WOW or WIP 29th Aug 2012 with Esther

Well it has been a week of gardening, or water-blasting  garden paths and block walls which have to be done every year as after 3 months of rain in temperatures around 35C they are covered in a black mould!!!!!!  I’m only 1/2 way there

I just finished water-blasting the driveway this morning and the block wall, I then painted the 32 on the driveway as we have no street lights and a lot of our visitors arrive at night time and it is so hard to find the numbers in our street, I'd just finished painting the numbers and we had a down pour the first in months and wash 1/2 the paint away!!!!!!!!!!! Murphy's Law!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so very little sewing.  Only fabric I have touched is a beautiful Scottish kilt that was handed in to the Opp Shop on Tuesday week ago, it had been very badly treated even used as a dog blanket and smelt awful;  the other ladies said throw it out but I just loved the colours, and I was sure they could be restored to there glory

Such beautiful yarns woven in to this tartan.

so I brought it home and soaked it several times then washed it in woollen fabric cleaner and finally gave it a good rinse in a good hair conditioner, it dried in to a beautiful bright fabric; after I  press it I was tempted to keep it but it never gets cold enough to wear it here. It almost looks like new now???????

One restored Kilt

It was bought by a lady who runs a Scottish shop so it has gone to a good home!!!!!!.

One of our DGS is home on a surprise visit with his beautiful Mum, here he is helping his Grandpa!!!!!

A wonderful helper, he's going to be a real handy man!!!!

That’s it for this week.  I’m linking with others over on Esther’s blog http://www.estheraliu.blogspot.com  Cheers All Glenda