Sunday shadows...

Call me strange but I love seeing a washing line full of clean clothes. I always have some sense of accomplishment, of home and contentment..  This latest house has an old fashioned free standing Hills hoist - I think I fell in love the moment I saw it. I knew that it and I would have a long and lasting relationship...

Today - Sunday - being such a beautiful day here in Melbourne I couldn't help myself - I had to take a photo of our weekly washing drying in a gentle breeze surrounded by a garden full of flowering plants and buzzing bees....

I have had a busy weekend - it was my birthday on Friday so both P and I had a day off... We went down to Mordiallioc for a stroll along the beach and lunch at a restaurant called Windows on the Bay where we had lovely lunch watching the container ships make their way up the bay...

Yesterday we went to see the  Tutankhamun 

 exhibition at the Museum which was amazing in itself...The skills and craftsman ship in some of those pieces just took my breath away...It was difficult to get my head around that these pieces were 3000 years old - that they had been painstakingly made by crafts people who in their wildest imaginings couldn't have imagined a time much beyond their own.. As I looked at each piece I thought about what it had been a witness to - the sights and sounds which had surrounded it... In a way these pieces have travelled to an 'afterlife' a place where another race of people gaze on them in awe and in wonder...Would we be considered to be gods???? May these pieces keep 'travelling through time' astounding many more generations of people to come with their secrets, 'magic' and craftsmanship...

Stitching... Oh, you mean have I done any stitching... Not likely although I have been reading quite a few stitching blogs... Does that count??? I have been following Helen Stubbings 'Stitched Sundays' - today was a tutorial on how to do Bullion stitches...She makes it look so easy :-)

Today I had a feeling of 'home' - the sun shone through the windows casting shadows on the floor... It was an easy kinda day - may there be more of them...

Until later - take care

S xxx

open wide...

come inside... A sneak peek at what will eventually be 'my spot' in the house... It is only a small room - in fact P and I couldn't quite remember where it was after we visited the house for the first time. My daughter E and I are going to share this creating space...I know once I get this room sorted that I will start to feel more like I'm home... It has a polished floor so I may even pick up my paint brush again without me worrying about paint splatters on the carpet...

Today I unpacked my craft books -it took me the best part of a couple of hours to find them then unpack them... It was like rediscovering old friends...For the first time ever I will have a space solely for creating - somewhere I can just leave without having to pack everything away... A creating space of my (nearly) very own - I can't wait!!!! :-}
Until later

S xx

another pathway...

It looks like I've taken you down the garden path... Well, I have in a way.... When P and I first inspected our house we entered by the front door went through the rooms ticking off on our fingers as we went the fors and against...We really didn't take in the outside other than to give it a quick glance. The Saturday before we moved in and we came to have another 'look see'. What a shock we got when we realised the extent of garden... I think the original owners had been keen gardeners as there are lots and lots of very established plants including the camellia trees of which there are about five and are very big.
Over the years, as the owners aged, I would imagine the garden got beyond them and it has fallen into a little disarray. Now let me tell you - P and I aren't gardeners we struggle to keep pot plants under control so imagine our shock to realise we have a very established garden to contend with... These photos are of the far side of the house... It is almost a 'secret garden' as you wouldn't know it was there until you stumbled across it which we did. So far all we have done is look at all the new growth and blossoms across our new garden and shake our heads - I'm not sure whether it is in wonder or disbelief...
Now to the stitching... The last photo says it all really - today I made myself pull out something and have a go...It took me a few attempts to get into the zone - but I sat at it for about an hour and quite enjoyed it. I sat across from the red camellia tree and appreciated that I could sit outside and stitch and that I needed to make some regular time to do it more often...
Hmm... I need to 'build a bridge' and 'get over it' - we have moved - albeit unwillingly -and now it is time to fall into the rhythm of life once again... Hopefully today - reflecting the new season of spring - it will be time for 'new growth' and new beginnings... Another pathway to explore...

Until later, take care

S xx