See you soon x
See you soon x
This month, being my birthday month, I decided to have several new starts. First up, this cute pink fawn from Satsuma Street.
I hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend, we certainly enjoyed our four day break.
We started the weekend with a very wet day on Good Friday, the tail end of Cyclone Tam, which had seen quite rough weather and flooding up the top of the North Island and Auckland. The rest of the weekend the weather was very warm and sunny. We spent our break working on some projects around home, catching up with family, a day out to Napier and just enjoying being around home.
It was a beautiful day on Saturday, just perfect for strolling around Napier, browsing the shops and enjoying our favourite Starbucks drinks. Lots of people out and about enjoying the sunshine.
Hello friends,
thank you for your condolences, and kind and thoughtful messages, it really means so much xx
Today I'm going to jump back in and start sharing my recent stitching projects, and what else I've been on working on over the past few weeks. Although our weekends and evenings after work have been filled with lots of admin tasks, and the process of sorting Glenn's Dad house, shed and workshop, I've been trying to squeeze in as much stitching or reading as I can. Presently I'm trying to get a few older projects completed, some ornaments stitched and I have had one new start, for Easter. I have some new goodies on the way, some Nashville releases and other charts from my wish list, threads and fabrics. These I'll share when they arrive. I also had a very special delivery, all the way from Japan, with an item I'd been wishing for a long time, so once I get some photos sorted, I'll share that here too.
I think with all the sorting, tidying and decluttering at my father in law's house, I must have been in the right frame of mind as I've made a small start on the absolute "mess" that is my craft storage/office. In the past year, this small room has become our junk storage space. I hadn't done any sewing in there for ages, and there's piles of stuff, fabric, etc just waiting to be sorted out. During the summer holidays, Glenn and I rearranged our garage, moving our chest freezer and fridge to other side, creating space for a new store cupboard to go. Glenn finished making this last weekend and we've been able to move quite a bit of stuff out of the office into there. So now I can get stuck in, when I have the time, go through absolutely everything and rearrange to make it work better. A friend of mine is organising a fabric de-stash sale in June, so that's my goal to have it all done by then as she'll take any of my unwanted fabrics, charts, etc. Watch this space!
I'm not sure why, because this I love the colours in this design, but I hadn't stitched on this project for ages. I'm using all the recommended threads and 36 count Black Swan linen by Fox & Rabbit.
Lastly for today, here's our handsome boy, we are so lucky to have Diesel x
See you soon x
I've known Cliff for a very long time, since I was a high school student, where he was the woodwork teacher, and when I became part of the Jamieson family, he's was always there with a smile and kindness, and always so willing to lend a hand or help out with something. Cliff helped Glenn with many of his projects around our house, and it was Cliff's idea to build the extension from our lounge and kitchen. He loved calling in for a cuppa and some baking, and always enjoyed coming to have a meal with us, especially in the years since Glenn's mum passed. Cliff loved spending time with his three grand daughters and was incredibly proud of their achievements, watching the girls play sports, including their hockey games on a freezing cold winter's night, and coming to Hannah's end of the year dancing show. He always had doggie treats in his pocket for Diesel or Buddy.
In recent years, Cliff had taken up a few hobbies, including e biking and playing golf, and he also really enjoyed getting away on little trips visiting parts of New Zealand he hadn't been to before. He had made lots of new friends, including a lovely lady whom he'd become very close to over the past twelve months, and was enjoying getting out and about socialising, and spending time playing golf together.
During the week after Cliff's passing, we hosted many of Glenn's relatives for meals, and also dinner after Cliff's service. It was so wonderful they were able to be around for a few days and spend time together, some we hadn't seen since Hannah was a baby.
Clifton Roy Jamieson, forever missed, cherished and loved.
This design has been so much fun to stitch over the past few months. It's pretty well travelled too, having been with me on my trip to visit my cousin, and then to the beach several times as well.
This is Christmas Cuckoo Clock by the Tiny Modernist, last year's mystery Christmas stitch along.
I used all the recommended DMC threads and 32 count vintage grey Belfast linen.
So happy to have another of my 2024 projects ticked off the list!
It's been quite hot here this week, we've days that have reached 30c plus, so a friend and I went along to check out a newly opened cafe in town, Rubylicious Cakes. This lemon meringue raspberry cupcake was divine,
See you soon xx
Over the past month or so, we've been making the most of the sunny and hot weather and heading out to one of our local beaches in our campervan after work on Friday afternoon. I've usually got everything ready to go by the time Glenn gets in from work, and we're off. How lucky are we to have several beautiful beaches, all only about 45 minutes drive or less from home.
Some weekends it's just Glenn, Diesel and I, other times Hannah comes along too and puts her tent up, and we are often joined by our friends with their campervans. Some weekends there's fishing, but usually there is lots of time for just chilling out, enjoying a bbq for dinner, lots of cheese and crackers, and a few glasses of bubbles. Often I take my stitching and it doesn't even come out, as I might just spend a few hours reading. Life at the beach is so much fun, stress free, and I start each week at work with a clear head. We hope to get a few more beach weekends in before the cooler weather of autumn comes in April.
See you soon x