tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19259063286616899402024-02-21T17:41:47.956+11:00Olde Time GalKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15325652992072849818noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925906328661689940.post-39158361423161492372015-05-20T14:46:00.002+10:002015-05-20T14:46:46.162+10:00I'm Back - Where has the time gone!<div style="text-align: center;">
Wow that year has flown. I hope everyone is well and are still following me and haven't given up on me!</div>
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Where to start - I moved into my new house in the Blue Mountains of NSW in July 2014. I had my Dad living with me for 6 months, he is now settled into his Retirement Village which a 10 minute drive from me and one of my sisters.</div>
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I still have some boxes to unpack (very unlike me) but working full time and with the extra travel time to work I have been feeling it. I also started doing a Market Stall selling country and vintage homewares/gifts and Christmas decorations/ornaments from the USA and this has been keeping me busy too.</div>
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I have also been trying to organise/sort out the gardens. They were very full of plants and they were taking over so I have had a lot of them taken out and I am in the process of planting my cottage garden again. I will start posting some photos of my progress so far once I have sorted them out.<br />
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This time last year I went on a road trip to my Mum's hometown of Narrabri in NorthWest NSW. We still have cousins up there so we try to visit as often as we can. Its great catching up and thinking about the old times when we used to visit for our school holidays.<br />
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We went to a town called Eula Creek a few km's out of town. My Pop helped build this old bridge when he worked for the Local Council.<br />
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Then on to the cemetary where we found out that my Nan and Pop had 2 babies that had died not long after birth and they where buried at the Eula Creek Cemetary.<br />
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We had just missed out on seeing the cotton plants before they had been picked. They were picked a couple of weeks before we got there. I remember as a kid we always went out and got our photos taken in amongst all the cotton plants. My cousin works where they bundle the cotton once it has been picked and processed, so he took us to his work. Wow what a big shed and full of a lot of bundles of cotton.<br />
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In July last year my Dad sold and moved out of our family. It was very emotional for all of us. Dad and Mum had lived there for 48 years together and Dad moved out after 54 years.<br />
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I hope to be back soon and not leave it so long in between posts.<br />
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15325652992072849818noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925906328661689940.post-41818838865334513802014-04-29T09:44:00.000+10:002014-04-29T15:53:02.046+10:00Plodding Along...Slowly...<br />
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This weekend we are on a road trip to my Mum's hometown of Narrabri in country NSW. We have to pick up some antiques and old furniture that was left to us by our late Uncle. My Mum doesn't have any of her brothers or sisters alive in her hometown now, but we still keep in contact with our cousins and our Mum's heritage. We will be visiting our great grandparents graves and visiting other local places that have our family history. I will be back soon, hopefully, with photos of our childhood memories of our holidays in the country.<br />
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Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15325652992072849818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925906328661689940.post-82663213842242551552014-03-17T09:53:00.000+11:002014-03-17T09:53:06.540+11:00Where has the Time Gone...<div align="center">
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Well this year has been busy so far, I have been very slack with my blogging but I hope that will change in the next few months. I have still been checking on my fav blogs but I haven't had the time to post one.</div>
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Last month I was considering a job and a move down the south coast but I decided against it at the last minute as I didn't think it was the right decision at the moment, even though it would have been great! Also, we are looking into the move for my Dad into a Retirement Village, so there is the clean up of his house which we have been slowly progressing through.</div>
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Then a couple of weeks ago I found a house in the Blue Mountains. I went to have a look and put an offer in and they accepted it. As soon as I walked in the house I fell in love with it and it felt like home. Nothing major needs to be done to it, accept for the overgrown gardens, but that is right up my alley...I am certainly going cottage garden again!!<br />
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With a few minor cosmetic changes inside, it will be perfect. There is only a small patch of lawn, enough for Bailey, but the rest of it outweighs that. There are plenty of garden beds for me to still have my vegie patch too. Bailey is going to love all the gardens to explore!</div>
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This is my new house, it is brick as I didn't want weatherboard cottage again, but it is still country looking, and I am sure with all my treasures, inside and out, it will be very country by the time I have finished decorating. </div>
