oh how we lie......on our beds that is......Help Please!

I have been thinking of buying a new bed.

Since mine is older than I wish to confess, I think it is time.

Also a bit higher would not go astray.

So in my travels today I tried to go into our Plaza and could not get a park,

so went around to the Library first.........it is next door to Kymdan Australia

which has bed, mattresses and furniture.

I had been there before and was somewhat impressed.

Was impressed by the prices. They were rather high.

At the moment they have a 50% off sale and since I had come from having XRays,

the wonderful Mammogram and Ultra Sound,

was quite glad to lie down while she found prices etc.

They are latex and breath well and I would suspect may not have as many dust mites.

.....the research on their website indicated I am correct in my assumption.

I dithered a little between bed and mattress or base and mattress which is what I have.

I know what would happen with a bed........things would go under it.

www/kymdan.com.au

The characteristics of Kymdan mattresses
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Kymdan Mattresses are made of 100% natural latex rubber.
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Optimum firmness, best resilience.
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No heavy metals, no nitroglycerine.
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Smooth and solid foam mattresses and are not prone to melting, flattening or aging.
+
Air hole structure incorporating our “airy” effect.
+
Fire and insect resistance
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10-year warranty

The square holes in these would fit a small coke bottle in them.

They are quite large.

Does anyone have any information about these, have one, know any pros or cons.

They deliver free but do not take old bed away, so at the moment we have a hard waste collection and I think if I got my bed out there before Monday morning I might be in time.

However have since sort of confirmed what I thought, before I drove round the street and saw

mattresses out, that they actually do not take them.

So a quick help for any advice or opinions.

They are open Saturday I may ring and see when they would deliver.

Well I did and I can have it on Tues and they will take the other one out of

the house and it can stand up in the carport for a while.

Even if I have to pay to have it taken away.

Will ring council tomorrow to check my facts.

And to think I used to have a trailer and used to be able to drive with one.

Now I do not even have a tow bar so cannot even hire one.

Oh the glory of choice.

fabric for bags or linings.

Memo to me. Do not try to take photos at night when you have to dodge your own shadow

and do not do a very good job.

These arrived in the mail today and I very much had bags on my mind the day I chose them.

All very very reasonably priced so the end of the world will not come if I should have to stop and throw it out.

Not that I have ever really done that.

But I have given some things away......vbg.

Oriental print fabric

Oriental/Japanese quilting fabrics.

There is something very special about fabric and the way

it speaks to us.

While this is not my most special part of the color spectrum,

there is something beautiful about them all.

This one is to be packed up and sent away,

so I took a couple of photos first.

The drawer that only required patience and then it fixed itself.

Way back in September '07, when I waited too long before

I got a new tap and ended up with a flooded cupboard under

the sink which in turn meant that the drawer underneath it

was stuck. Oh how it was stuck. I somehow got it open, then

I managed to get it part way closed. Had to tell everyone not

to trip.

Tried to find my cabinet maker but seems he sold the business,

which is a shame as he did a brilliant job. So thought I would

have to get a new drawer and keep the same front.

Well it took ages, and I procrastinated. Got my handyman to

look at it and he tried a few things but it was doom and gloom.

Then one day in the last month...I gave it a little push, and a bit

bigger push and to my great joy it closed.

Now I do not have to have all the baking trays, muffin tins etc in

the stove. It was a good hiding place for pks of big plastic bags.

And now it is all fixed.

James Chapter 1 and verse 2

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

Kinda says it all.

Not too sure that I really counted it joy when I fell into the trial but I am glad I did not fall over

the drawer.

But a nice object lesson and reminder that things do not always have to be complicated.

Easter Monday

It was warm and so so dry outside. So since there was no one much around

I went out into the back yard with a couple of 3lt bottles of water and filled

the bird bath. Did they love me? Did they empty it?

So out we went again.

Since then ...........it has rained.

The first real rain since Christmas,

and there was lightning and thunder...........

and the power went off. Again.

Setting all the automatic lights again, setting

all the clocks, phone and TV etc.

And putting the candles away.

I am so glad I always have a torch where I can find it.

So that makes the first part easy. I was just about to

lie in bed and read with candles, when blink, it was on again.

I had switched the computer off, so that was safe,

not that the power has not gone off before when

the computer was on.

