Portrait Sunday, Egg Collecting

I love that I can go outside and collect eggs from our chicken coop each day... I really need an apron for this, but a shirt works just as well... Each egg has its very own colour, shape and texture. I am so grateful for these precious gifts from our chickens...

Portrait Sunday

We have had a lovely restful day today, the weather has been brilliant, I composted and added Bounce Back to all the strawberry plants, it's the most amazing organic and natural fertilizer. Our strawberry plants are full of fruit at the moment, still green but soon, hopefully they will be sweet, juicy and red. We have just returned from a family bike ride around our beautiful lake / wetland down the road, Kye rode on his half wheeler and loved it! Such an amazing gadget this half wheeler, it's like a tandem and is so easy to attach and remove:) Well I have been knitting on my shawl day and night, I just love how the colours are knitting up, so exciting. I think this shawl knitting is going to become addictive....!

 

Thank you so much for the wonderful response to the Christmas Ornament Swap, if you would still like to join, just read this post:)

***Natural Suburbia Flickr Group***

***I have created a Natural Suburbia Flickr Group where you can upload your Christmas Ornament Swap photos. If you took part in the Sending Love Heart Swap please feel free to add your swap photos on this group too. It is a group for all the Natural Suburbia Swaps, a space to share what you have created for your swap partners:) If you would like to join this group, please go here and request to join and I will accept your request:)***

Warmly

Linda

Portrait Sunday and a small Giveaway

Thanks so much to everyone who left such lovely comments regarding the owl pattern in the previous post:) Today I have been taking photos of some of the birdlife in our garden and I am also having a small giveaway at the end of this post.

Just look at these girls digging out our barrels... they are so special:)

Our resident Masked Weaver building a new nest.

Black Collared Barbet feeding on the bird feeder...

My new handspun, it is a Superwash Merino Yarn, I bought the roving from Nurturing Fibres on Etsy and I really enjoyed spinning it up.

GIVEAWAY:
I am offering this lovely rainbow superwash Merino handspun yarn as a giveaway:) To enter just leave a comment. The giveaway winner will be announced on Wednesday in this blog post. You may enter once each day for the giveaway until Wednesady if you wish:)

Wishing everyone a wonderful week xo Linda

Winner:
dayswithdaniel said...
I love it! Just gorgeous. Wish I could spin. x

Congratulations! Please would you email me your postal details:)
Warmly
Linda

Portrait Sunday... Agapanthus Everywhere...

I am so enjoying our garden at the moment... our Agapanthus flowers are in full bloom right now...  They come up each year around this time, but have never given such a beautiful show...  Earlier this year, we dug them up and divided them as they had grown and multiplied into great clumps. It was worth all the hard work because now they are all flowering at once. They are such beautiful flowers, indigenous to South Africa, their perfect symmetry is amazing and wonderful to gaze at... I love to sit in a shady spot on the grass outside and knit and be inspired by this beauty of Mother Nature...

Even Charlie was enjoying being outdoors today...
xo
Linda

Portrait Sunday...

A boy and his dog... Kye loves to be outside with Gus, our Jack Russel... Kye talks to him about so many things... so sweet...

Thank you to everyone who wrote to me yesterday and commented about Richard being away, you are all so supportive and that's what I really love about the blogging community and the friends that I have made here, the kindness shown by everyone is such a blessing, love to you all and have a wonderful Sunday,

Linda