tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43270039631871170002024-03-18T20:01:01.856+13:00Made with my two handsCrafting, upcycling, gardening and cooking.Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.comBlogger854125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-27162794975145431172019-05-11T17:51:00.000+12:002019-05-11T17:51:03.521+12:00A gorgeous break in Rarotonga<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Woo hoo, A holiday with no kids for 11 days. Bliss, relaxing and warm! BTW it was an early 20th wedding anniversary present to ourselves.<br />
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Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-42550543967201765362019-04-10T14:35:00.001+12:002019-04-10T14:35:34.269+12:00Some sewing for me<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Over the last couple of weeks I have finally finished two projects I had sitting around. A nightie and a shirt. Both using the Twig and Tale Driftwood Blouse pattern. The shirt is a rayon I purchased at spotlight.<br />
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The nightie is a 100% cotton sheet that I purchased at an Op Shop (Charity Shop) a while ago, specifically to make into a nightie. I just put a frill on the bottom of the shirt pattern and removed the sleeves. I'm pretty pleased with the binding around the armhole. </div>
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Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-12668772412211931602019-03-28T18:32:00.000+13:002019-03-28T18:32:27.753+13:00A great new biscuit recipe - ginger biscuits<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have been cleaning out all sorts of things, one of them being my recipe book. If I haven't made it yet then there does not seem much point in keeping it. Two days ago I nearly got rid of this recipe and I now know that would have been a disaster. So so easy to make, no butter or diary, comes out looking like the magazine picture and totally delicious. The top is bits of preserved ginger.</div>
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This recipe was from a Good Magazine in the mid 2000. Sooo good. As a treat I'm going to make home made vanilla icecream and turn the biscuits into a ice cream sandwich as a sumptuous dessert.</div>
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Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-81925757398881503592019-03-21T12:27:00.000+13:002019-03-28T18:32:50.884+13:00Making Sausages<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Delicious. Pork and Beef sausages, then Lamb and Pork and Ras el Hanout spice. </div>
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Eli wanted to make sausages as he only likes homemade ones. Ever since his Aunty made sausages he can't face eating shop bought. So I put all the ingredients together and we headed to my sisters on a wet weekend day. Using the lamb from the one we slaughtered and beef from my sisters farm we made enough sausages for 16 (four person) meals.</div>
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This weekend I got quite a lot completed in the garden. Items I have procrastinated about for a long time. I am a doer and action person. So when tragedy hit our region in the form of a massacre one of the ways I deal with things is to keep active. The garden was the beneficiary.<br />
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I did not think of taking before photos until I was part way through. But I had cleaned up all this area and already installed the first sleeper you see on the left. Where the spade and bucked are is still a higher area due to having been the dumping ground for stuff from our other garden changes. The sleepers have been sitting there since January when I purchased them knowing what I wanted to do.</div>
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This is the finished area. I just couldn't handle having the ground at a different height, so as well as squaring the garden beds off I dug out the lawn and flattened it all.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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The piece on the right will be completed after I purchase more sleepers. Then there will only be one area left to complete (the side of the house). I'm really pleased as it now looks like a purposeful area outside. </div>
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I also composted this garden and put in some more brassica's (tiny little bits of green down the left side). The ones I planted last month are now a good size. One of the four beds all tucked up for winter! </div>
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On a drizzly weekend after some very hot weather Aaron and I set off to do the St James Walkway. In two very different ways. We intended to be dropping Aaron at the Lewis Pass end of the walk by 6am. Getting up at 4am meant we were at the trail head at 6.30am. Aaron hoofed off as he had 60 kilometres to cover before meeting me again. I did the genteel start. I drove over the Lewis Pass and parked in the car park to the Maruia Springs Hotel. Having done my homework I discovered they opened for breakfast at 8am. Flipping the car seat back down, I got a quilt and a pillow and snuggled for a rest. The rain pelted and I was comfy. I felt heaps better an hour and a bit later.</div>
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Some other people, waiting for the hotel to open, woke me with their chatting and we all wandered in. Oh the bliss, a lovely flat white, some decent food and a roaring fire. I got the seat right by the fire and even sat on the hearth for a few moments. Warmed and feeling human I then drove back to Boyle Village to walk into Magdelen hut. I started at 10.10am and by then Aaron had already zoomed past the first two huts as pictured. Cannibal Gorge and Ada Pass Hut.<br />
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Feeling happy and thrilled the weather was cooler I pottered on with another takeaway coffee in hand. Through the bush. Chatting to the few people I met and loving being out by myself. It's been years since I was well enough to be safe walking alone and I loved it. </div>
