some potted colour

This week has gone by very fast and I thought without much to show for it, but a friend and I have been working on a project together, it is a gift so still a secret, that was 2 full days this week and a few more hours too.

Potted up some Antique Pansy plants and some varigated geranium plants for pots on the verandah in the autumn and winter.

I love putting plants in pots and having them close through the harder weather of winter.

I bought some of the white and green geranium plants a couple of years ago and really enjoyed the look of them in blue and white pots and also just in the old terracotta pots so was very happy to get some more.

 

...bright mixed colour from the garden....this big lemony perennial daisy is new to me and I love it, it looks great in the border and great inside too...

...the weather has been cool with a lot of wet days, hail too sometimes! so the garden has an autumnal feel creeping in ....I  found these 2 unfinished coathanger covers and completed them ...they echo the hues in the flowers....

The cot covers returned home from the quilter, this afternoon was spent making the binding and stitching it on, just have to buy a wee bit of fabric to go round 2 green quilts, and do the hand stitching. 

 

The inclement winds blew this mossy nest out of a tree...it's beautifully put together.

 

 

A lovely warm sunny day yesterday saw us hook up the caravan, pack up the afternoon tea cups and off we went to the beach...the tide was out ....we had a lovely time relaxing in the sun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week, back for more chemo, more secret crafting, hand stitching little quilt bindings, some gardening.....  I love the start of a new week so many possibilities ahead!!!

Have a happy week

xx

 

A little thrifting and crafting.

We had another Dunedin trip for more chemo this week, we stopped on the way at a couple of thrift/junk shops and found some bargains. 

 

a very pretty Foley cup and saucer

A smallish earthen ware crock....

 

...a retro tablecloth, some crochet and a brand new duvet cover for $2 that will be great for backing the Fairy cot quilts!

...how I love a good bargain...it makes my heart sing!!

 

 

There has been some sewing going on too,  I embroidered these fairies hiding a while ago and finally got round to putting them onto a cot sheet.

 

..its a Brenda Ryan stitch design.

 

It's Friday now so the week has passed very quickly.

We have had sunshine and rain ..both were just what we needed!!

xxx

 

 

 

Meander with me....

...through my summer garden.

 

...she who loves a garden has a very special treasure...

for she has found her private paradise.....

 

...just living is not enough

one must have sunshine freedom and a little flower....

 

 

   

 

...a heavenly blue iris...

 

 

 

Fantin La Tour Rose....she only flowers once but is so worth it, her pleated skirts and heavenly scent make her a special girl.

 

 

Kolwitzia ....

...also known as the Beauty Bush for very good reason!

 

.....very prickly little scotch roses...

 

with the most gorgeous perfume...you can catch a waft of rose in most parts of the garden ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 ...I love the frothy  lace....

 

 

..gilt toned viburnum foliage adds a spot of sunshine in a dark corner...

 

and a funny little honeysuckle grown from a cutting ....its so sweet and cute!

 

 

 

...little heartsease  pansies popping up in unexpected delightful places...

 

"Soon shall we have gold-dusted snapdragon,

Sweet William with its homely cottage-smell,

And stocks in fragrant blow.

And open, jasmine-muffled lattices,

And groups under the dreaming garden-trees,

And the full moon, and the white evening star."

(D Woodlock)

.....All flowers and all trees do close 

to weave the garlands of repose....

(A Marvell 1621-1678)