Progressive Observations Of The Mouth

Can't decide whether or not to use it otherwise than as a potholder???

Now I notice mouths. How many teeth show when a person laughs. How many show when the grimace. How many teeth and how much of them. Kerri-Anne had the whole top row showing and then just a few off to one side of the lowers, not the middle but most of the side teeth. I'll have to draw it while its fresh.

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More teeth than the last photo.

And No, I don't usually watch Kerri-Anne, but I have to go the accountant and do last years tax today. Why I didn't make an appointment last year and therefore have to organise myself as I have today (at the last minute), I don't know. But it's a lovely autumnal day and a pleasure to be home. I've light-boxed the recipe for MY birthday cake, the one Mum almost always made me, in her handwriting, onto the Grandma Curtains. It completes the curtains. I had to take them down because of the fire threat, one of the things to take, and so now is the acceptable time to do it. I lazily hadn't attached the lining to the top either, as in just catch it here and there down the sides so it doesn't fold out, so it's a good thing.

The light box clenched my choice of a man. His rich dowery. Worthy of a lifetime committment.

My Brother Is 52 Now

So this little package in one of Mum's many little packages is entirely (100%) retro no matter how you look at it. Do I have to give it to him? He won't care for it. I will on the other hand, and would undoubtedly add it belatedly to my curtains. Sigh... I'll tell him tomorrow.

Home.

Home is where the heart is.

It's raining outside and we are forced to have a day inside, painting/drawing.

Hard To See How Pretty It Really Looks, But...

They need to settle and so do I. My darling honey-blossoms dear daughter's just popped in... it's Anna's birthday... and we all ended up having a cup of tea in the new sewing room. It just happened that way. So lovely to be in there! And I've just pulled out the Pot Holder plans. Ross can't believe the proudness he is feeling for me.

And, tomorrow I will turn 50!!!!!!!!

It's Happened! Hoorah! Yipee! Toroo Toorah!

They're finished! Act Two is over, the rail is up and (even though I can't wait) I am so attached to you all (or to my own exhibitionism?) that I have taken a pause from the long awaited hanging to show you. As these pictures load I am gathering the tops to put them up.

Hark! I hear drum-rolls echoing through the valley...

I'm Having A Tea Break

But the good news is (for everyone concerned), I am about to sew the lining onto the curtains!!! YAY!!! I'm so excited! I'm truly in love. Not with me. With the niceness and the funness and the prettiness and the tenderness of it all. Sigh! They are so boopy.

Tomorrow I will absolutely take some proper, overall photo's. Then, my dear one will put up the curtain thing and I'll take some more with them in situ.

Then I'll maybe do a Pot Holder before embarking on some serious quilt finishing. And doona cover slash sheet slash pillowslip making (between finishing the baby's apron and overalls). I wouldn't be dead for quids.

That reminds me, I heard a funny thing on a dumb old movie today:

"I hate spinach. If I liked it, I'd eat it and that's no good because I hate it!"

Ha ha ha!

The Edges For The Grandma Curtains

Lots of work and I'm fairly bored already... but I think the scalloped edges will look really pretty. I'm happy! I started to clip the seams then realised that I have some Pinking shears! Phew! It's gonna look like ric-rac.

My Almost First Ever Cross Stitch

I thought it was so beautiful. SO beautiful. I remember where we were going in the car while I stitched. Can't think of the name of the place (sorry).

Anyway my friends, I've finished the inner cloth of the curtains and have only the blue, scalloped borders and the backing to do!!!!!!!!! I'm so exhausted. I pushed it for at least three hours more than my body wanted me to. When I met my daughter to deliver the little boy, she said, "What's up? Are you ok?" We had coffee.

I tried to have a little kip before I cleaned up the Utter Pigsty that is scraps-of-fabric-readily-available-to-make-the-curtains. But I couldn't sleep. Now I'm stoically pushing through, with a nice distraction here with you.

Second Last Bit

I noticed just now that I haven't finished the broom.... Great old pattern. It's an oldie but a goldie. I'll scan the rest over the weekend.

Second Last, No, Third Last Embroidery For The Curtains

From the reproduction iron-on transfers from Spotters.

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...and a hanky I bought from Patchwork On Central Park in Malvern East. Too big for the scanner and too late for the camera. I'm so close to finished, it's very exciting!! Mind you, I'm speaking relatively... it might be another fortnight or so. Work and babies and parents and so on.

The Last Bit Of Embroidery...

...At least for one of the curtains. This is from a repro set of iron-on transfers from Spotlight. The silver thread doesn't show up so well in the photo, and I might have cleaned the fluff off before I snapped the shot, but there it is.

Today is free from obligation! Saturday, and nothing to do but stay indoors... it's raining! YAY!!! If I venture out, it is to pick up a parcel (I have no idea what it could be, which is exciting) and get some DVD's. Luvverly!

The Grandma Curtains Are Nearly Finished

This is a card from my Grandmother's collection... as in, it's from my Dah or someone close (can't remember).

I managed to find some copies of old transfer patterns and used a couple of the birds. They're all so cute. I must check out what day Grandma and Mum were born on and add them to it all. Mum doesn't know that the curtains are about her too, yet.

I just finished reading 'The Joy Luck Club.' It's so lovely. I love my Mum and am aware of how we are alike and not alike. I'm proud to be her daughter. She deserves to be in the curtains.