Kookaburras in my Garden

For those of you who have read my blog since the start you might remember my first profile photo was a kookaburra. They wake me with their call every morning at dawn and say good night every evening at dusk.     And so my name.... "birdontheborder"  and  because I live on the border of two great states, Queensland and New South Wales.   

Today I had a visit from the kookaburra . 

I think this one is very young.  They love to sit on the clothes line.

Laugh Kookaburra Laugh ... King of the bush is he!   

 ( for my overseas friends "bush "  is an Aussie word  for forest)

Watch This Space

Last weekend I had to lose a good friend from my backyard.....It was interfering with our septic and dropping rather large limbs too close for comfort . We also have several big trees in our yard very close by so....... This is going to become an out door area with....

 

It will now be a table base for....

Lucky my dad and brother have been doing this sort of work all their lives.

Just a little trim for this one

Better than a wheel barrow

And now for a sausage sizzle. 3 generations. Dad, Jas and Kade - Thank you little brother.

Blocks, Benches and Books

QUIZ-Anyone know where this beautiful place is by chance???

We have had a very busy couple of weeks. My friend Gail and I got in a sewing weekend before she left to cruise  NZ... lucky.... I finished off the little boxes quilt I started at McIntyre Quilters months ago. I wanted to use some fabric from my stash however I am not sure my choice was as it should have been. Too much colour to see the boxes clearly.. oh well still a colourful quilt.  

"Little Boxes Quilt "pattern by Leesa Siegele

Sewing with a friend is best

We had our favourite local chippy build us a great bench in our outdoor room. Finally I can cover that ugly grease trap, those of you who have septic systems would know what I am talking about...  Covers lots of other things too because of the matchstick blinds we hung at the front.

Beautifully built by John

 Not so long ago Chooky let me know about blog books, she is wonderful, thanks Chooky. I took her up on the advice and ordered one . I love it, it's just like a year's diary. Well made and I thought fairly cheap. I am so looking forward to the Nundle weekend , can't wait to catch up with everyone.

My blog book- featuring the biggest event of our year 

A Nostalgic Day in My Sewing Room

Finally I have a day at home and a day to sew.   A perfect day cloudy with showers- looking out at my flooded garden after the 3 plus inches of rain we had Saturday night. No watering required today.

Where do I start? 

Finish the little things I thought......

Remember the Sally Giblin stitchery from a few months back? Well I actually did 2 stitcheries one in mauve and one in pink so today I made them into cushions. Yeah!  Two things finished. 

The special thing about finishing these today was thinking about my grandmother. I learned to sew on my Grandma's Singer treadle. Fixing zips in Grandpas pants ... can you believe that..  the worst job a sewer can do !   Just something we had to do then. Well my dear grandma is no longer with us and now I have her old singer complete with the zipper foot. 

While I was away I found this new beauty at the Quilters Shack in Bundaberg. I just had to have it... The old and the new....  I would have never contemplated a "Singer" sewing machine until this one just struck a cord in my heart and I had to have it..... I believe she is still with me in many ways.........

  

So the little cushions were made on the new/ old style singer and quite surprisingly it did OK.     

Memories are wonderful things......By the way her favourite colour was purple....

First completed items for 2012

Completed on the new singer

Once belonged to Myrtle Dorothy Lewington , My Grandama.

Electronic 

The old and the new