REVEAL

I can now reveal what it was that Soggibottom won in my surprise giveaway.

 

2 fat quarters.

3 embroidery cottons.

! book.

and an added extra  for Amie. 1 rope bone.

Thank you to those who entered. Alas there can only be one winner.

My Denim Throw

I have been collecting denim jeans for quite awhile, picking the odd pair up at the bazaars that I have been going to during the winter months. I cut them up into rectangles the size of a cd box. ( I used one to cut them out. ) When I had cut them all out I sewed them all together on my sewing machine.

 

The seams are 1/2 inch wide and are on the right side.

Quite colourful with all the different denims.

I have sewed them all together, now I have to sit and clip all those seams every 1/2 inch so that when it is washed and dried they fray and go fluffy. Well that’s the idea anyway. There is only one snag with this for I don’t have a tumble drier.  Anyway got to go I have a pair of scissors waiting for me. x

Food from our garden

A while back I showed you some photos of our garden with our potatoes growing, well now this is the results.

Radish, Lemons. potatoes.

 

Sorry there is no picture of our lettuce but we have eaten it all. We also have a hungry tortoise who just loves lettuce.

All the shaws of the potatoes are dying back now so its time to lift them. Got to go and get some sacks  to put them all in.

I remember when I was young we lived on a farm and I used to help the tattie pickers pick their tatties. Then when I got older going picking myself and getting paid. I remember picking potatoes for a month solid. At first all my muscles ached but by the end of the month I was fine. Ah! the good old days.

My New Cupboard

In this house storage space is at a premium. So we had a brainwave on where to put a cupboard. Above the bathroom door would be a great place. Now we are not going to go out and buy a cupboard, no that’s to simple. We are goi9ng to make it out of reclaimed wood.

This wood!

Ok I know it looks grotty and all that but this is what we are using.

Oh and from these pictures you might just notice that our bathroom does not have a door. That is another project for later.

Painting followed.

Now we have a cupboard with some very useable storage space. Now let’s see what will I fill it with????????????

And the Winner is?

I put all the names into a cup whizzed them all around and drew out one slip of paper………

The lucky winner is Midge from Soggibottom

Thank you all for entering.

Midge please email me your address and I will post you your prize.

Last chance to enter my giveaway

My giveaway closes tonight. To be in with a chace leave a comment on the previous post. Have a great day.

101st post Giveaway.

Giveaway is now closed.

Well this laptop is behaving its self and I have found the cable to connect my camera to it and download photos. So I think my Giveaway is a go’er.

So what am I giving away??????????????

I have been thinking long and hard about this.

Fat quarters maybe?

A book?

Some wool?

Well I couldn’t decide so I think it will be a mystery giveaway.

Everyone likes surprises so it is going to remain a surprise for you all. It will have some of this and some of that and maybe, just maybe a bit of this. Now that will be nice won’t it. You won’t be disappointed and don’t forget to tell all your friends too.

So here is what you have to do to be in with a chance of winning this surprise.

• Leave a comment here for one chance, only on this post.
• Blogging about my giveaway on your blog will get you another chance. You will have to let me know if you have done this by commenting here also..

Make sure I have a way to contact you.

•  

Giveaway ends on 12/06/2010 at 21.00 Athens time. Good luck to you all.

100th post and my Computer has Kna……………….

Well this is my 100th post and my pc has decided to give up the ghost. So much for me having a giveaway. I am using my Hubby’s laptop which is an alcoholic, and sometimes its too drunk to work properly. It has no card reader so no photos, unless I can get the camera software to load onto here. Keep your fingers crossed. So there will be a slight postponement for my giveaway until I can sort something out. Wish me luck.

What Is Happening In My Little World Today Then!

Everything in the garden is growing.

Courgettes doing their stuff.

Radishes coming along nicely.

Lemon flowering.

 

Rhubarb putting on a spurt in the sun.

Lettuce looking yummy.

Tomatoes swelling.

Seedlings reaching up toward the sun.

A bean emerging from the soil.

A pepper stretching out.

Strawberries for tea maybe?

A very large wasp of some sort enjoying the sun. He was well over an inch long!!! Think I will stay well clear of him.

