Happy Easter to you all

Am I deaf????? Can I walk????

Only slightly! and not properly!!! But what a fab day yesterday at the Clipsal - Holdens Rule!!! The weather was cool. The drinks expensive. But!!!!! The view was THE BEST!!! Who could ask more but to end a wonderful day with a wonderful view????? I know, youre asking what is she raving on about???...............Jon Stevens of course!!! It has been 14 years since I last watched Noiseworks with Jon perform and it felt like it was only yesterday...did they belt out the music and it was just the best. And of course there was Mental as Anything - ok. Ian Moss - great. Status Quo - do they rock!!! But you can't beat Jon. And for all out there that might be interested, it was mentioned there is a possibility that they (Noiseworks) will perform again towards the end of the year...woooohooo.
So anyway......today is back to reality and nose to the grindstone :(

V8's here we come....

LOL!!! Tis the Clipsal 500 weekend here in sunny, warm Adelaide. My friend and I will be terrorising the track and field this Sunday :))) So anyone else that is going that might be reading this...look out LOL Tomorrow I will be dropping SW and Bro off so they can have their day at the track - which is good cos then I get a whole day to myself!!!!!!!!!!

Well today I spent a lovely day with Kristina and Naomi, sitting chatting and stitching. Thank you girls for a very nice day. Looking forward to the next one :)

Some of you might remember (or take a peek back to 2008 UK trip if you don't) my hubby was nicknamed the 'Squirrel Whisperer' after he had 'tamed' a wild squirrel while we were visiting our friends in Wales. Well....the little fella (or girl) has grown up a bit and has come back to visit the abode! Our friends seem happy the squirrel has returned and are kindly feeding it some lovely seeds and nuts. Next blog should have some pics of my new pieces of furniture - dont hold your breath those that know me personally - but......I have FINALLY purchased a china cabinet!!!!!!!!woooohoooo after only 25 years !!!!
Getting delivered next week, so I guess I might have to do some dusting of ornaments and hoovering at some stage.........maybe I wont either hahahahahaha

Whats new pussycat...

whoa whoa whoa :)) LOL This is my latest bag!Which was inspired by this bag below. The picture is surrounded by lots of buttons...its a great way to use up all the odd ones in your collection and looks great too. So thanks Sandy for the pic of your bag xx

This little house was sooooo cute, I had to share it with you. It is one that SW has just finished. It is not living at my place unfortunately tho :( It is only small so you can tuck it up under your arm and go off and play !!
Adelaide has the Fringe Festival on at the moment, so last Friday a friend and myself thought we would go and take a look. Sadly we were ill informed about the times. So off we trotted to town only to find nothing started till 5pm!! So we had lunch in a lovely Chocolate Bean Cafe in the East End of town then went to Amoccoco ( a very large non jumping castle type thingy!!) This was a pic from inside. Very interesting place to visit - specially saying it was only $2 each to get in!! Then we chuffed off to a local hotel and had a beer (something I haven't done for a VERY long time) and then up the Mall we went. We were very good tho, didn't buy any shoes on this trip LOL
Friday night SW and myself visited with some friends who had friends over from interstate and the UK. Lovely cool night outside, great company and good drinks. Thanks Brian and Glenice and Co, we had a great time.

A few weeks down the track....

..and I thought it was time to put a post on here! Thank you to all the lovely people in and out of Blogland that sent their kind thoughts to me and my family after the passing of my mum. I would like to share a little happening that occurred after mum passed away. On the day that we were going to get the flowers for the funeral (a friend is a florist, so said friend did a beautiful job!), my monthly quilting pattern arrived - this is like a magazine subscription, you never know what you might get. When I opened the packet, I found the pattern was a floral one, but the name of the pattern blew me away totally...."Florence"..... which was my mums name!!!! So make of it what you will!!!Anyway, here is my new project....the fabric is out of my mums stash....all shades of purple/lilac. My dad helped me cut out the paper for the hexagons and then he cut out ALL of the fabric for me!! Couldn't get him to sew it tho :( LOLThis is one of my brothers doing his impersonation of Gene Simmons of KISS fame - with a slice of jelly!!!!
More food here yet again....my friends daughter had her friend come to visit Adelaide a few weeks ago from interstate... so we took them to Bracegirdles at Toorak Gardens for afternoon tea. We had a yummy lollie/chocolate fondue. I think we waddled out of there a little waddlier than we waddled in!!!
The SW's cousin had her 70th Birthday celebration in January, so I thought I would make her a Double Irish Chain quilt. Her mother was Irish and she loves greens and creams to thought this would be quite appropriate - I think the face tells how surprised she was at the gift.

One of my long time friends had a new addition to her family in December, so she asked my dad to make one of his famous chairs for the new great grandson. We went looking for fabric but couldn't find anything that we thought suited the moment...then I remembered I had purchased some car fabric some time ago....as usual it had been put in the cupboard for 'later', so I dug it out and presto! we have a uniquely covered chair for a little boy. (His dad has an old Holden so it fitted the bill very well.)

Last Saturday several of us quilters met up for a surprise lunch. We all had a lovely time catching up with each other (it has been several years since we had been together) We ate and chatted and promised to do it again but sooner the next time!!We have had a landing of a different kind in our kitchen!!! No...its not an alien spaceship - although I thought it was when my SW turned it on!!! Its one of those little ovens that cooks very quickly without much fuss or mess. Well, in the couple of weeks that I have had it, I have cooked nearly every night in it and it is wonderful!!! Very little heat, less cooking time and the flavour of the food stays in the food! Don't know why I didn't get one earlier!!!!
Well, tomorrow is Snobs and Slobs day again ...... seems like an eternity since the last one even though it was only two weeks ago! So I guess putting the world right will be on the agenda again!!! Cant wait.....

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.

And I thought I was doing well!

Here we are at the beginning of November and I am half way through my Inchie Secret Swap, thought this was pretty good for me! Then mine secret swap arrived last Friday!!!!!! Lovely package from Alesandra from Italy. Thank you very much Alesandra (if I have spelt your name wrong let me know :) ) Since my last post, many of the ladies at the craft group have finished off their quilts that we started at the beginning of the year, some have gone on and started and finished other small projects. They are now waiting next year to come with a little bit of anticipation. I have decided that we are going to do a mystery quilt!! These ladies are quite new to quilting for the most part and most have not experienced doing a mystery quilt, so the outcome should be quite interesting (the journey through the year should be interesting too, with the questions that will be asked no doubt!) So here is Ella with her beautiful Christmas Stitchery quilt. Then we have Margaret with her lovely pink and green (don't they go together well?) stitchery quilt.Lorraine has finished her quilt and moved to doing a cushion with candlewicking. Margaret 2 also did a lovely little cushion in candlewicking.My mum finished her Christmas stitchery quilt also - great job mum!!!I had made this quilt for a friends birthday but Jessie decided that she might claim it as her work :)School holidays were here a couple of weeks ago so our craft group close for the holidays, so I decided to have the ladies over to my place for the day. There is always lots of food, laughter and chatter to see us through (not a lot of sewing gets done tho!) So the world got righted again till the next holidays!!!!The next photo is of a wedding cake that belonged to a friends daughter in Western Australia. Couldn't resist taking a photo of the photo of the cake - just reminded me of a patchwork quilt. What a great idea tho for a cake - saves on cutting it up later for the guests!And last but not least for today, a pic of the lovely Pigs Face plant at my parents house. The plant puts on a lovely show every summer and looks so bright and cheery and certainly says the weather is getting better here!
Well, I better get off and do some Inchie things and get my other Christmas swaps done and sent off!!