More Trippin' ♡

 

Hello lovely lovelies; lovely friends♡ How was your week?? It seems another week hurtled by filled with too many 'WHAT THE....??!!.' I'll let you fill in the ellipsis with your own word/words! Oh, to wake up to a world, a day; where no idiocy, no evil, has occurred.

I feel strange chatting about the pleasant week I've enjoyed, as yet again, ambivalent emotions co-exist, sitting on both my shoulders. It's a fact of life these days, isn't it?? 

But, it was a pleasant week  just moseying around here at home. Mostly  reading, hand stitching and unpicking said hand stitching.......walks in the garden, snippety snipping blooms.

Ahh...."when the world wearies and societies fail to satisfy, there is always the garden" Minnie Aumonier. I'm with Minnie!

We did go out for a day in celebration of my birthday which was pleasant; and a lovely afternoon was enjoyed with my sister from another mother; yet again passing the time drinking tea and eating cake. Knocks at the door where delivery men delivered bunches of flowers; charcuterie delicacies. Oh, and said delicacies were delish. Pete and I snacked on a curated selection of cured meats, cheeses, fruits, nuts, crackers, condiments and chocolates. Ain't birthdays grand!!??

This coming week is the last week of January. How quickly this month has passed by. January, a month where down here the air is thick with the sweet fragrance of roses, sweet peas, buddleias.....all swirling around in a delicious potpourri of intoxicating aromas. The air is deafened too, with cicadas chorusing to their lady loves.  It is a sound synonymous with an Aussie summer.

My sweet Riley gifted me a darling little book for Christmas. It's title is Little Bee's Year Of Blooms. It's a book where on each page interesting insects explore the neighbourhood in search of which flower is flowering, in the quest of extracting pollen. A sweet little book. I'm accumulating a little library of sweet books gifted by my grandbabies♡ Mmm......what to buy Granny?? Why, a book, of course♡

 

Did you enjoy a little stitching this week?? I did. More squares were added to my TRTW quilt.  The thought did cross my mind that when I say I'm trippin' around the world with all my squares....round and round and round, you might think I'm a tad crazy, confused even.... a gal 'trippin' with hallucinogenic drugs, perhaps?? Nope. I've never had the need, nor desire to 'do' drugs. Indeed, I've always had a healthy fear of chemical substances. I'm just trippin' on love and sunshine; and 2" squares going round and round and round. =)

This week I stitched the floral Liberty-like fabric to the quilt and a green and white polka dot fabric, also. I'm now adding  ditsy yellow and mauves florals; together with a purple and white polka dot, and a pretty Tilda fabric, too. Purples and yellows do dance rhythmically together. I'll continue some fabric trippin' today in celebration of all things slow stitching. With each round more fabric is needed. Thus far, so good, but I have a feeling I'm going to need to go a little fabric shopping. Damn! I did want to make a dent in my stash. C'est la vie!

So, another Sunday of trying to chat about all things pleasant while an evil regime endeavours to destroy the rule of law, due process, morality, ethics, decency, goodness, integrity, kindness..... Let me say to those of you who are living in the middle of this dystopia, that this gal way, way down here, at the bottom of the world, thinks you are  'just so very grand'♡ Keep on keeping on♡ Take care, lovely lovelies, lovely friends♡

Until the next time......