tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19432523760208549862024-03-05T19:10:56.889+10:00EllenaElizabeth MakesCreating, collecting and recycling textiles and papercrafts and anything vintage.
Preserving the past for the future.EllenaElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677681744165865584noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1943252376020854986.post-6455725153720038502017-11-24T15:16:00.004+10:002017-11-24T15:16:46.966+10:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Family History</div>
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I've been very involved with family history for the last few years. I joined Ancestry.com and discovered Trove which is a fantastic Australian resource that's completely free!</div>
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I've been on a vertitable rollercoaster ride discovering so many exciting new facts about previously unknown branches of my family tree as well as my husbands.</div>
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The Henriques family were well known in Australian society of the time and through Trove I've been able to piece together many aspects of their lives. As far as I know Joseph Augustus Henriques was the first of the family to come to Australia. He was the first US Consul in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Jamaica in 1823 and married Leah Louisa Lopez in Kingston, Jamaica in 1842. The marriage was performed by the bride's father, Isaac Lopez, a Jewish Rabbi. Joseph and Leah's son Frederic Augustus Henriques was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1853 but at some stage went back to the USA. There he married Florinda Lister Montgomery, who was born in New York 1854 the daughter of Irish Immigrants, Samuel and Eliza Montgomery. Frederic and Florinda left for Australia very soon after their marriage and raised a large family as they travelled throughout Western Australia, Victoria and finally New South Wales. </div>
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My husband's great grandmother Viola was their daughter. She married Emil Francis Gerber and after their marriage in Melbourne they settled at Widgee just outside Gympie, Queensland. There they had a dairy farm for many years until their house burnt down after which they moved into town to live near their daughter and son in law Sid & Nancy Rankin.</div>
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The above book cover is from 'The House that Beckons' by Gladys Lister 1940.</div>
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Gladys is a relatively well known Australian authoress who also illustrated some of her books.</div>
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The above book cover was illustrated by Pixie O'Harris.</div>
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Gladys was the sister of my husband's great grandmother, Viola Gerber nee Henriques.</div>
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I've discovered so much but feel there is much more to find and I cannot wait!</div>
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EllenaElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677681744165865584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1943252376020854986.post-88150774149752817152013-05-05T12:47:00.002+10:002013-05-05T12:47:38.247+10:00Musical hens<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I love my chooks.</div>
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I have four and each week they produce roughly 2 dozen eggs.</div>
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I line their nesting boxes with shredded vintage sheet music....</div>
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just for a bit of fun really.</div>
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I love they way they eat our veggie scraps.</div>
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I love the way they eat pests in the garden like snails, and cabbage moths.</div>
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Thanks for visiting me and my four brown feathered girls today.</div>
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EllenaElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677681744165865584noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1943252376020854986.post-76032498849920415192013-04-24T08:41:00.000+10:002013-04-24T08:49:53.013+10:00Love the Eiffel Tower even though I haven't been there.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I hope there is someone out there reading this...I have not blogged for so long because I cannot load any photos and what a bland blog it would be without photos....right?</div>
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This one seems to have snuck through... I took it last week.</div>
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I love the Eiffel Tower and have always for as long as I can remember.</div>
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I know it's a 'fad' at the moment but not to me.</div>
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Anyhow last year my good friend travelled to Europe and UK and whilst in Paris bought this little facsimile for me. </div>
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Cute isn't it?</div>
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This photo is of a heavy frost 2 years ago.</div>
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The weather has been coolish for a couple of months now, </div>
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This morning it's only 5 celcius which is just above freezing.</div>
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Hopefully we'll have a good cold winter here on The Darling Downs, Queensland and plenty of frosts which I know my orange </div>
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and mandarin trees will love. </div>
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So will we when we are lucky enough to eat their fruit.</div>
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EllenaElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677681744165865584noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1943252376020854986.post-43491528980627644812013-01-25T09:37:00.001+10:002013-01-25T09:41:49.789+10:00Problems with loading pics to my blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My great-grandmother's sewing machine.</div>
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It's a Beirne. Have never seen another one like it.</div>
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Some of my vintage handkerchiefs.</div>
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This is my first post for yonks because I have been un-able to load any pictures to my blog.</div>
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Today miraculously I could.</div>
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Therefore I didn't have anything cohesive planned to blog about...this was sort of a test and somehow I was allowed to load these 2 pics.</div>
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I was informed I had to buy extra space so that I could upload photos etc and when I tried to pay the facility was not operating etc etc so therefore I couldn't pay and hence couldn't upload pics.</div>
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What is with Blogger?</div>
