Happy Birthday Girls

The birthday girls...... Tereasa B ( left) and Teresa C ( right)

Shhhhh I have a sercet... it was Tereasa (left) 50th birthday.

Laurel made the cake so naturally she was in charge of candles too.

A little quiet time..... Leona ( left) Tereasa and Mary.

Here is our little Tuesday group and today was very special as Tereasa and Teresa were both celebrating their birthdays and as you can see in these piccies we were enjoying ourselves with a lovely homemade morning tea and lunch, as usual lots of laughter and chatter, not much stitching today though.

Finished a little while ago

I finished this project a while ago but didn't get a piccie of it at the time as it went on holidays to my local craft shop Homespun and Beautiful aka Raggedy Station as a sample but now its home, I made it for my new table and chairs. This is from Bronwyn Hayes book "Miss Millie's Flower Patch", the project is called Miss Millie's Picnic Throw but its a great size for a table topper, I didn't do the centre stitchery as the table decoration covers that part so it was a waste of a stitchery. I love these projects in this book , I have made a few of them already and nearly finished another.

What Quilts On Your Bed ?

Here is the last block of the Vintage Valentine quilt, I have the border fabric so now all I need is the time to finish it. I'm making this quilt especially to put on my bed so the old bedspread will have to go and other things in the room will also have to change, when its all done I will put more piccies here. Below is the quilt on the bed at the moment its "Angel Story " by Anni Downs so I'll have to find another spot for it, not sure where yet.

Lynette Anderson has put a thread on her blog asking "What Quilts On Your Bed ? so take a look and you are able to go to other blogs and see lovely quilts, its such a great idea thanks Lynette.

The Sparrow has landed !!!!!!

To begin this little story we must go back 12 months, my hubbie "Gavan" wanted to learn to fly ultralight planes so he began at a flying school at Boonah, so every week he would go saying " one day will you come with me after I get my licence ?" and of course I said " yes dear... one day" naturally thinking that it would take sooooo long I would give it more thought when the time was closer.... Well its now time , several weeks ago he got his licence so he asked " will you come for a fly next week dear? " so what could one say " oh yes dear I.... think .... I would love to" so today was the day ..... I thought I would need proof of my trip so here are a few piccies.

Here I am just before we went up, cute little plane don't you think?
Its called a "Tecnam Golf"

I looked at the control panel and hoped he knew what he was doing.

Taking off and going up to about 2000 feet.

Didn't like the look of the rain in the distance but we changed direction so all was good.

Below you can see our town of Jimboomba, can't show our house as I wasn't going to lean out and take a piccie, not that game. In the distance ... the large white buildings are Woolworths shopping centre and a school which is the centre of our suburb.

A view of the hills.

This photo was taken as we were coming in for our landing, the long green grassie area is the air strip.

And here I am ... headphones and all, I did enjoy the trip and Gavan made me feel very safe so I'm still here to tell the tale and yes I will go again, he has to do his navigation endorsement yet so then we could go a bit further away.

After all the excitement was over we went to lunch at a very nice old local pub then off home.

Here is Gavan waiting for our lunch to arrive.

" The sparrow" bit in the heading is a nickname given to me by my crafty friends, they reckon I eat like a sparrow as I don't eat very big meals. Funny little girls aren't they.

Impossible to imagine !!!!!

Its so hard to imagine how the people in Melbourne must be feeling, its terrible to lose their homes but to lose family and friends is just shocking, also the flood victims in Queensland, my thoughts are with them all. We really don't appreciate what we have until something like this happens and then it makes us think how lucky we are.

Helen

New project begins

This is a block from "Girls Day Out" quilt by Libby Richardson, I meet with friends every Tuesday at our local craft shop "Raggedy Station" and we are all making this quilt, we have begun with block 5 some using different colours/fabrics which makes it more interesting, it will take a while as we are only doing 1 block every 2 months so our other projects don't get behind. I know its strange to begin with block 5 but after much coffee and chatter that was the choice, its great to be doing this together as it helps with the motivation.

Trying something new

I'm trying a new idea this year as my "to do list" got out of hand last year, not doing many of the projects listed but adding lots of other items and not entering them on the list at all so I thought that I would do 2 lists.... Started projects for 2009 and the other is Finished projects for 2009, this might be more accurate so it will be interesting to see how it goes, one can only try lol so stay tuned for updates.

