Home Sweet Home♡

 

Hello lovely lovelies, lovely friends♡ Home sweet  home♡ Pete and I are back home again after a fabulous holiday with our girls and their wee families. Oodles of cuddles with Riley and Lenox, too. Oodles of fun and laughter. Oodles of precious memories to tuck away until the next time we are blessed to holiday together.

'Tis wonderful to be home again. 'Tis wonderful to be back home in my little far rural outpost. Though it's always wonderful to visit with friends when in Sydney, I must say I'm ever so glad to be away from the cacophonous din that is Sydney.  The traffic!! The crazy drivers!  Each time we go away both Pete and I agree that packing up all our worldly goods and chattels and moving to Tassie eighteen years ago was an inspired decision. It seems we've both become rather accustomed to this quiet life of ours.

And, what was the first thing I did upon our arrival home?? Why, enjoy a stroll in the garden to drink in the garden, of course. And, to snippety snip bounteous bunches of sweet peas and roses which had bloomed while we were away. Yes indeedy, vases, jugs, bowls and teapots over-spilling with sweetly perfumed roses and sweet peas. Ahh....Home Sweet Home♡

Outside the picture windows the garden is beginning to burst into summer delight. Wish oh wish the weather would burst into gear, though. It's still a wee bit cool here. =) Roses, buddleias, nigellas..........sweet peas, are the flowers that are beginning to delight.

A froth of sweet peas. A profusion of jumbled joy. An overflowing mass of intoxicating fragrance, all jumbling together in deliciously effervescent colours; the tendrils weaving and climbing up, up and away to the heavens to be kissed by the sun. And, just because here in our serendipitous garden, the wind has swept up the tiny seeds scattering wherever they fall, ensuing in a carpet of sweet peas trailing along the earth in a floralicious display. I love the 'wherever-they-will' way Mother Nature scatters seeds.

While I was away my 'San Fransiscan' daughter gifted me a Cabinet of Curiosity Advent  Calender where during December, one day at a time, one opens a 'cabinet door' akin to an antique story book, with gorgeous hand-illustrated artwork; to reveal a teabag of delicious ambrosia for that day. My daughter knows that her dear ol' mum and dad like nothing better than to relax with a refreshing cup of tea in a pretty teacup. Throughout this festive month of the year, Pete and I are enjoying sipping curated, new-to-us teas. Flavours such as Christmas Breakfast, Irish Breakfast, New York Breakfast, China Jasmine, Gorgeous Geisha,  Sweetest Dreams; just to name a few. 'Tis the perfect gift♡

My Christmas fusion quilt is finished just in time for the festive season. 

 

There 'she' is sprinkling a little pastel joy among the Christmas pretties. She adorns the Christmas parlour, perfectly. 

As it's Sunday, the day all things slow stitching is celebrated I suppose I should go and find something to stitch....or perhaps crochet. Later that is, as it's early morning here. First things first. I'm off to open a door of my T2 Cabinet of Curiosity, on this seventh day of December, inquisitive to discover which new tea will be revealed; and enjoyed. =)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas here at my little place♡ 'Tis peaceful. 'Tis calm. 'Tis merry and bright here at my Home Sweet Home♡ 'Tis a pleasure to have you visit my little place♡ Thank you♡ Enjoy your day lovely lovelies, lovely friends; joying in something that puts many a smile into your day♡

Until the next time......

Spring Love♡

Hello lovely lovelies, lovely friends♡ Spring, Spring, Spring 𝄞 ♫♫♪  That's the song that's being sung this last little while. It's a mellifluous song. It's a sweet song. It's a song where colours, scents and beauty are swirling and twirling in a cadent tune; here at my little place♡

As always Lady Spring has artfully daubed an explosion of colour and pattern everywhere. Giant brushstrokes of  daffodils and diminutive brush works of blues and splotches of yellow of forget-me-nots. Lady Spring, painting verdant greens here and there on trees intermingling with the colours of the blossoms. Brushstrokes of bluebells, rhododendrons, wispy diosma, irises, granny bonnets, wisteria, lilacs......each and every exquisite flower adding to the colourful cavalcade that is spring♡ 

The florist here has been strolling in the garden in the early mornings and gathering blooms to cheer her day, and home♡

Daffodil Love♡

Magnolia Love♡

Bluebell Love♡

Waratah Love ♡

 

Iris Love♡

Rhododendron Love♡

Lilac Love♡ Wisteria Love♡

Aquilegia Love♡

All the fusion squares are finished. The blanket stitching and crochet skipping around the perimeter of each square is done. 

Because 'tis Sunday and the slow stitching party will be celebrating unhurried and meditative hand stitching, crochet, knitting, rug hooking etc etc I will continue to join the pretty fusion squares together forming the quilt. The joining of the squares by crochet is my favourite part of making a fusion quilt. Not only because the end is nigh. =)

Sending a little springtime love your way♡ Enjoy your day, lovely lovelies, lovely friends, joying in something that puts a smile into your day♡

Until the next time......