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Settlement is not until July as the owners are purchasing a house off someone who is also purchasing a house, but that suits me as I can save more.</div>
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Can't wait to move in and have all my treasures around me again....I miss them so!!</div>
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I look forward to getting stuck into the garden and sharing my new journey with you all.</div>
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Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15325652992072849818noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925906328661689940.post-12309518819471700192013-12-23T10:40:00.000+11:002013-12-23T10:40:20.924+11:00HO HO HO.....Merry Christmas!<div align="center">
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I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy 2014.</div>
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I have missed not being able to put up my Christmas decorations this year but I am sure I will be back next year bigger and better...haha. I have been buying some new Christmas decorations, yes I know, exactly what I don't need, but its what I love.</div>
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Hopefully I will be back to normal posting on my blog, I have been out of sorts with everything these last couple of months.</div>
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I hope to find my new home in the new year and share with you all my new adventures and the setting up of it.</div>
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It's been a while since I have posted. What have I been up to. Well, after moving from the sale of my house, I have settled into my Dad's house, well if you could call it settled. I seem to have stuff everywhere still. I am missing all of treasures around me. Bailey is very clingy to me, he didn't like me going away for 2 weeks, and since I have come home he follows me everywhere, more than usual. He has started to want to sleep on the bed with me to be closer to me. My poor little man, I moved him from his old house and then I went away, of course, he doesn't know what is going on.</div>
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The sad thing about me leaving is that I have heard from my old neighbours that my garden is not being looked after and is looking very very sad. <br />
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I went on my cruise, it was great and the 14 people I went with were a great bunch to go away with and we had a ball! I won't bore you with too many photos, just a few.<br />
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The 2nd day at sea was my birthday, and they put balloons outside your door on your birthday.<br />
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That night at dinner I received a small birthday cake. The wait staff were great and very friendly, we had so much fun with them.<br />
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Every couple of days we would get an animal made out of our towels, so cute.<br />
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We stopped at 5 Islands, this is Mystery Island<br />
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There were sunsets every night.<br />
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My 2 sisters and I had a quick weekend visit up to see our country cousins in Narrabri, northern NSW. After my uncle passed away in May we had to clear out his house and we were able to keep a few things, we each got an old single wooden lounge chair (haven't got a photo yet as we couldn't bring them home yet). They will need new fabric. I loved sitting in those chairs when we went to visit as kids, so I am glad that we were able to hold onto some of the memories.</div>
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I hope to get stuck into some Christmas cooking at the end of the month, I can't believe it is next month. No Christmas decorating for me this year, all packed away in storage. <br />
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Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15325652992072849818noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925906328661689940.post-75174751374300739882013-10-18T15:49:00.001+11:002013-10-18T15:52:06.187+11:00NSW Bush Fires...<div align="center">
My thoughts and prayers are with all the people in NSW who have been affected by the bush fires. What a horrific day it was yesterday, 35 degrees and very strong winds made the fires jump.<br />
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My sister in the Blue Mountains had their house under threat of being burnt but luckily my nephew worked nearby and was able to get home and he and their neighbours saved their houses and animals, even after the water losing pressure to near no pressure. The fire came up to their back fences, they are very very lucky as there are about 30 - 40 houses near them that have been destroyed. It happened so quickly and with most people at work they didn't get a chance to save anything.<br />
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They haven't been allowed back to their house yet as there are still fires in the area, so they are not out of danger yet as the fires could start up again like they have in other areas.</div>
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This is Sydney, and the smoke that came from the Mountains, it was a very eerie day!<br />
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Last weekend I went on a girls weekend with my 2 sisters, niece and 8 other girls to Moss Vale in the lovely Southern Highlands of NSW. It's just over 1 hours drive from where I live so its not too far to visit for even a day trip, so I am sure I will return for a day visit.<br />
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The "oldies" (as we were called) went down on the Friday. First stop was Mittagong, where I bought this cute rusty rabbit to put in the garden, then it was on to Berrima. This is a lovely little town, I haven't been there for a few years but it is always good to visit.<br />
