Recovering from shifting is nearly over! Starting to feel like home here now, which is nice but a part of me doesn't want it to get too comfortable or we wont be motivated to move into our bigger 'do-upper' around the corner. I honestly don't know how people can move so often, years ago I could quite happily live somewhere for a few months and up-root and shuffle off to a new abode..I must be getting old!
Our tiny single garage is packed to the hill with all our stuff, including all my felting fleece....two potters wheels...two pianos....the list goes on! But on the bright side I kept my spinning wheel out and have been happily spinning away in the evenings now that the light is fading.
We have had my partners family over from France, England and two sisters from Oz (Eight siblings..14 nieces and one nephew) They are an awesome family orientated bunch and it has been great to meet and get to know them better, Easter was very cool with a Sunday BBQ breakfast and an Easter hunt for the kids.
Goodies arrived in the mail today....YAY! A beautiful green woollen bag that I bought from Melissa at tiny happy It's the first time I have bought something from etsy and I fear I have started an addiction I can't stop! This was made extra special by the little extra goodies Melissa added....Those little extras are always so cool and make you feel so good!
The weather is doing that sporadic autumnal windy thing. Hot afternoons but I can't open the windows as everything goes flying, so the afternoon was spent sewing for more Trade me listings today. Anya is modeling the first of my new apron tops...she calls the matryoshka dolls 'gnomes'! So she spent the afternoon making paper 'gnomes' with her friend! 
I have just started lising my goodies on trade me. Please feel free to have an oogle!
I recently went to a lions fundraising auction and scored this old fairy down eiderdown feather blanket, It was a bit worse for wear..but only 2 buks! I had to have it, even if it meant lugging it around in the sun for the next few hours...I eagerly inspected it when I got home and decided that it needed a jolly good wash. In the front loader it went, when.....yes you guessed it it...my lovely blanket blew up in the washing machine! Still to good an opportunity to throw away, I decided to make a new cover and rescue the feathers that had survived the torture chamber that was my electrolux!
I had these pieces of linen and bought this brown and tan cotton form Arthur toy for $6 a meter,
This was the trickiest part. I tacked and pinned a boarder down but sewing through the feathers was very difficult, as well as managing the bulk of the blanket on the side of the machine. It also kept getting caught underneath which meant lots of unpicking and frustration...arrrggghhh....and maybe some swearing!
Ta daa.
Today is sewing day, and in true procrastinating form...
I feel like I'm being watched
