tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90959027312608799242024-02-22T22:53:38.947+05:30Tales from the Belvedere about quilting , golfing and Life !Veehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261198258543182448noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9095902731260879924.post-7525769213680021592014-02-09T06:24:00.002+05:302014-02-09T06:24:49.809+05:30A look at some fascinating Gond Art<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When an artist friend called and said I <i>had</i> to go and take a look at the work of some Gond Tribal artists who were in Poona and were leaving in a few hours...my friend Laxmi and I hurriedly finished playing the last hole, skipped breakfast and drove straight to the IISER ( Indian Institute of Science Education and Research ) campus.<br />
What a place that is !! We've driven past the gates ever so often but never bothered to look inside. Its 100 acres of land, some of which has modern buildings already there and still more construction activity happening. The fortunate ones get to study and work in this environment...hopefully we'll get a few great scientists emerging from there one day.<br />
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But we were not looking for scientists, we were looking for Subhash Vyam and his wife Durgabai...<br />
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We found them and discovered a whole new world of art ! They told us the stories behind their paintings..stories that had travelled down generations through their art since they had no written language for centuries.<br />
All the paintings depicted a facet of their lives....bringing down honey from a hive high up in the trees, or picking fruit or more exciting ones of tigers. I wish I'd taken a good camera with me and had the time to record both picture and the tale behind it.<br />
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Manna Sing was trying to convey the idea that a phone carries messages to your loved ones like the bird carried them: wirelessly.</div>
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Then there was this one of Dharti Mata or Earth Goddess whose arms had grown into wings so she could carry the earth and its people away to the heavens above</div>
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But my favourite was this huge canvas</div>
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By the time we got to this painting, I was so overwhelmed with all the gorgeous colour that I forgot to ask the story !! All I know is the deer's antlers have turned into trees...Why ?? I'll have to wait to find out.</div>
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Veehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261198258543182448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9095902731260879924.post-86134727895321349172013-06-01T07:38:00.000+05:302013-06-01T07:38:39.645+05:30Stash Buster BOM Step 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ah well, the sewing room didn't get tidied up as soon as I'd have wanted to and I didn't want to start my blocks till it was really tidy, but......<br />
The fabric was washed, sun dried, ironed and so waiting to be cut that I had to give in !<br />
I didn't realize how hand woven fabric behaves until I tried spray starching and ironing it: it has a mind of its own and wants to go 'curvy' more often than not. So what seemed like perfect straight lines, rotary cut with a new blade suddenly became concave or convex lines when ironed.<br />
Then when I sat down to sew, I found I had forgotten how to sew 1/4" seams :) So with a little help from Jack the Ripper and after I changed the presser foot on my machine to the 1/4" foot I got the seams right and the piecing went well.<br />
But, it was the 31st of May and I had to get the blocks done before Linda posted the June block. So I did and here they are:<br />
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That the room needs another major clean up is another matter for another day !<br />
What the colours remind me of is the GulMohur tree in full bloom now.<br />
Here are some hastily taken pics on the way home, but it'll give you an idea of what I'm trying to say<br />
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The shades of deep red and orange flowers, the grey tarred road, the blue skies with white clouds and the tawny dust all seem, to me, to appear in my blocks.<br />
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Veehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261198258543182448noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9095902731260879924.post-32911281369371927402013-05-14T08:03:00.001+05:302013-05-15T10:08:38.916+05:30Stash Buster BOM on Just Us Quilters Step 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
After a few months spent in the cold I'm back to hot, hot Poona. The heat has meant I'm indoors all day, and therefore on fb and all my lovely quilting groups. Just Us Quilters announced a Stash Buster BOM........and that was just the excuse I needed to go fabric shopping !!<br />
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I convinced myself that the fabric I bought in America ( enough to fill a whole suitcase ) was not quite the right kind !<br />
