tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289319698419116052023-11-17T03:46:03.517+10:00Cavaliers CornerCavaliers Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421874769893643160noreply@blogger.comBlogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328931969841911605.post-80369680350739246572013-05-17T09:08:00.004+10:002013-05-17T09:08:55.749+10:00Revisiting An Old Classic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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who just today posted the exact same design. I got a little thrill to see that somewhere else in the world somebody else loved this design as much as I do.</div>
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I stitched this design about 15 years ago when my husband and I moved into one of our first homes together. I found the pattern in a throw away bin at a local craft store for 50c. I've added the 'Fruits of the Spirit' from Galatians Chapter 5 around the outside edge of each of the nine squares of the design. It was just the perfect size for a cushion front. </div>
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That original cushion has long faded and gone and so last year I revamped the stitched piece and sewed it onto this cushion.</div>
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My first attempt at crocheting flowers</div>
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'Fingerless Gloves'<br />
Another of the cute projects Little Miss and I taught ourselves to make.<br />
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My favourite crochet stitch at the moment though is this simple 'V' stitch.</div>
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This month I also discovered 'Mr Tea'. Isn't he cute. Just add your favourite tea leaves and let him soak in your tea cup.</div>
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Cavaliers Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421874769893643160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328931969841911605.post-36057627818930252492013-05-03T09:04:00.001+10:002013-05-03T09:04:40.258+10:00Retro Clock<br />
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Look what we got recently. From the very talented couple at Iburnthings on Etsy and Facebook. He's made from an old LP vinyl record. You can chose from different genres of music. He's so cute and we love him. </div>
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We've recently discovered that Dachshund owners are as crazy on memorabilia as Cavalier owners. Or maybe just all doggy people are the same...we don't know. This little fellow is one of their best sellers.</div>
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I'm not earning anything from giving them a mention here by the way, just so you know. I just love their creativity and thought I'd share what I found.</div>
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It's Autumn here now and we're all debating over who actually owns this chair!!! Is it Jaspers?</div>
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As the weather cools it's time to start making some warm and cuddly items for the home. Crocheting scarves, cushions and a lovely blanket is almost finished. Just the tedious job of sewing all the pieces together. This little cushion didn't take long though. It was done in an evening.</div>
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Cavaliers Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421874769893643160noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328931969841911605.post-81294759924765567352013-03-02T15:46:00.001+10:002013-03-02T15:50:54.382+10:00PhotoFuniaWe've just discovered this fun new app to use with iPad called PhotoFunia. It's raining here AGAIN!!! and very heavily at that so our weekends have been housebound these past few weeks. It's nice to have some fun things to do.<br />
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Last Sunday Jasper stopped eating...</div>
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Jasper NEVER stops eating!!! He is my little chub-a-lub and eats anything and everything that he is offered and even things that aren't offered to him. He is always first to finish eating and then if we don't keep an eye on him he heads for Marley's bowl to polish it off - pushing Marley out of the way to get to his food. Cheeky puppy.</div>
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"Mum I don't feel too good!"</div>
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So on Sunday Dad came and said "Jasper's not eating his food." I came and sat with him and tried to hand feed him but he just kept spitting out the food. Little Miss managed to feed him a few handfuls but then he started coughing as though he was choking and ran and hid under our bed. As the day progressed he wouldn't come to me when I called him, stopped licking (which is very strange behviour for our little 'Mr Licky') and wouldn't wag his tail if we said his name. So unlike our little Jasper. He started looking a bit glassy eyed and shaky. If I tried to pick him up he would just try to get away and run and hide, always in some dark corner of the house, under a desk, a bed, behind the washing basket in the laundry.</div>
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By Monday morning he was still the same, no eating, not coming to me. I took him to the vet and they took his temperature. It was over 41.8C which is very high for a dog. Normally their temperature should be around 37 just a bit higher than humans.</div>
