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Monday, August 11, 2008

Middle Children's Day

A middle child often feels him/herself to be the least loved one. S/He is likely to sulk between the importance attached to the elder sibling and the attention given to the youngest. The middle one hence is more prone to be dubious of his/her position in the family. Middle Children's Day is the perfect time to pamper all the middle children you know. Reach out to them and tell them how significant they are !

Happy middle children's day to my own darling middle princess (pictured above with her best mate, Murray) from a mother who is also the middle child amongst her six siblings. My Living Doll, you are the centre attraction in my world! You make me so proud.

posted by Felicity | 9:49 pm | 0 comments

Saturday, August 09, 2008

3 years married and a trip to Melbourne to celebrate


See the row of wedding photographs at the top of the blog page? It's hard to believe that it's three years since they were taken.

The MOTH and I went to Melbourne to celebrate our anniversary. It was really fun trip. If you get the chance, go to see Wicked at the Regent Theatre & the Art Deco exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria. Good restaurants to visit include: Ezard, Rockpool & The Oyster Restaurant. I'm not a shopper, but I did enjoy browsing the bookshops. The other thing to enjoy in good weather is listening for a wee while to the lone bagpipe player at the Scottish Church on Collins Street.

posted by Felicity | 7:54 pm | 0 comments

Sunday, August 03, 2008

A Quaker Christmas - Update No. 2



Thank you everyone, for your encouragement with this project.

I'm really enjoying stitching it. The sampler's progressing quite quickly.

Like the 'Love with a Capital L' piece that I did last year, it's such a simple stitch, but the size dictates a little dedication to get it going (& thus keep up the motivation to finish).



Thanks also to Sally for the Brillante Weblog Award. I don't usually go for these sorts of ideas but I will carry this one further when I get the chance. It's a nice way of being introduced to other stitching blogs.



I'm off to Melbourne in the south for the best part of a week. To celebrate our 3rd wedding anniversary on Wednesday, the MOTH organised tickets to see 'Wicked' at the Regent Theatre next weekend . Because it turns out that he has meetings most of the week in his southern office, we are putting Lucy & Harry into boarding school, sending Gypsy to 'the aunts' (two of the true and rightful heirs of our fortune - i.e. the 2 eldest princesses who share a house) & flying the coup on Wednesday.



While I'm gone, stay healthy & warm or cool (depending on where you are). We've had some wintery weather here in Brisbane, this week.



Happy stitching



Bliss

posted by Felicity | 12:57 pm | 12 comments

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Snowmen


I don't quite understand why (considering I live, more-or-less, in the tropics), but I've got a thing for snowmen at the moment. I just can't get enough of looking at them. So far, I've resisted buying one to stitch, but have you seen all the cute and colourful ones available?

posted by Felicity | 8:59 pm | 9 comments

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Christmas In July & Nadia's 25th




This weekend was our 2nd annual Christmas in July weekend and Nadia's 25th birthday, so we celebrated both events with friends on Saturday evening & then had a family lunch on Sunday. Pictures say so much more than words...




Tired dogs. Lucy & Harry had a great time too.

posted by Felicity | 7:34 pm | 0 comments

Christmas-in-July

Last night we hosted our annual Christmas-in-July supper. I won't exactly say 'Never again!' but I think that we need to change the format.

Last year, we made it compulsory for our off-spring to attend. It was a disaster because of the Davies boys! This year we sent everyone an invitation, but made it clear it was under their own steam that they came. Consequently, we had only 3 of our children (plus their partners & a few friends/family) attend. It was lovely to see them.

This year we hosted too many differing groups of people for the one event. This was mostly due to a desire to say goodbye to a group of people I have outgrown in my life, and who I rarely see unless I put the invitation in place. There isn't time for people like this, any more.

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Monday, July 21, 2008

Update about life in Castle Bliss

This is a 'first draft' kind of blog today. I've an urge to write.

We've been home from Canada about 6 weeks. The MOTH is busy with work but I'm enjoying being a simple housewife (not that anyone who knows me would call me simple). I have the house and home bug and am thoroughly enjoying my disease. I've even been cooking new recipes!!!

Apart from renovations, a few houseguests and weekly lunches with my friend, Linda, supposedly supporting each other to lose a few kilos before two up-coming weddings in her family, our news is limited mostly to Harry & Lucy's progress together & our pre-spring clean-up in honour of our Christmas in July weekend coming up. I got a handyman in last week to trim the hedges, the Crown Prince cleaned the windows and then this past weekend, we filled a 4 cubic metre skip with rubbish. Timing is everything.

Harry is now 15.5 weeks old, a super skinny but very tall 11kg and lacking his two front teeth. He can sit, stay & pee on command most of the time. He's also an eating machine. I love him dearly.

Harry & Lucy get along brilliantly. I thought they would. Lucy is looking slightly worse for wear because she's on heat. She's suffering, I think. Poor darling. Harry hasn't noticed her condition.

We're sort of having a winter, but it's winter Brisbane-style. It's cold at night here in the western suburbs, but the days are usually sunny and clear (and an envious 20C).

We're doing Christmas in July this weekend which means that we are having a supper for 30 people on Saturday night (combining it with the Crown Prince's Consort's 25th birthday) & a seafood luncheon on Sunday for 5 of the off-spring (the other two boys are waiting for their father to divorce me before they see him again, it seems). It should all be wonderful.

Cross stitch-wise, I've just finished one project & started another. These are both for our house rather than for gifts. I'll show pics when they are framed.

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