Friday 30 April 2021

Missing Mojo!



So many pretty fabrics, so many projects & designs in various stages of creation ... so little focus or motivation! SIGH! πŸ™„ Do you have periods of manic creativity followed by times when your sewing mojo absconds to the Bahamas without you?? Or is that just me? πŸ€” How do you get your mojo to give up it’s holiday in an island paradise to come home & get your groove happening again? I’ve decided to try lighting my creative fire by spending some quality time wallowing in my fabric stash. I’m not sure if it’s working, but the pretty colours are giving me a rainbow on a grey, overcast & dreary ‘hilltop’ day. 🌈πŸ₯°

For those of you whose mojo hasn’t decamped to tropical destinations, here’s your end-of-month reminder to update your OPAM finishes list for the month on your sidebar & email me your April finish tally. Hopefully some of you have had more luck corralling your creativity than me. πŸ˜‰ But ... it’s another long weekend here ... three in a row is messing with my mental calendar, but the sleep-ins are welcome! ... so I’m hoping to jumpstart my mojo again. I’ll let you know how that goes ... stay tuned! πŸ˜† Whether you’re enjoying an extended weekend or just making the most of a usual one, I hope you enjoy it & find time to enjoy some creative pursuits. Til next time ...

BEAR HUGS!

CHEERS!
KRIS 

Sunday 18 April 2021

Autumn & OPAM

Hello there! I hope you all had a relaxing Easter. GB & I enjoyed the quiet time at home, though I confess the public holidays & short weeks have scrambled my mental calendar & derailed my sewing mojo ... but the extra sleep-ins were nice! πŸ˜†

As a result of the missing mojo (sounds like a Nancy Drew adventure! πŸ˜‚) there hasn’t been much sewing, stitching or designing going on, but the mild autumn weather has seen GB & me out in our garden. While a lot of our energy has gone to weed-taming after our recent lovely rain, we have also been enjoying the abundance of colour & growth in our back yard. With no sewing pics to share, I thought I’d share some garden sneaky-peekies instead. πŸ˜‰



The marigolds have sprung up in huge numbers & are currently spreading autumn cheer near our back steps. Some people aren’t fond of marigolds because of their pungent scent, but I love the cheerful splash of colour they bring to the garden & that they attract beneficial insects to our yard. These have all grown from seeds Mum collected for me from her garden, along with some nasturtiums that are a bit overshadowed by the marigolds. I’m hoping that now they’re established, these cheerful chaps will come back season after season ... I love self-seeding cottage garden flowers. 😊



The Mexican Sage is so pretty at the moment, with its grey foliage & bright pinky-purple flower spikes. Best of all, it’s survived our extended drought period & is tough as old boots ... pretty boot, though! πŸ˜†



And proving you can be productive wherever you find yourself planted ... we have a very healthy pumpkin vine emerging from our compost bin that has about 10 pumpkins of varying sizes on it. This is the biggest & it should be ready to pick just in time for pumpkin soup cooking. πŸ˜‹ Funnily enough, the two pumpkin vines I purposely planted in our fruit & vege patch haven’t yielded any pumpkins ... go figure!



And our strawberry plants have thrown out some runners, which have been snipped & planted out according to Gardening Australia instructions. There are even a few fruiting flowers on the older plants ... hence the mesh covering to keep the were-rabbits out ... Wallace & Gromit fans understand! πŸ˜‚ Actually ... the mesh is more to stop our resident persnickety possum, Percy, & the cheeky king parrots ... but that doesn’t sound as exciting as were-rabbits, does it?! 🀣


And as spent plants are pulled out or given a hard prune back, I’ve collected some seed for next season. Do you save seeds? I’m new to doing so, so it will be interesting to see my success ... or otherwise. πŸ˜† We’ve also dug over the vege beds & planted some snow pea seeds, with hopes of adding some more crops next weekend ... rain & other commitments meant it didn’t happen this weekend.

So that’s been taking my time in recent weeks, rather than sewing ...but I know many of YOU have been playing in your creative spaces because I’ve just completed the March OPAM hop around. There were ...

61 FINISHES 

... for March. WOW! Well done everyone! And well done to those who made some progress on some long term projects, too. The winner of the random draw prize is ...


Congrats, Christine! Drop me an email & I’ll send your PDF pattern prize. But right now, I think it’s time for a hot drink to stave off the cool air that’s drifting in as the sun starts to go down, so I’ll wish you all a wonderful week. 😊 Til next time ...

BEAR HUGS!

CHEERS!
KRIS 

Sunday 4 April 2021

Easter Greetings & OPAM Reminder!

Easter Greetings to you, my bloggy buddies, from the top of our slightly soggy ‘hill’. With a four-day long weekend over the Easter break, GB & I had been planning to spend time in the garden, trying to win it back from the weeds. The weather, however, has had other ideas & there will be no gardening here ... unless we make use of a snorkel. πŸ˜‚ Still ... we’re just so thankful to have ALL of our tanks full of water for the first time ever, that we’re happily enjoying the rain from the comfort of inside, where we’re watching movies, reading, stitching & snoozing ... that’s GB you can hear snoring! 🀣

I also tackled a bit of machine sewing to make a face mask for GB who has struggled to find something that fits without sliding up under his glasses ... this is the first time QLD has had mandatory mask wearing, so we hadn’t had to worry about masks previously during the zombie apocalypse.


A little disheveled, but cute ... the mask, too! πŸ˜† I have to admit I won’t be mass producing masks ... let’s just say curved seams aren’t my favourite thing. πŸ™„ And hopefully we won’t need the masks for too much longer. At least it was a finish to add to my tally, though.

And speaking of tallies ... she says, segueing smoothly to her next point! πŸ˜‚ ... we’ve crossed over into a new month so OPAMers ... update your sidebar lists & email me your March tally so I can update the spreadsheet. Maybe we’ll all have additions to our April tally after this weekend. 😜

Well ... that’s it from me this wet Easter Sunday, I’m off to make myself a cup of apple & cinnamon tea to sip while I stitch in front of a fave movie ... hmmm ... shall I help save the world from super villains, an undead mummy, or a giant killer shark?!? 😜 Whatever you’re doing today, stay safe, stay well, keep stitching & keep smiling. 😊 Til next time ...

BEAR HUGS!

CHEERS!
KRIS


HE IS RISEN! 

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