 much of the oriental vintage pieces have been taken to a consignment shop. (That was a job in and of itself!)
School started for teachers in Pinellas County, Florida on August 12. I was lucky to have a'smartboard' installed over the summer break. Unfortunately, that meant that two walls were reworked and the entire classroom's furnishings were relocated to get the job finished. With the help of my husband, children, and one of my son's friends, my room was almost back to normal and set up for 'Meet the Teacher' on the morning of August 16.
A tea party was planned for the weekend before Victoria-Rose was to return to college. Such fun! More on the party to come.
A little bit of sewing was squeezed in to this very busy month. Two little sundresses were made from vintage pillowcases and will be blogged about soon.
We had dinner one night at Beast's Castle. It was truly a magical experience. The food was delicious and the ambiance, service, and the special touches were just amazing. (It was snowing outside the windows of the ballroom!)
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Pillowcases for ConKerr Cancer & Tutorial
"From California to Massachusetts, Florida to Michigan, the UK to Africa, ConKerr Cancer
pillowcases are bringing HUGE smiles and hugs to children with life threatening illnesses. Thousands of volunteers, around the world, are joining together to brighten the lives of these children with a simple act of kindness: making a fun, cheerful pillowcase."
To find a find a local chapter, you can click here:
I make my pillowcase a little differently from the directions posted at Project Run & Play and I thought that I would post a little tutorial for those who want to make the finished 'cuff' of the case without needing to topstitch. I often add another band of color, ribbon, or lace between the cuff and the body of the case, as shown in the last photo of this post.
You will need these materials for a standard pillowcase (in addition to the typical things in your sewing room):
* 27 inch L x 42 inch W piece of fabric for the body of the case
* 10 inch L x 42 inch W piece of contrast fabric for the cuff of the case
Follow the instructions on each photo. Each photo can be enlarged by clicking on it.
Another wonderful quote from Mother Teresa:
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless."
Posted by Karen at 12:00 AM 7 comments:
Labels: Pillowcases, Tutorial
Sunday, August 4, 2013
PixieBelle Skirts
These skirts were fun to make! They use more fabric than the usual full skirt but if you are'stash busting' you will be glad to see the fabric piles dwindle a bit. (I know it made me smile!) I used the Tie Dye Diva "PixieBelle Skirt" from and polycotton plisse' (Tuti Fruti line from Jo-Ann). The skirts are full of twirl factor and I knew with the flying petals of the skirt that little undies would be showing so I added attached shorts underneath each one.
Wise words from John Wooden:
"You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you."
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One of our gentlemen who joined us in December had previously been in hospital for a second broken hip, he was then relying on two carers plus the use of a rota stand to transfer before he came to our Care Home. He has regularly been taking part in the online exercise classes and as well as moving around the house the classes have really benefited his mobility and he has made major improvements and now transfers independently with no equipment required and walks confidently with a frame.
What does this mean?
This gentleman has shown that working on improving his activity levels enables him to move better without equipment. This reduces costs of carers by preventing 2:1 care, equipment costs and future hospital admissions by improving independence and well-being. With the home taking a positive attitude to improve independence and enable the resident can preventing future health deterioration.
Come and exercise with HCPA with our chair-based exercise session. Let’s get moving and get #BackToBetterHealth!
Every Tuesday morning at 11am
*This form only needs to be filled in once, all questions and answers apply each week*Jon Stanhope has announced that moves to smartcard ticketing on ACTION buses are progressing with Downer EDI Engineering Power Pty Ltd signing up to replicate the SmartRider system they built for Perth.
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Have any of you had any exposure to the Perth system? Care to share the experience?
What’s Your opinion?
Smartcards for Canberra buses moving forward
Action buses already tried a zone system, Tuggers was in one, Belco was the other and Civic/Woden was the third. People still complained.
Does anyone remember when they tried to impliment bus zones around 10 years ago? It was a disaster. I remember living in Braddon and having to pay 2 bus fares to travel to university (at Bruce), simply because Bruce was zoned into the Belconnen area. Even then it depended on the individual bus driver whether I was charged for crossing the zone or not as it was right on the border of the City and Belconnen zones.
I don’t think that system lasted very long at all and while I’d be happy to pay a fare for the distance travelled, zoning is never going to work in the ACT. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who to be penalised simply for living on the wrong side of an imaginary line.
I’ve also used the Perth system (having recently moved back to Canberra from there), I wasnt a regular user but i did use it it worked just fine. You would sometimes have to queue for maybe 15 seconds to tag off at the train stations in peak hour, but it wasnt a big deal, and anyway that won’t be a problem here in Canberra.
It’s about time. This should satisfy those that complain that the fare’s the same whether they go 3 stops or 30.
Funny how that doesn’t stop the complaining. 🙂
Queensland Transport have a “Go Card ” system that sounds Identical.
Worked sensationally for me, but there were many gripes of discontent ….
There was implementation problems iirc … But they were sorted fairly quickly.
They use a zoned type system ie the more zones you travel through the more you get charged.
If you failed to swipe off, you were charged a flat $5 fee.
Like I said fantastic for some, crap for others.
I like my bike commute better than being crammed on a train / bus anyway 🙂
sounds like the oyster card in london? brilliant!
i am all for user pays – especially when it comes to public transport – flat rate is BS.
I’ve used the system in Perth and it is great – but the other great things about the system in Perth was that you could actually get on a bus in peak hour, it was comfortable, they have good security and it was an affordable mode of transport.
If they brought that in here I might consider going back to catching a bus, until then, my car is much more reliable.
Sounds like a way to start charging fares per unit distance or time rather than the current flat rate. I can understand some in inner suburbs aren’t keen on the flat rate, but for those in the boonies it at least isn’t a further disincentive to public transport.
it works very well in honkers, but i agree with ian that they’d have to look at tagging on and off to precipitate some sort of zoning fares thing, which would be needed.
but the concept of going into any little convenience store or many other places and simply being able to pay to top up the card is brilliant – and from memory most tagging stations tell you your balance…
I absolutely adore the Suica smart card system in Tokyo, hopefully they don’t stuff this up. And more importantly, I hope it can be linked to any future smartcards in Melbourne (whose trams are going to be run by a company that uses the Octopus smartcard system in Hong Kong), Sydney etc, to make a national network where you can just hope on and off any public transport without every having to pay for a ticket. Well, I can dream…
Yes, let’s use the same flawed overkill technology used by megacities for our rural wagon network.
Bring on the clones.
No experience with Perth buses, but the tagging on/off works fine in Singapore.
One thing it will do is enable distance based fares, so the trip down the road might cost $1 and the Conder-City trip $5 for example, which is more equitable than the current flat fares. In fact it would be very hard for ACTION to justify the current fare structure once they have installed such technology.
Having said that, I’m guessing the TWU will find some objection to the tagging off, and the government will fold and end up with some half baked compromise.
Have a look at their arrangements maybe, Caf?
Won’t the tag on / tag off process delay people in boarding and alighting.
Will I need to tag on and tag off each service?.
What will happen if I forget to tag on and off?.