SUNDAY BIRD

É Domingo e está bom tempo! Que mais podemos querer?

Espero que gostem das mudanças no meu blog. Todas as sugestões são bem-vindas!

BOM DOMINGO!

Bird from Ravenhill

I hope you like the changes in my blog. I'm looking forward to hearing your suggestions!

It's Sunday and the weather is so nice! What more can we wish for?

HAVE A LOVELY SUNDAY!

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Scouts' Barbecue

Today our family was rostered on to work on a Scouts' fundraising barbecue at Bunnings.  This would have been fine except that we seem to have picked the coldest, windiest day of the year. 

It was s-o-o-o cold.  I was wearing thick socks and boots but still my toes were numb.  I worked the morning shift with my 11 year old son and a lovely, grandfatherly man named Ian, and my husband and daughter worked in the afternoon.

After I arrived home I ran a hot bath to warm my frozen toes, then I collapsed in bed with Gone With the Wind to read.  Except that I fell asleep for over an hour.

Later I stayed warm by cooking.  I made a sultana cake for the lunchboxes, several jars of Gran's fruit mince (even though Christmas is months away), a roast leg of lamb for dinner, and a lemon meringue pie for dessert.

I was warm and happy and my family was happy too when they saw what I had made.

warming numb hands on the barbecue

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Two Years in Adelaide

Next week marks the second anniversary of our new life here in Adelaide.  I can't believe how the time has flown.

I still feel like a newcomer in many ways, I expect because Adelaide still feels fresh - I haven't started to take it for granted yet.  And there are so many places in South Australia that we have yet to visit.

A few days Rhonda from Down to Earth wrote about blooming wherever we are planted.  I think she makes some excellent points.  The secret to a satisfying life seems to be embracing whatever circumstances life throws at us and not just making the best of things, but choosing to thrive.

Some of the things that I am grateful for in Adelaide are:

• four beautiful, healthy children who have learnt much about resilience and turning strangers into friends
• a church community that immediately made us feel at home
• wonderful friends who have welcomed us into their lives
• our new house which strikes me anew with her beauty every day
• a garden which I am slowly turning into my own, which will one day be full of fruit trees and roses and vegetables and herbs, and hopefully even a few chooks.

“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.”

 

 Charles Dickens

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Pillow talk

A minha paixão por almofadas é uma característica bem feminina (sim, sabem do que falo!) - há tanta escolha e basta mudar as capas das almofadas para termos um quarto novo, uma sala nova, umas cadeiras no jardim com outra cor...

A Rose Hip faz almofadas vintage lindas, entre outras coisas preciosas. Vejam o seu blog e deleitem-se.

Aqui estão algumas de que eu gosto. É a verdadeira pillow crave!

BOM FIM-DE-SEMANA!

My love for pillows is such a girl thing - you know what I'm talking about! You can change the whole decoration with new pillow covers: a new bedroom, a brighter sofa, cozier garden chairs...

Rose Hip does beautiful pillows, among other precious things. Check her blog and enjoy!

Here are some of my favorites. This is a true pillow crave!

Have a nice weekend!

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A Productive Day

I just love Fridays. Friday is the only weekday that I don't go to work.

I start the day by walking my youngest son to school and helping out in his first-grade classroom, before heading off to a cafe with a couple of the other mums.  Then the rest of the day stretches out before me like a holiday.

Today I decided to give a good clean to as much of the house as I could manage during school hours.

I scrubbed the bathrooms,

and hung washing before folding it,

and gave the kitchen a really good clean.

I also cleaned the laundry and mopped the floors.  The bedrooms still need work but the family can help with them.

Now to enjoy the weekend!

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Stinger Suit

This surely is a photo destined to be brought out at an 18th or 21st birthday party one day.  Isn't he cute!

During our recent trip to Queensland we went on a day trip to the outer reef of the Great Barrier Reef.  Those planning to snorkel were offered these 'stinger suits' to protect against box jellyfish stings.

This photo of my youngest son was taken by my American friend Cheryl and I stole it from her Facebook page.  I hope she doesn't mind.

As you can see, the suits leave very little to the imagination. Be thankful that I am not choosing to share any images of myself dressed in one!

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Party tables

O moodboard que criei para o meu próximo projecto.

Credits: ilovelolliblog; Erica O'Brien; Martha Stweart; CamilleStyles; Chloe Bouffard; House of Rowan; Greylikesweddings; Kmdepalma

Credits: ilovelolliblog

Para quem gosta de dessert tables ou de mesas de festa em geral, esta imagem é muito tentadora!....

E a minha cabeça sonha com os próximos detalhes...

Desejo-vos uma óptima semana!

The moodboard I did for my next project inspiration. For those who appreciate dessert tables or party tables in general, this image is very inspiring!...

And my head dreams of all the details...

I wish you all a nice week!

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