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It had to be "Indian" fabric....Ikats, shots, block prints and hand woven stripes. I knew exactly where I could get all these but there was an indefinite Traders Bandh ( a strike ) so shops were shut. For two days I dreamt of nothing but fabric and hoped the Bandh would be called off. It wasn't. </div>
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I started off with a grey and white Ikat that I fell in love with, then picked blues and greens and more greys . But a bright yellow print caught my eye and then of course the reds and oranges followed. </div>
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This morning when everyone was out I laid out the fabric and drooled and decided I had to first get my sewing room tidied before I even started ironing and cutting the fabric !<br />
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So the big task of cleaning up a room that had been left shut and unswept for over 3 months began. Many were the times I was tempted to just clear a small area and start on my block, but I've held out (pat on my back ).<br />
Hopefully I'll have the room cleaned and tidied today, then another day of rearranging stuff and I'm ready to go.......</div>
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Veehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261198258543182448noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9095902731260879924.post-391153147192015462013-05-06T08:59:00.003+05:302013-05-06T08:59:59.369+05:30A Quilt for Thabiby<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I had to make a quilt for "Thabiby"...and I had to hurry up about it. But let me tell you who Thabiby is...<br />
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In November Miss T found out she was going to become a "Big Sister" soon...and she talked incessantly about her baby brother. She even asked Santa at Macy's to get her one. When asked what she was going to call her new brother the answer was always "Thabiby". It was this mysterious name that had me foxed: Thabiby ? The name didn't sound Indian or American , nor did she have any friend who shared that name so I couldn't figure out how she had decided on it.</div>
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One morning Miss T was getting her baby doll into the stroller so they could go to the park and I asked what she had named the doll. This-bibi. So I asked what her brother was going to be called and she said, "Thabiby" !!! Mystery solved....so Thabiby he is till he arrives and gets a brand new name.</div>
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But I was writing about the quilt for Thabiby........<br />
As soon as we found out it was a boy I started looking for fabric in blues (I'm an old fashioned girl) and went on a buying spree with no plan or ideas on what the quilt was going to look like. No pattern in mind but lots of blue fabric. Then there was a lull in my enthusiasm to make the quilt because I couldn't decide on the pattern. Finally a simple log cabin type block seemed the simplest and quickest. Time was running out. The blocks were pieced and the quilt sandwich was ready but I couldn't decide on how I wanted to quilt it !! Again the lack of time took care of that decision and I quilted around the blocks. Soon the quilt was ready and I was happy, ready to pack and leave for New York in a week.<br />
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But when I showed it to my daughter and Miss T on Skype, Miss T wanted one too !!<br />
With hardly any time left I had to rustle up something that matched her room, and could be got ready in 2 days with fabric I had in the house. That's when Nicola Foreman's posts (nicola foreman quilts ) on FB came to my rescue ! I knew I could copy her design with the scraps I had at home and get Miss T's quilt ready in time....The 1/2" apart lines I quilted took forever but look so good.<br />
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So not only did Thabiby get his quilt but so did Miss T.</div>
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Veehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261198258543182448noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9095902731260879924.post-67602227529268286562013-05-06T07:57:00.001+05:302013-05-06T07:57:34.363+05:30Kaffe Fassett and a new groupie, maybe !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I was hell bent on going to see the Kaffe Fassett Exhibition at the Museum of Fashion and Textiles in London. But I was returning home after three months away and so really wanted to get back as fast as possible. Luckily I could book my flights so I got a long break in London.<br />
My flight into London from New York was delayed so by the time I showered, ate breakfast and was ready to go it was past 1 pm but had no idea how to get out. After spending close to an hour wandering around wondering if I really was the educated well travelled person I imagined myself to be, and after thinking I was trapped forever in the Departure Lounge I found my way to the Immigration queue. As always I seemed to be in the slowest line and when it was finally my turn at 2 30, I was dreaming and had to be pushed by those behind me.<br />
The Immigration officer wanted to know why I was going out for just 6 hours so I told him all about Kaffe and his work and how I had to see it. It worked. Stamp, stamp and I was out.<br />
Then to the Underground and to Green Park Station, walked what seemed like miles to change to the Jubilee Line and then to London Bridge Station.<br />
