Journal · page 14

Still Here : Still Waiting

Yesterday was the due date…. but the only baby I got to hold was this little 2yo crocodile. His skin was SOOO soft and cool to touch. I’ve been in Darwin now for 2 weeks. The…

Thinking about Yellow and White

Our baby is due in just over 4 weeks, which means I only have 2 more weeks before I leave home to wait for his arrival. Excitement and nervousness is building, but I’ve also been…

More Random Stuff

Random is about as much as I can ‘do’ at the moment. Birds: I haven’t seen a sulphur crested cockatoo since we’ve been in Jabiru, but there are plenty of corellas. They like to…

Random Stuff

Wild Dogs: There are plenty of wild dogs around here, they are more ‘dog like’ than the packs around Nhulunbuy which have a real a dingo look about them. We were told that at…

The Embroidery Itch

In my last post I mentioned that I had an itch to do some embroidery. So, in my usual fashion, I tossed the zig zag quilit aside and started putting a simple embroidery design…

32 years old, 31 weeks pregnant and a Saucy Look

I’m sort of itching to get into a bit of embroidery after this quilt. I’ve been reading Sheila Paine’s book Embroidered Textiles : a world guide to traditional patterns and I’m…

Relief

Reuben is going to be ok. I spoke to the vet this morning and apparently Reuben is very alert and the symptoms of his gastrointestinal infection have disappeared. He’s going to…

Soothe

Preparations

I was keen to get this quilt finished before I lost interest, so I took a few shortcuts. The first one being that I quilted it with a large stipple. I’d sketched out lots of ideas…

Settling

Much to our suprise the move into our permanent house has already happened. I was fully prepared for another 2-3 weeks in transit acommodation. It is SO nice to have our own stuff…

Goodbye Gove

We fly out of Gove tonight and will have a day for shopping in Darwin before we drive out to Jabiru for Chris to start work on Tuesday. Our year (+2mths) in Gove has been…