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Monday, August 12, 2013

Tea for me!!

I have spent most of the day helping Mr FH to wean lambs from their mums. I hate doing this and hearing the lambs calling for their mum is so sad. After we weaned them we walked 640 ewes the 12 kms along the main road from one farm to another. This takes quite some time, as you can imagine. Luckily today we only had one car come along but sometimes it could be up to 20 cars!!! After we finished this I drove our farm ute and loaded it with some wood as we will still be having cold weather for a while yet. Finally, when I had finished that I came home and set a small tray just for me. The house was quite gloomy as it was such a cloudy day so you can see I have the lamp on. This spreads such a lovely light on the tea tray. I had some gardening books I wanted to have a look through so I used my pretty floral mug and a pansy tray and matching napkin. Just right for tea for me!!

Suzy

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Monday, June 3, 2013

Cancer Foundation Fundraising

Last Thursday we held our annual fundraising afternoon tea for the Cancer Foundation. We have held this fundraising for the last few years at our primary school. It is such a lot of work for the staff but so worth it. We have a tiny school with just 7 students and the same amount of staff (I know, it doesn’t make sense!!) so it really is a very important day to us. This last 6 months we have had 5 ladies in our extended community who have been diagnosed with breast cancer – that is a fairly high rate given the amount of people in our communities.
Each year I pack up a lot of my pretty china and take in to use for the day. All the staff cook the afternoon tea, we all hep with the decorations and the students take the orders for the drinks and serve the food. A great day to be part of.

We had an amazing collection of prises for the raffle – all donated by staff, family and local businesses.

Winter is not far off here – we have had a couple of very cold days and nights. Time to light the fire and get rugged up. I can’t wait.

Suzy

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CottageStyle@LavenderGardenCottage
TransformedTuesday@PJHDesigns
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InspirationFriday@AtThePicketFence

FlauntItFriday@ChiconaShoestring

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Monday, February 11, 2013

Birthday celebrations

It was my birthday on Saturday! Not a milestone but a very special birthday anyway. My mum had celebrated her birthday two days before mine so my sister arranged for all of the girls in our family to join for a high tea on Saturday afternoon. Those of us from the country travelled to our capital city for the weekend. It was extremely hot on Saturday but the lovely old house where we went was close to the river. We had so much fun. Lots and lots of noise (we are all very bubbly and talk lots!!) and lots of laughter filled the room.The table was set with Old Country Roses china (the holiday version, which I don’t have) and it looked just lovely when we walked in. Such a lovely way to share a birthday.

I am so in love with the beautiful table we sat at…….check out that wonderful patina! If I could have fitted one in my bag I would have brought one home with me!!!!
I had such a wonderful weekend which sadly ended when I received a message from a dear friend whose husband passed away suddenly on Sunday morning. Makes these family days all the more special.

Suzy

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SeasonalSunday@TheTablescaper
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Sunday, October 21, 2012

High Tea

I had the most gorgeous afternoon on Friday. I attended a High Tea which was a fund raising event for cancer research. The day was in memory of a beautiful soul who lost her life earlier this year. She was just 39 years old. One hundred and fifty ladies(and a few men) had a wonderful time. The weather was perfect, the food delicious and the garden unbelievable. Please share these photos of the afternoon with me.

A champagne bucket filled with bubbly ready for everyone to enjoy.

A chocolate fountain with platters of fresh strawberries.

This beautiful chandelier was filled with fresh flowers and hung above the spa.

Three gorgeous pottery ducklings sitting in the garden.

All the waitresses wore these cute aprons they had sewn with our dear friend, Peta’s name embroided on the pocket.
Such a wonderful memories of such a vibrant person.

Suzy

SeasonalSunday@TheTablescaper
CowgirlUp@FarmhousePorch

MakeTheSceneMonday@AlderberryHill

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http://astrollthrulife.blogspot.com.au/

TeacupTuesday@Martha'sFavorites

TeatimeTuesday@RoseChintzCottage

TeacupTuesday@ArtfulAffirmations

CottageStyle@LavenderGardenCottage

http://cozyhomescenes.blogspot.com.au/

TweakitTuesday@CosyLittleHouse

Let'sDish@CuisineKathleen

http://savvysouthernstyle.blogspot.com.au/

http://ivyandelephants.blogspot.com

CreativeShareWednesday@TrendyTreehouse

WednesdayLinkyParty@AdornedFromAbove

ShowOffYourStuff@FirefliesandJellybeans

OverflowingWithCreativity@It'sOverflowing

Home&GardenThursday@ADelightsomeLife

ThriftyThursday@TalesfromBloggeritaville

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FeatureYourselfFriday@FingerprintsontheFridge

InspirationFriday@AtThePicketFence

FlauntItFriday@ChiconaShoestring

Show&TellFriday@MyRomanticHome

FeatheredNestFriday@FrenchCountryCottage

HomeSweetHomeFriday@TheCharmofHome

FridaysUnfold@Stuff&Nonsense

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Monday, December 12, 2011

Metamorphosis Monday

I have been trying to finish off my Christmas decorating. I have found this a little hard this year as I have decorations at the farm house and also at the beach house and they all seem to be at the wrong house!! Talking of houses we’ve had a busy time this last week…..last Monday we were hit by a severe storm and it dumped 4 1/2 inches of rain – mainly on the farmhouse!! Rain like that at this time of the year is just what we don’t need. Harvest has come to a grinding holt and we’ve been busy doing sheep work. We had a quick trip to the beach house which was unexpected but nice. We received quite a bit of flooding in our house – mainly on the south side where our familyroom, office and main bedroom are. Carpets have been really soaked so we are waiting for our insurance company to sort this out. I’m still trying to finalise last months storm damage to our electrical goods!

In between all of this I have done a quick redo of the kitchen dresser with a few Christmas plates. It’s amazing how you get into the feel of Christmas once the decorations start to appear!