Another long walk, up 2 sets of excalators and out in the fresh air again...an hour later !<br />
Since there was no information desk in sight, I asked a woman ticket checker if she knew where the F and T museum was.....she yelled to a colleague, " Hey Jimmy, you knows whare the Fashion Mosayum ees ?" And he just grunted back with a nod "some where that side" ! She repeated "Som whare around, you'll find it!"<br />
So I started in what I thought was the direction grouchy Jimmy had nodded..asked some construction workers if they had any idea.Thankfully, they did !!<br />
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I had to go thru a tunnel to get onto Bermondsey St where the museum is located. But when I got there I saw shops, glass blowers, pretty buildings but no museum. Since I had come all the way I was going to walk another mile and if I still couldn't find it, turn back. Suddenly I saw a splash of colour....Found it !<br />
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The exhibition seemed a little small when I first went in, but when I thought about it and realized it was all one man's work it seemed much bigger.<br />
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Needless to say it was beautiful. A riot of colour used in the most amazing ways. There were muted combinations with sudden bursts of bright and some very, very bright work.<br />
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And this quirky chair on the wall was just perfect !!</div>
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I dreamt all the way back to the Airport of the beautiful quilts, tapestry, knitting and paintings I had seen and wondered if I was becoming a bit of a groupie in my old age ! My children thought I was nuts going off on my own, between flights, to see something that I could wait to see somewhere one day. My DH said it made better sense to stay put at the airport and get some rest, but he suspected that wasn't happening ! I'm just so happy I went and saw at close quarters how wonderful Kaffe's work is.</div>
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Friday the 28th of September 2012<br />
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At 1030 the first DQ arrived followed in quick succession by the other five. One by one WIPs, completed projects , UFO's got pulled out of bags and the buzz began.....<br />
Kausalya showed us her ever-so-neat hand quilted cushion covers, her first quilted project<br />
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Then after all the oohs and aahs Charu got her UFOs out....another round of ooh-ing and aah-ing, because she had made large log cabin blocks in single coloured solids so the seams were the focal point. Interesting, almost architectural pictures. Charu also showed us a UFO that her daughter had started with really beautiful fabric !! Pratibha asked them to put away their professional looking projects so she could take out what she called amateurish work. Amateurish it most certainly was not ! An almost complete, beautiful, complicated 9 square block bedspread in pastel aquas and yellows, prints and solids. And of course her patchwork totes....those were smart and complete. And another set of blocks she had 'stringed' to make a bedspread. Pratibha is self taught and doesn't have the tools or know quilting terminology yet, but she has produced such lovely work !<br />
Tanuja had brought her crochet evening bags, since she had no quilting projects with her....naturally all of us were totally 'diggin' those !<br />
Riddhi's whole cloth quilt project for the DQ September challenge arrived just then...Its so much prettier in real life ! And her shoe bags and make up pouches were a brilliant 'gift' idea especially now with the festive season beginning soon.<br />
Out of Kalindi's big bag of completed work came out magic ! Exquisite Japanese style purses, key holders, handbags and totes all painstakingly hand pieced and quilted...they have to be seen to be believed ! Oh yes, she did have one WIP, and that was <i>not</i> hand quilted but she was doing machine embroidery and FMQ. Its a wall hanging..a piece of art. We found out that she's an art student. Figures :)<br />
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By this time everyone was hungry and thirsty so we broke for tea....pretty mini cupcakes made by Riddhi, stuffed mushrooms made by Tanuja, kheer kadams that Kalindi had brought along and .....<br />
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Once we were done eating we went back to our chatting about quilting tips, ideas, tools and plans.<br />
Four hours later we stopped but only after deciding that this was going to be a regular 'once a month' meeting, that we'd plan the next one so we had some sort of structure and learned something new or polished what we already knew. Kausalya had showed us how to cut 'whirly gig blocks the easy way and Kalindi showed us how to tie a 'posh' knot when hand quilting :) Very essential.<br />
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What was really nice was that everyone got on famously and was very willing to share and that I think is what quilting is all about.<br />
All in all it was a fun morning and the DQs left happy and with a small needlebook to remind them of our first meet !<br />
