Gardens by the Bay - Holiday Post #5 - Singapore #5

You wonderful blogging friends keep telling me that you are enjoying my holiday posts and to keep on with them - you are all so kind.  I am really enjoying sharing my trip with you, it allows me to relive it.  Although as I am still "in" Singapore, with still quite  a lot to share it is still going to be a few weeks before I am done.

Today, I wanted to show you the amazing Gardens by the Bay, we wandered through parts of the gardens to visit the Flower Dome and the Cloud Forest but unfortunately we ran out of time before we could visit the SuperTree Grove close up.

The general part of the gardens is worth seeing in itself.

Then we reached the Flower Dome - and it was full of roses, roses and more roses.  They had a special display on called "The war of the Roses"  - just right for a historian like me!

Oh dear, I have so many Flower Dome photos - I will have to show you the Cloud Forest and the Super Trees (from a distance) in my next post.

I hope that you like the roses as much as I did.

hugs,

Quick progress post on Liberty Lane...

I am going great guns on Liberty Lane....

Here is where I was up to on Sunday night:

.... and here is where I am up to now:

I really love the bunting.

Have a good day, 

hugs, 

Crafty update.....

On Saturday morning I picked up this quilt which I had professionally quilted and bound through Somerset Patchwork and Quilting (luckily for me this shop is situated in the suburb where my Dad lives - lucky hey?)


Now there is a bit of a story to this quilt - I started it over 10 years ago for a friend's 60th birthday.  But somehow the birthday came and went (I did give her a lovely present of a beautiful tray) and the quilt was never quite finished.  The years came and went and finally, finally, finally I got my act together and took it to be professionally quilted, as I said.  My original plan was to hand quilt it all myself but life got busy, it was a daunting proposition as the quilt is a very, very large square quilt and I sort of lost interest in patchwork and quilting and fell in love all over again with cross stitch.  

But anywhere, here it is....  Voila!

The centre toile square.

Detail of the quilting and the back (a green toile pattern).

Now I just have to hemstitch the binding to the back (oooh, I hope it doesn't take me another 10 years!)

As well as the thrill of picking up the quilt, I managed to get lots of stitching on Liberty Lane done this weekend.

Here is where I was up to on Friday.

... and where I was up to when I went to bed last night....

I am having a bit of a race with myself as I am not sure that I have enough of the GAST thread (the blue and red) left to finish the stitching (I have ordered more but it may not come in before Easter).  Somehow I feel if I stitch fast enough I will beat the thread and it will not run out - silly aren't I?

I also made another batch of Italian cookies - these go down a treat with my lot!

So join me for some morning tea later today?  (it is 7.15 am here on Monday morning and I am getting ready for work (or at least I should be!!!!)

Have a good day everyone,

hugs,

Out and About......Holiday Post #4 - Singapore #4

It is interesting, as I write these posts about our holiday I realise that we did so much.  Here I am only on Day 3 of our 4 day Singapore stay and I can still see several posts to come!  lol!

On this day, in the morning I went to the Gardens by the Bay (that will be next post) and in the afternoon I was out and about around the Marina Bay shopping mall and the famous Orchard Road.

Now, in Singapore they seem to be mad about macarons and tea!

This is the entrance to a macaron shop - gorgeous, isn't it?

Everywhere you went there was this teahouse chain called TWG.  Can you see the huge menus they had?  There were literally hundreds of tea blends to choose from and you could pay as much as $170 for a cup of tea!

Needless to say, I was a bit more modest in my tea drinking!  The tea was served in these gorgeous pots and my new friend, Julie, and I had to try some macarons.

We resisted the gorgeous array of other cakes, though.

I also seemed to spend a lot of time wandering around the Marina Bay Sands shopping mall.  It was three levels of up market shops.  On the lowest level there were canals and you could actually take a gondola ride!

 Everywhere in Singapore is so clean - can you see the men cleaning the shop window?

Yet another TWG teahouse.

Toast box seemed to be very popular with the locals.  One morning I saw dozens of people lined up to just to get breakfast.

 I took this photo of a poster at the Fossil Store for one of my young girlfriends at work!

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..... and the Swarovski store was so pretty!

There were so many other upmarket stores - Gucci, Prada, Louis Vuitton, you name it - they were there.

Well, going to have some breakfast, a little stitching and then water aerobics (it is only 7.30 am here on Sunday morning).  Then later a little baking and lots more stitching!

Have a lovely Sunday everyone,

hugs,