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camping and secrets

So finally after quite a few months we finally had the opportunity to hook the the trailer up and head off for a quiet weekend it all started off beautifully with a perfect sunny friday  this beautiful day culminated in this beautiful sunset and of course as night fell the fire crackled away and the wine and beer flowed as the sun rose the next day i had plenty of time to work on some secret projects these are just a few shots of some pressies that i have been working on for some very special people  in my life, both of these projects are almost finished, so i am feeling very content with myself As the sun started heading down on what was a wonderful stitching day, you can see the clouds had started to gather and as we headed off to bed we could hear the pat pat of rain drops on our roof i was woken in the very early hours to the sounds of a very loud thunder storm i guess the fact that there was really just a mere few millimeters of heavy duty canvas between me and t

PHD's complete

well i did it , i have completed all my projects, actually i pretty much had them finished last friday, as i was stitching the sleeves in my jumper as i chatted to chookyblue  and watching fairy girl and her friends previously in the PHD update i showed you that i had my Tis the season block stitched and showed you that all my borders were on, actually in my Thursday night stitch a thon you can see that all my TTS blocks were joined together. and last night i added the final borders....taa daa..... definitely not my usual Christmas colours, i am usually very traditional red, gold and green, but i  think it came out really nice For my birthday this year Gadget and the girls bought me an Ereader from Sony an Ereader is an electronic device that you can purchase and download books on this is extremely handy for me as i love to read, and when we head off camping, i can take three or four books (actually according to Sony it can store 1200 books) and  it is only the size of a sma

the Wonderful Whirlwinds

Last Saturday Miss S's netball team won their grandfinal by 1 point it was a fabulous game, with both teams fighting hard for the title of winner Miss S has worked hard through out the season, as has the other girls and this was a well earned victory the other team had beaten us in every previous match, so we went in thinking it would be a hard game for the girls I am very proud of my daughter and her netball team, and thouroughly enjoyed the game hope your hands are working on something you love Ciao Patricia

Thursday night stitch-a-thon

As most of you know i work shift work, with my days all higgildy piggildy all over the place, lately however i have had every thursday and friday off, and i seem to have gotten myself into a pattern with the housework ect..., anyway with Gadget and the girls at work / school i got up early and got stuck into the house work By midday i was pretty happy with what i had done and decided that a mini break was in order and set to work cutting some fabric for some projects new and old. then set back to work again, by three pm i was at the sewing machine and i was on a mission to get some serious sewing done my plan was   put the first border on my Tis the season quilt.  start putting together the patchwork for the sewing bag in  Anni Downs latest book, some kind of wonderful   and to make a camera strap cover. with gadget out for the night and Miss M at work , it was just me and Miss S. Miss S made dinner for us so i was free to sew this is the patchwork all laid out , the

La Dolce Vita

There are times in you life when everything just seems to fall into a happy hum. Last friday i was fortunate to have arranged to meet up with Cardy Girl for lunch,   it took me just over an hour to get to the patchwork shop we had arranged to meet at. on the way up,  i had a smooth run and was bopping along in my Little Corolla, Katy Scarlett  (yep she's red) listening to (singing  at full volume) to the Beatles, just can't do a road trip without good music. I arrived safely just before Cardy and her friend Lea and was still humming (on the inside) whilst we wandered around the shop, and what a great shop it was, heaps of really nice fabrics and some really nice quilt kits. so if your passing through Singleton it is definitely worth popping into  busyneedles  . the view into the cafe after gathering our little bundles of  purchases (some of us had bigger bundles than others) We wandered down to worn out wares , a lovely little cafe with lot's of really lovely bits

Spring

All nature in Australia thrills responsive to the rain, and sudden verdure clothes the hills, and glorifies the plain. Yet all old England's simple tree's to their old season's cling, and scatter Autumns fading leaves upon the lap of spring Catherine Helen Spence 1905 My chinese tallowood is awakening from it's winter slumber Early this year my very good friend 's (Sticky) parents unfortunately had to sell up their property to move to something smaller and more manageable Stick's mum is a wonderful gardener and had many wonderful orchids she offered some to me.... very brave , because gardening is not one of my skills she showed me how to re-pot them , as most were pot bound, and i returned home to go to work about a month ago i walked past my Orchid farm  and noticed that three of the ten  had flower buds i check my little babies almost every day, waiting with baited breath to see  my first ever home grown orchid hope it is a wonderful first day of