WOYWW 336, autumn leaves and olive trees (and not much else)

Hi folks,

Here I am again on Whats On Your Workdesk Wednesday, the blog hop where we all show our desk to inspire others with what we are creating. Julia at Stamping Ground hosts this peep fest.

I'm almost embarrassed to admit that there is again not much going on on my desk. But I will show you what there is...

The Flow magazine is still there (there is so much to read and see in it). Autumn has arrived here as well and I have collected a few leaves. Under the leaves is my tablet in its purple cover and under that is a large exercise book that i use as a diary. On top of my laptop is an orange headset that I have recently bought.

 At the sewing end of my desk are two pairs of trousers I have to shorten for my DH. They have been there a week (Bowing my head in shame...)
I have bought this cheap sewing machine as I want to start making things again. I bought this little book with patterns to make bags. 

Now all I have to do is find some material. That is not easy. They sell material in the market but it is for dresses or curtains, and sold by the meter. None of your pretty cotton pieces that I see some of you using. But I will keep looking. 

Yesterday we went out for a meal as we do every Tuesday. We saw this in the car park:

They are olive trees. Healthy olive trees never get cut down if they are no longer wanted. They are sold. Mature olive trees are worth a lot of money. I didn't find out where these were heading. I would have liked to know.

To finish, I found this on the internet. You might read the left side first and you might or might not agree with that. But then read it from left to right and it is not at all what you think:

Bye for now.
I will try and visit as many of you as I can.
Have a great week you'all,

Blessings,
Lisca

A Postcard a Day 21 August 2015 linked with Friday Smiles

Good Morning!

It's Friday and I'm joining Annie at This Week's Smiles. Hopefully I can make you smile! 

This first 'notice' I picked up this week is for all of you who can't resist a nice piece of material. Yes, I mean You!

(Libby Woodlands‎Quilting For You)

But I normally show you a postcard... Here is one from my collection of  postcards designed by Inge Look. Even the 'naughty old ladies' are enjoying their holiday. One of them has her bum in a tub of water! 

It was sent to me by Sakari in Finland. He lives in Turku, the oldest city in Finland. He told me he was a retired hospital chaplain. 

He did put a special I Love Postcrossing stamp on  it! How cool is that!

In case you don't know what postcrossing is.... here is the link www.postcrossing.com.

If the above images have not made you smile then the next one will and I'll end on that note.

Have a good weekend everyone and remember: "Every cloud has a silver lining".

God bless,

Lisca

WOYWW 299.... a patch of patchwork

Hello lovely blogreaders! Today we desk hop again! I’m looking forward to seeing all your projects, new stash and reading about what you’ve been up to.

My desk is in card making mode. I have promised to make 15 cards for my DIL which need to be ready next week. So you can see I am in full flow, as they say.

The scrapbook page of my dad’s photos (Last week) hasn’t seen much progress as my priorities have been elsewhere.

The printed paper just by the ‘Travel Lite’ lamp is a list of keyboard shortcuts for PSE 6&7 (!). I’m itching to learn to digiscrap but I only have an older version of PSE that I bought years ago and use (a bit) for photos. I’m not going to buy an updated version until I can manage this one reasonably.

Then on the left you see a piece of patchwork which I’m finishing.  Last Saturday I went on a day long workshop to learn to do patchwork. (see previous blog) 

I really enjoyed it. Here is a photo with the first thing we learnt to do. (A cushion cover) and in the afternoon we started to do the hexagons but I haven’t quite finished those.

Monday is the day we always go home for a day and a night (we are still ‘camping’ on the building site), so that not only means I can use my lovely bathroom (in stead of a utility shower) but we collect the mail of course. This time there were 7 postcards! Oh joy! Here is one of them from Germany. 

The writing reads: “ An eine altbekannte Tur klopfen,

Erinnerungen vom Staub befreien, Den Garten neu bepflanzen."

Translated that would be: To knock on a familiar door, to dust off memories and to re-plant the garden. (I’m doing this off the top of my head but Gabriele will correct me I’m sure, if it’s not right.)

That’s it for this week. If you have been wondering what all this desk hopping business is all about... have a look at Julia’s blog at http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com.es/

Have a great week y’all,

Lisca

Anyone for Patchwork?

Hello lovely blog readers,

Saturday I went to our nearby town to do a beginner’s course in Patchwork. I’ve always wanted to do this.

In the morning we made a cushion cover with strips of material. (Log Cabin I think she called it) We sewed (by hand) onto a backing that had a pattern on it. Every piece on the backing was numbered to make it easy, and it felt a bit like ‘painting by numbers’. It really was easy.

This little chicken sat on the work table. 

We were given the pattern so we can have a go at home with whatever scraps we have. She looks cute doesn’t she?

Here are a few action shots.

This is a shot of the shop. I was like a kid in a sweet shop! All those gorgeous fabrics! Lovely! 

In the afternoon we started on the hexagons. That's very pretty but very labour intensive. In fact I haven't finished this project yet. It will be a cushion cover matching the one we made in the morning.

I shall definitely come back to this shop to buy more of these gorgeous fabrics and perhaps make a tote or a zipper bag. There are so many tutorials on the internet. I'm going to have some fun!

Thanks for visiting my blog,

See you soon!

Lisca