Lazy Autumn Days♡

Why, hello......and welcome♡ Gosh, it's been a while. The last time you visited my little place, Pete and I were about to enjoy a holiday with my daughter and son-in-law to celebrate Lenox's first birthday. AND, celebrate we did!  It seems ages ago now, but we had the best time. Oh, and by the way, my little crochet blanket with sweet animal faces atop the granny squares, was a hit. 

How are you travelling?? How are you navigating the diabolical and evil one's idiocy?? I'm assuming you have an inkling of whom I'm referring to. =) The reverberations of his amoral edicts are being felt the world over, in many ways; even down here on this little isle.

A wee 'funny' aside......I went to the Post Office yesterday to post a gift to my daughter in San Francisco and oh my goodness, the debacle in trying to post anything to the USofA! All the hoops  Aussies now have to jump through. The chap behind the counter informed me that Trump has made the process of the postage of mail, which was once a simple procedure; difficult. It appears Trump is not a fan of Australia, to which I replied Australia is most definitely not a fan of his!!   We both laughed, taking the mickey out of the said leader. We Aussies do have a deliciously dark and wicked sense of humour. I wonder if his ears were burning?? Gosh, he's tedious, wearisome, tiresome, arduous........enervative......! Let us count the words which negatively describe this loathsome oaf??!! Alas, I cannot, as they are innumerable.

But, while the world writhes and groans under the tyranny of Trump,  here at my little place, life drifts by on the continuum of slow and relaxed,  lazy autumn days. Warm, sunny days. Rainy days. Windy days. Autumn  days slowly heading into what I suppose will be winter. Ho-hum.

There are still dahlias, cosmos, hydrangeas and a sprinkling of roses in the garden but only a few, as they are beginning to disappear. I must say, the hydrangeas are morphing into their autumnal beauty quite spectacularly this year. The landscape is beginning to glow in autumnal burnished hues. So lovely♡

I suppose Ive been hiding in my little world where simplicity has been the order of my days. It's been a while since I've felt like blogging. I've been stitching my 'Trippin' Around The World' quilt.  Slow, simple stitching adding oodles of little squares. Though, I confess, of late I haven't been completing each fabric round. I've been impatient to see what the next fabric might look like added to the mix.....hence my pretty is a most irregular shape at the moment. But.....it will become a queen-size square.....one of these days.

As I've stitched I've sometimes second guessed myself with the choice of fabric in one or two rounds, thinking that perhaps  some fabric rounds don't quite play nicely, but, as I've added a few more fabric 'trips' somehow my quilt of a gazillion squares is all of a sudden, honky dory. There was one hiccup. After stitching two sides of one round, maddeningly, I was six squares short, AND, as is always the way the shop where I purchased the fabric only a couple of weeks ago had sold out. I checked online, too. Sadly, no luck! Such is the life of a quilter, sometimes. So, my persnickety self, and  my seam ripper spent an exasperating afternoon and evening together, unpicking each little square.

I Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, like you very much......just channelling Carmen Miranda. =) 

Isn't she lovely, Isn't she wonderful?? Think Stevie Wonder. =) She, was gifted to me as a candle with the most divine fragrance inside. The candle, having fragrantly wafted through my days until there was not a spot of wax remaining; she now continually models flowers. Love, love, love her. Me thinks, Carmen would like her, too.

Is it really the last Sunday in April!!?? I really cannot keep up with the calendar. Today was a pearler of a day. Deliciously warm with blue, blue skies. I of course enjoyed more (very) slow stitching of my happy squares to the quilt. I'm loving the simplicity of this quilt. Love all the fabrics in multitudinous colours and prints. Me thinks it just might become one of my favourites. I have a penchant for quilts dancing in simplicity of late. As darkness begins to cloak my autumnal landscape, when Sunday morning breezes in at your place, I hope you enjoy a lovely day partaking in something which causes you to smile♡ Take care, lovely lovelies, lovely friends♡ Let your little light shine♡

Until the next time......