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The vet kept him in for observation for most of the day, he stopped drinking too so was getting dehydrated. The vet kept me updated every hour or so to check on his progress. At first I thought because of the choking cough that he might have swallowed something and it was stuck in his throat, but the vet said that was unlikely as he still had eaten something. She took a blood test and administered some anti-biotics for supposed throat infection.</div>
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Meanwhile back at home...... Marley didn't leave the front door all day. He just sat like this all the day looking out for Jasper, didn't lay down, didn't go outside, just sat and sat and sat.</div>
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...and Cheeky Marley is apologising for escaping out the side gate the other night and scaring us all half silly. Dad had forgotten to shut the gate while mowing the front lawn and when Marley went outside he decided to go on a little adventure of his own. Fortunately it was later at night and there was no traffic, we live on what is a very busy street at certain times of the day with school traffic going back and forth. At night it's only the bus that passes and some local residents.</div>
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We were all sitting in the living room watching TV when one of the kids asked: "Where's Marley?" At the same time I heard something bang on the front screen door but when I got up to look there was nobody there. I sat back down and five minutes later there was an actual knock on the door and a young woman was there come over from the bus stop across the road. "Is this your little dog?" she asked. She had seen him running cross the road back and forward from our home and decided he must live here. Well, Marley didn't look too excited as you would on an adventure. He actually looked a slobbering mess dribbling profusely and panting heavily. He was stressed! I think he must have come and knocked on the front door and that was what I had heard but by the time I got there he was off again.</div>
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It's Back to School time here</div>
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Jasper thought if he wore my reading glasses he'd look smart enough to go too...</div>
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Sorry boys you have to stay home with Mum </div>
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Marley sits loyally watching for the kids at home time</div>
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...while Jasper has a snooze in the sun.</div>
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<br />Cavaliers Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421874769893643160noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328931969841911605.post-30923831081900240282013-01-27T19:48:00.001+10:002013-02-14T23:00:30.085+10:00Crazy WeatherWe are staying dry and inside today. The whole of Queensland is being hit by crazy weather this weekend. Cyclonic, Tornado's, sideways wind and rain. Hope all our Poochy friends are safe and warm inside too. <br />
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Summer, cross stitch and Sewing.</div>
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I wanted to share my latest finish which Im very proud of. Two years ago I finished this cross stitch ready to send to an overseas pan pal I've been writing to since I was 10 years old. But it's taken me two years to feel confident enough to sew it into a wall hanging that would look professional. While cross stitch has always been my thing, sewing hmmm not so much. But.... I've been getting lots of practise and I'm really happy with the final result. It's on its way and I hope my friend will like it.</div>
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We've had a very long hot Summer and it's almost time for school to resume for a new year</div>
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Lots of beach days and fun in the sun.... here are just a few of the beaches we visited this Summer.</div>
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Marley and Jasper have had their fur groomed and shaved and have spent a lot of days inside in the air conditioning, spoilt pooches!</div>
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Pinterest has kidnapped me with it addictive photographic charm these past few months. I've found it so much fun to collect photos of things I love and to find some of you on there too with photos of Cavaliers.</div>
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Cheers for now!</div>
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I decided yesterday that I wasn't totally happy with how this wool box looked. The top was too flat and the sides were too plain so.....</div>
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I dropped into Spotlight and bought some wadding and added some padding to the top of the box and some fabric trim to the sides. This photo was taken in daylight so it is more true to colour.</div>
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Over winter it progressed slowly and left me no time for blogging</div>
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Piecing it together was very tedious</div>
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But finally last week it was all done</div>
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....and it fits just perfectly with Little Miss' ocean theme room.</div>
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I searched high and low for ocean theme bed linen with no success until finally when I got my sewing machine earlier this year I decided to make my own.</div>
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I've decided sewing things that are basically square or rectangular is not that hard after all.</div>
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I even made cushion covers and table runners to match.</div>
