A Country Notion

Hmmm Guess I Been Hit Too!!

2006-10-06T17:41:00.000+10:00

Not sure if I should really thank you Sandie for tagging me :P) Not sure why you think I even have 5 weird whacky crazy things I don't know about me or my pets for that matter. I'm such a shy quiet girl that I couldn't possibly be anything like that:)

Now let me get this right I have to tag 5 other blogs then list 5 things about me? hmmm okay here goes. Do I know 5? sheeze!! Let me think..ahah love you Kez but really it's too umm the aim of this is to promote the blogs that I like reading the most and Sis yours in one that I just love to take a peek at as often as I can. Lets see who else can I tag? Oh I know this is the second blog I ever read (first was Sandie's) and I pop in when ever I get time to myself on the computer for a bit of a gander Chloesplace. That's how many? Two hmm 3 too go. Another blog I stop off too is Lorenza's Blog. Three down and two too go sorry ladies but Sandie made me do it:P) Charlene please forgive me...hehe...but I just tagged you so your it too! Lastly I go to visit this lovely person online when I get the chance Beverly Ann I've tagged you too!

" Okay so here goes!!"

1. I moved from the city to the country, a town with no water on the edge of the desert and I hate the heat!

2. Gave up a full time medical receptionist's position to work as a Bar Maid in the local hotel 2 days a week.

3. We collect animals, cats, dogs, chickens, native birds. We have so many animals I've lost count!

4. My DH is terrified of Spiders & Snakes (pmsl Squeels like a girl sometimes)

5. I love practical jokes as long as they are not played on me

Bear

2006-10-04T17:21:00.000+10:00

You came into my life when I met your father. You were already 5 years old and didn't really trust or love anyone other then your Dad! When I first saw you it was only a flash and I thought how strange you looked! Your sleek black coat with your white chest, your white toes and white moustaouche! You didn't have a tail though and I'd never seen a cat with no tail! and when you ran you ran like a rabbit! I couldn't wait for you too love me. Couldn't wait to give you the biggest cuddle but you wouldn't have it! You hid from me my whole visit!
Then it was time for you to make the move from Northern NSW to Melbourne over 2,000km. You did this with our Dad sitting on the passanger seat of the removal truck! Once in Melbourne you met my little girl and she loved you from the world go! She'd chase you around the house barking wanting to play, you didn't want too though you weren't used to dogs! And you had always lost your little friends as soon as you began to love them. Unfortunately it was too happen again. Ellie died 3 weeks after you moved down and again you were without a friend! Slowly though you were beginning to trust me! You comforted me through my grieving for my little Angel. You would sit by me, just being there. Just letting me know you cared.

You then thought it would be good to push me to see how much I would take before I would leave you like everyone else had! When I'd get up of a nighttime to go to the toilet you would stalk me and pounce! You would either bite or attach yourself to my hip. I wasn't afraid of you though and would just reach around and grab you, cuddle you and kiss you until you had calmed down. The games slowly changed to me chasing you around the house then you turning around too chase me. I knew in my heart you needed a friend of your own kind so made the decision to find one for you that would be with you for the rest of your life!

So you Dad and I went to the Cat Protection Society in Melbourne on the quest to find you true love! I knew that day that we would come home with either a rough tomcat or someone to be your forever friend!

We spent a long time looking. I feel in love with a big Ginger Tom. Then your Dad calls out to me that he had seen a beautiful little white cat. She's a Manx he says just like BearBear!. It didn't take us long to decide on her. She was guttsy and a blonde! Puurfect! Not only was she a tough little blyter but she was also a Manx how could we leave her in a pen?

Bear now you not only have your mate for life but we've managed to adopt a whole Pride! for you!

You have mellowed into loving, smoochy, fun loving, adorable Manx! You love me now as much as you have ever loved your Dad. You now find it hard to choose who it is you want too spend your time with and I feel very privilledged. You are a Cat in a Million my little Man.

Crafting Left, Right & Centre!

2006-09-24T17:32:00.000+10:00

This is the most time I've had from crafting since I can't remember when! I've been making more hearts, here are some:

And I've also managed to make a BeadedAngel for my DH's cousin!

