Going offline

I'll be offline shortly for four days.  Going interstate with a conference for the rest of the week and then spending the weekend with Alison.

All packed for the morning when I will leave fresh litter and lots of food and water for Trubs.  One of the women at work has offered to look in on Trubs a couple of times, but seeing as I've only known her a couple of weeks I thought it best to leave out enough supplies for Trubs just in case.

I've also washed, ironed, tidied etc so when I get home that Sunday night I only need to collapse in bed. I'll be home on Sunday too late for the 'puter so I'll be online again Monday after work.

Enjoy yourselves for the next few days and don't do anything I wouldn't do.

Thank you Claire

I received the sweetest parcel from Claire in today's mail ....

A most gorgeous frog fob !!!

A great fridge magnet!

A beautiful tiny kit I will take with me over the weekend.

A sooooo cute pair of socks !!!  Definitely wearing those this weekend!

Finally but by no means least a gorgeous book on Hardangar - definitely some projects in there I want to do as soon as I finish Mariann's teaching piece :)

More pics here.

Bad Hilary !!!!

Hilary RAKed me !!!  She said she was just going to send a couple of skeins of floss as a housewarming present.

She sent me FIFTY skeins of floss and a HUGE piece of Silkweavers opalescent fabric !!!!

12 Weeks
10 Gentle Arts
7 Dragon Floss
6 Dinky Dyes
3 Belle Soie
2 Crescent Colours
2 Kays Kullors
2 Carrie'sCreations
1 Six Strand Sweets
1 Sugared Almonds
1 Kates Kloths
1 Olde Willow Stitchery
1 Silk 'n Colors
1 Waterlillies

This is too much generosity!  'm going to kit up whatever charts I can and then I'm going to RAK out the rest of these threads!  I definitely want to share the love for these threads! 

Is that OK Hilary?

Oh Great!

Stephen is now sending house-pornography photos to my cat ....

http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/10/post-1.html

I'm going to have to listen to her whine for a week now !!!!

Hugs and good night all .....

Spring Cleaning

There's something indefinable but so visceral about stripping the bed and putting away the winter doona (comforter) and pulling out the summer bedspread instead.

As you can see the supervisor and bed tester was on hand to ensure that quality standards were maintained.  I really pity those of you who don't have such QA personnel on hand!

So I got a little inspired today.  I've tidied every room in the house and cleaned the front and back yards.  Even attacked the ivy in the front yard!

About to have a late lunch and then do the floors and of course the ironing tonight (what would Sunday night be without the ironing pile ....)

Have uploaded five new pics in Trouble's album and also put up a couple of shots of the Front Yard and Back Yard.

No stitching today ....

EDITED: Trubs no longer loves this house as much as she did.  The dreaded Vacuum Cleaner Monster has found her!

I've been spot vacuuming here and there but today is the first day that I completely thoroughly vacuumed every room in the house!  Then I mopped too!

I'd better lie down until this sudden attack of cleaning passes.

Hugs all

New Home - Back Yard

Again there's height to these plants assisting in providing more visual privacy.

And that is the back gate into the communal car area. And yes I have to push past the plants to get there.

Not as pretty as the front - need to consider what if anything I want to do with it. Frankly I wont be here long, so not sure if I should expend much more energy over keeping it clean and tidy.

New Home - Front Yard

Pic taken standing in doorway to house :) I really need to find somewhere else to put the bins .....

Front yard at the new place.

19 October 2008