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My son wasn't so keen on all those bright colours so I made this set for his room.</div>
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It's so difficult to find extra wide sheeting fabric where we live so I adapted the design by adding panels.</div>
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...and then made this final cushion cover last week.</div>
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This old box once started out as a munitions box my father used while working for the water board in Melbourne. He carried two of these in his work vehicle with explosives inside which he used to blast up rocks where pipes needed to be laid.</div>
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After retiring I inherited the boxes from Dad and repurposed them into toy boxes for my then baby boy.</div>
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...and now after a good long spell as a toy box I've reinvented one of them into a box to store my wool stash!</div>
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I painted it beige and cut up a cushion cover that matches my chair to glue on top and inside the lid.</div>
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It also doubles as a great side table for my cup of tea.</div>
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Sometimes I think one little member of our family forgets Marley and Jasper are boys</div>
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...so when you're bored on a Sunday night this is what you do to your dogs...</div>
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Jasper is NOT impressed!</div>
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But when all the family are in bed for the night then it's time to snuggle up to each other</div>
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We are almost at the end of our two week June school holiday break. Last week was just a complete wash out and cold!!! But this week has been so sunny and lovely that we've been out and about enjoying ourselves.</div>
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Today we went strawberry picking at the strawberry farms. These 'A' grade strawberries are so delicious and sweet. We filled a container with the most yummy big berries.</div>
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One of the men that works there told us that they lost a big crop last week because of all the heavy rain. The strawberries just rot and they have to throw them away, but these fields survived despite being knee deep in mud last week.</div>
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Our container cost us $16kg and we also got some dipping chocolate.... mmmmm!!!!</div>
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The strawberry farm is surrounded by lovely picnic areas with tables, a playground, benches and chairs as well as a cafe for coffee and lunch and a BBQ area as well. There were lots of people there today.</div>
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A lovely creek runs through the strawberry farm so the picking was even more enjoyable being able to enjoy the stroll out to the fields.</div>
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We treated ourselves to a lovely strawberry and ice-cream parfait afterwards.</div>
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We also spent part of the morning gem fossicking at a nearby opal shop. I don't know why I've never taken the children there before. All these years we've lived close by and the kids have asked me "when can we go there?" We were able to buy a plastic container for between $5-$12 depending on the size you want and then go outside and dig in among the rocks and stones for gem stones. It was a lot of fun finding all the different varieties and colours. You can also buy stones that are already washed and polished inside the store but this was much more fun!</div>
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I only wanted the pink ones so once the children had finished their collecting they helped me to find pink ones to fill a small container. They threw in a few lilac ones too. Aren't they pretty?</div>
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We've also been back to the beach. The problem with living near the coast is that you would think we would get down to the beach every day right? </div>
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After a week of heavy rain the water is all murky and so it takes a few days for the surf to settle and for it to be enjoyable to play in again.</div>
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Jasper just couldn't wait to run into the water like the spaniels they are. Marley was off lead most of the time, but naughty "seagull chasing" Jasper had to stay on his lead. Last time we let him off lead he almost ended up washed out over the rocks and swept out to ocean.<br />
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We did let Jasper off the lead for a few minutes while we walked back to the park through the trees and were safely away from the rocks only to find that him madly rushing off chasing a bush turkey into the scrub.</div>
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No amount of calling him back would help. In the end one of the children had to run into the bushes after him.</div>
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I've also had a break from cross-stitch these past two weeks so that I could spend some time teaching 'Little Miss' to knit. I've been busy knitting scarves for all the family. This blue one for 'Little Miss'. A blue and black stripey "Where's Wally" scarf for her brother and two for myself one red one and one cream. </div>
