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[kiwimade64]

morning ladies   And we have another dry day in the Waikato.  Yesterday while talking to my sister on the phone, there was a tornado in the paddocks across the road.  It picked the dust up from the paddocks already prepared for planting and twirled it high up into the sky.  Was amazing to see and was over before we knew it.

Lilith, I remember when our son had a growth spurt.  It was so quick!  One day he was standing eye to eye with me and the next day he was taller!  He went through five shoe sizes in a year.

I found some fabric I think will be perfect for the falcon.  It's a mid brown and will be easier to work with than a darker colour.  I spread all the threads out onto it and placed the colour photo in the middle and the colours blended beautifully.  Then I tried a different technique to transfer the design by stitching the outline through the tracing paper and tearing away the paper... ummm no.  Should have stuck to tried and true.  Today's mission is to unpick the running threads and use my heat transfer pencil.  

But first I have a large succulent that needs digging out.  I grew it from a cutting and it did well for a couple of years.  I'll need to cut the phlox back around it first (probably why the succulent isn't doing too well).  The begonia leaf I had in water had grown enough roots to pot up so it's now sitting pride of place on the kitchen windowsill in it's new pot until it is big enough to take on the garden.  It didn't take long to grow roots in the vase either, only a couple of weeks.  I'm hoping I can trade it with a leaf from my sister-in-law's pretty double white begonia.

Coffee's finished, sun's up, I'm heading outside to get that succulent sorted.

Happy crafting