So now the dust will be off the leaves, the areas that

do not get watered have all had some and if we get more

rain as is promised, this week, then we may even have

some green grass again.

And all my pots are looking so so sad. Time to have

a mega re-potting day, as well as planting the bulbs.

Hopefully I will be able to get out later in the week and

maybe buy some things for a little vegetable garden

in a large container.

Picked the first tomato today. There is one other.

Not a great effort for what should be one lush bush.

But it rained..........for that I am thankful.

Christ the Lord is Risen today...

http://llerrah.com/easter.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMsaMMmMKuI&feature=related

Easter Morning.....

This is the real good news

Good news that our current history dates from

All 2008 years ago.

Not just the birth

Not just the death

But the good news, Jesus is alive.

The Resurrection.

http://llerrah.com/becausehelives.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFIaqn0EG3E&feature=related

One UFO is finished.

I have been playing with this bag for a long long time.
Some kind angel or WOF mate gave me the fabrics and some beads and embroidery threads to go with it.
They looked so lovely together and while this pink is the one on my danger zone, I decided to live dangerously outside my comfort zone.

I have no idea why it took so long, except I was making up things and learning things as I went.
I have never used pleats in the front of a bag before.

Nor have I used this lovely trick with the handles before. It comes from a Kaye Wood TV tutorial with Joan Hawly of Lazy Gal bags.





I asked someone about doing an embroidery on the front and the answer was somewhat on the scale of negative, so put it aside again. Another friend said, but I see the raw edges of the pleats.
So we solved those two when I found the right embroidery and the right colors and did the quilting down the length of the bag. No more raw edges.

One effective embroidery.

Then I got to the lining stage. A stage that often leaves me a little worse for wear. But I watched the tutorials again. monkee see & monkee do....and we went a little further. Ditto with the handles.


And even the pockets.





So here is a back pocket with some white lace flowers, it will fit a phone or keys, and then if you can cope with this burst of pink.......it looks somewhat like a medical horror story, but there
are two pockets. The top one is divided and the one on the other side is just one big pocket.
We did not get into zippers this time and it does not drastically need a clasp. We may go to Velcro later.

But it is finished.....

Found this on one of my quilting lists today.....

Daily Devotional by Max Lucado
“the One who came still comes and the One who spoke still speaks”

March 20
You Were in His Prayers

Then Jesus went about a stone's throw away from them. He kneeled down and prayed.
Luke 22:41 (NCV)

The final prayer of Jesus was about you. His final pain was for you. His final passion was for you. Before he went to the cross, Jesus went to the garden. And when he spoke with his Father, you were in his prayers....
And God couldn't turn his back on you. He couldn't because he saw you, and one look at you was all it took to convince him. Right there in the middle of a world which isn't fair. He saw you cast into a river of life you didn't request. He saw you betrayed by those you love. He saw you with a body which gets sick and a heart which grows weak....
On the eve of the cross, Jesus made his decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you.


From: And the Angels Were Silent
Copyright (Multnomah Publishers, Inc., 1992) Max Lucado

From the Manger to the Cross......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iwssRw3KcM&feature=related

My favourite southern gospel group

I believe in the Old Rugged Cross.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw3DYtZCOyc&feature=related

I believe in a hill called Mt Calvary..

Oprah is said to be going to start teaching a new set of beliefs -

beliefs that say

"Forget the Old Rugged Cross"

Is this possible?

Does it even make historical sense?
It is not the story that God preserved for us in the Bible.

I have loved this song since I first heard it.

Your grace, still amazes me.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xxic5OfdGlI&feature=related

.......... as we come to Good Friday.

From the Garden of Gethsemene

Today is Easter Thursday or as it is often called Maunday Thursday.

Many different forms of observance are undertaken for this night.

Some have a washing of the feet ceremony which recalls the fact that Jesus put down all His glory and came to earth as a helpless babe and began his journey to Jerusalem and the cross.

He came as the perfect man, the perfect servant of God, the perfect sinless one, the only one who could die for/in the place of/pay the cost of sin for all of those who would accept His gift.

He died and in taking our sins upon Himself, He paid that price of separation from God by death.

That price that God's justice demanded of sinners, from the time when Adam sinned and we were all born as sinners, as part of a sinful human race.

Not God's choice for us.