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My biggest surprise these holidays was my lovely new stitching chair that my DH got for me. It arrived last week and is sooooo comfy. I love it. I absolutely love the French Script fabric that it's upholstered in. I've been dreaming of a cream lounge suite for many years now but have held off because of kids and dogs. But maybe just one chair will be okay. Do you think?</div>
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No kids or dogs allowed.</div>
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Shhhh....I'm just checking where Mum is. Good okay... she's busy cooking.....</div>
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No Jasper. Please don't tell Mum okay.</div>
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Sorry Mum.</div>
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All this fun has made us very tired.</div>
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How was your Sunday Afternoon?</div>Cavaliers Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421874769893643160noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328931969841911605.post-10436463776328754632012-06-18T10:48:00.003+10:002012-06-18T10:52:57.255+10:00Teacup Pincushion 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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which I stitched a few weeks ago. Since then I've already had quite a bit of interest from friends wanting me to stitch one for them. Last week I visited a friend who has just undergone major surgery and I noticed she had lots of lovely teacups in her display cabinet. This one used to belong to her mother. It's the Royal Albert "Moss Rose" design.</div>
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Maria Diaz original design worked just perfectly with this teacup and I was able to use all the recommended DMC colours for it.</div>
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I'm really enjoying stitching these little teacups. They are so quick and easy to make and the finished product looks just gorgeous. This one took me just three hours to stitch last night.</div>
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This unnamed cross-stitch was one I stitched many many years ago. It's a vintage pattern that I remember finding amongst my mothers sewing things when I was a young girl. I still have the pattern on a very old black and white photocopied piece of paper and all it says is that it was a Handmade Tapestry to stitch. I though turned it into a cross-stitch and chose my own colours. It was stitched on 18ct black Aida and used a variety of DMC and Anchor threads that I had available at the time.</div>
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It reminded me today of one of Nurdans' from <a href="http://nurdankanberworkshop.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/horse-is-ready-to-tie-with-sled-at.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+NurdanKanberWorkshop+(Nurdan+Kanber'+Workshop)">Nurdan Kanbers' Workshop</a> lovely original pieces. She always designs her own cross-stitch work and I eagerly look forward to reading her blog and seeing what she has been stitching. She never disappoints with her very original designs. </div>Cavaliers Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421874769893643160noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328931969841911605.post-31446802919265126212012-06-14T14:04:00.004+10:002012-06-14T14:04:20.006+10:00Look at me! Look at me!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's Winter here and it's turning cold. But who needs slippers when you have two furry friends to keep your feet warm.</div>Cavaliers Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421874769893643160noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328931969841911605.post-26647939110690437162012-06-10T23:21:00.002+10:002012-06-10T23:26:10.141+10:00My Teacup<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This was my favourite little teacup that I've had almost as long as we've been married. I accidently dropped it from the drain tray on the kitchen sink a few weeks back and it developed a very fine hairline crack inside - not terribly noticeable but enough that I don't feel safe drinking from it anymore in case it splits while I'm having my hot cup of tea. I was so reluctant to throw it away that it just sat on the kitchen bench for three weeks until I stumbled on a lovely idea to repurpose it.</div>
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A new era in cross-stitching for me was when yesterday I downloaded a few different cross-stitch magazines onto my iPad including</div>
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As I leafed through all the lovely designs to stitch and contemplating the easability of stitching from a pattern directly from the iPad I was so delighted to find this design on page 9</div>
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The original design is stitched using pinks and blues but I adapted it to suit my own teacup using yellows instead of the blues for the smaller flowers.</div>
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Here is Maria Diaz' original design that I worked from.</div>
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A very dear friend of mine owns this gorgeous Royal Doulton 'Lady Sara' figurine. She also has a beautiful painting of her. I would love to do Sara in cross stitch for my friend. I recently saw some Royal Doulton cross-stitch designs on Ebay and found Sara but missed out on her. So I know she is out there..... somewhere.....</div>
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Here is cross-stitch Sara in Red. I found her on Google images but the link was from 2009 and I can't find anyone who still stocks this pattern. If anyone knows where I could source the pattern and then I could adapt her to the blue/pink colouring I would be really appreciate it.</div>