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This is a lovely old sandstone house on the main street which has been turned into a Restaurant.<br />
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Looking up the main street of Berrima, some older building are now shops.<br />
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Then it was on to Moss Vale where we had rented a house for the weekend. This is the main street of Moss Vale.<br />
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Home Sweet Home....well for 2 nights anyway!<br />
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The house was so big, it had 6 bedrooms each with 2 king single beds<br />
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The games room with billard table and a big range of other games including tennis rackets for the tennis court outside<br />
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Friday nights dinner was Baked Pumpkin Risotto.<br />
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Dessert was Sticky Date Pudding with Butterscotch Sauce....forgot to take a photo, everyone said it was yum!<br />
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This is all the girls (minus 2 who had to leave early).<br />
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A great weekend with a <strike>few</strike> lot of champagne and wine being had by us all with games and plenty of laughs, which made some of us have tears rolling down our faces!<br />
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Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15325652992072849818noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925906328661689940.post-59263923342512486042013-07-30T10:15:00.003+10:002013-07-30T10:15:39.883+10:00Sold....<div align="center">
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My lovely little house is sold....wow, wasn't that an experience!!<br />
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It was on the market for 4 days and on the fourth day was the first open house and it was sold that day. The street was packed with cars, 25 couples went through (mostly sticky beaks), 4 couples were interested, then it was down to 2 couples and they kept pushing the price up and up, each of them really wanted it...which was good for me...haha. The contract was signed at 7pm on that same night. It was sold for a lot more than we expected to get, which was just amazing!</div>
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And so the packing begins. I have 6 weeks to pack and the settlement date is on the day that I sail out on a cruise for a 2 week holiday....so it couldn't have worked out better.</div>
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It feels strange packing my things up and the house is starting to look very bare!</div>
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Can't wait for my next adventure....</div>
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Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15325652992072849818noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925906328661689940.post-15371553393785649042013-06-17T15:35:00.002+10:002013-06-18T09:07:25.471+10:00A Big Decison...<div align="center">
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Well, I have finally made the decision to sell my lovely home. There were a few factors for me to come to this decision....continuous wood rot having to be fixed...plus other repairs that will have to be done in the near future...plus a time to move on from my current job (been there for 15 years), I need a new challenge, don't know what yet but something will hopefully fall into place for me and also for me to have a new adventure!</div>
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I will live my Dad for a few months until I decide where I want to go but it will most likely be down the south coast of NSW. It will give me the opportunity to save while living with my Dad, I won't have to travel so much to drop his dinners off, its closer to work so I won't have to get up so early. So living with my Dad for a short time will have its pluses but I know it will have it minuses too and we will most probably get on each other nerves every now and then but that will make me get out into my Mum's poor garden as it has been very neglected. Bailey will love it too as he will have my Dad as company during the day and I am sure my Dad will enjoy Bailey's company too!</div>
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It's scary and exciting at the same time, don't get me wrong I will miss my house that I have put so much work into, mainly the gardens. But, that is the fun of owning a house....doing it the way that you want it. I will definitely be having a similar cottage garden as I just love them!</div>
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Last weekend my family and I had to go on a sad road trip. Our close Uncle, my Mum's youngest brother sadly passed away unexpectly. It was a big shock to us, since we were looking to visit him on the June long weekend.</div>
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So on the Sunday we started our trip to Narrabri in north west NSW, about a 7 hour trip. The drive was a trip down memory lane as we went to way that Dad used to drive us when we were young as we used to go up there for just about all of our school holidays.</div>
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This is the main street of Narrabri...my Mum grew up here and moved to Sydney for work in her early twenties.</div>
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This is the house my Mum grew up in, this is where my Uncle lived. There are a lot of memories in this house for us from when we used to visit.</div>
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My Dad and me and my sisters outside the house.</div>
