Blossom Cottage

Georgia & Izzy's Mother's Day Cards

 

 

 

 

Georgia and Izzy stayed on Friday night, before I had even finished breakfast on Saturday, Georgia was busily organising Izzy to help her make mother;s day cards..  Georgia loves my craft room, especially sitting up at the desk and fossicking in the box of goodies that I have especially for my grandchildren's use..  She is really good now at choosing a few nice items for her cards.   These were only two of a number she made!   I bet your mummy loved the way you designed those lovely cards Georgia.

Fabulous Fabric

Some new pieces to add to my stash :)

 

The reward of growing your own fruit

I love to cook my own creations, I can only remember buying a handful of frozen meals -- its much healthier to use your own ingredients to whip up casseroles, meals.  What I especially love is when we have our own vegetables in the garden, own mint, parsley and this year we have had an abundant crop of raspberries and strawberries.. I am sure that today will be the last picking of the latter two - frosts are upon us and soon cut the growth back.   This yummy bowl full of fruit will make for a healthy dessert : )

Patchwork Squares

During Easter I discovered these wonderful patchwork pre-cut squares in a lovely little craft shop in Triabunna. 

 

Stamps

Tasmania has a lovely store in Hobart called the Inside Shop - they have different things to the normal shop...last trip I found these lovely animal stamps, they were fairly expensive, but little Bonnie loves them, she goes into my craft room, locates them and brings them out, asks for an underpaper and some paper to stamp on.. then when she finishes without being told she carries them away again!

Another Elephant

I found this cute little elephant to add to my collection in the Tree of Life shop in Canberra. My sister, Melissa, my niece Bella and my mum came with me to Canberra last weekend.   We enjoyed a lovely weekend in Goulburn with my brother Roger, Jane, Kate and Clare.  Shopping day was Saturday!

 

The Rug in Progress

Believe me those who have seen previous postings.. it is growing I now have 61 squares!  Pinks, creams and browns.. I have used pure wool, so it should be lovely and warm in my retirement years, whenever they may be! 

Cooking Weather

Egg & Bacon Pie cooked up this morning -  also some lovely little chocolate desserts for our dinner tonight, thanks Gina I think you gave me the recipe for them.   Both recipes so easy to make. 

  

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Frustration! Wireless Broadband Pre-Paid - Beth's Whinge for the week

I purchased a pre-paid wireless broadband plug this week.  I believe I can claim some of the cost back being a Telstra customer which will be a bonus after the problems encountered! 

Plugged in the pre-paid, worked lovely and fast.. then I kept getting a security certificate warning, couldn't send emails, couldn't get into hotmail...  So I phone Telstra - got an animated voice, which was frustrating as it kept asking and trying to prompt you as to what the trouble was.. even said go get your account and then a damn whistling music played..  in the finish I let out some not very nice swear words at it!  Hung up, phoned back, got the same, did some coughing when it spoke or stayed silent, finally transferred me to a real person.. who seemed more worried that he had a cold..after having to ask a number of times for him to repeat what he was saying, he reckoned I had a problem with internet security... so I thanked him, went and tried to turn everything off... nope same message.  Fiddled around, same message.   Phoned back today - got a female person, again I had to ask her to repeat what she was saying a number of times, she helped me reload my email account - at the end, no send/receive buttons, she ended up telling me to reload Outlook from disk... mmm I'm thinking, so I went back in.. the reload hadn't worked.. so I mucked around and finally fixed it myself!  (relief that I don't have to call back again!)

To make matters worse..  my daughter informs me that when she purchased her Wireless Plug - she put $100 credit on it, the same as I did..   This week she still had $85 left, but 30 days kicked in so Telstra wiped the credit!!   SO BEWARE... I didn't know this when I put the $100 on my stick.. came home looked on my docket... actually commented to the salesperson that $100 would last me quite a few months, I read at the bottom of the docket that if you havent used your amount of credit in 30 days it is wiped... SPEWING.. will never use that much.  Go into the website and read up, yes correct.. if you actually recharge with the same amount before 30 DAYS expires you can maintain your full amount. i.e carry it forward. Well yep likely that I want $200  credit!   mm I think the Telstra Ombudsman will be hearing from me!