This is a short note from me this month. I will be sending newsletters less frequently this year. I have several projects in progress and I’ve decided to spend more time on them. Since there are still only 24 hours in each day (how annoying!), I need to reallocate my time. What are these projects? […]

Hello! Whew, I’m glad January is over because it was the month that Covid caught up with us. We’d managed to avoid it for four years, so I guess that was an achievement. Symptoms still linger but we are on the mend, thankfully. Gardens It has long frustrated me that all my hand-written plant labels […]

Hello! I hope you enjoyed your December and are ready to welcome a new month and a new year. The summer solstice has passed but I know the hottest months of our Australian summer are yet to come, though we have already had a couple of scorching days. My hydrangeas did not enjoy those days! […]

Hello! I hope you enjoyed your November and are ready to welcome December. We had a deluge of rain (102 mm) overnight so the garden is happy. Now it needs to soak into the parched ground to be truly useful. November is epiphyllum flowering time at my place. Look at these stunning blooms! They only […]

October is my favourite month of the year. When I lived in Sydney, I knew that October would be the last comfortable month before the humidity arrived and stayed until April. I struggled with the discomfort that high humidity brings. It’s different here and I love it. October has wildly fluctuating temperatures – last Tuesday […]

Are you easily distracted? I certainly am. There are so many activities that interest me and so many possibilities (too many!) that compete for my time. Making writing a priority is important to me but, if it’s that important, why aren’t I doing it more often? That has to change. I guess acknowledgement is the first […]

Hello and thanks for reading. I’m still hanging in there with Substack for these newsletters but it’s getting too noisy in that place for me. I guess that’s a sign of a popular site but I’ll be investigating alternative ways of sending newsletters by email. Does anyone have a recommendation for newsletter software? Quilts It’s […]

Hello! It’s early afternoon here and I’m gazing out my window at the cloudy sky and the trees moving in the wind. The weather app tells me it feels like 0.9 degrees outside so I won’t be venturing there. Yes, I’m a wuss. I like to stay cosy. We’ve had three frosts this month. Yesterday’s […]

Hello Creative Dabblers! Welcome to this month’s newsletter. Quilts As usual, I have several hand piecing and appliqué projects on the go. I’ve also started hand quilting one quilt. I like having several pieces to work on. As someone who gets bored easily, the ability to choose which project I stitch each time is a […]

Hello Creative Dabblers! February passed by with a whoosh; I didn’t mean to miss the month’s newsletter but here we are now in March. Surprising. My new keyboard is behaving nicely. I do like a full-size keyboard with a number pad. None of those small or on-screen keypads for me. This one is connected, along […]