Fun

We all went to Seaworld and it was great. It was a first for me and the park was a lot smaller than I thought it would be :) an adults perspective I suppose. The dolphin show was great and they were so gorgeous. 

The penguins were so amazing too but you really felt for them in their very very confined space. They must have been so bored. They just paraded up and down the glass looking at us. 

The aquarium was awesome and I took so many photo's trying to catch 'dorie' in a good light :) it was so funny, everyone was the same, every time they spotted 'dorie' they said look dorie!! :) Have no idea what the fish is :)

This was another cool fish, maybe they need to attach labels to their fins so we know what they are :)

This one kept going back and forth, showing off??

The rays did this all the time too, I am so sure they were all showing off for us :)
I have watched finding Nemo so many times, you can just imagine them having the conversations that the fish had, for instance, " watch this man, watch as I swim upside down, thats all i have to do to impress them, too easy" :)

Another important matter, I moved my desk from here....

To here.....

much more light and space, we are getting the kids a longer desk so they don't have to touch and fight, well maybe just touch. If I had stayed in the above empty space I would not have been able to get out, which would have been okay for a while since my secret stash of chocolate was under the sewing extension table :).
So now more space and light. Lovely.

7 days till Japan
jane

Broccoli!!

The garden kind of went to sleep for a while there when there was no rain, even watering it twice a day it wasn't the same as when it rained for 15 minutes and then the garden just bloomed! amazing. 

This is me modelling the latest look from the garden :) it was quite yum and tasted so fresh of course :)

Before we picked it, so cool

Slow growing beans and beetroot and pumpkin down the end, was hoping there would be vines by now

My awesome potato plants, they have really grown, and I planted four potato's out of my pantry and they have all grown!! wohooo

Corn!!

A huge batch of green tomatoes, waiting waiting waiting....

 bulging beans :)

My capsicum plants, they are flowering and about to give me well capsicums :)

He really loves broccoli :) really :)

Carrots, baby ones and we put them in our casserole and they were yum

 Showing off :)

 Anddddd I forgot to tell you that Sam and I on our walk a few weeks ago rescued a possum and her baby, she had no movement in her back legs and was just laying on the floor just off the path where we walk along the river. Her baby was wrapped around her neck and the horrible magpies were swooping and hitting her in the head, it was so horrible. We noticed that there was a canvas chair that had been left near the river and so we ran over and put it over the possum so that the birds couldn't hit it and hurt the baby. Then once we were home we rung RSPCA and the local carer came and rescued her.
Then today on our walk, coming down a tree was a big koala, and he was being chased by the magpies again!! We could hear them as they hit him on the head poor thing, so we ran around them with sticks trying to scare the birds off and the koala ran to another tree and climbed up it, but it wasn't one he could eat from so he went back down again and the birds went for him again. I had grabbed a banana tree branch and I was waving that and it kept breaking :) so then Sam started throwing rocks at the birds, one didn't even move:) we were obviously not very scary. The koala finally went as high as he could get on a tree and the birds just circled him. But it was so cool to see a koala that close and watch him run across the ground and climb up a tree. Very cool.

School holidays started tonight, so I think tiredness is going to be my state of mind for the next few weeks :) Must be positive :) Japan here I come.

Jane

New fun paints to play

I went onto a great website that I found called Kraftkolour and they had new products in and wow!! They had new metallic fabric inks and the colours were incredible, so I just had to buy some. Have a look at these.......

I got Cerise, turquoise, old gold, power red and firenze orange :) how cool are those names

And of course they look even more spectacular in real life and much more sparkly.
And the tubes behind are another type of metallic paint that sits up off the fabric and looks sensational too. So I am going to be playing with those in the next few days.

I also finished the baby quilt, and am quite happy with this one. I am about finished with the lap quilt I am making right now too, this one has been fun just to free motion over all the space of the quilt. I am hoping to finish it this weekend and then finish off another where it is swirls, of course:), and it will all be done with thread, all different shades of blue.
I finished a book the other day and it was sooooo corny and unrealistic and silly romantically, but I didn't miss a page or stop reading :) what is the go with that? I gave it to Sam to read as well and told her how bad it was so it will be interesting to see if she reads it all too :) Just finishing up a Dirk Pitt adventure, by Clive Cussler, it is far fetched too but still a good read.
19 days till I go to Japan!!! So excited. :)
Jane

Something's Growing

My vege patch is doing so well and I am having so much fun working in it and watching it grow.
I think that when all the tomato's bloom I will be able to make yummy spaghetti sauce and lots of it :).

Have a look....

These are zucchini, which makes all my family shout with glee

These are my potato plants, one I bought, the smaller one that looks like a weed near the fence I grew myself from a potato out of my cupboard :) so exciting :)
And then just under the broccoli you can see a white speck with a green sprout shooting out of it, that is the garlic I planted, and it grew!! I just got a bulb of garlic and put it in the ground, saw it on garden show and thought I would try it. Wohoo

Lots of tomatos

yummy strawberries just waiting to ripen...

 And lots of sweet peas to crunch on so yum

Now the other thing that I have been doing lately that is of great importance is cleaning my grout on my tiles. As you can see in this photo, I have done some and you can tell the disgusting difference, I have bought a steamer and that blasts the dirt away, with the help of some heavy duty cleaner :) I cant believe the amount of dirt that gets blasted out of my grout, it is so gross.
It is also real sad in a way that this is how I spend my time :) but oh well, clean grout.

This is also what I am working on, a commission for a baby quilt. A boys one, and the colours are looking great. Just about to finish sewing and then will get all the layers together and start sewing. I have a very short window to finish this so I really need to be quick. Here's hoping it all goes well.

And lastly, I am making a large lap quilt, squares!! I cant believe I did it. Some of them don't join up that well but it is all in the lovin' isn't it? So I have given a lot of care and attention to the free motion work and hope it looks great.

Have been listening to Lady Antebellum's latest album and really enjoying it, they are in concert here in September and would so love to go but we are saving for Japan and cant have both :( Also Mumford and Son's release their new album middle of September and it seems that Brisbane might be their first concert since the release, September date but they are only going to be at the Gold Coast mid week, so real hard for me to get to and it would be by myself as I cannot seem to find anyone that shares my passion for their music :) which is odd since they are an absolute global sensation. So a no go for that too, but I will be happy listening to their music in Japan and think it was worth saving the money and spending it in Japan :).

Jane