Thursday, August 18, 2016

Tuesday catch up and a bit of Splendid......


Our lovely Tuesday girl "Teresa" left us to go on holiday to the top end of Australia.......
 and look at this beautiful piece of fabric, what a wonderful colour.
The necklace is just beaut as well.....
Thanks so much Teresa, I love them....
Ohhh I do love pressies.....


A little stitching went on but we had to hear all about Teresa's holiday.....
Miss Matty's Parlour hexies.....


I had a little outing with Sandi and of course the only photo I have is food......


Tuesday this week .....

Oooooops  I was supposed to be in charge of morning tea so I quickly made this Banana bread while they were here.....just as well it was at my place.....
It was yummie too.....
I did stitch not that you can tell from all these food photos......



Now to a bit of serious stuff.....

The Splendid Sampler.....

Block 44



 Block 46


Block 48


Block 49


Block 50


 I'm adding money to my mistake tin which good or maybe not so good......
depends on how you look at it.....lol

Well that's it for today.....

Toodles.....




Thursday, August 11, 2016

Exciting times at the EKKA

QLD Mounted Police unit at the EKKA.....

The Govenor's Escort 
5th August 2016



Please don't ask me which rider is my Heather as I don't know but she is there..... lol.....

She is on patrol at the EKKA this year as well......

Her daughter's June and Corinne went to see her ride and compete.....

Her horse "Idol" is a big boy 17.3 hands....




Heather loves this boy......


On Monday they had the Mounted Units games.....
an interesting view from the rider..... love it....


These 2 cuties June and Corinne went to see Mum ride....
and have fun of course....


Great photo....







FNWF's......grrrrrrrr


I have been having troubles with uploading photos this week but hopefully that problem has been solved now and I can get on with my FNWF's post.

I was working on my long awaiting"Little Bit Country" quilt....

      

I also made a couple of Miss Matty's Parlour hexies.

Not a lot to show for a nights work really......
Thank you to Cheryll for organising another cyber stitching get together.


Toodles......

Tuesday, August 02, 2016

Happy 45th Birthday Heather

Heather's 45th Birthday....... 28th July
We went out for lunch at the "Wishing Well" cafe at Victoria Point,
it is a quirky little cafe and the lunch was great.
Love this photo.....

Heather and me of course.


June also came with us .......
lovely photo of these two.....



Such quirky surroundings.....
teacups and saucers hanging in the trees and in the wishing well.....
very cute



Food and coffee of course.....



A really lovely day for Heather's birthday.....

Then on Saturday Heather had a few family and friends join together at the Cleveland Bowls
 Club for a "Barefoot Bowl" 22 of us .....

what fun we had, a fantastic idea....
heaps of giggling and laughing......


This does look like serious business......



A few happy snaps of the day.....



Travis.... Heather.... Corinne



Alex...Sylvio....Corinne



Then cake time.......


Heather and her partner Sylvio.....



Heather's "Birthday Festival"
We really did have a terrific time and hopefully we can do it again.

A little foot note...... 
 Gavan, Travis and me won our bowling game 12 to 2.....
yep I'm showing off now..... lol.....

Toodles till next time.....