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The only plant in the garden that doesn't produce food, and never will. I've moved about every 2-3 years for the last 10 years or so. Housemates, who I won't describe. Landlords who move back in, sell the house or tear it down. So my garden has become highly condensed, potted, ready to move at a moment's notice. Over ambitious, none the less ... but I DO like to eat plums (one day); mulberries, mandarins and raspberries (already).

The clivias, I almost left them behind at the last house, but L's Mum convinced me otherwise. They'd not flowered for 2 years at that stage, but wow, look at them now!!! And they're shaded by a brick wall on 2 sides, a tree above. And they live on rain water. And their soil is poor ... gotta admire their flowers then;)

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Actually, it includes a number of other colours apart from blue. And it's really about bogong moths; night; my neighbour's tree. Interesting how the HB pencil changes as you re-draw over it.

Thanks for the encouragement last week, guys ;)

Mood: Do I love it (POST only what you LOVE)? Nearly, not really. OK concept, 'tho. And perfectionism can be a hindrance at times ... says she who just re-edited the post thrice.

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I want to trash my blog. Summerset from Pins and Needles was recently thinking about what she's learnt about herself through blogging. Well, I've learnt about annual events. Like the "rabbit gets sick first week back at Uni after the long Summer Holidays" event (says something about family stress levels, I reckon). And the "whole family gets sick at the end of the Winter Holidays making it difficult to complete Uni assignments" event. Guess why I haven't blogged much for a couple of weeks?

I also realised that every Spring, I want to trash my blog and start again. Sorta like Spring cleaning, only more brutal. It's one of the reasons for the interesting gaps in my blog archives - no, I haven't been deleting posts ... yet;)

As you can see from the funny little figlets on the fig tree, it's Spring again ... so this year, I've decided to make some changes. Some you've already seen (more drawings), some I haven't started yet (a photo day; a regular knitted swatch and more regular updates). Above all, I'm going to remember what Tricia from bits and bobbins says about wardrobe remix: "be nice to yourself! no negative stuff [...] post ONLY what you LOVE." Although I think this still allows for the odd critique or two?

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Veil and confetti, traditional images. It occurred to me after the last post I should see what Illustration Friday's doing this week, I used to enter it regularly, before the site / process changed so much...

DRAT! I realised they just changed the topic over. OK THEN, here's a really quick juggle:

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I'm intending this as a mostly regular thing, on Fridays. Sure, I'd like the focus of this blog to be clothes knitting / sewing, with the odd toy tossed in. And any exciting gardening I can muster. Umm, so, yes, drawing doesn't really fit, but if I'm in a good mood, it's quick, very quick. I can finish before someone grabs a pen or calls me over to help with a toy that's got stuck somewhere or something... And, to be honest, the majority of my posts have always been drawings. I'm not, by the way, saying I'm a totally fabulous artist (yet...hehe!), but it's a "craft" I like and haven't had the guts to thoroughly develop.

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