Rest In Peace...Mum

This beautiful lady has been the main reason that I have not been doing much of anything lately. Sadly she passed on into another realm last night after a well fought battle. Courageous and strong till the end.
Love you forever Mum. xxxx

Happy New Year to you all...

Lets hope that 2010 brings everyone a good year all round.

I have finally got some time and inclination to blog!!!! wooohooo!!!! So here is the lovely SSCS that arrived for me to open on Christmas Day - all the way from the lovely Tracey in the USA - THANK YOU Tracey for such a lovely parcel.
During the short time from Christmas till now, one of the lovely Thursday craft ladies has finished another quilt!! This one is by Ella, well done girl, great job!!! We now have break till the end of January - we will be doing a Mystery Quilt, so stay tuned for the end results!
Christmas Eve was spent at my brother-in-laws with all of his family. We had a good evening, especially when it came to giving our great nieces their gift. SW and his father had a joint effort in constructing the said gift - I think the girls were a little overwhelmed by the size of it tho!!! It didn't take long, they were soon opening the house and putting their dolls etc inside.

New Years Eve was rather quiet, we went to SW's cousins place for a BBQ - but we were home by 11pm. I did stay up and take some nice pics of the full moon tho!! We get two full moons this month and another two in March!! Aren't we the lucky ones??? lol

I haven't managed to do any sewing or stitchery much this last month, so there is nothing to show you this time :( So till next time, best wishes for 2010

2009

I would like to wish all out in Blogland a Very Merry Christmas Day !!!! Hope you all have a good day XXX

I have a question for you all!

Do you have Fairy Light Pixies living in your Christmas Boxes???? I am sure I do!!! I carefully packed the lights away last year and then carefully took them out this year to go on the tree, only to find they were in such a twist - it took me nearly 1/2 hour to untangle them!!! hmmmm....anyway the tree and decorations are up at last, so it feels a little like Christmas now.Yesterday my SCSS arrived!!! Wow what a loaded parcel, I am really looking forward to finding out what is inside the wrapping. I was allowed to open the Christmas Ornament - a lovely stitched heart. So a BIG THANK YOU to Tracey - hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas.The year has finished for the craft group that I go to - so here are the last few pics of items some of the ladies have finished. Mary did this lovely large cushion to compliment two smaller ones she had made earlier. Audry made several wall hangings as gifts for her children for Christmas.Jessie made this lovely stitchery more or less all by herself!! LOL So well done all you lovely ladies at Craft. Looking forward to the projects next year.

I also have to share with you all the next pic. One of my friends is a florist and she entered a competition two weeks ago. Unfortunately she was pipped to the post by one point - by her boss of all people!!! But it has given her encouragement to enter more in the future. So if you ever need some flowers or arrangements that are different just let me know and I can forward your request to her!!!

At least it is cooler this week!

There have been a few days of late that have been rather disgusting heat wise to say the least. However, we manage to plod on to another day. Last weekend was the bi-annual Snobs & Slobs weekend away - and how fab it was!!! We were all hanging out to have some time-out from our usual humdrum of life. Of course we managed to fit a couple of quilt and fabric shops in - wouldn't be right if we didn't!!! Ate some chocolate (which we weren't going to do but couldn't help ourselves!) (but it wasn't the amount that was consumed 6 months ago on our last trip) The wine was also reserved this trip too. However, the comments from some of the group were as bad as ever. I really wished I had started taking down notes in the early days of our trips - could of written a book by now!! Most of the time I spend laughing at the innocence of them all and if this blog was X-rated I could probably share some with you .... but will just have to let your imagination go with the flow. But one I can share and did laugh at for a while "it was shrump up and felted"!! Now this was said with a clean mind, so how you read it - it is up to you!!!Us at Mick Shea's at Hackam, lovely place for food and drink.Some of the projects done over the weekend.Sunset on Thursday night - it was magnificent.Just to prove that we did eat healthy this time round.Theres a knob in every group - and I am afraid in this group its me!!! Looking for a wedding outfit!Us!!!!
This week saw the Secret Santa Swap get posted to its new home:) The Inchie Ornament swap also went off along with the PIF from earlier in the year. So nearly all my UFO's are done and dusted (those that I can find that is!!!!)

How I feel old!!!!

Last night Quilty gal, her daughter, a few other friends and myself went to see Sweet at one of our locals. There was a 70's/80's DJ on first so being as that was our 'era', we hit the dance floor (and today it feels like I definitely 'HIT' the floor) then on came a good reggae band, so we stayed on the floor. By the time Sweet came on tho, we left the floor, body not the same as it used to be!!! Nor are the eardrums!!! But a great time was had by all, and its nice to know that we still 'have it' to get up and have a move around.
I don't have any pics to post today - mainly cos I haven't taken any this last week!!! But the coming weekend is our bi-annual Snobs and Slobs weekend away at Carrakalinga, so I would say there might be few in the offing!! I am sorry in advance to disappoint anyone, but there wont be much (if any) chocolate there this time. Some of us have had the winter catch up with our girths, so fruit will be the order of the weekend!!!

Before any one says I should get a life.....

...I do have one!!! In between visits to various medical facilities I do manage to get some work done, even though some might say "is that really work?" To prove it, here is my little bucket of Inchie Ornaments ready to be put together :)I must say that I have really enjoyed doing these little "quilts" and look forward to sending them to the appropriate recipients!!!
I also managed to finish of a few UFO's this week. This is "My Renaissance" by Michelle Hill. I hand appliqued all the pieces on with lovely matching rayon threads. Thanks Michelle for another lovely pattern to make up!These two quilts were started some time ago, but finally got quilted and bound!

This week I also received another birthday present! Aren't I the lucky one??? They are a pair of stones painted in 3d of cats - the pictures don't do them much justice. They fit beautifully in with all my other cat things - thank you Bev and Cliff (aka my adopted parents!) Today some of the Snobs and Slobs and one ring-in went to the Adelaide Craft and Quilt Show. I would like to say thanks to all the people who had a quilt on display - it was a good show and I feel rather inspired for another year!!! I believe if you go to the following link you will be able to view some of the quilts on show. http://saquilters.org.au
However, I can show you what I bought today....was rather restrained this year (mainly cos the Snobs and Slobs are off on our bi-annual trip to the coast in two weeks so am saving some spending for then!) I was quite happy with my purchases, and of course there had to be something to do with cats there....hopefully I wont take too long to make up the fabric with them on - cos its Christmas stuff!!!!I thought it might be nice to let you see what is growing in my garden at the moment (yes!!! growing!!!) (not a green thumb!!!)This is my fernery and I am very pleased with how it is coming along - lovely to look out on from my stitching room too.The yellow rose is a beautiful one - dont ask me the name of it cos I dont know - and my pot of naked ladies has made a great show this year. So I have to enjoy them the best I can before the heat gets too much and they start wilting.