The choice of Adam - natural Father of the human race.

A theme that has fascinated artists through the ages.

BRUEGHEL_Jan_the_Elder_Garden_Of_Eden-1568-1625.jpg

I wonder how easy it would have been for God to say to Adam, you have totally stuffed it, wrecked life, allowed sin into the world, forming a world different to the one I created for you.

I told you not to take of the fruit of the tree......but you disobeyed

and because I am a just God, my punishment must stand.

And God could have left the world and taken His presence completely away.

But God is not only a God of Justice but a God of love. Much is often made of how could a God of love allow such and such to happen. But He is also Just and his Word must stand. He gave Adam and the human race free will and for Him to stop accidents and health problems and all the other things we rail against He would have to take away our free will and make us puppets who just automatically do His will. He cannot do that and be Just.

But He is love, and as the Son was involved in the process of creation so He looked forward to the solution of love. That solution was that someone would pay the price. Someone who was sinless, who would not be defeated by death.

The cross where God's justice and God's love meet and are satisfied.

And that was such a hard journey, foxes have holes and birds have nests but the Son of Man had no where to lay His head. He spent much of His nights in prayer, in hearing, in speaking to His Father and in gaining strength for the new day. As the cross approached, He spent a night in the Garden of Gethsemane. He asked His friends to stay with Him, but their human strength failed and He went on alone to cry, not once, not twice, but three times, that this cup, this death on the cross, this whole experience would be taken away from Him. Father, is there no other way?

How can we even attempt to glimpse the heart of Father God on that night. Jesus could have called 10 000 angels to His side, to His defence, but He walked that road to the cross and He walked it for you and for me.

I was a girl of 8 when I realized that when Jesus died on the cross, He took my place.

I thanked Him for dying in my place and I handed the reins of my life

into His pierced hands of love.

There are others who celebrate this night by having lamb and bitter herbs as in the passover meal that Jesus ate with His disciples. This is the reminder to me of the fact that His birth and death were portrayed in so many ways to the Jewish people throughout the old Testament.

Not a bright glossy fresh palm leaf as portrayed here, but dusty branches of palms

on the dusty road to Jerusalem.

Singing Hosanna, Hosanna to the King.

So Passover Sunday celebrates His entry into Jerusalem.

It is often called a triumphant entry but Jesus was not coming as the earthly King to defeat the Roman empire that the Jews were looking for in their Messiah.

He sent His disciples to go and get a colt, one who had not been ridden before, and to say to those who had it, that 'the Master has need of it'

Such a poor little animal to ride on.......

no big camel or elephant with draperies and gold decorations.

Just a simple little colt, for to Jesus, this was the path to the cross where He the innocent, perfect Son of Man and Son of God would give His life, not to condemn the world but to save it.

They waved their palms of Victory and missed the point and so in disappointment that same crowd could hand him over in place of the criminal Barabbas.

Did that untamed little donkey colt recognize the hands of its creator?

And so... the cross...many wear it as jewellery

A beautiful symbol polished and clean.

I have been thinking back to how we counted down to Christmas and in a sense

my mind and heart have been counting down to the cross.

I do not normally collect graphics such as this

as none of them can do more than give our mind a glimpse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e8rNMLeKgA&feature=related
Sandi Patti sings the lovely song

The Via Dolorosa

I

Down the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem that day

The soldiers tried to clear the narrow street

But the crowd pressed in to see

The man condemned to die on Calvary

II

He was bleeding from a beating,

there were stripes upon his back

And he wore a crown of thorns upon his head

And he bore with every step

The scorn of those who cried out for his death..

Chorus:

Down the Via Dolorosa called the way of suffering

Like a lamb came the Messiah, Christ the King

But He chose to walk that road out ofHis love for you and me

Down the Via Dolorosa, all the way to calvary.

III

Por la Via Dolorosa,

triste dia en Jerusalem

Los saldados le abrian paso a Hesus

Mas la gente se acercaba

Para ver al que llevaba aquella cruz

IV

Por la Via Dolorosa,

que es la via del dolor

Como oveja vino Cristo, Rey,

SenorY fue El quien quiso ir por su amor por ti y por mi

Por la Via Dolorosa al calvario ya morir

Bridge:

The blood that would cleanse the souls of all men

Made its way through the heart of Jerusalem.

