Blog meet and a bit of craft......

It was another great day with the girls of "Stitcher's Inc" blog group and as usual lots of chatting, eating and laughing...... of course there was also show and tell....... its lovely to see everyone's  projects up close and personal.

                                     Sandi's showing her cute little table mats.

                                         Noela with her lovely bag.

                             De with her bag and I think its a finish for Chooky's stitch-a-long

Susan with her bag .... bags seem to be very  popular with the girls.

                                  Tatyana has made the cutest little bunny and bag.

I had to get a close up of her pin cushion..... lovely Tatyana.

                            Lynda and Noela with their Stitch-a-long projects too.

and here is my show and tell, I have been making this pin cushion for a longggggggg time so it was good to get it finished.

Thank you Susan for this very glamorous photo..... just another silly me piccie.

Its a project by Anni Downs called "Joy of a Garden" from a Homespun magazine.

                              It certainly is a big pin cushion but I love it.

                                       
Tuesday we were a very little group of 3 but you can see in these photos that a lot of work was done.
                                                                                  Sandi 

                                                                                Norreen

                                          Yes I was there finishing my "Fernhill" block.

Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mother's Day 

These bright yellow flowers were my Mum's favourite so I couldn't let this day go by without them in my home..... they just have something that makes me smile.

I spent the morning with Liz and her family at a "Breast Cancer Breakfast" at the boys Sherwood AFL club and I also got to see Clayton play as well...... a special day with family and all money raised went to Cancer research.

Don't  you love Clayton's pink hair ? There is nothing like a big breakfast to start the day especially for growing boys...... they were enjoying it too.

Oooops forgot to take this piccie before I started, it was so yummie.

 All the Mum's made a guard of honour  for the boys to run past which was great for the Mum's and the boys.

Love the pink socks....... I bought some cupcakes at the cake stall so I will enjoy them later today.

                              I hope that they raised lots of money for this terrific cause.

 On the craft front I have caught up with the "Its time for Christmas" BOM in the Homespun magazine which I'm doing with my Tuesday group.

                                                            Block 2

                                                                 Block 3

                          Now I'm off to have a cuppa and maybe a cupcake or 2....... who knows.

How embarrassing is this ???????

                   
 I was doing the usual grocery shopping and looked down at my hand to find this ..........

my little car key ring decoration with its stuffing hanging out and all the stitching coming apart so I quickly gathered it up and put it in my handbag....... how embarrassing for a crafty girl.

 Of course you can guess what happened when I got home ........ the old with the new.....

                                    I can now hold my head up high when shopping.

Last Friday I was lucky to be able to attend another Grandparents day with my Grandsons at their school.
Jake is in year 12 and Clayton year 8 so I got to enjoy a class with both of them, its such a wonderful thing to participate in, I even got to join in drawing in the art class with Clayton and to be served coffee and lunch by the boys....... sadly I didn't get any photos of the day but before we went there I couldn't resist taking a photo of Jake's lunch bag..... its so cute, he is a bit of a character and loves his little lunch bag...... even if he is 16yrs old.

On the stitching front I have this pin cushion project that I'm doing with Tereasa but it is taking us a longggg time to finish but the end is in sight. 

I also made this small wall  hanging which has been waiting to be done for quite a long time. Tereasa gave me the hanger ..... Laurel gave me the Norfolk Island painted panel and I was lucky to go there last year so this has a lot of sentimental meaning.

3 more blocks of Lynette Anderson's "Crazy Christmas" quilt are done so I am getting there slowly.

Well that's it for today..... I'm off to do some more stitching.

Still trying to get caught up with my blogging.....

Late posting as usual...... this was the 16th of April.

Yes these piccies can only mean one thing........

Norreen's  Birthday (a Tuesday girl)

 so of course we celebrated with cake

they were very yummie too.

Pressie opening

Come on Norreen blow harder......

Not another one of those tags...... you must be a truly really friend now.

Another terrific day with the girls.

I do have some craft to show

"Fernhill" BOM 

Slow going but I am getting there.

We had our tickets for a great afternoon of entertainment for last Sunday at the QPAC theatre to see Operamania but alas it wasn't to be, Sunday morning I woke and couldn't get out of bed...... back pain so bad, couldn't sit upright so Corinne and Kenny are smiling with our tickets in their hands. 

They did enjoy the show so that was good , they haven't been to an opera before so it was something different for them.

ANZAC DAY

                                                     LEST WE FORGET

So proud of this young man

Here is our grandson....Jake...... AFL is such a big part of his life and I went to watch him play on Saturday.... he is playing in the Sherwood seniors  but he is only 16yrs oldwhich is quite an achievement, I don't know a lot about AFL but I'm learning....... I just found out about an article on the Official AFL website about this young man..... he must be so happy as we are and his parents will be over the moon.

go here for the article

AFL website

Awards night at school last year.

Clayton is his younger brother and he is a mighty player as well so look out for these 2 boys in years to come...... I think they take after their Nan don't you ?

                                          Go Jake..... you are an awesome young man.

Blog post overload...... sorry

If I get any further behind in my posting I will meet myself coming the other way and I do have lots of good news to report...... well I think it is so that's all that matters I guess.......

We have had a very full time over the past couple of weeks.......
Firstly Kenny's ( Kazune ) parents .... Hiroko (Mum) and Norio ( Dad) came to Australia for Kenny's Graduation at the University of  Sunshine Coast, we were so fortunate to meet them when they came to our home for good old Aussie meal.... Pop's (Gavan) homemade meat pies and vegetables  followed by cheesecake and trifle. They are such lovely people and we all seemed to get along very well even though language got a bit muddled up now and then we still managed to understand each other quite ok.

Thank you both for a wonderful visit and hopefully we will be able to do it again one day in the future.

Hiroko and Norio gave me this wonderful little doll display .... its so gorgeous and I have it proudly on display in my china cabinet.

                              The glass gives you an idea of the size of these dolls.

                                       Norio and Kenny playing with the lawn mower.

I made  Hiroko a Friendship tag and this is the photo she sent to Kenny showing it hanging on the wall.

                                    Our next big event was Corinne's 21st Birthday
                            Here she is at 2 yrs old..... my goodness how she has grown.

Same little girl now 21....... Corinne is a lovely young woman, we are so proud of her.

                                                     Party time.....pinata smashing.

 Jumping castle time..... Heather (Mum) and daughters Corinne and June having a great time together.

My girls Liz and Heather playing together

Our pressie for Corinne, something she will keep for a long time, her birth stone is Diamond so what else would we buy for her.

Gavan took a few photos of me on the jumping castle but they aren't very good ......this is  proof  I did act like a kid again, first time on one of these..... not bad for an old girl.

                                            Clayton g/son jumping with me.

                                            I think everyone had a great night.

Now for a little craft update not that much has been happening in that area this is another block of the Lynette Anderson's "Fernhill" button club quilt.

One of our "Friends in Stitching" girls had a birthday and it was my turn to make the gift.

                                                      It was  Dzintra's big day.

In the gift we had to use 1 of 3 sayings that were given to us earlier and this is the one I used also we needed to add buttons to the project.

JoJo is Dzintra's daughter and I thought it might be nice for her to get a little gift as well.

"Its time for Christmas" BOM from the Homespun magazine, most of our Tuesday girls are doing this as a project together which makes it more fun.

Well I do have more to tell but I think that might be enough for today, its making me tired just getting all this on the blog...... so bye for now and happy stitching everyone.