Feather your Nest Friday, 25th July, 2025.
It has been a week of weather! First we had a storm for a couple of days where the wind was so loud it was difficult to sleep. Now we have the most incredible rain! I drove four hours in it today. Normally I would avoid bad conditions on the road but it was for Grandchildren. When I came home after dark my friend said I looked like I had just returned from the war! haha
Now I have soaked in the bath and am in for an evening of relaxation and taking a look back over the week. 😊
With necessary time inside I did some more sewing and choosing fabrics for patchwork blocks and things to make for Lily.
The most gorgeous parcel arrived in the mail. Completely unexpected. The wrapping... the card... and the fabric! 💕
What was even more special was my Bluebird friend had found this fabric... thought of Lily... took it home, washed and ironed it and sent it on to me. When I was young Holly Hobby was the in thing. So this is so sweet and will for sure become a dress for Lily!
I was also given several fabrics that are so lovely I am not sure I can cut them!
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My patchwork block this week...
I am loving this so much. Another is almost finished... soon I will lap myself and have two done in a week. It is so exciting to go on to the next one.
While the girls were still here we went over to Mum's. I collected some treasures in the garden. The succulents have been planted. This grows to be a thick carpet covered in white flowers. I transplanted some last year and now want to plant as many as possible.
The girls made lip balms in lovely apple (or cherry?) little pots. Enough for all their friends...
Annabel what a lovely week you have had. The girls look so proud of their work and I know they had a really good time with you. It looks like Sparkie has made new friends. Your quilt is going to be beautiful, each square is gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI haven't accomplish much in putting food away or even baking this week. We have been concentrating on fencing and painting bathroom. I deep cleaned all our bedrooms just in time to have all the items from bathroom placed in them.
We did the seasonal deep cleaning on our cars and I was able to clean and preserve the leather in them and the door gaskets. We had our mini splits serviced for the year. It seems every time we turned around there was more to do somewhere. Trying to get the house all settled for winter up here.
The wasps are getting ready for winter also, they moved into our home, they found a small opening near one windows molding outside and created a home, they then found a small crack in the drywall inside and decided to move into the house, we killed over a 2 dozen one morning and poor husband was stung twice. We had to get an exterminator to spray in a powder to kill them, regular household spray couldn't reach in. It worked, after he left there were a couple dozen dead wasps on my floor where I had cleaned prior.
Unfortunately with prices rising at the grocery store I haven't been able to stock the pantry this week. Plus the unexpected exterminator bill.
I feel good we are making progress getting things done. I have a feeling we will have a hard winter weather wise up here this year. Summer is brutal with heat we aren't use to.
I have been able to crochet 12 squares for my afghan I am working on, it will probably need 120, I can at least say I have a tenth done.
Annabel your blog brings me such comfort and closeness to my mum who I no longer have, thank you & ps I loved the routine blog last week
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ReplyDeleteThe photos of the girls with Sparkie are so precious. I'm sorry if the weather was a bit scary to drive through but the heavy rain is so good! Your tanks must be filling now.
Bone broth is liquid gold too!
I bought yellow sticker meat and fish this week and am buying almost no fresh produce because the garden is providing. Lots of cucumbers, marrows, courgettes, tomatoes starting, plums, the last of the broad beans and the first French beans, lettuce, potatoes and beetroot. One of my husband's gardening clients sent him home with lots of tomatoes, apples and a dozen eggs. I am cutting flowers from the garden.
I've cut lots of lavender for drying and have cut poppy seed heads for drying for winter arrangements and saving seeds.
I've frozen extra meals of beef chilli and vegetable moussaka and made fruit tea loaf, roasted chicken and hard boiled eggs as part of a beach picnic. I've also sat some afternoons and read a book because last week was tiring.
Our bedroom has become a dumping ground as I cleared other rooms for decorating or guests coming and I hid the ' stuff' in our bedroom. This week I started tackling it, finding better homes for things, donating and taking things to the tip.I repurposed a pretty glass container to hold hair accessories in our bedroom and sorted through the gift cupboard and thought who would receive certain gifts at Christmas.
I had a great haul of children's musical instrument toys for our granddaughter from the charity shop together with a brand new frost/ sun shield for the windscreen of my car.
It was meant to be a quiet week but I'm happy with what I've achieved. I love the old fashioned domestic arts.
Looking forward to reading all the Bluebirds comments.
Penny in the UK
What wonderful pictures of your granddaughters and Sparkie! I especially like the one with all of them in bed together!
ReplyDeleteYou gave me a wonderful idea--cleaning my pantry a little bit at a time! It really does need it and it's too big a job to just do at once.
I didn't really build up my home this past week (I left on Wednesday to visit my son 550 miles away) but I built up my son's home. I bought him a French knife for his 47th birthday! He loves a sharp knife and will use it too. His wife is a first responder and works one week on (when he cooks for himself) and one week off (when they cook together). I often think that I never taught him anything, but I did--how to roller skate, how to drive a stick shift, how to cook and how to cut up a whole chicken! This knife will help with the latter!
Best wishes to you, Annabel, and to all of the Bluebirds.
I love how you fussy cut the fabric in the corners of this block. Your puppy is going to have friends for life in the girls. The cookies are so cute the girls decorated.
ReplyDeleteI have cut the pieces I need to make a Maple leaf quilt for fall. I had to order a bolt of white to finish my red Irish Chain quilt, but I have not felt like sewing for four days. I have organized my sewing room.
Holly