Stellar

I haven't added a photo of my favorite hairy brown creature lately...so here she is, tired after her adventure up the Maitai river...she is enjoying the new Wallace Cotton quilt...it is very pretty.
Have a good week xx

Sunday Market...

The Sunday market in Nelson has always been a load of old tat...not worth the time to get there but on my way for a walk today I called in on a whim..I am glad I did. I found a stall run by one of the local interior designers, she had a table and a couple of baskets of material remnants...and they were cheap!

So, thought I would show you what I got....

This first material is actually a rather large curtain, I am guessing it was made before a minor flaw (some weird kind of rubbery stuff marks it down the bottom) was spotted. The curtain itself is about 2.5 metres long and over a metre wide...it is Sanderson..fabulous!!

This fabric is in two pieces in two colour ways...it is nice heavy fabric, about a metre of each.

This one looks better in real life, it is Sanderson as well.

This fabric is very pretty, quite a decent sized piece, it has butterflies and birds on it as well, the flowers are spectacular...the background is a dark fawny colour than the photo shows which is a shame...the photo is nicer than the real fabric!!

I found this set of two large lined curtains at another stall, I paid $5 for them, what a bargain!! Not sure if they will go in any of my rooms so may try and flog them off for a profit on Trademe!

Spoke to lots of the family today, Nanny, PoppyBlack and the old seadog..all are well. Mum and Dad are up in the North Island on a road trip and seem to be having fun so far.

Can't believe the weekend has gone already and another busy day of work is almost upon us, I will try harder to update this more regularly...I promise!!

The Green Room...

The weekend saw beautiful weather and the completion of "Operation Green Room". The green looked pretty mild in the can but on the walls it is certainly green...we both keep looking in there saying "well, it certainly is green". The whole hallway glows green where it radiates out like some kind of radioactive zone. The green itself is very pretty, I love it...just have to get used to it I think. The photo is pretty true to colour. R worked very hard on it and in the end, I didn't lift a finger as he rollered the walls as well as doing all the prep.


Sunday was the most beautiful day, it was very hot. Stellar and I went to the beach with the rest of the Nelson residents and frolicked in the waves. It was another hot day today so I thought, lets go to the beach again. The contrast could not have been greater...it was windy, overcast, the sea was grey and choppy..horrible.

Check out my new ring...bought with my Jewelbeetle voucher I got for Christmas from the lovely R. The three sapphires represent three year of marriage, and the three of us...me, R and Stellar. My hand looks very old and wrinkly in this photo...might have to start moisturising!!

By the way..

I got one of the Glassons t-shirts pictured a post or two back. For those who like the breast cancer t-shirts..go and try one on...they have them up to Size 20 I think and they area generous fit this year..neck is still a bit wide for my liking but not huge, and they don't seem to be long and skinny like last years version. I wore my cat to bowls tonight and it helped me play (I am sure!!!).

Bowls Update

For all those avid readers out there...we are home forom bowls. It was great fun apart from the odd smart arse comment from a toothless old git who thought he was being funny...but that aside, we had a good game and only lost 8 points to 6 against a team who played in the social league last year..so we were very pleased with that. They told us that they had been beaten 31-0 last year when they first started so we didn't do too badly for our first game.

The sky was thick with smoke and some falling ash as a big fire burns out toward Atawhai, we have a couple of friends out that way so we hope they are ok, not sure what is burning or how big it is but the evening sky is shrouded in smoke.

Have just taken Stellar for a quick 30 minute jaunt along the Railway Reserve, I was just saying to R how lucky we are to live in a city which has nice quiet spots where you can walk and feel like you are the only person on the planet...we are very lucky...I felt like this tonight on our walk as I didn't come across anyone the length of the Reserve which is unusual.

No photos of the bowls so how about a photo of me on the red carpet at Universal Studios...if only I was an Academy Award winning actress.

Lawn Bowls..

It has been a long weekend here in Nelson thanks to Nelson Anniversary Day.
The weekend weather was marvelous, in fact Saturday was one of the hottest days I can remember experiencing here in Nelson, official temp was 30 degrees but I am sure it was hotter.
I took Stellar to the river for swim which she enjoyed.

On Sunday Stellar and I took drive out to Ngatimoti to the farm and Stells and Daisy wallowed in the creek and danced the newly mown paddocks which had been cut and bailed for hay. It was lovely to see Mum, Dad and Nanny.
My trip home included a stop off at the berry farm to to a container of strawberries, I was the only person there (weird) and got an icecream container of glistening berries for only $5...bargain.

Today it was a bit cooler and the sky has been dark...no rain yet though. Stellar got a good walk and R has been working on plastering in the green room.


We went out and played bowls this afternoon..it was good fun..we actually play properly tomorrow night...not sure how we will go, when you are not that good it is possible to play one fluky great shot and then the next one is total rubbish. At least it should be fun!!