A new passion?

Yesterday I went to a craft shop where I bought some Madeira variegated quilting threads and some skeins DMC embroidery thread. I can't take a photo of the skeins I bought, as it's going to be a surprise for my "card-exchange" partner. Yes, I have signed up for a "card-exchange", which one of the craft groups - where I'm a member - arranges. I have never made a card in my life, except those Mother's and Father's Day cards when I went to school - ages ago! :) No doubt it'll be a challenge for me!

Well, I was not going to write about the "card-exchange". After the craft shop I headed to a bookshop, where I got a few needed things for card-making as well as I had a look at the magazine section. Except for the latest edition of Australian Women's Weekly I ended up with two cross-stitch magazines! As I have mentioned earlier in my blog, I used to do cross-stitching many years ago and now I consider taking it up again. Some of the craft group members are making such beautiful cross-stitching works, which has inspired me to take up cross-stitching again. A new passion?

My helpers in the garden...

 

I'm never alone in the garden. These two, our dogs; Chico and Sasha are always there. Most of the time they play hide and seek (it seems) with the two neighbor dogs, but when they are tired it feels so good being near "mama" for a hug & pet! :-) It doesn't matter they sit down in the newly planted flower bed, or even dig for something - does it?! I love them to pieces, and the love is easily returned - with a wet nose as a kiss! :-)

Flowers in our garden...

Pink/orange bougainvillea

Jatropha Integrimma - "Miss Hong Kong"

Allamanda cathartica

The last couple of days I've been working in the garden; weeding, which was long overdue. The hot and humid climate at this time of the year makes everything grow with record speed, and weeds are no exception. I don't mind weeding, as long as it doesn't turn out being a full time job! I love our garden, and I think it is kind of recreation and I'm often lost in my own world being there. It's amazing to see how fast it grows here, compared to Norway where everything is so concentrated for a few months only. I didn't believe hubby when he told me; "put a branch in the soil and it'll grow" - but it is true! We have done that with quite some branches, and most of them are small trees now.

I love all kind of plants, and I also have a "selection" of potted plants on the porch.