Here's the quilt I finished for Ben recently. I posted it on flickr, and an administrator for one of the quilt groups asked if they could add it to their pool of photos, and asked me to join the group. How exciting is that!!
Just gorgeous. My grandma's cups are like this, just over the top blowsy roses and gold. She had at least 100. I wish I'd taken photos of the whole collection. They've all been split up now.
I found a site with lots and lots of photos of - just quilted cups and saucers. Now I've seen everything. They so remind me of my grandma's cups - many of which are languishing in boxes until I find somewhere to put them on display.
Worming the guinea pigs. The boys love doing this. They turn the guinea pigs onto their backs and feed their guinea pigs - it's like feeding a bottle to a baby.
School holidays and coffee with my 10 year old. He's really enjoying Emily Rodda's Deltora Quest. Then we went off and visited a couple of quilt shops, and Ben sat himself in a corner and read. Such an angel!!
We went to the coast on the weekend - to Maruya Heads. We saw an echidna making it slow, waddling way across this path the next day. So wonderful to see one in the wild. And we saw dolphins at sunrise. 
Ben paints the first stroke. We painted his room on the weekend, and he did much of it. He chose green and yellow - and his room doesn't look like a guest room anymore.We finished painting Ben's room, he chose a notice board and we put it up. Ben's first note to himself - Something to DO....
Get lots of stuff
My first crop of chillis - in the bowl my grandma gave me years ago. Not quite enough for a batch of chilli jam yet.
Andrew helped me make a caramel pear upside down cake today. He made the caramel and arranged the pears. He spent two hours doing housework with me - and the place is looking fantastic now. It's been a busy weekend painting a bedroom and rearranging things.
Ben made dyed eggs at school - drew designs on with wax first, and made the most wonderful little easter basket with riddles like 'How do you attract a rabbit' - and drew in carrots leading to our door. Very cute. Happy Easter.
I'm in a swap group on flickr. I sent out this pink and green fabric, and asked for triangles. These are the blocks I've received back so far. The blocks have come from across Australia, the US and the UK. Still more to come...And I forgot to include the one I made.
