Catching up

So things have been scantier than a Brazilian bikini bottom post-wise around here lately....
I alluded a bit to why (briefly) in my last post here, but let me fill you in properly on a big part of the reason for it (if you are interested, feel free to just keep scrolling tho!).

We have been renovating!

Pretty (costly) garden flowers

A close up of a shrub currently in flower in my garden(not sewing related but pretty):

 

Maybe it's a Viburnum? Not sure. 

I quite like the pink buds and white flowers popping through at the moment, even if they do drop all over my kitchen bench once cut:

 

Unfortunately the hedge that these flowers came from has now become quite a costly feature in our garden, with one of the roots lifting and cracking a mains water pipe :(

 

 Six months later and the resulting water bill that we now have could easily paid for a new whiz-bang embroidery machine or a reasonably good mid priced sewing machine, overlocker and dressmaker's dummy package...with change to spare :O

Moral of story- keep an eye on your water meter folks! 

I know we will be now on...