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This is looking from the backyard up to the back of the house. Notice the small outside toilet, this is what we had to use when we were there as kids and I didn't like the dark so I had to get one of my sisters to come out with me and yes they used to run back inside and leave me there....lol.</div>
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This is the chicken coop with the wood stack at the side. My Pop used to have ducks and chickens and we always used to collect the eggs.</div>
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This looking down the backyard with the chicken coop to the right. There used to be a fence from the chicken coop to the back of the garage to the left with a lot of garden beds.</div>
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This is the old cockatoo who, yes, was there when we were kids and he is alive and kicking and we worked out he is about 58 yrs old....he will probably out live all our family!</div>
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This is the old fuel stove in the kitchen, which they used to cook to this day. We used to cook our toast on the coals. Toast tastes so good that way.</div>
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This is my Mum's old cupboard, so we will be going back to get that. If you look at the bottom of the cupboard door you will see there is a lighter colour, this is from the floods that you used have back in the 1950's. There was a flood once when we were up there, it didn't come near the houses but the bridge was flooded so we couldn't get back home...what a shame we had to miss out on a few days of school! </div>
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It was great wondering around the house bringing back a lot of memories...but it was sad for the reason we were there.</div>
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It was great to catch up with a lot of relatives that I haven't seen in a long time, as I haven't been there for about 12 years and now I wish I hadn't of left it so long.</div>
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Yesterday I had a Garden High Tea in my back garden....it was a lovely day, unusually warm for this time of year, so it was perfect!</div>
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Bailey was ready to welcome everyone!<br />
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Everyone arriving...this is why I made the bunting..</div>
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Hanging teacups and teapots over the food table...<br />
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China teacups</div>
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Teapots with differnt types of teas...</div>
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Last weekend I went to Orange, Central West NSW to visit friends. We went to Millthrope and had a look at the lovely shops, had coffee and chatted and had a lovely time.<br />
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Looking down the main street shops...love the old awnings outside the shops.</div>
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View down another street.</div>
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I love the lattice around the porch on the old buildings.</div>
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This is the old wares shop....yep I sure did go in there!</div>
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Then it was off the Spring Hill to our other friends house for dinner. This is the main street of Spring Hill, we are walking to the pub, which is around the corner (and I forgot to take a photo), to have a drink before dinner and to pick up the chef (friends hubby). The mustard house used to be a shop and apparently the new owner has done a fantastic job restoring it to a liveable house.</div>
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I had to show this photo of their dogs, oh and the chickens in the back, such a great coop. The large dog is only about 18 mths old, he is so playful and friendly. Apparently he ate one of the chickens as it flew over the fence...so if the chickens go into the dogs yard they eat them, they said that very rarely happens. I said but they would be able to jump over into the chicken coop and they said they know to stay in the yard. So the moral of the story for the chickens in their backyard is....don't fly over the fence!!!</div>
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We also went to the Berry Farm...it was great to pick your own berries. There were only strawberries but that didn't matter, it was great fun.<br />
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Our basket of strawberries....so sweet and juicy.</div>
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On the Sunday we went to the Millthorpe Markets...wow there were a lot of stalls....220! They were very crowded and had some different stalls that you don't see at any Sydney markets. I picked up a few things....</div>
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Purchase no. 1.....I have been looking for ages for an outside boot stand to put my gumboots and garden shoes on, I was so excited when I seen this sitting on a table in a stall that I jumped on it.<br />
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Purchase no. 2....a great bread/cheese board...I love it its just what I have been looking for....very rustic!<br />
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Last purchases....food...I bought Raspberry and Rhubarb jam...sooo yummy, Lime butter...very yummy, Beetroot relish, Caramelised Onions, Poppyseed dressing....very yummy too, Rosemary flavoured salt, Spice salt, and lastly some different teas. Can't wait to tuck into them.<br />
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A couple of weeks ago I went for a week down the coast. The weather was lovely everyday.</div>
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There were walks every morning along the beach walkway...</div>
