Windhoek MOB

I had the pleasure of meeting a few

bloggers at 24.com living in Windhoek. They are such fun

to be with and we chatted for ages.

Meeting!!!

I attended the Potpouri group meeting at the Afrokaan

today to see what they have been working on as I have

not been there for some time. They are working on a

banner for the group.

We chatted for a while and then had some lovely choc cake,

which was so nice and

tasty and a hot cuppa coffee. Real coffee.

I also bought a lovely spinach quiche for lunch

and a piece of juicy biltong for hubby.

Cant just buy fabric for me have to spoil him,

er, or is it just to stop feeling guilty for

spending money on myself!!!!! hehehe

The biltong was well received and

when tasted the comment went like this

" nice piece of fat, not too dry and tasty too". He enjoyed it very much.

Be sure to visit this lovely shop in Graafwater next time you are on the

West Coast, even if it is just to buy some of that biltong.

Blog Awards.

I have received a Blog Award from Tozz and also from Sewdeb and here goes
with my five addictions:

1. Love The Lord.
2. My family.
3. All my friends, seen ones (in my country)
and not seen ones( on the internet) they
are the special angels in my life put there by The Lord.
4. All the pets we have.
5. Sewing anything all day.
5a. The internet. hehehehehe
ps Still have to puzzle out how to put the picture on my blog.

Had a great holiday.

This was a long trip of 2400km
and took us two days to complete
we slept over in Windhoek and
then arrived safely in a small
check point named Kongola and there
Natascha and family waited for us.
This is a picture of the scenery
taken just outside of Otavi on the
way to Grootfontein.

After arriving at Kongolo we went

to Susuwe Lodge over the Kwando

river by boat and then to the lodge.

It looks much nicer than on the

pictures. Had some tea and then went

to Natascha's house. And here is

Hubby standing on the deck outside

with the Boabab tree that shades

the house.

This is what the Boabab tree

seed pods look like and when they

fall it does make a hole in the deck.

They are massive and heavy, but sadly

not even the elephants eat it.

Here is Matthew feeding the birds

and squirrels which live in the trees.

This is a genet that lives in the trees

and comes down at night and nudges against

the window pane of the door for food.

To be continued.

Just things!!!

New tenants have just moved in.
We have this lovely thorn tree
growing outside our bedroom window.
Now we have the first bird nest which was built
this morning.

I decided to help the poor guy to make

his nest cosy and cut some batting in thin strips

and put them out for him.

Made sure he saw them and here he

is collecting them. if you look carefully you can see him in the centre of the ground patch as I dont know how to enlarge it to see him better. When there was none

left he cheekily tjurped for more, so I cut

some more and now late this afternoon they

are happily settled in the nest.

Just!!!

Just a short note so say that I wont be around
for a few weeks. We are going to visit our
daughter and the internet is very bad there.
Take care to all. Happy stitching.

New!!!

This is what I did this afternoon

after seeing this lovely BOM

on gailpandesigns and just had to start

this. I also received some wonderful red

fabric from a friend at the Australian

Threads magazine forum. It just seem

to come at the right time for this fabric.

Jane Austen!!

I am reading my first Jane Austen book

Emma, but I have to use a dictionary, not just

any one as the newer ones dont seem to have

a lot of the words, which of course don't get used

nowadays, in them. It is so funny as the dictionary

is much bigger than my book. But it is very

challenging for me to read with all those

old fashioned ways of saying things in very old

English. But am enjoying it a lot.

Just!!!!

This is one of my 6 placemats

that I am nearly finished with

and took me 2 years to complete.

Maybe it was just not my color

theme or something. Well I have

been working to get all my ufo's completed

and now have got to these.

This is a railroad that runs from

Saldanah on the West Coast through

to Kathu in the Northern Cape. It just

transports goods. We went to a small

town called Strandfontein on Christmas day

to see how it has grown, we have not been

there for ages, it has now become a small

seaside town but sadly only busy around

the December holidays so there are not many

permanent people living there.

I am flying!!!

Bye everyone

wow now spiderman

is high up in the air.

Christmas items!!!

This is my Christmas card holder
that was done by our group
"The Crafting Chatting Chick"

This is Jesse holding her item.

Here are 4 of the 6 Chicks at

our Christmas tea at the local

coffee shop "Emile's"