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Locked and loaded.  (LAL)

4/20/2014

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My kids, being raise the old fashion way....

Don't mess with them.  lal

This was taken in North Dakota- one of the last times were were all together in the States.

The photo was a gift for their dad for Father's Day. 

 
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The Hair

4/18/2014

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Tonight my older daughter decided to blow dry her hair.  

The similarity to this picture is terrifying.  

My husband thinks it's a good look...I think it's time to hide her from the world.
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Skype

4/6/2014

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If you have never used Skype you have missed some wonderful life experiences!

Being multi-cultured means part of the people that I love live far far away.  

When we first moved to NZ (1990) this meant phone calls lasting about three minutes and costing around 3$ - PER MINUTE.  Ugh.  

Now, thanks to this free program enabling us to talk computer to computer, we can not only talk to our beloved family members - we can see them too!  

Sometimes, someone moves and the camera ends up in the wrong spot - then the screen looks something like this->  ->




         (Luke's distorted chin)

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But really- looking up my son's nose is a small price to pay for the pleasure of seeing him face to face on the other side of the world.  (Besides... both my boys are taller, this is my usual vantage point)
find skype here
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Burnt biscuits...

4/4/2014

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About those biscuits...

Well, the nutritionist has given me an eating regiment that is supposed to help me reduce my quilter's spread.  So far so good.

In my determination to stick to the rules, I mixed up some bickies and just cooked one.

Okay..two. 

Now these aren't BAD bickies, they are GOOD ones with all the right stuff in like coconut oil and LSA and stevia.  Really, just a FEW empty calories. 
 
Got busy with, um, you know, quilt stuff and left them in a bit long. 
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The only edible bit was in the very centre.  

Yes, I cut the middle out and laughed at myself, because the amount of bickie that was edible was probably all I should have eaten anyway.  

*sigh*
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April 02nd, 2014

4/2/2014

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VANUATU 2009

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  • Fun./fʌn/ - amusing, entertaining, or enjoyable.
  • This is a random collection of photos, stories and non-quilt related parts of my life.   Just for fun.

  • The photo up top is to weed out the squeamish.

  • In 2009 ten young people from our church went to the islands of Vanuatu to meet up with a missionary camp where my oldest son had served for four months.  We hiked into difficult areas (as in access) wading 22 times through the river each direction.   

    Hiking for five-hours-away from where the vehicles could reach.  We went to these places to work with the people, holding services, using puppets for the kids and providing aid of any sort.  My job was to teach the ladies to use hand crank sewing machines we had provided for them.  

    On the way to the Big Bay area I was told to teach these women to make pot holders, but they wanted to learn to make mens button front island shirts with collars etc.  Somehow paper for patterns miraculously just appeared and it all went together fine. Except that the kids ate the styrofoam that the machines had been packed in...
     
    After that time in the deep jungle we went to a relatively docile area to help machete a piece of land and clear it for building.  While there we found this little guy.  It is hard to see how big he is because his legs are bent, but he was darling. Most of the spiders hanging over our sleeping mats at night were much larger and hairy.   People over there eat these.  I did not. 
     
    As a fibre artist  I must admit some fascination at the lovely strong thread he was leaving as he crawled from place to place.  I gave a tight smile for the photo - then rapidly handed him off before he decided he had been handled enough and bit someone! 

  • For anyone out there running quilt shows - I do have a one hour power point presentation/lecture of this trip available.
more photos of this trip
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    This is the non-quilt side of my life. Written to amuse me and bore you.

    Just for fun.    


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