Nearly there.....

Wow I'm nearly finished the Vintage Valentine quilt only 1 block to go, can't wait. I have my fabric for the borders and I've decided to hand quilt so I guess it won't be totally finished for a while yet.

Sons Birthday

Here is Roberts birthday cake, mudcake with custard filled pastries.... so rich no-one could finish their slice but it was good, very good. The other piccie is of the birthday boy ... Robert and June ( my g/daughter) we had a lamb roast dinner yummo that Gavan made and it was great to have a family dinner, he turned 39 but it doesn' seem that long ago he was just a thought but boy it makes me feel old. We all had a great night.

Noah's Ark

Catching up at last with the Noah's Ark BOM by Lynette Anderson, got a bit behind but all is good now so I will be on time with the next block.

High Tea

What a lovely day I had this year for my birthday, it fell on my craft Tuesday so naturally nothing interferes with that off I went and I'm so glad I did. My craft friends had organised a High Tea in the Cafe next door and as you can see in the photos the food was great and the company even better..... Tereasa, Teresa, Laurel, Denise, Leona and my daughter Heather thank you very much girls, loved it, unfortunately I haven't got a photo of all of us. We also had a family birthday tea that evening with lovely pressies and cake, nothing better than family and friends to spend time with.

2 To go..... yahoooo

This is another block of the Vintage Valentine, the end is in sight and I'm getting quicker now, my border fabric arrived the other day, 2 more blocks to go and then I can put it all together.... can't wait.

A little gift for me ......

This wallhanging is for me, finished it today and didn't know what hanger to use so looking around the craft shop with Tereasa we decided to use the angel wings to be a bit different and I'm very happy with them. The wallhanging is having a little holiday at the craft shop to display the kit she is selling.

Secret Santa Pressie

This is the secret santa pressie I made for Jan from the Prim Treasures Group, its an Anni Downs pattern called " Angels of Harmony", I am just finishing one for myself in very similar colours, I'm sure she would have opened it by now, I hope she likes it.

Prim Treasures Secret Santa Swap

Here is a piccie of my beautiful pressie from Carla, its such a terrific size and will be very good for taking my stitching to craft day, love it. I will put a piccie of the gift I made for my partner when I'm sure she has opened it.... don't want to jump the gun.

New Kitchen... out with the old

These are the only piccies I could find to show a little bit of the old kitchen.

At last the piccies have come up, I've been trying for days but always having trouble.

Well this is my new kitchen .... I love it.... just as well I guess lol theres no going back now, I've been trying to find some piccies of the old kitchen as I forgot to take a before piccie so maybe in the photo box I might find some so you can see the big change from the old. The house was also painted throughout, it has a tinge of green but that doesn't seem to be showing in these piccies much. Hopefully I will be able to get more photos of the other changes soon if it lets me upload.

Prim Treasures swap

This is the very cute little angel christmas ornie and matching bag made for me by Kerry in the prim treasures group, isnt she just beautiful..... love her , thank you very much Kerry.

Another quickie....

This is the cute little bookmark from the " Simple Pleasures" book by Anni Downs, a very nice gift for someone special.

I'm working on my bedroom curtains today and hopefully will soon be finished. We have had renovations going on for the last couple of months, all the big stuff is done and now for the finishing off, I'll post a couple of piccies soon. Ooooo I just noticed that the background fabric for the bookmark is my curtain fabric.

Pretty Purse

This is my first attempt at punchneedle as usual there is always room for improvement ... love this little purse.... "Honey Purse" a Lynette Anderson pattern.

Melbourne Cup Luncheon

Here we are enjoying our Melbourne Cup day Luncheon ( Heather and me) Tereasa in the background, this was held outside in the lovely arcade between the" Homespun and Beautiful" craft shop and " Cusack Lane Cafe" the lunch was done by the cafe, was yummo.... great company... lots of giggles too so what could anyone ask for. There was a fashion parade by a local dress shop... raffle, door prizes, sweeps and no luck for me in any of them.

Here we are all together .... from the left Laurel, Barbara, Denise, Heather, me behind the balloons and Teresa on the right and clever little pumpkin Leona taking the piccie and where is that naughty Tereasa... not in the picture... hiding again I think.