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It's so random...quite annoying as I haven't blogged for ages and ages and missed it so much.</div>
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Any tips?</div>
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EllenaElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677681744165865584noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1943252376020854986.post-1778664367059843792012-11-14T16:56:00.002+10:002012-11-14T16:56:56.408+10:00Butterfly cake<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Isn't she pretty?</div>
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This little cake is quite special.</div>
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Recently my family had a re-union picnic that I could not attend as I was recovering from spinal surgery.</div>
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My aunty is a great cook!</div>
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She knows I love her butterfly cakes...</div>
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she gave two of the precious little bundles to my mother to freeze for me.</div>
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This week my parents came to visit me and Mum brought the little cakes with her.</div>
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I LOVE them so much. The cake is light and moist. The mock cream is light and delightfully not too sweet......Bliss!</div>
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These little cakes made a huge journey to get to me, starting on the wide bay coast they travelled 165km to the picnic spot, then 175km to my parents house and then 114 to my house.</div>
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A journey totalling about 450 km.</div>
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They are gone now, I ate them.</div>
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Blow the diet!</div>
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I stick to it faithfully MOST days but eating these little cakes was pure pleasure and not just because of their deliciousness.</div>
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I miss out on so many activities due to being housebound with spinal troubles.</div>
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This lovely gesture was so touching.</div>
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Thank you Aunty Sue.</div>
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A recently purchased vintage linen with exquisite crocheted edge</div>
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is sprucing up the top of my microwave.</div>
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I love my eclectic display</div>
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and my african violet is so pretty when it flowers</div>
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Outside, spring has sprung and our lavender walk is blooming!</div>
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This corner of the garden has lavender, shrubs and bearded iris' that all flower in shades of purple</div>
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Our pretty climbing pink rose is full of buds and is growing over the arch quite quickly. Hubby now says he wishes he had bought 2 so the arch would be covered quicker. I think it will be complete by the end of summer.</div>
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This is his sister Edie, the best mouser in the street.</div>
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You would never know they are siblings as they look nothing alike.</div>
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Gordon is better friends with our scottish terrier than his sister, as she is a bit of a loner. She does however love my husband and I, just not other animals it would seem.</div>
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EllenaElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677681744165865584noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1943252376020854986.post-61532717348898997582012-10-01T17:45:00.000+10:002012-10-07T11:16:19.985+10:00Home again after spinal surgery.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So happy to see my little Scotty girl</div>
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It's so wonderful to be home again, five weeks to the day.</div>
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How I have missed being in my own home and seeing my dear hubby and pets.</div>
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Last year I had one vertabrae receive the same treatment.</div>
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The healing is very different this time.</div>
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Less pain but less mobile.</div>
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Hopefully I will have less pain, more mobility and more freedom, as I have been mostly housebound for the last 19 years in varying degrees.</div>
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I may even be able to do some travel with my DH and hopefully even be able to drive myself around a little or a lot, I'll take either.</div>
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EllenaElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677681744165865584noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1943252376020854986.post-43877428764445415702012-08-22T14:16:00.002+10:002012-08-23T13:33:17.136+10:00Some wedding photos and other nostalgia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My paternal grandmother, aged 18 weeks.</div>
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She was born in Rossland, Canada 1919</div>
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My grandmother came to Australia on the ship <em>Aorangi</em> with her parents and 3 siblings in 1934.</div>
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My great grandfather had been born in Australia and left at about age 18 to see the world, ended up in Canada. Joined the Canadian army during WW1, met his future wife in England, married as soon as the war was over and they went to Canada to live.</div>
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My grandmother in Canada</div>
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My grandmother and her brother at London Zoo in a Llama Cart</div>
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A lovely family portrait of my grandmother (the eldest) and her siblings.<br />
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My handsome grandfather</div>
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My grandparents at Cloudland Ballroom<br />
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Brisbane, Queensland</div>
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My grandparents with my father</div>
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Grandma with my Dad</div>
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My grandparents during WW2<br />
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My Pop was in the Royal Australian Airforce.</div>
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My grandmother with my father and his younger brother</div>
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My grandparents at a wedding.<br />
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My paternal grandparents standing with my Dad and my maternal grandparents beside my Mum at their wedding.</div>
