Christmas

I got a present today from Sue (Dumelaisuzu) 4 handmade pottery decorations and 2 balls of Elle Jewel in Amber - its beautiful! Thanks again Sue!

achievements

My oldest daughter graduated from grade 2 today, we are SO PROUD OF HER!
Conquesta exam

flowers

I love this corner, white miniature agapanthus are at the bottom, regular blue agapanthus in the middle and a giant lavender at the back Hydrangea, some flowers are blue the others are a lavender/pink colour

Honeysuckle (I think) I like the orange

Day lily, I love this rich colour Roses, cant remember their name!! Day lily, this is the same yellow one as a few days ago, I really LOVE this plant!! Can you see all the buds in the background?

nasturtium... I have yellow ones too

crafting

This is what I did with some of the freshwater pearls, the middle strand is glass chips.
I machine embroidered some facecloths (pattern was on the machine)

And some cloth nappies were embroidered with "after bath comes bedtime" You can get the free image here

Then I monogrammed some Shwe-shwe and sewed it into a gift bag for a friend at school. I needed a gift bag for a bracelet and didn't want it to be Christmassy. (Can you see the E? its embroidered in silver)

Then I had a few more Christmas Stockings to make ... so I monogrammed them in silver - don't they look great? I used dark green felt. They are the same as the ones I mentioned a few days ago.

beads

I went bead shopping yesterday and look what I found.
I thought the colours were beautiful! And then I had a parcel in the mail from Tracy (Quiltaroo in Zimbabwe) look at all these beautiful charms!! hats, bags, shoes, hearts, crowns, bears ... my favourite has to be the 2 different kinds of slip-slops (flip-flops) !!

Tracy, I can definitely see a Cinderella bracelet in here (slipper & crown) and some kind of shopping bracelet (handbags) Thank you!! :)

relax

Its raining outside and my latest Martha Stewart Living just arrived!

flowers

The amaryllis opened up completely while we were away, its beautiful! It has 4 flowers.
Here are some daylilies an iris ok, its not a flower, its an apricot I have had this for years and I think its the first year it has flowered so much. I cant remember the name ... will type it in later

Strelitzia, not my favourite. (But I like the wall behind it that is covered in ivy!!) and a red geranium, it reminds me of Christmas!