Swap Arrived

Received my parcel today from Darlene in the swap. Thank you so much - what a lovely bundle of goodies.

8 handmade Napkins & 1 Centrepiece, with material spare to add to the collection

A handmade dishcloth

Peanut Butter Sachets - a treat for me next Sunday morning

Stickers

North Georgia Now Magazine

Homeschooling Parent Magazine

And a wonderful CD with information about her home town, jokes, recipes etc.

A great treat!!

Swap Complete

I joined the swap on Rhonda Jeans page and have now posted off to my partner. Unfortunately my sewing machine is packed away somewhere so I had to purchase. It has made me want to actually get it out and use it again.

It has made me think what other throwaway items we purchase now??

"This time we will be swapping four cotton napkins, preferably handmade.
If you can't sew, you can buy your napkins, but they must be 100% cotton. They
should be around 25 cm square, or 10 inches, give or take a couple of cm. This
will help us all build up our stocks of cloth napkins so we can all leave the
disposable ones at the store. Another step towards a healthier
planet."

Climate Clever

The Australian Government has put out a publication and set up a website called Climate Clever. Has some good ideas and links to other web pages. Worth checking out. Also has info on Australian Government Rebates to install greenhouse friendly solar and heat pump hot water systems in existing homes.

Camping at Coffs

We came back Friday from our first ever camping holiday as a family. Spent a week at Coffs Habour - not exactly roughing it (didn't want to scare the girls too much). We stayed at The Park Beach Holiday Park which was really well set out, not that we've had that much experience with other places.

Didn't do very much apart from swim at the pool and the beach. On one of the days we went for a walk to the end of the beach and climbed the heads and were rewarded with the sight of whales passing by which was a first for us.

I got burnt and I was the only one religiously putting on the sunscreen??? How does that happen. Its not bad and I've tanned now but I really don't like doing it.

We worked out what to take that was needed and what wasn't. Still need a few more bits to make it a little better but on the whole we were pretty comfortable.

All safe and sound back home now - relaxed .....

The girls have another week of school holidays, I go back tomorrow to work and DH has to go back to Sydney some time this week.

The best news this week was that the cooling off period on the sale of our house passed by and the buyers are still in. It will happen very fast and be finished by the end of October which is great except for the last couple of bits of furniture still down there. Madly put them on ebay for sale.