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I also went to Mogo Zoo. This is a lovely small zoo and I recommend going there. They have different animal encounters which you can do and I decided to do the Meerkat Encounter which you go into their enclosure and feed them and they eat out of your hands and hair...yes hair...they jump onto your head and eat the food the keeper puts in your hair. It was a great experience!</div>
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Last week Bailey celebrated his 8th Birthday!</div>
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Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter...hope the Easter Bunny is good to you!!!</div>
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Finally my window awnings are all finished and I am very happy with them. The house looks like a proper cottage now. With the rain we have had in the last few weeks it was a good test for them. The windows were also painted, I changed the colour of the inside to cream so it wouldn't be so much blue with the awnings being blue too. The miniorb roof is the same blue/grey colour of the bullnose porch roof.</div>
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The next plan I am looking at is some chickens but that will be later in the year. I have been looking at some chicken coops and comparing prices. I need something with a bit of floor space for them to walk around as they will be locked up during the days I am at work and on the weekend they can free range....guess what Bailey...that means you get locked up behind the side gate!</div>
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The weather around here has been so hot one week and then rain and cool the next, I wish it would make its mind up! Also, my thoughts are with all those in QLD that have been affected by the floods.</div>
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Thankfully I didn't get the really heavy rain that others did in NSW, it was a constant light rain. By looking at my crepe myrtles you would think that it had really poured down. I think all the flowers made the branches top heavy and they all drooped, some just snapped. I think I will have to end up cutting them all off. It's a shame as this year they were flowering lovely. I can't complain, I came out on top considering.</div>
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I finally got the garden bed all filled and planted out.</div>
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But unfortunately, me being impatient and wanting to get it all planted (I also had to as the seedlings were starting to look sick and needed planting out), and with the rain we had it has sunk a bit, but not to worry. Also some of the seedlings didn't make it, I have 2 types of zucchini, dwarf butter beans and silverbeet.</div>
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I have started to get a lot more beans since the hot weather has gone and my first zucchini!<br />
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A few weeks ago I purchase dwarf orange and lemon trees. I finally dug the holes last weekend and planted them. They got a good soaking from the rain just after i put them in which will help them along. I have a few small fruit on the lemon tree, can't wait for the fruit. I miss having a lemon tree.<br />
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My window awnings are being done this week so I will share photos soon.<br />
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Wow... how lucky am I!</div>
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I am so honoured to have my home "Voysey Cottage" featured in the House Tours section of Rick Rutherford's Country website!</div>
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Rick has done a great job on the story of my home, I am very happy with it.</div>
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For those of you who don't know about Rick, he used to be the Editor of the wonderful Country Collections magazine. I have just about every copy of this great magazine, well the older issues used to be great. Since Rick left the magazine years ago the magazine hasn't been as good and has moved away from the country themes that I love to look at and read about.</div>
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He has a lovely Country Store at Lawson in NSW which is a cottage house and it is packed full with wonderful treasures. Each room has a different theme. If you ever get the chance the visit you will not be disappointed.</div>
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Rick has a website which you can browse at your leisure. If you would like to take a look at the website and my home in his House Tours section, here is the link, at the bottom of the page click on House Tours <a href="http://www.rickrutherford.com/index.html">http://www.rickrutherford.com/index.html</a></div>
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I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and New Year! I sure did, it was one of my best in a few years.<br />
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Boy, has it been hot here in NSW and all Australia in fact. Last Tuesday, 8 January we had 41 degrees in northwest Sydney and even Sydney was 42 degrees and it is always hotter out our way. We are to get in the 40's again today and tomorrow.<br />
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I had time off work over Christmas and I ended up getting some things done around home and a couple of new purchases.<br />
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My first purchase was dropped off on Christmas Eve....new window awning frames, 18 of them. This is only the frames as I wanted to paint them before they are put up, to make it easier for me to paint. I have painted half of them but had to stop with the heat we are having. They will have a miniorb roof, I hope they will look good once they are up, they will certainly help protect the windows from with the heat.</div>
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On to purchase No. 2.....a new Breville Food Processor. I waited until the Xmas sales and received free Breville Kitchen Scales which includes a thermometer stick...wow now that's real fancy!!<br />
