Sunday, May 26, 2024

 

The things we do for love, like walking in the park and cutting large shirt cuffs into half the size they were... for my Favourite Husband.





 HMHS Britannic was the third and final vessel of the White Star Line's Olympic class of steamships and the second White Star ship to bear the name Britannic. She was the youngest sister of the RMS Olympic and the RMS Titanic and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic passenger liner. Wikipedia

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Saturday, June 10, 2023

 

I'm Sewing YAY!!!

I haven't been able to do much sewing this year because of very painful hands ... and feet!  One of my many side effects of the Chemo I've had, but when an 8 year old grandchild requests a Raggy Quilt what am I going to do!  Firstly cut out all the flannel squares then bring the sewing machine into the family room with all the Sun!  Wonderful!   

 

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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

 

Photo a Day Challenge Catch up.

 19.2.2023 - On a Sunday - I love it when one or two or many of our family pop in.


20.2.2023 - A Product I Love - My Sewing Machine.



21.2.2023 - An Insect.



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Monday, August 29, 2022

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 29.8.2022 - I can... do lots and lots of wonderful things...








 

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Sunday, May 08, 2022

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 8.5.2022 - Love.


 Abigail made this little heart on my pin cushion back in 2020 and it's still there, I just love it.

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Monday, April 04, 2022

 

The things we do for love!

 Every keen sewer knows that horrible word 'mending' is never a lot of fun, not like the other wonderful items we love to create, but when the man that I love asks me to please mend his 'Overies' watcha gonna do eh?





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Monday, November 22, 2021

 

My Birthday Present to my Beloved David... and a Story.

1968 -  Not long after David and I married in Guildford, Surrey he asked me to darn one of his socks!  I was horrified, yes I can sew, I can knit... but darning??  He also suggested I turn a collar on his old shirt!  Turn Collars??  Darn Sock's??  I had never known anyone in my family who did this sort of thing so where on earth did he get these ideas from??  I know his mother nor would his Grandmother have done this so??

1967 - Let me introduce you to Auntie Nellie.  

When David arrived in the UK in 1967 he first stayed with and spent a lot of time with the Waugh family who's son Peter he'd met in NZ hence the reason to travel to England and start seeing the World.  

In this photo we have from left - Rupert, Elsie, Peter, Aunty Nellie, Barb (also an Aussie) a young French visitor, David and Christine Waugh on his lap.  

Auntie Nellie was a single woman with no home of her own but several siblings who she stayed with in rotation.  While staying with Rupert and family Nellie would do mending jobs such as Darning Socks and Turning Collar's.

I arrived in Guildford in 1968 and it was Elsie who put on a little Wedding lunch for us, we did stay with the Waugh's for a week before our Wedding and of course visited many times over the three years we were travelling around.

I remember seeing Nellie doing the mending on her visits but never never never was I going to 'Darn a Sock' or 'Turn a Collar'.

Okay... we are now 53 years and 5 months married and...  as today is David's birthday his gift from me is bigger than any gift I've given him before!

This shirt is much loved... and now will be even more loved and loved by myself as well.
Doesn't the Birthday Boy look Happy!  Happy Birthday David 🎂 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳


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Monday, September 20, 2021

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 20.9.2021 - I Believe.

I believe in LOVE, warms the cockles of my heart every time I see this little love heart put on my pin cushion by Abigail a couple of years ago.
 

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

 

Keeping busy during Lockdown.

Mending one of David's very old Overalls.

Below are some of our flowering apricot petals caught up in one of our many many spider webs, bit blurry but you can see the spider down the bottom.


 

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Wednesday, June 16, 2021

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 16.6.2021 - Something Weird.


 

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Saturday, May 15, 2021

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 15.5.2021 - Pattern


 I have made many of these over the years.

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Saturday, April 24, 2021

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 24.4.2021 - Triangle


 Nothing but Triangel's on these cushions.

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Sunday, February 14, 2021

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 14.2.2021 - Heart.

 

Abigail Rose make this lovely heart on my pin cushion a couple of years ago  and I will be keeping it like this forever more ❤️

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Saturday, September 26, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 26.9.2020 - I found this.

Hidden away at the bottom of one of our armchairs.

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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 23.9.2020 - Heart.

Still have this beautiful little heart that Abigail Rose pinned on my pincushion.
 

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Friday, September 11, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 11.9.2020 - Craft.


 Here is the wonderful Craft stuff I inherited from my Aunt Anne!  Lots of wonderful stuff here that's for sure.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

 

David and I are 'Isolating' but enjoying the tranquility and feeling of getting lots done around our home.

 I'm zigzagging along the side of this perfectly good towel to stop the rot!  How did this rot start in the first place though??  the rest of the towel is in perfect condition.

And with both the Steam Boat Fleet and Bus Museum closed... David is seriously getting into restoring Gwilym's 1966 Ford Falcon!

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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 25.2.2020 - Heart-shaped.

Abi did this with my little pins and it's been there for more than one year... and never going to be touched!!

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Saturday, February 08, 2020

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 8.2.2020 - I have too many...

Too many Knicks and Knacks... Nah!  you can never have too many...

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Saturday, May 25, 2019

 

Photo a Day Challenge - 25.5.2019 - My Fav Colour.

In there somewhere...

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