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7th May 1960</div>
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My grandparents on my wedding day<br />
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Here I am with hubby and both sets of grandparents on our wedding day</div>
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I wore my mother's wedding dress.</div>
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1960 and 1983</div>
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My grandparents with me and my daughter<br />
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1985</div>
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Grandma at her surprise 70th Birthday Party</div>
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Today I made two baby cards for little boys</div>
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who will be born soon.</div>
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I'm having back surgery in the next couple of weeks and will be un-able to create for who knows how long?</div>
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My friend made this cute little shoe pincushion for me</div>
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My lovely rose lamp</div>
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Hubby and I love our 'bed of roses'.</div>
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A vintage beaded purse</div>
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A musical jewelry box my husband bought for my 21st birthday</div>
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sitting on a cross stitched embroidery with crochet edge that I made in 1982</div>
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A beautiful winter sky last week</div>
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Some rusted garden ornaments that I've collected over the years.</div>
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An old horse shoe</div>
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Love my rusty chains</div>
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I've had such fun the last few days making some new cards</div>
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Making cards quickly may be a new habit...</div>
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Forever Friends The Good Life Universal Embossing Folder </div>
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I made this card for my niece her new fiance.</div>
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Spellbinder's filigree square </div>
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The Marianne diecut butterfly is a favourite of mine</div>
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This little basket diecut is new to me. I love it.</div>
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I recently made this altered canvas for my sewing/craft room.</div>
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I entered it in the local country show and it won first place.</div>
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A cut glass compote full of gold shank buttons</div>
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Pearl buttons in old avon jars sitting on a silver tray</div>
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My best friend brought me this beautiful Killarney Lace from Ireland.</div>
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A beautiful shelf trim crocheted by my mother</div>
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My friend gave me this doll head, it's too cute to throw out right?</div>
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Wrought iron string holder & scissors</div>
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A scattered selection of buttons, a vintage buckle, and a fabric panel. </div>
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Trying out colours and embellishments for a new bag.</div>
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I love to have <em>The Waltons</em> playing in the background as I sew or create</div>
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Some very old buttons, some from as far back as the 1800's.</div>
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My most recent creation.</div>
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Vintage and antique glass buttons</div>
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A beautiful box with a pretty tin </div>
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a favourite icon of mine, The Eiffel Tower.</div>
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A friend brought me this back from Paris last year.</div>
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Wrought iron cloche type bird cage vignette</div>
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A silky oak day bed for relaxing or even having a quick afternoon kip</div>
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Appliqued cushions made by me and the front one by my best friend.</div>
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A marvellous way to store fabric collections.</div>
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I store trims in the blue chest of drawers, scrapbooking supplies in the coloured plastic storage drawers and fabric in the white chest of drawers (only some I might add), there are many other plastic tubs on wheels with fabric collections.</div>
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Two large work tables</div>
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This is a little painted child's play hutch </div>
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close up with old clocks, dice and tins etc</div>
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Some of my buttons and books</div>
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I store some of my Spellbinder dies in this old CD holder.</div>
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I love the way the individual spines flip forward and back, </div>
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it makes them very easy to locate.</div>
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A large pincushion made by my best friend </div>
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A beautiful new crystal button I bought recently</div>
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a crocheted pink heart by my mother</div>
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Spool holder painted and decorated by me</div>
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Debbie Mumm pin cushion</div>
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</div>EllenaElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677681744165865584noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1943252376020854986.post-56380283723303402962012-07-04T17:57:00.002+10:002012-07-05T09:50:19.005+10:00Icy and cold on The Darling Downs...it's winter!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here's my dear hubby holding the water from the bird bath. </div>
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Did you happen to notice it's frozen? LOL</div>
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The amazing thing is that this photos were taken today at 1pm.</div>
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It's been extra cold here the last week.</div>
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It does not snow where I live in Australia, </div>