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I have to be honest I haven't even used it yet....but I will. I got it out of the box and found a spot in a cupboard, after moving the whole cupboard around to fit it in....don't you hate that!<br />
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No. 3...which wasn't really a purchase is this large garden bed which is from my Dad's, my sisters and I bought for him last Christmas but he hasn't been interest in gardening anymore so I have acquired it....yippy!!<br />
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It's so big and is taking me ages to fill it, I have it about 3/4 full, I have been putting in lawn clipping, sugar cane mulch, garden clipping, mushroom compost and neighbours garden clippings too. I have a heap of seedlings that were given to me for Christmas from my nephew who works at a nursery and I haven't been able to put them in yet. I am hoping to have it full by this weekend and get them planted.<br />
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One of the eggs in the nest in my lavender plant hatched the week before Christmas, for some reason the other 2 didn't hatch. I was able to keep an eye on the baby through the bedroom window. I checked it on Christmas night and then the next morning it was gone...so sad..I was so disappointed. I checked all around the plant in case it had fallen out, but no where to be seen. It was still so small and its eyes weren't even open. I don't know if a cat or maybe a rat might have taken it. The nest wasn't disturbed...so it remains a mystery. I haven't felt like moving the nest or the other eggs so I have left it in the plant and trimmed the plant around it.<br />
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Last weekend my friends Mary-Jane, Vanessa and I put on a Christmas Dinner for our parents. We decided on a traditional Christmas feast. All the meals were made by the 3 of us. There were 11 people altogether, unfortunately my Dad wasn't well and couldn't make it.</div>
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This is the lovely set table, along with menu scrolls, place cards and bon bons.</div>
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Everyone seated ready to eat...hope they like it.<br />
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For main there was Roast Pork, Leg of Lamb, Roasted Parmesan Potatoes,<br />
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and mixed greens with a garlic herb butter.<br />
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Mary-Jane made the bread, one was Multigrain and the other Rye.<br />
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For dessert there was a mini Plum Pudding & a mini Lemon Meringue Tart. Mary-Jane did a great job on the plum pudding, perfect shape!</div>
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This is Jake with his bow tie on, he was the hired help for the night, oh that reminds me I haven't paid him yet...haha!</div>
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It was a great night and everyone had a wonderful time. I think it might become an annual event!</div>
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Busy, busy, busy.....I have been doing some baking for Christmas gifts....</div>
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This year I tried a cake I haven't made for a long time...Creamy Light Fruit Cake....it is so yummy. I decided to make mini ones instead of a square cake that way I can give as gifts.</div>
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A couple of weeks ago I went to trim back the lavender as it was getting untidy and this is what I found....</div>
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One of the black birds that make a mess digging in my garden has made a nest at the top of the lavender bush...they originally built a nest in the rose on the arch at the front gate but that obviously wasn't good enough so she built this nest, a weird place as I thought birds nested up high.</div>
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I know I shouldn't be encouraging them to make more babies that will dig up my garden, but how could I resist with those cute little blue speckled eggs! How amazing are bird nests, so round and well packed!</div>
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Lastly, I would like to say my thoughts are with all the families in the US which have had their loved ones taken from them in such a horrible way.....so young and innocent....<br />
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A couple of weeks ago I went to my friend Meighan's house to have an afternoon of card making. Meighan has been making cards for years so I decided to give it a go. We had a great afternoon!</div>
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These are the four patterns that I made, which Meighan designed herself. Quite easy to do and I didn't stuff them up. We ended up doing 8 cards altogether, 2 of each card. The top left one is upside down...oops!</div>
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My tomatoes have been growing like crazy so I have been picking them green so the plant will grow more fruit and the bugs don't eat them. I also picked over the weekend some of my first beans....yippy...love beans!</div>
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This last Saturday was very hot....40 degrees. It was so hard to get motivated. On the Saturday I had my neighbours son's 5th birthday party....wow, how were we going to cope in that heat. Well, the kids were fine, there was a mini pool with slide into it, a slip and slide and water pistols, so all the kids had a ball of a time, while the adults were at boiling point. We would duck inside to the air conditioning to cool off for a while and back out the heatwave. They had a clown for games, making balloon animals and face painting...boy she must of been hot...I kept waiting for her makeup to start running down her face...ha ha. The main thing was that all the kids had a great time....and they sure did!!</div>