She didn't want her photo taken and this was the best I could do! Gonna have to go outside to take photo's I think. Hopefully I'll be able to make enough of these little cuties to pop on e-bay for Christmas. I think I'm going to have to get cracking if I want to make them for this Christmas though:)

I've also managed to make a birthday card for my 1 year old nieces birthday. Now I'm a rotten Aunty coz I haven't sent her present yet. It's going out tomorrow! Along with all the hearts I've swapped over the weekend! The post office in town are going to love me tomorrow

I've really got stuck into;

2006-09-21T11:56:00.000+10:00

making these hearts. See said I was back into it:) I'm really proud of these hearts as I thought I'd lost the knack of making them.

This first one is called "Down in the Garden". These are the first hearts made by me for 2006.

This next one is called "Hats&Flowers". The person who wants this heart I will stitch your name in the blank space at the bottom of the heart. This is my first heart for swap this year!

Now the photos aren't great but we don't have the scanner hooked up yet:(

My next one I've named "Little Girl Dreams" this was inspired by a little girls dream I was told about:)

This is the best heart I've ever made (only my opinion) it's my favourite one out of all the hearts I've made. I am soo very proud of this one! :D "Underwater Treasures"

Started Making Hearts Again

2006-09-12T17:12:00.000+10:00

Finally after nearly 10 months I have finally started making hearts again for the Chainsofhearts group on Yahoo Groups. I'm really taking my time because I never feel like mine come anywhere near the level of beauty that the other girls make. Although I will say the more I make the better they start too look! I have two almost finished will get stuck into them tonight and hopefully they will be available to post by Thursday. Then I'm off Camping for a week. Can't wait for the break although with 14 humans and 6 dogs who know's what kind of break we'll all get!

Spring Flowers

2006-09-12T16:57:00.000+10:00

Well Spring is definately here at last! The flowers are bloomin and the sun is shinning most of the time. Here are just a couple of my favourite flowers in our garden at the moment.

This is our "Death Lillie" (don't know the real name of the plant and it's affectionately called this by us)

Our lovely native Hybiscus which is finally coming into bloom! PMSL I thought it was a weed a month ago and nearly ripped it out of the ground!!! Lucky DH put a stop too it isn't it pretty?

This is our Potato Vine it seperates our back yard with the verandah. Needs a trim but it's so nice and flowery right now.

Daisy my most prized flower in the garden. Not a photo gets by without her trying her hardest to be involved. Just look at this face! Big smoochies coming her way!!!

My Latest Creation!

2006-09-11T13:38:00.000+10:00

This is my latest creation. Yet to be named or completely finished this little darling has taken me literally months to create!

I've still got to attatch the eyelashes and paint the fingernails then he/she will be completed!

I was going to enter him/her (thinking more her) into the local show but they don't have a dolly section and she won't pass for a soft toy! Enjoy the other photo's!!

Tribute to Steve "The Crocodile Hunter" Irwin

2006-09-11T13:24:00.000+10:00

Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter. Thank you Steve for all you have done for the world of conservation. When I first saw you on the telly I thought you were rather over the top. It wasn't until I actually sat down and watched your show that I realised what a knowledgeable man you really were. I was shocked and saddened by your death! I mean if you had been taken by a croc or some other savage beast I think I would have thought well yeah I could see that happening but a Sting Ray no way! I hope your family will manage and be able to cope without the passion and excitement you must have bought home. I only hope that in Heaven your exuberance isn't stilled.
Goodbye Steve I'm only glad we can still watch your adventures on the television! Thank you for sharing your passion with me and the rest of the world.!

Slowly Taking Up Photography Again!

2006-08-31T17:01:00.000+10:00

The Wedgetail Eagles are out in force here now I've noticed them flying about and would love to snap a couple of shots off of them! So are so many other things too the Conola is out in flower so we have fields of yellow! the grass is turning brown again just so much to click away at. Now I've made up my mind I"m going walking with the camera tomorrow. I really need to score the camera to get the happy snapping started. Wish me luck

Storm Coming!!!

2006-08-17T17:41:00.000+10:00

Hopefully!! Fingers crossed we might get some rain tonight! Just look at these clouds!

We're all hoping for some rain coz we're going into Stage 5 water restrictions next week which means that all we can do is shower (thank goodness!), wash our clothes, flush toilet and wash dishes! Won't be able to use water for anything else. We've just spent $300 or close too on our gardens to make them nice, think we'll have to figure out a way to drain the washing machine water onto the garden!!!