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This lovely lady is Royal Doulton "Take Me Home." This elusive little lady is one I am searching for. I've seen her on Ebay a few times now but have always missed out on winning her.</div>
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Any guesses why I would love this one????</div>Cavaliers Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421874769893643160noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328931969841911605.post-82229246952396389762012-06-06T09:12:00.001+10:002012-06-06T09:12:59.664+10:00Sam and Peeps<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Finished Sam last night. This one is for our 'Little Miss'. She wants me to make it into a small cushion for her bedroom.</div>
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I reframed 'Home of a Needleworker'</div>
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I picked up this timber shelf from Bunnings Warehouse and my DH painted it for me to store my button collection jars. At the moment it's sitting on the sewing table but not sure yet if I might want to mount it on the wall so that my work surface isn't cluttered up.</div>
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.... or maybe it would look better here next to my WIP box where I sit and do my stitching.</div>
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Lastly for today sharing my Little Miss's latest finish. She is getting faster. Last night she started on her first bigger piece. Ssshhhh I think it's something for me, but don't tell her I told you I know.</div>Cavaliers Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421874769893643160noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328931969841911605.post-69722732099274934262012-06-03T19:48:00.002+10:002012-06-03T19:49:30.184+10:00Latest Creations<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week I finished my first Little House Needleworks sampler</div>
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"Home of a Needleworker Too"</div>
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I really loved working this piece for several reasons. Firstly, it was quick!!! I finished it over two weekends which is a record for me. I love the colours and found this gorgeous frame which was just the right size. I'm going to hang it over my sewing table.</div>
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By the way - don't look too closely at my framing attempt. After taking the photo I realize how awful it looks. It's coming out tomorrow morning to reframe it. I was just too eager and excited to share it with you. I shouldn't do that. A badly framed piece really detracts from all our hard work stitiching it in the first place. I hope you'll forgive me this time. Promise I will fix it and repost a better photo in daylight. In fact I loved stitching this piece so much that I'm going to make another one in a different colour for the house for one of my crafting friends, maybe change the wording to Home of a Crafty Chick and perhaps change the little black bird to an Australian Crimson Rosella instead. What do you think?</div>
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So where do you store your WIPs so they are easily accessible to your stitching area? I've tried various different locations and storage containers or sewing bags or baskets over the years. This year I decided to store them in the loungeroom in this lovely cardboard box from the bargain store.</div>
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It's big enough to hold all my WIPs, threads, scissors, needles, fabric etc... but tends to get a bit heavy when I'm sitting to just reach in and take out what I need. These are my current WIPs - another LHN design I want to stitch soon - "The Family Sampler"; my "Weekend A Paris" by Gold Collection (which I must admit I am a bit bored with lately. I finished the lovely elegant lady and now all that beige stitching is sort of all over the place and it kind of annoys me when it does that. Having to jump from 3 stitches here of one colour and then 4 of another colour, then back to the first colour etc... Does anyone else suffer from stitching detail boredom at times? I guess that's what I loved about the LHN piece. It's so lovely to work on and easy to follow and count your stitches that it flows so easily and you don't have time to get bored with it.</div>
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I also received my "Sam and Peeps" kit in the mail last week. I actually ordered two of them. This one is for my favourite young mans room. Of course when Little Miss saw it she straight away said "Please can you make me one too" - knowing your kids and thinking ahead pays off. I ordered her the other Sam and Peeps design and you'll catch a glimpse of that one further down.</div>
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On Friday while out grocery shopping I found this lovely book box for under $10 at the bargain store. It's A4 in size and very light weight. So I decided my immediate WIP will be stored in this one. I can place it on the arm of my stitching chair.</div>
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I just loved the colours on it and it looks lovely as a decorative piece on the coffee table or bookshelf when you're not stitching. But, what I really love about it is that it has some sort of hidden magnet just under the lid so it snaps shut and nothing can fall out.</div>
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This is what I am immediately working on this weekend.</div>