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Any regrets ?? Just wish I'd taken more pictures !! Ah well there's always a 'next time' :)<br />
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Veehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261198258543182448noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9095902731260879924.post-78993140106752314422012-09-24T10:41:00.001+05:302012-09-24T10:41:34.174+05:30Why our prams were special !!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Prams fit for a Princess. Lovely to look at... Lovely to be seen with... The Prestige by Pedigree £15.12.6 - All the best babies have a Pedigree...</div>
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I can see now why my mother thought the pram was special :) I wonder how she managed to get one ? Post Independence I'm not sure it was easy.</div>
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But she'll be happy to know, wherever she watching from, that her great grand daughters are wheeled in a BugABoo which is for todays Princesses who don't need a pedigree !!</div>
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Veehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261198258543182448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9095902731260879924.post-50885771748618127452012-09-23T21:18:00.000+05:302012-09-23T21:18:04.932+05:30Serendipity and what I found the other day....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Serendipity. I've loved that word ever since I first learnt what it meant. If like me, you are untidy and forget where you've put things, you're a lucky person. Often you start out looking for some important paper that DH <i>has to </i>have right away......<br />
and you discover something totally delightful that gets you daydreaming.....<br />
Well this morning it was sheer coincidence that I found not one but two connected things that took me down memory lane.<br />
I found 2 small b & w photos of my sister and me in our prams <i>and</i> a pram cover in organdie, hand embroidered by our mother. Its single thread shadow work. For those who don't do embroidery I'll explain : only one strand of thread from the six that make up an embroidery skein, is used to work on a design from the back of the fabric so that you can 'see' the colour through on the front. And those that do embroider will appreciate the intricate work that went into it.<br />
The elves are just over an inch tall !!<br />
Of course I don't remember it being used as my pram cover but what I <i>do</i> remember is the cover being used at all our birthday parties, to cover the eats. And thats probably how its got a few stains :)<br />
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And the perambulators...ah those were something special as we were always reminded. Sadly my only memory of the one my sister had, was when my mother's young cousin, Ajit and I, aged four, took turns sitting in it and wheeling each other around the driveway till the springs broke ! All this while our mothers were busy playing bridge. Of course there was hell to pay later but being so little I was let off...can't say the same for Ajit ! Even today I recall the discussions on how it was impossible to fix the springs and how naughty and destructive we were and how my poor sister who was a BIG baby would now have to be carried in her ayah's arms. That would tire poor Seshamma who, to me, was already old and tired anyway !<br />
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Veehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261198258543182448noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9095902731260879924.post-17451287306479418392012-09-23T19:32:00.000+05:302012-09-23T19:32:11.143+05:30Orchids !!! And more orchids !!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My friend Tanu grows the most amazing orchids !!! The first time I went to her old house, it was like entering a magical garden....there were orchids everywhere. In the new house they have assigned spots :)<br />
Now I don't know too many people who grow orchids, just Tanu and Laxmi ( who's abandoned her poor babies while she's gone to see her grandsons ). Tanu's blooms look so healthy and perfectly formed one is tempted to reach out and touch them just to make sure they're real ! And they're not the usual purple or white ones either !! Not that the purple and white ones aren't nice...these are just way prettier.......<br />
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Strange but true...there's a definite connection there. I had to go to Bombay today to get 'finger printed' at the American Consulate so my new visa could be processed. I'm sure they know what they're doing.<br />
But it got me thinking about something that happened in June this year when I was at Heathrow on my way back home. I had a few hours in transit and so had decided to meet my cousins for lunch close by.<br />
Since I have a multiple entry long term visa that was no problem , or so I thought !<br />
I was thrilled to be the first in line at Immigration ( those who go through Immigration at Heathrow will understand what a big deal that is ! ) and the officers had just come in on duty so their nerves weren't frazzled yet....<br />
Well, when my finger prints were being checked, <i>they didn't match</i> !! The young man at the desk got more and more suspicious especially when I told him I was going out for just a few hours and had a flight home that evening. Of course he wouldn't tell me anything.<br />