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so when we get massive frost events like this it's a novelty.</div>
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Don't get me wrong it's regularly below zero early in the morning in wintertime, and is cold all day, sometimes bitterly so, </div>
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but to have such thick ice is rare.</div>
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This photo is looking over my neighbour's yard towards the creek at the back. You can see the sun is just starting to rise and there is a mist coming off the creek below. All the white stuff on the ground is ice!</div>
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The peg bucket hangs on the clothesline, about 6 feet off the ground and was covered in ice.</div>
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My wheelbarrow of pansies, all iced up. </div>
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Poor little lone pansy...if you look at my post a couple of days ago you'll see this same little pansy looking much more healthy.</div>
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I donned 2 prs of long pants, 7 layers on torso, one layer being a double lined jacket with hood, 2 prs of socks, a pr of boots and I was pretty right, except I felt like the michelin man...LOL</div>
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I let the cats out of the shed (we lock them up at night, in their own 5 star cat motel) and they were determined to help me film my frosty photos but could not understand why they were so cold. </div>
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Here you see Edie looking hesitant and suspicious, thinking some intruder must surely be causing her discomfort on this -5 c morning. </div>
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Today I decorated this frame that was given to me by a friend</div>
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I removed the glass and covered the backing with some open weave linen and an old threadbare and partially torn doiley </div>
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that I had sprayed with Memories Mists 'Pale Ale'.</div>
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I used Wonder Tape to adhere the background fabric</div>
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and doiley to the backing.</div>
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I loved the way I could use the prestamped linen sample fabric as well as the paper sticker that's been sitting on there for so many years.</div>
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Seam binding tape used to cover the join.</div>
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Here the elements are sitting loosely while I tweak them.</div>
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I made the paper roses, and tied the double bow from seam binding tape.</div>
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I stamped a Tim Holtz mannequin on heavyweight paper and dressed it with some lace, ribbon and a necklace from some pre-loved beads.</div>
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I used Distress Ink and Chalks to give an aged look.</div>
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Here is the second mannequin that I diecut from a cereal packet, </div>
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then stamped with Stazon Ink, using the Tim Holtz sentiment </div>
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To finish I sponged with two colour of distress ink.</div>
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Please leave a comment and let me know what you think of my altered frame that I thoroughly enjoyed making today.</div>
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It's always a lovely way to spend a Sunday afternoon.</div>
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</div>EllenaElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677681744165865584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1943252376020854986.post-86197143218757696602012-06-30T21:07:00.003+10:002012-06-30T21:09:44.987+10:00Pansies, lavender, sunsets and two cats<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is my sole pansy flower at the moment.</div>
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Hopefully they'll be blooming in profusion within the next few weeks.</div>
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Pansies are my favourite flowers.</div>
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This collage is the same photo with four different edits</div>
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courtesy of PicMonkey</div>
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I just love the way this lavender photo</div>
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I'm having lots of fun with my new Canon 600D DSLR camera.</div>
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The sunsets here at this time of year are spectacular!</div>
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These were taken on the shortest day of the year</div>
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otherwise known as the winter solstice.</div>
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My female manx cat </div>
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Her brother Gordon...</div>
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They look nothing alike but are from the same litter.</div>
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They're just on three years old now.</div>
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I've had lots of fun this week as </div>
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</div>EllenaElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677681744165865584noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1943252376020854986.post-91383244381348784202012-06-26T20:42:00.000+10:002012-06-30T14:03:03.307+10:00My Great-Grandmother's Vintage Postcards<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I recently learnt about a collection of postcards (still in existence) that were sent to my great grandmother in the early 1900's.</div>
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My grandmother (who was her daughter) was about to burn them with the rubbish and my aunty saved them from the fire.</div>
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She has had them for decades</div>
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and </div>
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I had never heard about them until 12 months ago.</div>
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I have been trying to scan them so I have them for myself forever.</div>
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They have to go back to my aunty as soon as I get this job done</div>
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but</div>
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I'll admit I like having them close to me.</div>
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I have received so much pleasure from reading them and </div>
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gaining a little insight into how much my great grandparents </div>
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must have loved each other.</div>
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Many of them were sent to my Great-Grandmother by her future husband.</div>
