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[kiwimade64]

morning ladies   Another very stormy night last night and it looks like it's carrying over to this morning as well.  Lilith, we saw the flooding in Christchurch on the news last night.  The reporter said over 13 days you have had only two hours of sunshine!  Your grandkids are great with checking up on you.

Copying designs still goes on, it's probably even worse with the internet.  I try and credit designs if I know the designer and will say if the picture I use isn't an original.  Even ideas at farmers markets and the like are 'borrowed'.  The only way to stop it is to enforce copyright if you have it and that costs a fortune.  I must confess I have used techniques I have seen online but have tried to use it 'my way'.

Thank you for your kind words for the butterfly.  I haven't had a chance to do the back stitching yet or put the beads onto the wing.  I'm hoping to do that this afternoon when I return from Hamilton.

Friends of ours have a crib/batch on the Coromandel Peninsula with a huge poinsettia shrub the monarchs love.  I couldn't believe they have been put on the endangered list.  It just shows how fragile we all are.

On a more cheerful note, my tete a tete daffs are flowering and so are my hyacinths!  Spring must be almost here.  I couldn't believe it when I walked passed the daffs   I have them in a pot so when they have finished flowering I can move the pot to the back of the garden. 

And the Furry One caught and ate the rabbit that munched the parsley to a knub.  That parsley flavoured rabbit must have tasted good as the only thing left over was the tail.  His tummy was as tight as a drum and he whinged and whined about his tummy ache.  So lots of chasing games until he felt better and no dinner or breakfast for a couple of days.  One down, two to go for now.

Better get cracking, I have to leave for Hamilton again shortly.  At least the wind has dropped.

Happy crafting