Eric Bibb - and a night out

We went out on Tuesday night! That's remarkable in itself. The kids stayed with my m-in-law and we went to see Eric Bibb - soul, gospel, blues - with a few friends.

I've found a clip on YouTube which has the Swedish guy who was back up on the night. He was funny too. Quipped, don't you want to hear some Swedish songs, and played a bit of Abba. Then it was our 15th wedding anniversary today. Nice way to celebrate.

Blankets in the car

Today it was officially cold. And I know that because the boys took their blankets into the car for the drive to school. They were wearing shorts (!) and I somehow I think that's why they were feeling the cold this morning.

My mum made these quilts for the boys when they were tiny. Ben's is called Bears and Squares. Andrew's has has two different fleecy fabrics, mum made it for him before he was 1. Good to see they're still being used.

All I could get of Andrew was a train-covered lump.

Chocolate

We went out to dinner on Sunday night with granny. The boys ordered a chocolate tasting plate. Took a photo and then it was demolished - like a horde of locusts!

Ben's door

Ben has filled up most of his door with notes. Some about keeping out of his safe (he's bought a safe to keep his lolly collection safe), some about Andrew - his big brother - staying out of his room. One of them is about happy thoughts...

Tennis and kookaburras

Wonderful moment today. I got the boys to tennis early so they could have a warm up before the lesson. They went down to the court and kookaburras started up their cackle. Just wonderful.

Ben's playing cards



Cupcakes aren't very smart...







Ben had a day off sick this week. He spent some time in the morning making a set of playing cards and we played a few games during the morning. Then he made more playing cards and we played again in the afternoon. It was a nice chance to spend time just sitting in the sun, watching the guinea pigs and taking it slowly.









Today's fabric loot

Today's fabric loot
Originally uploaded by Linseed2010

Bought some new fabric on the weekend. I've already started using the white chairs on red.

Pumpkin pickin' time

Hmmm Ben must have been listening when I was talking to grandma Julie a couple of days ago. Grandma asked if I'd been cooking any of the pumpkins in Ben's pumpkin patch. I said I wasn't allowed to! Ben didn't want them touched.

Anyway, while I was sewing this afternoon, Ben picked every pumpkin and brought them all inside. I took a photo of them all - I guess it was almost time to pick them. And I'm making a batch of pumpkin soup with the first one now.

We'll have a few weeks of pumpkin gnocchi, pumpkin pizza, and roast pumpkin salads.

Ben grading the pumpkins from biggest to smallest.

heaven and earth

heaven and earth
Originally uploaded by CampFollowerBagLady

Here's the full monty - just lovely.

heaven and earth

heaven and earth
Originally uploaded by CampFollowerBagLady

Just saw this quilt on flickr - love, love, love it. Not sure why - the colours, the great spiral quilting, the craziness of it, the little stars in the middle - think I just answered my own question...