A Return to Simplicity.

 I originally planned to only stitch for a small amount of time last night as I was too tired to stay up too late stitching and you know what happens when you're tired.......that's right......mistakes are made!       But as luck would have it I did stay up and made this new door stop in my favourite colours of blue and white with a touch of green. They were just wide enough to cut out a couple of sides. This is a line of fabric from years ago by Debbie Beaves for RJR. I used some of my stash and not only made the door stop but some smaller cute pears for my coffee table.   Once you start they are so easy to stitch up and stuff and Voilà...they are finished.     The pattern is by Heather Bailey and I have made them before in a different color-way.  The larger door stop pattern was found on Pinterest. I'm heading over to Wendy's page to check out what everyone else was up to.  Thanks for dropping by,   

The garden is providing a bounty of produce this year and as I don't like to waste, in between working and renovations,  I have been very productive in the kitchen. Large green tomatoes just make me think of Green Tomato Pickles. Although I haven't made it for a number of years I thought it a good time to drag out the old Women's Weekly recipe book and gather the ingredients. The only item I had to buy was half a cauliflower, but everything else was on hand, onions, green tomatoes, cucumber, and spices.     I have loved this cook book for ever and I keep coming back to it time and again. We also have a Tangor Tree (it's a citrus fruit hybrid of the mandarin orange and the sweet orange) in the hen house and each year it's full of fruit and the marvelous thing is the cockatoos don't touch the fruit!  I have never used the fruit for jam making but have often wondered about it, so I thought I would give it a go as it would answer the question once and for all! WOW!...

 How prepared are you when something unexpected happens?   I recently needed to host overnight guests that were stranded in my town  due to a fatal crash on the highway!  What I quickly realized that I was not prepared by way of toiletries, bedding, clothes......lucky for me I had food aplenty. I was able to scrounge up some new toothbrushes and I did have plenty of toothpaste, but I forgot I had some small guest soaps! Bedding I had but, nothing suitable for adults, just the old (and clean) grand-kids linen. A bit faded as they haven't slept over for a couple of years.   Clothing.....well I guess you can never be prepared for this as people come in all shapes and sizes and they were kind enough to compromise. Food was not an issue as I have worked that day so the slow cooker was on with spiced pulled pork. All good there! So that was one thing off my mind.   I had to work the next day, leaving at 0530 for a shift in the hospital, so I sorted out breakfast ...