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Wow how hot was it yesterday...38 degrees out my way and they say it could be 42 degrees next Saturday...I have a kids birthday party to go to, so it is going to be a very warm day. Since it was so hot yesterday I took photos of my Christmas decorations....I hope you don't get too bored as there are a few photos!!</div>
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First off is one my new trees. I decided I wanted to put a tree on my front porch this year, I put up Christmas light on the front of the porch and the garage every year so I thought I would add an extra touch this year. I have put the tree in an old rusty hat box that I got at a market for $15. I also found this great Letters to Santa mailbox...I love it!</div>
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This is a close up of the ornaments on the tree...so cute!</div>
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I also purchased this year a reindeer and sleigh that lights up which I have placed on the porch railing.</div>
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Wreath on the front door.</div>
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Ok...lets move inside to the hallway.</div>
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In the main bedroom. Santa's nightgown and small silver tree.</div>
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Other front bedroom.</div>
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This is the main tree in the sitting room.</div>
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For a change this year I decided to put the white lights on it instead of the multicolour.</div>
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These are some of the decorations on this tree.</div>
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Cookies for Santa and food for the Reindeers!</div>
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Another of Santa's nightgown....I wish he would not leave them lying all around the house!</div>
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This is the other new tree (same as the front porch), I got them both for a bargain the in the sales after last xmas. They are both slim trees. This one I have a top hat as the tree topper...I seen a photo of one and it looked really good...I think I need to adjust mine and add more ornaments. I have decided that next year this will be the snowman tree and will have all snowman ornaments on it...since it has the top hat that snowmen wear.</div>
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Blackboard countdown...out by a few days!</div>
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This tree I call my vintage decoration tree.</div>
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A close up of the vintage decorations.</div>
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My beans are starting to grow....these are the purple beans.</div>
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A couple of weeks ago I had 2 weeks holidays off work, but it wasn't a relaxing holiday.</div>
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I had to get my laundry and main bathroom floors pulled up which had water damage, which caused parts of the floor to swell and floor tiles to crack. I was able to claim it through my insurance so I didn't have to pay for it. A word of warning if you have metal hoses that connect from your basin tap to the water pipe, make sure keep checking them, as mine corroded and consequently the water went everywhere. Luckily it was on a weekend and I was only out for a couple of hours. When i returned the bathroom and the laundry had a couple of inches of water over it, ready to come into the kitchen wooden floors. Anyhow, all that over with and a couple of months of waiting on a date, it is all finished and I am very happy with it. It was so hard trying to find country look tiles as they are all the modern look now. I am still not sure if I am completely happy with the feature tile on the floor, but I love the terracotta floor tile and the topper tile in the bathroom just finishes it off. I also had all the ceiling, walls and window frames repainted.</div>
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Looking into the main bathroom (before).<br />
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This is the laundry (before). You walk through the laundry to get into the main bathroom.<br />
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In the bathroom I already had tiles on the wall so I decided to buy a topper tile to go at the top of the tiles on the wall to finish it off.</div>
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This is close up of the feature tile, which I am still not sure of. It is the closest country style looking I could get to match the floor tile without going back to the federation style which I didn't want again.</div>
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While I was at home for the 2 weeks, I made some more bread, practice makes perfect.</div>
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The first week I was home I caught up with my neighbour friends for lunch one day. We just grabbed some stuff that was in our fridges and put it altogether and it turned into a lovely Ploughman's Lunch!</div>
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We enjoyed the lunch so much we decided to do it again the second week but we thought we would have breakfast this time...bacon, poached eggs, mushrooms, tomato, spinach, freshly squeezed orange juice and fresh home baked bread....delicious. I tell you what, I could handle not going to work anymore and doing this every week.</div>
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At the beginning of the year I planted a couple of Canterbury Bell plants, it took them a while to get going and I thought they were going to die, but they look great now. I have never had this plant before but I think I will be buying some more to put through the garden.</div>
