The seed order is in!

Just have to wait for the soil to warm up!
One expert says that if you can sit on the ground
with your bare bottom then it's warm enough to plant!
That might take a few months!

Today is a great winter day!

Crisp, fresh air with warm sunshine!

This picnic table is made from 1 oak

and is 6 meters long!

Weatherman says there's more snow to come next Tuesday!

The first Daffodils of Spring!

Snowed a few centimeters last night too!

What number are we at for sweeping the snow away?

Lost count a while ago.

Should be a dry, high of 0C weekend!

Memories of a warm Summer's day!

Took a photo of something with colour!

There's enough snowy photos of our garden!

Here's the Ikea chair!

A nice place to sit and enjoy

the afternoon winter sun!

The wind is out the East today.

.. brrrrr

-7C tonight!

How did one embroider earlier without Google?

I guess there were colour and number charts

somewhere around the house to help with this step!

The flight of the Bumble Bee!

More snow!

After delivering the yellow catch-all board

at Buitenzorg I walked home....

...via the Laanstraat, the main shopping street.

The book store across the street from Bart's Bakery

Photo taken today of the Town Hall

and Church tower in the back ground

Split Pea Soup anyone?

The Brink

Central parking area

No flowers for sale today!

A dusting of snow this morning.

Maybe more on the way.

High of -1C

The sun shines and it feels warm!
No signs of Hosta's

Time for tea?

I think the bread is almost ready

from the bread machine!

If you could only smell it!
Best aromatherapy there is!

First block is hand sewn together!

Two added pockets!

First block example

Cold today. -3C. Must be a dry cold! No frosty car glass to scrape clean! Colder winter days here than in Vancouver! Sounds like there's not much snow in them there hills!

With no appointments on the calender, enough food in the fridge and not much interest in dressing again in layers to go out in the icy cold I stayed in and started on the first block! Where does the time go? I worked in the living room. If you are ever looking for an active hobby I highly recommend the first steps to quilting! Up the stairs, down the stairs, sorting, choosing, ironing, up the stairs, down the stairs, measuring, cutting, measuring, redesigning, going back and forth between cutting and placing, and, when it's all to your liking, tidying it all up! Bring out the vacuum cleaner! I just have to trace the patterns of the embroidery onto the three blank large rectangles and the three small squares, sew it all together and embroider! Then it's on to block two!

Remember this? Green grass!

2C today and -3C tonight!

More frosty temps coming!

The 2 kettles have now become 4!

4 hanging planters to be at Buitenzorg!

That white board with all the hooks

is now a catch-all for scissors, pens keys and notes.

Those silver things are now big push pins!

Went to Ouderkerk to visit friends.

No leaves or folk at 2 degrees!

Came home to find the first pattern for the quilt!

Leanne's House block 1. Heard that she's Australian.

She kept thinking about Coconut Ice while designing this quilt.

There's a recipe included. One ingredient is copha. What's that?

Don't think I'll be making this recipe!

Sounds toooo sweet anyway!

Let's go see what fabrics are stashed away!

Every now and again something catches my eye! Makes me say wow! I'll have to give that a try! Take alook at this quilt. It is a "block of the month" quilt project that comes from Dutch girl quilting (see websites and links) that she started at her quilt group. A bit of embrodery, lots of flowers, lots of mixing and matching colours involved! This is the example from the designer, Leanne, but every quilt is an original. You know what I will do? Blue and Yellow!

Pampus Grass

Still looks good after the winter!

Might have to get one for the garden!

Australian Chocolates!
This really works!
Tastes great warm out the oven
after an afternoon outside !
The snow that fell..

and fell...

and fell yesterday is now melting!