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Lastly I'm sharing my Little Miss's first bookmark finish. I'm very proud of how quickly she has picked up counted cross stitch. I'm also so excited that she enjoys my favourite hobby almost as much as I do.</div>Cavaliers Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421874769893643160noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328931969841911605.post-81961615445812204852012-05-29T12:53:00.001+10:002012-05-29T12:53:42.949+10:00Oops sorry!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Okay you two. Who did it? Marley was it you?</div>
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Jasper! Did you do it?</div>
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Nope not me. Look nothing on here.....Aaaaaahhhh!</div>
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Marley..... you're looking guilty... who did it? Come on own up.</div>
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........the dogs ate my homework."</div>Cavaliers Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421874769893643160noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328931969841911605.post-1346710524014280442012-05-21T14:49:00.000+10:002012-05-21T15:12:28.288+10:00Marley, Paris and Sewing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Milly from Milly's Stitches kindly shared the link to this lovely design she just completed the other day on her blog. Thanks Milly! I've ordered it for myself.</div>
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You can read Milly's post on this little fellow over here:</div>
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Here is the link if any of my Cavalier friends would like to give it a try.</div>
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It reminded me so much of Marley when he first came to live with us at 8 weeks old.</div>
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He was soooo cute!</div>
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See - he even sits like Sam from "Sam and Peeps".</div>
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As I have one little person here who is mad on mice I just had to order this design too.</div>
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Jasper caught in the act!</div>
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I've been wondering why the back of our lounge was always looking squished down when we got home from going out. I often leave the dogs in the outdoor room now if it looks like it's going to rain. Yesterday we caught Jasper sitting up here sunning himself.</div>
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Looking very comfy there Jasper.</div>
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Before I got the link for 'Sam' from Milly, I scoured Ebay looking for a Cavalier design cross-stitch and found this one over at Fido Stitch Studio from the UK on Ebay. It was very reasonably priced and it just arrived today. This one will be for me. More of a grown up Marley. Only a small design it might look nice above my desk.</div>
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I've been busy setting up my sewing corner lately too and finding new places to store my stitching stash. It used to be in odd bod boxes and folders all over the house. Now that I set up a sewing corner I decided to bring it all together in one place.</div>
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These are the little drawer openings under the desk. I found these gorgeous little white boxes at Officeworks. Unfortunately the lids won't fit on them in here, but I found a use for the lids inside the sewing table drawers for loose little items like pins, needles etc...</div>
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A box for Ric Rac....</div>
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....scrapbooking items for the kids, fabric for sewing, and a lovely big box for the cross-stitch kits and hoops I scored just last week on Ebay</div>
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I saw this bulk lot of cross-stitch items being sold by a lovely New Zealand lady named Judith who has just moved out here. She said she used to own a craft shop in NZ but has now retired and got rid of ALL of her cross-stitch stash and won't be doing cross stitch anymore. I can't imagine ever giving up cross-stitch. She said she had nobody to pass it on to over here and sold it to me for next to nothing. I couldn't believe all the items she gave me in this huge big bag for such a minimal cost. I am so grateful. I also couldn't believe I was the only one bidding on this bulk lot of stuff. She wasn't asking that much and once I had it all sorted out there were over 12 cross-stitch kits, around 20 or so frames and hoops of all different sizes, and over 200 pattern leaflets and magazines as well as the first 8 issues of Sampler and Antique Needlework printed in the early 1990s. They have the most lovely sampler designs in them.</div>
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It's really too much for me to use so I will be listing some of them on Ebay or sending some on to other cross-stitching friends. There are only so many designs one person can do in a lifetime. I think I have more than enough.</div>
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I got these boxes at 10 for $20 from Officeworks. They are really strong and sturdy cardboard with reinforced metal edges. They keep my sewing things like velcro and bias binding, my crochet handkerchiefs which I will share with you another time. It's a craft I learnt to do in Austria when I was only 12. the bottom box is for spare odd bits of floss. There are still a few more bigger boxes of kits, fabrics, linens and floss I need to organize.</div>
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It's stitched on cream 14ct Aida with 2 threads.</div>