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They are indeed very lovingly written.</div>
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I never knew anyone related to me could be so 'smooth with words'...LOL</div>
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I love the way so many of the postcards were addressed...</div>
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seemingly so loosely, </div>
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as though everyone knew who lived in the district, </div>
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which indeed they did.</div>
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I'm talking about country folk. </div>
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My relatives were not big city people.</div>
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Simpler times and simpler lives.</div>
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My great-grandmother's name was Anna but this was only discovered when her death certificate was sighted.</div>
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All her life she went as Annie.</div>
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Annie is also one of my nicknames.</div>
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This postcard was from my GG's cousin Rachel in 1911</div>
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Rachel was trying to organize meeting up with my GG</div>
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and suggested they may meet up at the local country show.</div>
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It must have been hard with no phones etc when you lived a good horse ride apart from each other.</div>
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Love's Victory...a postcard </div>
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from my great grandfather William known as Bill,</div>
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to his future wife, Annie.</div>
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I love the address on this postcard</div>
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Miss Emma Janke</div>
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C/o Mr Janke, </div>
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The bootmaker</div>
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...love it!...</div>
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Don't know how my GG had this one, maybe she never got to post it</div>
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or</div>
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maybe</div>
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she collected her friend's used postcards.</div>
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Who could blame her? </div>
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They're so lovely.</div>
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To Greet You on Your Birthday</div>
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Best wishes for your birthday</div>
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Here again not sure why she had this postcard in her collection</div>
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maybe she had a friend called Annie, maybe she never posted it</div>
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We'll never know now.</div>
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Christmas card by Beagle's Postcards</div>
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from my GG's friend Mary Jessop</div>
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Dear Annie</div>
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through</div>
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that are now mostly just over 100 years old.</div>
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I knew my Great grandmother well. </div>
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She died when I was 20.</div>
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I never knew my Greatgrandfather as he died before I was born.</div>
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</div>EllenaElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677681744165865584noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1943252376020854986.post-1241385245089004032012-06-22T11:00:00.000+10:002012-06-23T20:53:39.592+10:00Twelve months of blogging and I missed the anniversary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I thought I'd share some winter photos with you.</div>
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We're in the middle of winter here in Australia.</div>
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These photos are a couple years old</div>
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& were only taken on my old samsung mobile phone</div>
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certainly capture the frost in the garden.</div>
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By the way the above plant did <u>not</u> handle </div>
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the frosts here on the Darling Downs. </div>
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This was the 1st year we had lived here & weren't sure what would survive the bitter winters.</div>
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Who would have thought that snow peas love the frost? </div>
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(Maybe their name should have given us a hint)</div>
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We got a bumper crop that year!</div>
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that the icicles were still intact, </div>
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& the rusted garden ornament.</div>
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I have an old hollow log in the garden & here you can clearly see the cat's paw prints in the ice.</div>
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To all who have supported my blog in any way in the last 12 months </div>
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Thankyou!</div>
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I started twelve months and 2 days ago.</div>
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I have loved every minute of blogging.</div>
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Meeting new friends with similar tastes and interests.</div>
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Being inspired etc</div>
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It's something I'd been wanting to do for years</div>
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and when I finally found Google Blogger I knew I was ready to start blogging.</div>
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Apart from the time I got a new 'Smartphone' </div>
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it decided to commandeer all my Picasa photos </div>
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and then delete, </div>
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my time in blog world has been such fun.</div>
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Hopefully another 12 wonderful months lie ahead.</div>