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At my accommodation for the night. Magdelen Hut. Not looking quite so perky as I had to take a couple of big deviations due to some cattle and a bull or two. The sun was starting to heat up, which was not meant to happen. </div>
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at 9.25pm I heard tromp tromp outside and scream with excitement "No way!!" only to shoot out the door and find three fishermen in their 50's preparing to come into the hut. I then had to explain my scream as they thought I was really angry that someone else was coming into my space, either that or one of them thought they were interrupting a 'private moment"...</div>
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Anyway, thankfully 5 minutes later Aaron rocked up, corroborating my story and looking trashed. 59 km in what turned out to be a hot afternoon. Starting 6.30am and finishing 9.30pm. Crazy. </div>
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Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-61907787838403979002019-01-12T09:21:00.000+13:002019-01-12T09:21:00.934+13:00Glamping food<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sometimes, when camping, I can muster the energy to go above and beyond for a meal. It tends to be brunch. In the tiny cooking space in the caravan it surprises me just what we can produce.<br />
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This weekend it was brunch of Ciabatta bread turned into french toast (or eggy bread depending on where you hark from). Bacon from a pig raised on my aunts farm and banana. Topped with maple syrup<br />
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Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-17764039268932920332019-01-10T09:33:00.000+13:002019-01-10T09:33:03.503+13:00Idyllic holiday <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We headed off to our friends farm for a few days Rest and Recreation. A great New Year and few days with lovely weather, lots of river swimming and time together.<br />
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A bit of Alpaca wrangling and a tired 12 year old Fox Terrier.<br />
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Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-58792772455904511792019-01-05T09:56:00.001+13:002019-01-05T09:58:43.555+13:00Cushion - A Christmas Tree Bauble<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm really happy with this make. A Christmassy item that is different, reusing what someone else had discarded. It is a cushion made to look like a Christmas tree bauble.<br />
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I was cruising Bloglovin before Christmas and an interesting blog post came up - <a href="https://studiodiy.com/2016/12/06/diy-ornament-pillows" target="_blank">Studio DIY</a>. She had made cushions to look like Christmas tree baubles. Some of it was sewn, however to simplify it the entire top piece was glued. I knew that I could sew it all and so collected old cushions from the local dump shop to use as stuffing and ransacked my own supplies for material.<br />
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Very excited as it was my first ever invisible zip and I think it was very successful. No more zips showing up unless I want them to be a feature. Woo Hoo. I've shown you the rather ugly bottom but when it's on a sofa you will not see that.<br />
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Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-29578994156981046552019-01-05T09:11:00.000+13:002019-01-05T09:57:29.517+13:00Redcurrants<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A significant part of summer for me is about picking fruit. This starts in November and goes through to April. I love being in the sun entangled in vines or trees, adding to the bowl, basket or bucket and enjoying warm fruit as it's being picked. We have two redcurrant bushes and this year due to all the rain the currants are enormous. I don't normally net our bushes but was we were going away just when everything was ripening I thought it prudent to do so.<br />
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I went out to pick and thought I was done but every time I went to leave I would lift another branch and find it dripping with fruit. Perfection.<br />
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Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-13453473645341560142018-12-28T16:42:00.000+13:002018-12-28T16:42:08.993+13:00Another Christmas make - dress pattern weights<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I previously made myself some pattern weights and was really pleased with them, so decided to make a set for my sister and niece for Christmas. I used an oil cloth again but this was a much heavier cloth and very stiff. It made it incredibly difficult to turn through.<br />
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Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-71090330076607449822018-12-14T16:38:00.000+13:002018-12-14T16:38:14.786+13:00The first of the season's raspberries<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Picked today, the first real pick of about about 500 grams of raspberries. Oh so delicious. I was laughing at myself as I was picking. My picking style at the beginning of the season is not to miss a single one, checking every branch, being careful. As we're going away I feel that I am missing out on all my season's raspberries.<br />
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I have three varieties. Some get more bugs than others, which are always clean. So I pick with two bowls - one for eating and one for jam.<br />
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Everytime I drop one on the ground it is a lost opportunity and a scrabble to get it, normally by the end of the season I don't care !!!<br />
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Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-4458142155519182602018-12-12T13:31:00.000+13:002018-12-12T13:31:00.749+13:00Ceylon Curry Powder - home made<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When I was in Australia with relatives I took photos of a few recipes from very old books. Back <a href="https://madewithmytwohands.blogspot.com/2018/12/hot-chilli.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> I blogged about the hot chilli oil. Yesterday I made a curry powder that was simply titled Ceylon Curry Powder from a recipe book bought in Darjeeling. It makes a flavorsome and not overly hot curry. So now with two recipes from this book under my belt we are going to have some tasty dishes at our house.<br />