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The flower is stunning and it is quite big too. I think it looks like a teacup and saucer.</div>
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My tomatoes, are growing like crazy. I have mini roma (which are more like normal size roma), gold cherry tomato, and red cherry tomato.</div>
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The beans are growing better now that they get more sun. I had some lovely friends visit for morning tea one day and had relatives come for lunch another day, so I off loaded the spinach to them so I could pull the plants out to let the beans get more sun.</div>
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What's this.....is that a christmas tree!!!! Yep, you guessed it...I put up my christmas decorations last weekend. I have to take photos of them so stay tuned for my next post.</div>
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I thought I would share some photos of my garden. I am really happy with how the garden is looking this year but I still think it is not quite how I would like it....but as they say a garden is always a work in progress.</div>
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This is looking up the garden path!! The foxgloves have grown great this year, I also put a lot more in this time.</div>
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Looking down the path. The magnolia at the end has grown so high.</div>
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I think the foxgloves look great amongst the roses.</div>
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Pierre de Ronsard rose that I moved from out the back to grow over the other side of the front arbour, has thankfully survived and growing well. I love this rose.<br />
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One of the foxgloves behind the fence, the one on the left at the back, is so tall, it comes up to my forehead. I am only 157cm tall (yes I'm a shorty), but the foxglove really is quite tall and looks great.<br />
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A close up of the tall one, love the bell shaped flowers...stunning!<br />
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The Iris' are starting to flower too...I think of Nan when these flower as her name was Iris.<br />
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I planted 3 different tomato plants, mini roma, cherry tom and golden cherry tomato and they have started to fruit. The spinach at the back is still growing wild, one of the bean seeds that I planted has started to take off, don't think the others I planted are going to shoot so I planted a few more seeds last weekend so hopefully this will shoot. I'm thinking maybe they are getting too much shade from the spinach so I might have to pull the spinach out.</div>
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Last weekend I went to visit my friend Pat, who breeds Labradors. Two of her dogs have had pups and there are 11 puppies altogether (unfortunately 3 died).</div>
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Be warned, this post is a bit of photo overload, but they are so cute!</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(in this litter there are 4 brown and 1 cream)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(this litter there are 4 black and 2 cream)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(its such hard work being a puppy)</span></div>
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From left to right....Grandma, Mum, Mum and Dad at the back.</div>
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This is what Bailey did to his Pooh Bear the other week....when I am not paying attention to him he decides to pull his stuffing out....I must sew that up one day! </div>
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I also had a go at making the Flower Biscuits that Joolz made <a href="http://simplyjoolz.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/sugar-butter-flower-cookies.html">here</a> . I was happy with how they turned out and they tasted good too!<br />
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Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15325652992072849818noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925906328661689940.post-14465862628833663232012-10-03T09:16:00.000+10:002012-10-03T10:09:58.450+10:00Family Portrait....<div align="center">
A couple of weeks ago I had some family portrait photos taken with my Dad and Bailey. I won a voucher in a raffle for a free sitting and photo. </div>
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What a great afternoon it turned out to be. I asked Alicia from Alicia Birch Photography if I would be able to have the photos done in my yard with my old stuff and garden. Alicia said that was fine and said it would take about one hour....well two and half hours later the photos were done. Alicia loves all the old stuff that I do and she loved my garden. Bailey was the star of the day, he was very well behaved, probably because we wanted him in the photos too and that he was being included.</div>
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Alicia asked if she could do a blog on my photos, I said really!! So here is the link to her blog if you would like to have a look at my photos and let me know what you think. All the people that I have showed them to have commented how great they are.<br />
<a href="http://aliciabirch.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/no-two-family-portraits-are-same.html">http://aliciabirch.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/no-two-family-portraits-are-same.html</a><br />
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I would highly recommend Alicia if you live locally, she is a lovely lady and excellent at what she does!<br />
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