(?)

Jet lag has taken its toll on Katie, but it seems that my friend Ric-Rac has been feeling jet lag too, and the furthest she has been in Sebastopol! By the way did you know there is a Sebastopol in Italy?

In looking ahead to the things I have to do this term, I am feeling a bit snowed under, so the housework may suffer, even though my wonderful Mum left the house sparkling clean...