Lastly a very tomato faced tortoise causing havoc again. Think we should have called him RAMBO and not Sandy.

In answer to Mary’s Comment.

 

When I first started this quilt my children were very young and it was going to be a cot quilt. however as it took me so long to do my children grew so it progresses to a single quilt. Then it went onto become a double quilt and then it was put away for a lot of years.

We then packed up home and left for Crete. Me taking along my quilt, however now we have a king-sized bed, so it had to grow accordingly. If you look at the photos you can see the various stages.

This is the centre and the cot size

The blue band takes it to single bed size

The flowers take it to double bed size

And finally the double blue takes it to king –size.

This is what I sat doing last night.

Taking out loads of tacking and papers. Some of these papers have been in the quilt for donkey years.

Cya

Judith

Yes! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m skipping and dancing and clapping. Can you guess what for????????????????????????????????

Yes, after 35 long years I have finished my hexagon quilt top. Just need the wadding and backing attached and its all done. How long do you think that is going to take? Are we taking bets on this?

Lucky has claimed her place on the quilt as she always does.

I have quite a few hexagons left over and I can’t let these go to waste so I have an idea. Will tell you all about that at a later date when I have my quilt all done and dusted so to speak.

 

Anyway must go and admire my lovely hexie quilt now. You know cuddle it and stroke it and run my eyes over it.

Cya

Judith.

x

When we went visiting.

We called into see John today to return his drill that we borrowed. Here are John and Ian relaxing in the shade as it is so hot just now. John’s relaxed  so much he has his eyes shut. He told Jenny he was coming over to work on some jobs in and around their house.
 
There are loads of geraniums growing alongside of the path coming from Jenny's house


A lovely arched entrance

Kind of a steep path but it’s ok going down.  However it’s good exercise going up. It really does make you fit……………………… to drop.


and rampant grape vines.

A nice colourful entrance.
This is the same village that  Jude lives in. It’s much bigger than ours.

What a Lovely Sky

The other evening when we were watering the garden we had this lovely sight

 

Nothing beats a glorious sunset unless its a fantastic sunrise.

The Sun is Shining and the Garden is Growing.

Well,  in the middle of March  we set about getting our newly acquired garden ready for planting. I took before and after pictures as it was rotorvated and planted, but alas when I got home I found that I had forgotten to put in the card so no pictures. (SILLY ME)

Anyway here it is now

We have potatoes, tomatoes, courgette, onions, okra, peas, beans, aubergines, cucumber and beans.

At home in our little garden above the house we have lettuce, a few tomatoes, peppers, a couple of courgette and yesterday I planted some spring onions, radish and some carrot. The carrots I have planted have small round roots not long tapering ones as the garden is very stony and they would just fork.

I also have some lettuce seeds growing in pots. I only take a pinch of seed and only get about 6 or seven plants at a time, then a few weeks later I do the same again so we don’t get gluts all at once.

Oh! and I have some strawberries in pots and they are flowering away to themselves. So it will be strawberries and cream soon folks.

Well it looks like another shorts and strappy top day today. Must go and enjoy the sun with a nice cool drink.

Cya.

Volcanic Ash Cloud.

We went to a talk last week on the subject of Santorin's earthquake. It was very interesting and we where told about all the volcanic ash and pumice that was spewed out into the atmosphere, and here we are now with a cloud of volcanic ash crippling Europe.

We have my niece and partner here on holiday and they where supposed to fly back home on Friday 16th April. They both should have started work again today after the Easter holidays. No such luck!

So there are a lot of holiday makers stranded here. Now they are talking about shipping them home as the airports remain closed.

This is a terrible start to the holiday season here as last year was bad also. We need the tourists for our jobs to be safe. No tourists, no jobs, no money.

never mind we are still having a good time going out eating drinking and been merry.

Iraklion

I have family here for a weeks holiday and we have been going here and there for the last few days.

On Tuesday we went to Iraklion for the day and believe me when I say we walked our feet off.  As you can see it was a lovely sunny day.

We walked the streets and inspected loads of shops.

Saw some nice architecture.

And some not so well preserved.

All in all we had a good day. Bought a few goodies and returned home a little bit weary but happy.