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Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-34779213037504404342018-12-08T11:50:00.001+13:002018-12-08T11:50:07.969+13:00Minecraft Pillow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Minecraft is now almost a retro game!! When my kids were little we all used to play it as a family and the Zombies and Creepers used to freak me out. Now on ten years and my young nephew is seriously into it and has slowly drawn my family back into the net too. Now they all play online together with their own servers. It's a great boys family thing with the two brothers and their offspring all getting involved again.<br />
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Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-81833418584387084492018-12-06T12:28:00.000+13:002018-12-10T13:35:55.922+13:00Hot Chilli<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When I was in Australia Barry gave me some recipes and one of them was for Chilli Oil. It was delicious. So I have come home and made it and it's the most luscious colour and boy does it have kick.<br />
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Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-36592713631221809092018-11-26T16:58:00.001+13:002018-11-26T16:58:58.714+13:00Dress Weights<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I'm one shorter than the pile here. My puppy got hold of one and chewed it to bits when I was at work today!<br />
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Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-13876832862035160562018-11-17T15:42:00.001+13:002018-11-17T15:42:19.946+13:00I killed the lawn<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Last year I sprayed the lawn and we got rid of quite a lot of weeds and it was looking healthy for the first time since we moved in. This year, same spray.... but......I killed the lawn too! The new grass that had grown was a type the spray killed and I had no idea. Now we have no lawn, its actually died more since I took the photo!<br />
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I've finally purchased more railway sleepers to start working on the borders for the rest of the garden, you can see in the background. It will now match what Aaron has been doing for a vege garden.</div>
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I really like what he has done and the edge of our garden vs the start of the lawn has been very murky and hard to maintain. Yesterday we sweated and I dug in the beams and Aaron back filled them. We managed to do half before giving up. Today we just about finished. </div>
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Well I have been absent for a bit, life has gotten in the way. It has left me pondering....is blogging still a thing? I love reading other peoples blogs but I am getting really annoyed at Bloglovin and the inability to remove inappropriate sites from being a follower. Anyone else having issues with Russian sex sites masquerading as normal people ie Lousisa64257635. Bloglovin used to remove them when I complained, now they do nothing and there is not tool to remove them yourself.<br />
If you don't use Bloglovin then do you get any traffic at all?<br />
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Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-84138362361370553412018-09-29T14:42:00.000+12:002018-09-29T14:42:02.545+12:00Great walking and amazing milestones.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well two years from my operation I'm finally feeling fitter and more able. As a family we walked into the Hope/ Kiwi halfway hut and out two Sunday's ago. We didn't quite get to the hut but I did five hours of walking up and down dale and for the first time ever I was not stopping on every little slope!<br />
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On the way back from our lunch stop I was worried about how I'd go as there was a 172 metre climb first up. No one else even notices up's but I am very aware of every step that is higher than the previous one. I had one pole but borrowed Aaron's pair to try out. I am converted!!!! It was so much easier. I also kept saying "look at how well I'm doing and how I'm finding this ok". I find it really hard to explain to people just how incredibly amazing it feels to be able to actually walk for both a distance and one that is not flat. It blows my mind and I want everyone else to feel like that too. But unless you experience it! Everyone else just thinks its normal.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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Then the next weekend Aaron and I went to Akaroa for the day and we walked up Onawe Peninsular. The last time we did this with the boys (about four years ago) I just about passed out several times and was really ill as I just could not manage the hill. But I STROLLED up it! All these achievements only two years after looking the last photo in intensive care, having been told I would have only lived another six months maximum. Incredible.<br />
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Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-20688547859962369442018-09-27T14:21:00.000+12:002018-09-27T14:21:20.822+12:00Two years in the making<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Two years ago I started stitching with no end in mind. I was in to have a heart valve replacement and needed to have something to do that took no concentration whatsoever. So a running stitch project that was gorgeous to look at was just the thing. Almost two years to the day of the operation I finished and turned it into a bag for winter. </div>
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It is the most densely stitched item I have ever made. But I have fallen in love with running stitch and handwork again.<span style="text-align: left;"> It's made of left over bits of blanket that had been dyed and left over bits of velvet that <a href="https://www.facebook.com/StashPalace" target="_blank">Jane from Stash Palace</a> gave me. The embroidery is all sorts of thread and thread types, mainly bought from Jane too.</span></div>