So with these clouds please do the rain dance along with us tonight so we all get some water!

It's been such a dry winter the farmers are thinking they'll have to bring in water for the livestock, and with the wind we had yesterday even the Conola is wilting!!

Another Stitching Project finished!

2006-08-17T17:33:00.000+10:00

This one is for a young lady I met not long after I moved into town. Her and her husband have just had they're first baby "Clarissa Rose". With all that Tami had done for us when we moved here I thought this was a nice way to repay some of her kindess and patience.

Busy Busy Busy

2006-08-17T17:21:00.000+10:00

How busy can one person get?! I've hardly had any time too myself in the last 4 - 5 weeks. Atleast we've managed to make the chook run, and if I do say so myself it looks pretty darn great!

When the Granny flat came we had to demolish all our sheds and back fence so we were lucky sort of in a way that the chook run hasn't cost us anything other then the green paint! Even our chooks came "Free to Good Home"!

At the moment I have eight (8) girls I'm looking to get another eight (8) too fill up the pen! DH wanted to kill them off every six months but you know who has fallen for all eight girls even old Pirate the Rhode Island Red with only one eye!!

Finished

2006-07-13T16:40:00.000+10:00

Well I finially finished Dad's X-Stitch but forgot to photograph it. It holds pride of place in the loungeroom of their home. Which makes me proud.
My sister makes me proud too. She has three more books coming out soon, can't wait too catch up on my reading (when she gets around too sending them too me:))
I'm heading too her site now http://keriarthur.com to have a browse!

Catch Up

2006-07-06T16:43:00.000+10:00

Well again I haven't posted for ages. But life's been getting in the way of all things craft. It's taken me 2 months to finish my Dad's golfing X-Stitch sampler sorry no photo's I wrapped it up all ready for his birthday this weekend and forgot to photograph his pressie. Now I'm working again I'm finding it hard to get craft time. Although I have started knitting myself a lovely handbag that I will post a photo of as soon as I've finished and I'm in the process of making a reborn doll that I need to give a body too and dress before it goes into the local show.

Finally Finshed

2006-04-11T15:19:00.000+10:00

In my last post I showed what I had done in a lovely Cross Stitch Sampler I was making for my nephew well it's finally finished. All I need now is a nice frame to have it completed. Here is my finished product!
I'm rather proud of this one. Now it's time to start some others as gifts! Then two more birth samplers! At this rate I'll be stitching for the next 50 years!

My Work in Progress

2006-04-03T16:27:00.000+10:00

I've been having major craft withdrawl's over the last few months. So drove 74kms to my closest craft shop last week for some much needed supplies. My newphew was born 2 years ago in July and I hadn't made him a birth sampler (bad aunty!) so after a few cold night's in front of the fire this is as far as I've gotten. I've still got to fill in his name and birth weight but give it another couple of nights and I'm sure I'll have it completed. Will post picture when it's all complete!

Starting Again

2006-03-17T14:40:00.000+11:00

Well I thought since it's been such a long time since I have made any effort to post a blog that I would start again. Can't believe it was close to 12 months since I've written anything!

So here we go! I have quit work and moved to a beautiful part of country Australia! A little place with 403 people. We have magical sunrises and sunsets all over wheat fields and horse paddocks.
We have moved into a 90 year old home with so much character. Rooms sprout from everywhere!

The country life is really suiting me though here I am thinking it would take me months to settle in but nope withing the first week I managed to meet 1/2 the town! Now I'm having coffee at the small cafe in town (town consists of 2 pubs, and small supermarket, a small gift shop and a pharmacy oh better not forget the newsagent/hardware come anything you might need store!)

here is a photo of one of our lovely sunsets. Dave and I sit on our front porch each night watching the sun set each one is so different and so beautiful.

Here I am thinking I would miss the city but no way I would never give up this life for more shops and more cafes or even a take away shop! I'm healthier then I've ever been and getting fitter by the day.

One thing I am missing a bit though is my craft. Once I've got my craft room set up I'll be able to get back into it all. I can't wait to start making hearts again for the COH group. And even though I've lost a lot of interest in Reborning I will even start that up again too. I think once I sit down and start it will all come back too me. The love I once felt for the art in particular.

Well that's it for today I have to remember to post at least once a week. Especially for Sandie who I know loves reading my blog to know what I've been up too!