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a nice cup of tea for my Grandma Betty

September 23, 2020 By 18 Comments
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Five weeks ago the whole world changed. My grandma Betty passed away peacefully sitting in her favourite chair. It was her 73th wedding anniversary, she was dressed for the day with a cup of tea (half drunk) next to her and waiting for her son to take her out to lunch at her favourite club. And then she just left this world. I still can't believe it. She was 98 and we had spoken on Friday and all was well. She had told me she had the card I had sent her and she loved it and we had a normal phone … {Keep Reading...}

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48 days at home…

May 10, 2020 By 6 Comments
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Happy Mother’s Day! I woke up to breakfast in bed – well after I called out to the bigger kids and hubby to help the younger kids who really wanted to make me breakfast but wouldn’t know how to boil the jug or turn on the oven! I was lucky enough to receive a surprise […]

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Day 17 at home

April 9, 2020 By 5 Comments
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Well how are you all going in isolation? I decided that on the 1st day when our entire household was staying at home to document it on instagram each day. And I’m so glad I did because the days are going by so quickly and I can’t believe that it’s been 17 days since life […]

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homeschool days

March 14, 2020 By Leave a Comment
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We are having a very quiet weekend here with most of our usual activities cancelled due to the current coronavirus. We actually went to Studley Park Boathouse with the 4 youngest members of the house to look at the ducks and get out of the house this afternoon as they were going a bit crazy. […]

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Making quilt blocks and quilts for bushfire affected areas

January 3, 2020 By 1 Comment
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It really is such a devastating time in Australia right now. I’ve been searching around on Facebook trying to see if anyone has been organising quilts for people affected by the bushfires. If you have a finished quilt that you are ready to send shortly then please look at Ladies from the Land Facebook page […]

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A Christmas market this Friday

November 27, 2019 By 2 Comments
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Just a little note if you live in Melbourne and love Christmas markets, I will be doing a school market this Friday 29th November. You can find me at Camberwell Girls Grammar School from 3.30-7.30pm before carols begin. I have Advent Calendars, lots of Christmas fabrics including glow in the dark fabrics, Christmas hair bows, […]

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Flower Sugar fabrics back in stock

August 11, 2019 By 1 Comment
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Well I can’t believe I haven’t posted since May! I do still post on Facebook and Instagram. Life is always busy but everyone is happy, we are braving the arctic Melbourne weather this weekend (5.5C when we headed out this morning) and still loving Melbourne life. I’ve been volunteering at school, homeschooling 1 who wasn’t […]

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A few finished projects

May 26, 2019 By 3 Comments
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Well it really was the week for finishing off projects as I had 3 projects all finished and ready to be used. First up is this very sweet baby blanket for my sister and my new nieces, Indigo and Willow. The pattern is from 60 More Quick Baby Blankets and wasn’t really a quick knit […]

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getting to school on time

February 20, 2019 By 1 Comment
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I was asked to write a blog post on getting to school on time for the Catholic Weekly and here it is. I do want to point out that not everything goes to plan and the week that this was published my eldest took my car keys to school and texted me at 8.20am just as I […]

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