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Melissa in Australia

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  1. Finally finished this huge quilt. I have been working on it for over 2years
  2. This week Empty soot collection tray and ash tray on combustion stove Wash shower curtain Get three quilt tops basted to wadding and backing I am not meant to do much and can't physically do much. Those will be my big challenges for the week
  3. I am on low dose beta blocker and another heart medication that is not a beta blocker. It is to try keep my pulse in the 80s. My heart rate is all over the place, either dropping to the low 50s or rising rapidly over 110+ with the slightest exertion . Multiple times a day. I naturally have very low blood pressure. When my pulse drops to anything below 64 I feel absolutely awful , very fatigued, chest pain , headache, cold. Symptoms disappear as soon as pulse is up over 70.if my pulse goes over 110 I feel breathless, have chest pain, tightness across chest. If it goes over 120 my vision blures, am panting , and I feel so yuck that I lay down on the floor wherever I am. I am not doing any exercise that would rase heart rate, still using a walker am completely house bound.
  4. DH just bought me a Horn Sewing Cabinet. It was in the op shop for just $30 Happydance
  5. Sorry about your kitchen Ausmum The fly must be nearing the end of its life soon Rosie
  6. We have compost bays. 4 in a row. 2 metres high, by 2 meters by 3 metres deep.. We put anything we can source in there, cow manure, grass clippings, chook poo, garden waste, cardboard, etc. Takes about 12 months to mature. Sometimes we turn the bins but mostly we just let the worms do it.
  7. I would only toss the chicken that was on the floor I would use up or cook any meat in the fridge today Power goes out often here. I never refrigerate eggs, they will be fine
  8. A pinwheel throw quilt for a house warming g present for adult niece. Hand quilted
  9. I don't drink alcohol, soft drink, anything carbonated or tea and coffee. Not keen on juice either. Nothing to do with religion. I only drink water. I want it at room temperature, preferably rain water..
  10. I have no idea.. I tried removing those stick on stars from a bedroom ceiling.. It left pit marks in the plaster. Was a huge mess. I haven't fixed the ceiling yet.
  11. Was my first attempt at crazy patchwork. Was loads of fun to use up all those little bits and bobs of trim. But I am woefully inadequate at embrodry
  12. I found it impossable to get a not blurred photo. Hand shaking too much
  13. We did rotating chore at meal times as well. One thing I also did with my bio children was extra bonus chores linked to computer time. They had to earn computer time. I made a list of jobs with time they were worth. It is supprisingly how willing they all were to do extra jobs without being asked when it was to get something they wanted.
  14. I have accidently put stuff into other people's shopping Trolley . Like picked something off the shelf, turned around and put it into a trolley that isn't mine. This happens when one of my kids is pushing the trolley and they have moved off without me noticing.
  15. Elephants are my favourite animal.. I have quite a collection of elephants scattered through the house. It is supprisingly hard to get nice elephant fabric. I was so excited to find this piece in the op shop
  16. Thanks for the great ideas I make quilt as you go quilts once I get enough leftover bits of wadding (batting). I actually use to call It batting, but the product is labled wadding on the roll so I thought I had it wrong and started calling it wadding. I refuse to use fleece as it is not natural fibres. I am trying for environmental reasons to only use natural fibres if at all possable for everything. It is even bad for the environment to wash petro-chemical fabrics, all those micro plastics or whatever they are called shed off.
  17. Same I use natural fibres for everything possable. No petro-chemicals if I can help it I make my own clothes and will only buy material of material fibres. I want my clothes to be compostable when they have reached the end of a long life
  18. A elephant quilt for the couch. I had to unpick many times. I kept sewing the squares wrong way. Fabric was a bag of scraps from op shop backing was a length of tartan from op shop. No wadding. Total cost $8
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