Update early November

Well today I took the campervan   round to a company which does all the maintenance and conversion of campervans. They have been helpful in the past = there are all sorts of little jobs that I dont always know how to do eg there were two loose fittings and I didnt know how to stick them down and then I was worried about a catch on the fridge that wouldnt lock and needed to check the heater system. Great  = all sorted and I didnt pay anything -  there was a DVD and TV in the van and I had never used it so I gave it to the chap who fixed the bits for me - and he also installed a 12v outlet which will be useful int he back of the van for a little fan and for recharging phone etc.

For the last couple of weeks I have been finishing the projects I started at the Quilting Symposium - I was determined to get those done this time!

My Symposium project that is now finished "Elephant on Parade"

Another symposium project finished "Ghost ships in the Orient"

At the weekend I went to the Quilting Guild and we handed in our Recycle, Reuse and Reloved challenge -  a 12" square little quilt using only reused or repurposed fabrics or other bits. One of mine was based on   used T bags and I included some of Mums bits and pieces - Not many of the members did it which was a pity but I liked mine and Margarets and  one of our friends who is a new member did really well.I also gave a little talk and some samples of projects you could do with Border print fabrics. So it has been a really intensive sewing time....

These were the ones handed in by members

My T bag based - Memories of Mum

This one was called Faded Roses II

Then I went out to join the Sanskrit weekend - good company and studied and carefully translated a verse from the Aitareya Upanishad...sounds a bit boring but it is an amazing language - thousands of years old without changing and with incredibly well organised rules of grammar (4000 rules!). And the School of Philosophy house at Glendowie is a beautiful setting looking ouit over the Waitemata harbour.

 So this afternoon did a bit more tidying up and dumping stuff out of the garage including another trip to the Salvation Army shop with all sorts of bits... starting to get more space  in the garage. Amazing how you can only really declutter in stages - sometimes you just dont feel like parting with some stuff and then later you can. I will take the old tent and some of the camping gear down to Jonathan and they can use it hopefully in the summer out at Bush Lane. Apparently the digger which was supposed to be laying the base for their shed was doing well until it rained on Saturday.

And tomorrow I have a meeting of our little committee organizing the exhibition for next year... but later in the year I will head off south to spend a few days with the family. Looking forward to it - 

The garden has some plants in it and the bit of rain we have just had should see everything get started.. need to get those blueberries netted and maybe the blackberries as well. I did net the strawberries and it is good to beat the birds to the yummy strawberries.