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Welcome!

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Hello and welcome to my new blog address, mostly about sewing and retired life. My old site at blogger was no longer viable as I was unable to fix the problems with posting and commenting on blogs including my own. So now that I’ve had a few months break I’ve decided to restart my blog on my own domain.

Heres a quick update of what we’ve been up to over the last few months.

We’ve mostly been busy doing lots of work around the house. We knocked down a wall between DD’s room and my old sewing room to make a larger room for her. We’ve installed new wardrobes, almost finished the gyprocking and just need to get some shelving installed and then finish the painting.

DS’s old bedroom was repainted and its now my new sewing room!  I have more room – it’s still stuffed to the gills with fabric! – and will have a lovely view over the garden eventually.  I’ve moved all my fabric in and its also storage for stuff out of DD’s room while we finish it so I’m looking forward to getting it all set up just for sewing soon.

I’ve also spent some time with DS as he had to have surgery and needed some help at home. It was so nice to just spend time together after the few years of covid restrictions and not having to rush home for work after our visits now that we are not working. He’s doing well now and back at work. We have put a new kitchen in his unit which was sorely needed – it looks great – next up is updating the bathroom.

One the sewing front I’ve been making some lap quilts for donation and I’ll post some pics of  those shortly. I also started the Owl and Hare Hollow quilt embroidery squares which I’m enjoying – I’m a bit behind with this along with the other Block of the Months I had planned for this year but its all good. I will get some photos up later once I’ve had time to work out this new blog. 

On the travel front we’ve just got back from a month in the warmer weather of Queensland. Such a beautiful place and I was able to spend time tracking down some of my family history while I was away.. It was nice to get away from the cold and we have both returned feeling rested and ready to get back into the house and yard work. I’m ready to get back to my sewing & blogging and am hoping to start volunteering in the next few weeks helping students with speaking literacy and conversational English.

Well thats all for the moment, its nice to be back!

cheers,

Jan

Saturday shopping- Sunday relaxing

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Yesterday was chilly here with a big frost to start the day off and some rain late in the day. A good day to be inside.  I usually pick up our shopping early on Saturday mornings, the shops are quieter and its all done and put away early in the day. When I did this weeks order online I decided to stock up as I had my $150 voucher to use and I also want to restock my pantry a bit, but as I put the order through I found out the voucher can only be used in person – so that mucked up my budget for the week.

This week I did well with the half price specials. I love Twining’s tea but I won’t pay $11 for 80 teabags so when they are half price I stock up. I bought six boxes which should do me until the next time they are on sale. Peanut butter was half price – $2.85 and roast beef lunch meat was 2 for $5. Those were my best buys for the week.

Its one week now since the school holidays finished and our town had thousands of visitors for the fortnight. So far there are no new cases in our town but the person I work with in my second job had to be tested again – fortunately results were clear. I’ve made the decision that I will continue to work from home for my second job after that, as I had been going to resume face to face work this week which is when I found out she’d been tested. I can work online using zoom so will continue with that.

Well its early Sunday morning here and its raining, which sounds lovely on the roof!. I am about to catch up with a friend in the US so long as the weather doesn’t interfere with the internet. Then I’m going to have a cosy afternoon of crotchet in front of the TV.