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Mother’s Day

Posted in Food & Friends on May 10, 2020| 12 Comments »

♥ Happy Mother’s Day! ♥

When I blogged about my vintage postcards a few weeks ago, lovely Lorna dug this one up and sent me a photo of it. It was part of her grandmother’s collection and probably dates back to the early 1900s.

When I showed it to my neighbour Ben, he said “That sums up the home schooling experience in many households right now!” Yes, it really does…

To all the incredibly patient, stoic mothers, particularly those with many balls up in the air at the moment – I hope you get to put your feet up and rest today.

♥ Happy Mother’s Day! ♥

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Scissors

Posted in Food & Friends, Frugal Living on May 7, 2020| 23 Comments »

May I talk about scissors?

Good scissors are IMPORTANT. Crappy scissors cause injuries and induce RAGE. I’ve owned these three pairs for over twenty years now and the only rage I’ve suffered has been when someone used my FABRIC scissors to cut paper. And plastic. Let’s not go there.

I complained to my young fashion designer friend Luca about it, and he sent me this in return…

When I found out that my adorable, craft-loving daughter-in-law didn’t have decent scissors, I immediately ordered her two pairs of Mundials – an 8” fabric pair and a pair of barbers scissors (like the ones on the left above) which I use for fine paper cutting.

The pointy ones arrived without a guard, so I whipped one up from a scrap of leather for her. Then I made guards for my three pairs as well.

The Chinese have a cute superstition – if you give someone something sharp like scissors or knives, the recipient has to give you a coin in return. If they don’t, it’s believed that your relationship could be “cut”. I extracted two gold coins from Monkey Girl just to be safe – I don’t believe the superstition, but it’s hardly worth taking the risk with a new daughter-in-law!

Do you have good scissors? I love my scissors. I even like saying “scissors”. Hmm. I’ll stop now. ♥

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Staying Connected

Posted in Food & Friends on May 3, 2020| 25 Comments »

My friend Kim lives in the UK.

Everyday this week, while she’s been in lockdown in England and we’ve been staying at home here in Sydney, she and I have been working on crossword puzzles together.

It’s just the best thing.

And yes, it was 4.53am and yes, I did go back to bed…

If our current world crisis had occurred fifty years ago, I wonder how things might have been different. Perhaps lower population density might have resulted in a more contained spread. But I suspect the sense of isolation would have been far greater too – I know how difficult it was for my folks when they moved to Australia and could only speak to their family via telephone for precious minutes once a year.

So today, I’m feeling incredibly grateful for technology that lets me share a crossword with a faraway friend via my mobile phone.Thank you, lovely Kim, for helping to keep me sane during isolation! And for knowing all the answers to the hard clues!

Thank you also to all of you who are reading these daily posts. It’s not easy to find something to write about each day – especially when we’re not venturing out much – so I’m grateful for your patience with the somewhat random and brief nature of these scribblings. And again, I’m thankful that 21st century technology lets us touch base like this every morning.

Wishing you all a restful Sunday, and I’d love to hear about the creative ways you’ve found to stay connected during lockdown! ♥

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Imperial Social Distancing Hat

Posted in Food & Friends on May 1, 2020| 28 Comments »

 

This is what my poor husband woke up to yesterday morning.

An excited wife in a paper hat.

He rubbed his eyes, looked at me, and said.. “I have no words..”

. . . . .

It all started the day before when I read this tweet. There’s not a lot about the COVID-19 crisis that’s bringing me joy, but these photos quite literally gave me life…

 

My sister subsequently sent me the original article – here’s the link if you’d like to read it.

. . . . .

The following morning, finding myself awake yet again at 5am, I made an imperial social distancing hat from a fettuccine box and some cardboard leftover from an old school project on the solar system that one of the kids did in Year Five (lockdowns are when we quarter hoarders really come into our own). Then I wrapped it all in rescued paper from Reverse Garbage.

Tah-dah! I’m ready for the Imperial Court now!

It works a bit too well, as I can’t fit through the internal doorways in our house with it on.

Mind you, going through doorways sideways might be the new norm if quarantine eating keeps going the way it is. My darling sister sent me this as well, bless her socks…

So here I am, in my imperial social distancing hat, wishing you all a happy day! Stay safe, folks! ♥

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A Box of Muppets

Posted in Cool Things, Food & Friends on April 21, 2020| 15 Comments »

Last week, I chipped a ceramic ornament and asked Steady Hands Pete to fix it for me.

Pete: “Can you get me the box with the hot glue gun, please?”

Me: ~hands him a box~

Pete: “This is the wrong one.

Me: “No, it’s not…”

Pete: “Babe, it’s full of Muppets.”

My life is one endless comedy sketch. Also, I have a box of Muppets, which makes me very, very happy!

. . . . .

We’re big Jim Henson fans in our house – so much so that we even built our own Muppet in 2001. I’m not sure if any of you remember Benny? Small Man named him after the Elton John song and we didn’t have the heart to tell him at the time that that Bennie was female…

benny

Did you know Eva’s dad actually worked with Jim Henson years ago? That still blows me away! Any other Muppet fans out there? If so, who was your favourite? ♥

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