Something Old, Something New

My husband drove in from work last evening with this wonderful old treasure on board! I love old fashioned items and this old kitchen cupboard is no exception! The fronts have the old wire mesh, just like the old fashioned meat safes............. Turns out it is / was known as a pie safe. The shelves inside are just the perfect size to fit family pies on. LOL. But I will be using it to house all my homemade jams and preserves............ That is, once I clean out the mud wasp nests, cobwebs and dust. It may also get a paint job too. A lovely old piece, becoming a new treasure for our little house. Just have to move some things around to make it fit in our tiny home.

Clutter, stash busting

this was part of my stash........ That is needing to be tidied up, used up or gotten rid of.......... So, you guessed it, it has been cut up into a couple hundred squares, which are currently being sewn together to create my Clutter buster quilt!....... Progress will be cut for a bit, as hubby & I head to Perth on Saturday to celebrate our28th wedding anniversary!

Ps, totally unsure how this will post as its my first time from the iPad, that hubbie gave me for Christmas

A New Year..... A New Start

Hi there everyone, or those of you who just happen to still wonder if I'm around. Perhaps I'm just writing to myself....... I can deal with that LOL. Anyhow, haven't gotten around to working out the phot situation, so ill be blogging without photos for the time being. My wonderful hubbie bought me an iPad 4 for Christmas! Have to say I was just a bit stunned...... How did he even know I wanted one?? And now my DIL was able to tell me there was an app for blogger so I could write posts....... Well, who could pass that up?? And in December we were blessed by getting ADSL2 Internet in our area!!!!!! This has made a huge difference and I can even view photos on blogs without having to wait hours for them to download! Well, just a big hello to anyone still around and I hope to go visit some of your blogs a little later today after some much needed house work gets done. Until next time, big hugs, sharm

Snail Mail

Hi everyone,  Seems I can no longer add photos to my blog without having to pay a fee and I don't really wish to start doing that...... so not sure just yet what I will do in that respect.  However on another note,  I have to say that I just love snail mail.   The group I am part of is opened  for a very short time to receive some new members.  It does have a couple of stipulations - you need to be female, Christian and be willing to commit to snail mail and round robins (with the occassional swap thrown in) for at least 1 year.  If you think this interest you and you would love to see some snail mail arriving in your mail box just let me know by either a comment left here, an email to me  sharmshere@yahoo.com    or you can click on the link in the sidebar (make sure you tell a bit about yourself and where you live.   The snail mail group covers oversees as well as within Australia.

I've been a little slack...........

Slack in posting that is!  Sometimes it just seems to take forever to get my photos uploaded onto blogger!!   And so I've been slack and not posted............. but I have been busy as well!

I managed to do up a few kitchen items for a friends daughter who is getting married on the 1st December.  Since she wasn't having a kitchen tea, I thought it would be a nice treat to get some homemade kitchen bits in the mail and I was pleased to hear that she loved them.

I've also managed to get all 3 grandchildrens "footy" crocheted rugs made up in readiness to post for christmas - Jacey only likes pink and purple and "not footy" LOL

Now it's time to get on with the other items needing to be made up in readiness for christmas..............  How is everyone else going?
Pray you all have a great week.

Market Day Finds

Sunday was Market Day at Yarrawonga and Pete and I headed off for our monthly visit - it operates on the 3rd Sunday of each month.  Often we walk around getting a bit of veg and the dog treat for Scruffy, but this week.................Look what I came home with

This cute little bicycle is just the right size for one of Teddy Bears to sit on, and goes well with the rocking chair and pram.................. Pete was wonderful and purchased it for me - although that could have had something to do with the fact that he was getting a number of cray nets from the same place LOL

Did I mention that place also had this amazing basket!!!  I have a thing for baskets............ what can I say???

And the Iris's inside the basket cam from another shop............ I had been on a garden walk about the day before and all the Iris's are out in all the gardens down here and looking so wonderful.  I do already have a few............. but I have decided I'd like to put a row of them in front of our front verandah.


Having a hubbie who is super efficient at "haggling" the price of things............ I ended up with these 3 wonderful lamps for under what 2 were originally going to cost me - and they were already a good price (so I thought ).
Unfortunately I can't download the photo right now - I have been trying the past few hours, so will just post without the photo for now

So I've now done a slight re arrange of the lounge room to incorporate the new item..............

At last it's out!

What a busy weekend I've had!  Finally yesterday after quite the struggle, I managed to get the dishwasher out of the kitchen.  It's an old one that was here when we bought the house  over 2 years ago and it looked like it would probably cause lots of drama if we tried using it.  The original plan was to replace it, however after 2 1/2 yrs there have really only been a handful of times that I've wished it was working.... so I figured that since we are so short on storage space here, that I would be better taking it out and using the empty space for storage!  Let me tell you it was not as easy as I had thought...... old, the cupboards had been built to not alow it to be removed/replaced easily, it had no metal sides or top (as I discovered)..... I had to cut pipes and the electric cord!!!  But I do now have an empty space :)  I had thought I would put the microwave in there on top of a shelf..... I just have to wait now to have a hole put in the cupboard so the power cord can feed through!  We have found this house to be somewhat of a challenge each time you think you might easily do something!

I moved on with my day and got some much needed baking done since we were out of biscuits........ jam drops, macadamia biscuits and some with just a choc melt in the top

I managed to get the lawns mowed and a little gardening in between hanging out the numerous loads of washing that had been sitting waiting while our bore pump (which supplies our household water) was getting fixed ....... and then replaced!!! We now have a new one

And yes, I did get to work on some of my crochet and sewing as well....... and some decluttering and cleaning....... busy, busy :)