Where has 2021 disappeared too?

This year has passed to quickly. We have been so busy just living life and enjoying every minute of it.

Being thankful for everything The Lord supplies us and also the time to enjoy being with the grandkids. Also had our son and his family visit us for a short while made it very special. Luckily the end of the year our weather also changed and after the terrible drought we have had lots and lots of rain. Our water tanks are full all the time. Also had a water pump installed which made life easier for us. Also not having municipality water in taps, made us install it faster. Now need to start saving for solar panel!

   

I have got two more hexi's done! This is going to take some time it seems. Looking at my fabric and threads has not got less. But by the time I finished this at least the stash will be less.

Neil put up our Christmas Tree and I am not going to change it. So special to watch him concentrating 
 on putting all the ornaments on this small tree.

Its amazing to see all the people here in town for this holiday. Truly a blessing esp for businesses in town. They have suffered a huge loss esp the staff having no income. We did our best to support small businesses but it was not enough. Thanks to the Lord for holding our hands and show the nasty persons responsible for all this suffering world wide that Africa is in His Hands. 

Hexigons!

Still making hexi's!

My Hexi Quilt in the making!!!!

This is no 13 of 40 hexi's. My creative side has now kicked in and am creating some lovely centers for this quilt. 

 

Nr 12 done

Nr 12 of 40 blocks done. Trying to do a few a week. 

Busy slow stitching!!!!!

 Its a very windy day here and am indoors all day.

Our amaryllis is flowering non stop and its just so pretty and special. 

Went to cast my vote this afternoon. Baked some bran muffins and now just sitting around and thinking.

 This is a very emotional time for our family now as we have lost an aunt last week and the last of my aunts is very very ill. My cousin tried very hard to get us all together to chat with her but its not a good time to have a chat as we are all very sad because this aunt is one of the most favored by all. Its really been terrible losing her as it all started with her getting ill and recovered very nicely and then the after effects started up and now also taking her life. She was always present in our lives and always full of love for her kids and my sister and I. There is so much emptiness in our lives when we lose so many loved ones.

 

I have so much to be thankful for. My kids are doing great in life in general and grandkids are all well taken care of. Also having my daughter close by and having her two sons around us everyday are such a blessing. The Lord has us all in His Hands and we have Him in our hearts!

 

 

 

A mini!

Just love stitching miniature patterns. This is a fan in mini. Thanks to @berry_birdy for sharing this video. 

Such a busy day!!!!!!

Had a very nice busy day.

Its a very windy day here and hoping that we get some rain soon. Dust everywhere. grrr Hate housework but have to do it myself. I hurt my hip last week and need to take it easy to heal.

I will do a deep house clean next week. 

So onto more interesting things.

This amaryllis decided to start opening up this morning. Just love the beauty of flowers.

We went for a nice walk on the beach this morning. Coco just loves to have a nice swim and Lucky just walks along in the shallow water.

Then l just had to do some stitching this afternoon and decided to do this qayg{quilt as you go} block designed by Pattern Poole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRcPvsHFVoU

She is just great as she has all the instructions and how to on you tube. All very clear, precise and also interesting.

 

Another Block done!

Got there hibiscus flowers from Matts this afternoon.

Another block embroidered. Having fun doing the embroidery now.

 All lovely House of Embroidery threads.

 

Christmas!

Collected these rings from our milk holders last year and now finished them all! In time for Christmas!

Some pretty flowers today!

Neil picked this flower in the park across the road.

Our red bottlebrush flowering and the bees have been busy before the sun appeared

I am decorating my baskets I have collected over the year for my shelves.

 

Family is the best!!!!

We had a wonderful weekend. Our son and his family surprised us with a visit and wow its so special as we live far apart and being old now don't want to travel that far again. They visited here 4 years ago when we had just moved to Port Alfred. So we had great fun just relaxing and visiting. Sadly the older 2 grandsons were not visiting. But just being able to spend some time with ones family makes us feel so blessed.