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The inside of the bag has a magnetic clasp and a carabiner for attaching my keys, as I'm always losing them in amongst everything else. Two insert pockets and one side elasticated pocket for my phone. I'm really thrilled with it.</div>
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Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-82822262937556228912018-09-12T21:01:00.001+12:002018-09-12T21:01:15.034+12:00A super interesting weekend.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well we went out to our friends and ended up having the privilege of butchering our own lamb and getting it into the cuts we would use and honoring the lamb by utilising as much of it as we could. I cannot bring myself to use the lungs or heart and the heads went to the dogs.<br />
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The meat is so dark and incredibly tender. The lambs just walked into the coral, no baaaaing, the dog very quiet behind them. It was an amazing process and I do believe that if you're going to eat meat you need to know where it has come from, how it is treated and do the best you can. </div>
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Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-39796745996677438012018-09-09T10:11:00.000+12:002018-09-09T10:11:03.497+12:00While Aaron is away, Karen does play<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Et Voila! A neat brick edge to the garden. Not quite completed I have to say as just past the bucket there is about 2 foot that needs to be bricked. But it was 6.30pm, I was finishing in the dark, it starting raining and being winter it was downright cold! Anyway, I have been meaning, like many other things, to get this done for a quite a while now. Aaron has spent a lot of time ever since we moved 3 1/2 year ago, block laying paths and using railway sleepers to create and edge garden beds. The path is gorgeous but as you can see from the photo below, all the dirt and therefore weeds kept skidding down onto it. <span style="text-align: left;"> Aaron was in Rotorua with Eli for his 13th birthday so I used the time at home to start this and get a couple of other things completed.</span></div>
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When we arrived to our new home there were some bricks around and I have picked up a few more since. These are a hollow brick which means the edge is not so attractive, but I am into free and upcycling so I use what we have. At our old place I got pretty handy with a trowel and mortar but the lack of practise in between shows, this job is no where near as tidy!!. But it's done, or rather started as I have to finish that row and then do the other side. To do that I have to pinch bricks from the other side of the house, which means new edging there, which means completing one job just creates another!!!</div>
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I've added my latest photo of Pepper and me. She is soooooo cute!!! We all fight over who gets to cuddle her.</div>
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Both my son and I had been noticing Pins and articles on using old jersey's or jeans to make dog beds. I was in the local Charity Shop and a gorgeous alpaca jersey, in lovely condition, was just $2. with no one to give it to I also bought two old pillow inners for 50 cents each. Pepper has grown out of her temporary puppy bed, no longer needs to be in plastic for those puppy mistakes, so I went home to make her a new bed.<br />
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Before I started she was already lying all over the jersey and playing with the pillows. No sewing machine required just a needle and some upholstery thread. I stuffed a pillow in with no alteration, to the body of the jersey, and stitched the end closed. I undid the other pillow (or rather I came into the lounge to find Pepper doing it for me) and used it to stuff the arms and neck. Sew the holes closed and a few stitches to hold it all together. Completed in front of the TV that night.<br />
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As soon as I put the finished item on the floor she was in it. A very happy dog.<br />
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Schulz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12773523905179481117noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327003963187117000.post-67496815629192220352018-08-27T11:15:00.002+12:002018-08-27T11:15:56.491+12:00Bow tie making<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Aaron and I are booked to attend Post Modern Jukebox again this year. Last year lots of people whent dressed according to theme and whilst I made a bit of an attempt Aaron did not. This year he wants to go looking the part. He purchased the shirt, trousers and neon pink braces and asked me to make a bow tie to go with it.</div>
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used a pattern I had made boys waistcoats and bow ties from, for my sisters wedding. In the pattern the bows were the same size but I was never happy with that look. So the back bow is about 4mm larger all around than the front. With a good interfacing it sits well. I pulled apart a bow tie from the Charity shop and used it's bits and pieces for the back neck slide. </div>
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Really pleased with the result.</div>
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Dredging through all my craft projects to try and get stuff finished! I had forgotten about this headband. My husband and I tramped in winter and I needed something to keep my ears warm. I find a hat too hot tramping. So I started to knit this when I got back. Then I stopped. The knitting had finished but I found it yesterday, not sewn up. I wanted to put a rose or flower on the side but after a couple of attempts I gave up.<br />
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A couple of notes on the side. Aaron and I took a walk up the Warfedale Track on Sunday. Four hours of very easy terrain and I was beyond jiggered. Aaron said that I was walking but getting nowhere! Goodness it takes a lot to get fitness back. The puppy is still the cutest thing in our house.</div>
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