Good morning friends. As I was preparing to write this post this morning sitting on my front verandah, enjoying looking out over my mismatched and slightly wild garden a beautiful feathery visitor alighted on the railing in front of me. The Kookaburra was looking for breakfast down in my garden....after a quick eye to eye with me to ensure I was no threat.....
He set about ignoring the human and concentrating on the garden below....
Such a privilege when wildlife choose to visit your garden and utilise man-made items to their advantage. He/she was so beautiful and in such great condition. It definitely made my morning.
So back to my post.....over the weekend I put the last stitch in the final applique block for Where We Love Is Home quilt.
Assembly of the bottom sections got underway.
I finally have all the sections together.
The big house block and quote was what originally hooked me when I saw the pattern.
I thought I had enough fabric in my stash for the first border but didn't realise it was the same fabric as one of the blocks at the top and it didn't look right....
So trying to find a lighter border with a little pattern so as to still highlight the scrappy crosses is proving a little bit of a challenge......
A lot of head scratching still happening.
I had a request last week from eldest Grandson to make a cat loving friend of his a cat themed birthday card....I made his Mum one with this new die and he thought it would be perfect.....so colour choice was made.....
And approval given......very easy.....a bonus for this very novice card maker.
Speaking of things feline.....Queen Athena's portrait that I showed you in an earlier post is finally finished and has been snaffled by youngest Granddaughter for her room.
This is my Daughter and Queen Athena...pleased with her portrait lol!
2 more pages in my little drawing note book....loved this scruffy bluefaced honeyeater.
And the beautifully coloured Rainbow Bee-eater.....I love seeing them in the wild further north....they are like little flashes of neon lights.
Gifts from our kind children brightened our week.....as attending live music is not an option for us now....our Son and DIL bought us some merchandise from a show they recently attended of two of our favourites....T shirt for hubby and book for me!
Our Daughter had these sunshiney gerberas delivered when we arrived home from hospital treatment....so gorgeous!
Our Granddaughter was wearing the best message of the week for Harmony Day.....shame it's not a sentiment shared by all in the world....but we must keep trying!
Ok! Time to put the kettle on. Coffee and a Tim Tam for me. I am a little partial to the salty caramel variety these days.......Kooka is still looking out over the garden so I will leave him to it! Hoping you find some simple joy in your day today.
Namaste and Blessings Michelle xxx