He just began to behave like a pompous, powerful 'gatekeeper' to Her Majesty's Kingdom !! Really !<br />
Another senior officer came over and after asking me the same routine questions, stamped my passport and I was through. Phew !<br />
When I got home and was chatting about this with my friend Laxmi she told me something quite interesting. She couldn't open the front door to her house where she has a 'finger print recognition' electronic lock so she called the manufacturer to complain. The reason her finger prints were not readable was....because of <i>golf</i> the skin had become too smooth on her forefinger !!<br />
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Veehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261198258543182448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9095902731260879924.post-67085205380150539432012-09-10T21:40:00.001+05:302012-09-10T21:40:13.676+05:30The View today from the Belvedere<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Its been a year since we moved to this apartment. Many thought we were crazy. Moving out of a beautiful old stone house with an enormous garden, beautiful and rare trees, flowers, green grass and memories. But just look at the views we have from the roof here !! On a rainy day like today, this is what I saw....the hills in the distance, the bright orange-red of the coral trees and green tree tops. Parrots, yes I know I keep on about them, but they are so, so beautiful, in the Eucalyptus trees....new memories will be created. Flowers in pots on the terrace look as pretty as they did in the ground. I even found some cherry tomatoes that had managed to grow, sharing a pot with an Anthurium ! So a steady supply was available through summer...<br />
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My Adenium that actually has seed pods and looks like a pink bull with powerful horns.<br />
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Veehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261198258543182448noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9095902731260879924.post-27148031556406198222012-09-03T22:55:00.000+05:302012-09-04T04:42:41.849+05:30A new quilting pattern or is it a different style ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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At a 'farewell' coffee morning today for Laxmi ( who's off to see her children and grandsons ), amidst gorging on delicious chocolate truffle cake and flaky pastry savouries , <b>I learnt something new</b> ! Our hostess, Veena, showed us a fabric mat / trivet her friend had made.<br />
It was several layers of cotton sewed in a pattern of parallel diagonal lines. Then all the layers of fabric barring the bottom most were cut between the parallel lines and they sort of ruffled up and looked really pretty ......<br />
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Veehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261198258543182448noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9095902731260879924.post-85671852041763688892012-09-03T09:26:00.000+05:302012-09-03T10:23:02.022+05:30Parrots and fabric that match !! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I was in my terrace taking pictures of some gorgeous shaded silk I'd bought when I heard a real racket outside DH's study. Parrots, at least six or seven of them, were having a chat session in his window. For a change I didn't have to go running to get my camera and could take a picture....but of course they saw me and all but two flew away !! The shades of green and turquoise in my silk were exactly the same as the feathers of the parrots.....I hadn't, until then, noticed that parrots had blue feathers on their tails. You can see that bright blue if you're above the flying parrot. Maybe parrots inspired the dyer of my silk....<br />
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And, yes, it is just one piece of silk with all those colours.<br />
The mesh in the window spoils my pic but it also stopped all those parrots from flying into the Study ! </div>
Veehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08261198258543182448noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9095902731260879924.post-79230552449404799212012-09-02T12:46:00.002+05:302012-09-02T12:46:30.436+05:30On a Sunday morning....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I <i>had </i>to do it some day !! Its been buzzing around in my ' oh so congested ' head for months. At night when I'm in bed its bzzzz, in the day its bzzzz, on a rainy day its bzzzz, on a special day its bzzzz, on the day of the Blue Moon it went bzzzz.....</div>
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What did ? My decision to start my blog !!! I know its really simple for most but for a computer challenged person like me it was a daunting task. I often had these 'moments' when I'd draft a whole post in my head but by the time I opened the 'create your blog' page I'd chicken out.</div>
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Well today's the day and I now have my own blog where I can put stuff and make room in my head for other stuff.</div>
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I'll write about my current passion: quilting, my existing passion: golfing and of course life !! </div>
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