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I will share the final result with you when it's done. I'm not as fast as some of you, having two small children I don't get as much time to stitch as I would like.</div>Cavaliers Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421874769893643160noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328931969841911605.post-18258058368603071912012-05-18T15:24:00.000+10:002012-05-18T15:24:12.637+10:00Swap Cards in the 1970s<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Back in the 1970s when I was a little girl just starting school collecting swap cards was "the craze" in Melbourne where I grew up. It was one among other crazes like playing jacks or jumping elastics for girls or playing marbles or Matchbox cars for boys.</div>
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Once a week my sister and I would get 20cents to go down to the local Newsagents where we could buy 5 swap cards for our 20c.</div>
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Collecting sets or pairs was the aim.</div>
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Most of the Swap Cards were blank backs, but some were actually proper playing cards.</div>
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Being the collecting little hoarder I was growing up I very neatly kept all my swap cards in 3 card boxes.</div>
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I recently found a swap card album on Ebay and transferred all my swap cards into it so that my daughter can now enjoy them the way I did.</div>
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Whilst looking for the album I discovered that swap cards are still out there. Not so much a childrens hobby anymore but being collected by others like myself who have hung on to them over the years.</div>
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I was also surprised to discover that some of these 5 for 20c cards are now worth $7 - $10 each. Though I don't know who would pay that much for them I was still pleasantly surprised to think that my childhood collection has grown in value.</div>
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Collecting dogs, especially puppies was my main passion and these are just a few of the different ones I still have.</div>
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When I was five we had a Border Collie just like the black and white one above. His name was Troy. So this card was one of my very very favourites.</div>
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These little kitten one were the very first cards I got when I was just 5 years old.</div>
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As well as dogs and cats and other animals (I have a substantial horse range too, too many to show on here) I also loved collecting the little girl range.</div>
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Don't you just love the girl in the pink dress on the swing. I used to imagine that was me in that lovely flowing skirt and the big hat.</div>
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This was another very popular range. I remember some of the girls at school having so many of these but I only got these five.</div>
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The Japanese Manga girls. Loved their sparkly eyes.</div>
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Cute little Teddy Bears</div>
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...and I still just ADORE these two little elephants</div>
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Well! We think Marley and Jasper would make a cute Swap Card for the 2000s.</div>
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Did you collect anything when you were a child? I'd love to know.</div>
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Have you ever had one of those moments on your blog when you are totally somewhere else on the web and you see one of your photos tagged linking back to your blog?</div>
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After two years of blogging I had my first accidental discovery of that today.
I was reading "World of Cross Stitching" and discovered they'd featured one of my cross-stitch smalls on their Pinterest Board under "Amazing non WOXS stitchings". It was very exciting to think someone liked my work, as small as it is. As insignificant as it may seem to others our own work has so much meaning to us and there is love in every stitch that we cross-stitchers make and a story behind the reasons we choose to stitch what we do. This pincushion <a href="http://lovemycavaliers-cavalierscorner.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/little-finishes.html">(from my post on Little Finishes)</a> has been in our family for many years now. It belonged to my father who was a tailor in his younger years back in Austria. Even though he didn't continue in this trade once he came to Australia he has been sewing all his life until recently. All my life I grew up wearing clothes he made. He made suits for himself and my brothers and even made my sons first suit when he was only 6 months old.</div>
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Until just six months ago Dad refitted all my skirts because I lost so much weight on my quest to become fit and healthier. So this little pincushion as small as it is, has played a big part in my life and that of my family and so.....</div>
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Design: Assisi Pincushion</div>
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...to this! So that now my children can pass it on and the story that goes with it.</div>Cavaliers Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421874769893643160noreply@blogger.com2