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</div>EllenaElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677681744165865584noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1943252376020854986.post-65755223800760005842012-06-20T12:03:00.000+10:002012-06-20T12:03:07.555+10:00It's Wednesday so I'll try being wordless...some pics from around the house.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</div>EllenaElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677681744165865584noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1943252376020854986.post-76307652674762150222012-06-05T17:57:00.003+10:002012-06-05T17:57:25.234+10:00Some sights around my sewing room<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</div>EllenaElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677681744165865584noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1943252376020854986.post-63601709697075722752012-05-27T20:45:00.000+10:002012-05-27T20:45:19.304+10:00A pretty little shoe pincushion and a doiley<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I made this a couple of years ago </div>
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have been having lots of fun</div>
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taking photos with my new <strong><em>Canon EOS 600D.</em></strong> </div>
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These two were taken using the macro setting </div>
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then I had fun editing using</div>
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I made the paper flowers</div>
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the little crocheted flowers</div>
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underneath</div>
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</div>EllenaElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677681744165865584noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1943252376020854986.post-16977896874336872042012-05-27T17:01:00.000+10:002012-05-27T17:13:09.108+10:00Pretty things<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This collage is courtesy of PicMonkey.</div>
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I just love this new collage effect.</div>
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It seems I've run out of storage space on Picasa.</div>
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Anyone have any ideas about what I can do?</div>
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What have you'll done when this happens to you?</div>
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Thanks for visiting, I'd really love some feedback.</div>
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I would like to share my latest card</div>
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made for some lovely people </div>
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who recently showed my family </div>
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great hospitality </div>
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kinsmanship.</div>
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They are farmers </div>
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I used a lovely Stampin 'Up set called <strong><em>Times and Seasons</em></strong></div>
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I bought it preloved from eBay recently.</div>
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This is the 1st time I've used my new DSLR.</div>
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Last night I bought a Canon EOS 600D </div>
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**Exciting**</div>
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I am so thrilled to have it finally </div>
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A pretty miniature mannequin</div>
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Some pretty buttons</div>
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all vintage </div>
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The pink heart shaped doiley was made by my Mum.</div>
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A selection of some of my vintage buttons</div>
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It's a really cold one here today.</div>
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It's overcast and drizzly.</div>
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Five layers of cothing seem to be keeping the worst of the cold at bay...LOL</div>
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Even though this 100 acre farm is out in the middle of nowhere, </div>
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The original owner gave some land to his son & the son built a house only a stone's throw from the house on the farm we like.</div>
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<strike>Slightly</strike>, no really annoying!</div>
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You can see the son's house on the left & the roof of the house on the farm we like through the gate to the right of it.....can you believe it?</div>
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Part of the grounds surrounding the farmhouse.</div>
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This cute as little structure is the <strong><em>cream shed.</em></strong></div>
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This farm was formerly a dairy farm.</div>
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The farmhouse doesn't look much but inside it's WOW!</div>
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No-one currently lives in the house and it's been vacant for years.</div>
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It's in pretty much original condition</div>
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The rooms are huge and there are four bedrooms, large kitchen and dining room, 2 verandahs, a sleepout & some extra rooms.</div>
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Also this <strong><em>dream</em></strong> walk in pantry located right off the kitchen.</div>
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It's about 1.5 x 3 metres.</div>
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The entire house is very well made and still structurally sound.</div>
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Kitchen leadlight door</div>
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Kitchen looking into the dining room</div>
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In a perfect world if we did buy this farm I would like to move the house to this spot, on the top of this hill that is higher than what it looks here.</div>
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This would make the house location about 400 metres away from the other neighbouring too close house.</div>
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The peaceful road the farm is located on.</div>
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I found this former beauty a while ago</div>
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She is crumbling and just falling apart.</div>
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Such a sad thing, it breaks my heart.</div>
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She was probably built about 1890</div>
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The classic and iconic style </div>
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so beloved by all who know this style of architecture.</div>
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