Coda:

Down the Via Dolorosa called the way of suffering

Like a lamb came the Messiah, Christ the King

But He chose to walk that road out of his love for you and me

Down the Via Dolorosa, all the way to Calvary.hmmmmm..hm……hhhhmm…………..

http://www.christianlyricsmusic.net/sandi-patti/via-dolorosa.html

Interesting to reflect on what the day we call Good Friday means to you?

becksposhnosh.blogspot.com/2007/03/hot-cross-...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LQ08S6aAew

A selection of hymns of glory by Kirk Franklink Added: October 22, 2007
A selection of hymns of glory by Kirk Franklink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DJS5XZcpS0&feature=related

Worthy the lamb that was slain...not great pictures but fab music and message

Planting bulbs takes time

Well the Siberian Iris plants, these were plants rather than bulbs are in,

the garden gladioli ( not up to the Dame's standard) and good old

fashioned watsonia are also planted.

The daffodils, including the gift which was hoop petticoat are

all planted and that leaves the fiddly small ones like ranuculus and

anemone and freesias for next week. Also the tulips to go

in the fridge and the hyacinths to await some potting mix.

Failed to get out today which was not what I had planned but

hopefully will be able to get to sit and sew tomorrow.

Now some rain to water these in would be just wonderful.

Gardens and spring and hope.

If not showing what Cat's Mum calls gratuitous photos of cat, then I have done a little
complaining about living in a desert and missing my garden. I have not bought any summer plants at all and what would normally be coming into lovely purple flower now
was actually caught in the first frost in years. That frost actually gave me hope that we
would have rain, but it just seemed that the frost was another challenge.


However not having spent any dollars in the garden I had rather a splurge recently.




This huge box arrived. It was labelled perishables and I had no idea what it could be.

There are three plants I have been spraying with water in their packs while I wait for my handyman to plant tomorrow morning. The daffodils will go in both back and front gardens and hopefully will be joined by those already in the ground.


I lay in bed an hour ago and thought, I will never have the energy to sort them out before morning, but then I dragged the body and camera into gear and off we went.



I have a bag of white, one of pale blue and one of deep blue or purple....they will go in the
blue troughs that I had the year before last. I did not really even have much energy to plant bulbs this time last year, but I have realized that they are the things which will survive and
give me a brief burst of Spring joy.

They will not be first cab off the rank tomorrow, nor will the tulips which need to go into egg containers in the fridge for 6 weeks or so.





For these my handyman will love me....lots of tiny little bulbs. 100 Anemones, about 3-4 lots of rainclouds and then 3 or so bags of freesias. Also one bag of white tiny bluebells.

I chose some nice unusual Dutch Iris to add to the ones that have self sown very well.
This was my front bed, under my bedroom window, 2 years ago and these are the Dutch Iris
that have naturalized along the fence line at the front very well. I love growing these as my Dad used to grow them in the market garden and take them to old Victoria Market to sell along with vegetables. I also have them in the rose bed.
They looked so lovely in the paddock.

PS: Bulbs are from Tesselaar's

http://www.tesselaar.net.au/

ordered from this catalogue. And yes Moggie has a begging bowl around her neck.

We are lucky we bought her food first.

Stashbusters quilt link and sewing fabrics.

Cotton reels and tape rulers.

I love to collect fabrics in Themes and just I tend not to get anything done with them.

I must have great hope of a miraculous recovery and a reversion back

to days past when I could sew all day and night.

I have quite a collection of sewing theme fabrics and just had two more lots arrive today.

The top 2-3 of each pile is of sewing related themes.

Cat's and quilting, how familiar, needles and threads

and what looks like string sewing of fabric pieces.

I love the one of the cat on the ironing board....I have several of those photos.
She woke up as I tossed pieces of a quilt over her.

Still to finish that one also.

But I found a great blog tutorial for a stash busters quilt.

http://buttonberry.typepad.com/photos/tutorial/index.html

and I think it would do well with theme prints.

Memo to self. Thou shalt not touch that pattern

until you finish the sweet pea toss above,

the 9 patch that became an Irish Chain

and the borders on the Nell's Flower Shop Charm Square quilt.

I should also add quilting that wedding quilt to that before

list........oh and the blue bag must also be finished.

They are only the UFOs that I am prepared to 'fess up

to right now.