Week in review

My week in a nutshell;

driving, eating, shopping, sewing, kids, planning, cutting, stitching, trimming

and contract signing for the house.

I love school holidays!

Scrumdiddaliumptious

Love, love, love...

my new table runner - fresh from the washer and dryer.

Think my FMQ might have improved a little too.

I used my threads from this box

for both the quilting and sewing down the binding.

Deliciously good all round and totally fat free!

FNSI and weekend wrap up

Well Friday night was supposed to be stitching in front of the t.v.

while my beloved Cats played the Hawks.

I didn't get much done and I won't be watching footy until next season.

Stupid game.

I forgot to take photos but I worked on my Rosalie Quinlan BFF.

Over the weekend we had a big tidy up.

Apart from assorted Lego items, shoes and toys, someone found

a mini Milkyway bar - wrapper intact and the grin says it all.

If only I could have shared the excited sounds coming from under that bed.

I thought he had found gold!

I planned my next project (ok one more to my bucket list)

and ordered fabric for it.

Spent some time with the General - he's French.

And my new favorite book - I can't stop looking at it - there are so many

amazing things in here, yes, more for my bucket list.

I hope you had a great weekend - something very satisfying about knowing

that I don't have to go to work tomorrow :)

Sorry Sharon

Winner Winner

Thank you all so much for entering - I was you could 

all have prizes!

I asked baby bear #1 to give me a number between 1-15

"What for?"he said and I replied for a prize.

He chose 8.

Congratulations Noela if you could let me know your snail mail address 

then I can post your present to you.

Thank you all for entering.

Birthday booty

These are the beautiful gifts I received from my friends

in the Fat Quarter Birthday Swap.

To each and everyone of you I say thank you

(Janet, Maryanne, Sharon, Helen, Heather, Leanne, Barbra, 

Carol, Cathy, Maureen, Arleen, Sandra, Melanie and Narelle)

as this was the best thing, being able to open all these beautiful bundles 

on my birthday.

Now I can't wait to use them all!

Busy books birthday

I have been super busy.

I don't think I have scratched myself all week.

Ok maybe a slight exaggeration.

It's the last week of term here and we are madly, insanely, freaking busy.

Project due with oral reports,

RUOK Day - crazy hair day

Coins for India - whole school fund raiser/social justice program,

sports day with our local Catholic College (was a whole lot of fun)

Care Groups (school based pastoral care initiative)

a scout getting his green cord (highest Scout award)

swimming lessons

parent/teacher interviews for 2 high school students

and a fire fighter who is working loads of extra shifts.

Phew!

Thankfully this has turned up to inspire me and make me feel 

like maybe I will sew again, one day...

next week when I'm on holidays!

Don't for get you can still enter my give away -

I will draw a winner after school tomorrow.

Can't wait!

Birthday Giveaway

It's official.

It's my birthday.

I'm  having a give-away.

You guys can have a present or 2 too.

All you have to do is leave a comment telling me 

you are a member of my blog so I 

put your name in the hat.

I will pick a winner after school on Friday.

Have a great day

and eat cake!

Weekend over

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly the weekends fly by

and I'm back at work before I know it.

I spent a lot of time on Saturday cleaning up and sorting

my area - I had new fabric to make way for - you  know

how much my postie likes to leave me presents!

This little monster is back to normal -

I'm not sure what he was thinking but watching him

with these little lights was pretty funny.

I fixed the man's pants so his phone doesn't

get lost in the enormous pockets on the

uniform pants - just stitched a line down the middle of the

pocket, dividing it in two.

Is it really bad that I used this for such a mundane task?

The pants of a fire fighter are fairly important.

Well that's pretty much the weekend here,

apart from the washing, ironing, cleaning, groceries,

gymnastics, Church and paying of bills.

Make sure you pop back tomorrow as I going to have a little give away.

House

I have started a new blog all about the house

so that my sewing and spending is separate from the building.

If you are interested and feel inclined you can find it 

here.

Scrap bag

 I have often wondered about the value of a

Moda scrap bag.

Well, I am now convinced they are worth it -

especially in this case.

I recently decided that I had to have some of 

Lucy's Crab Shack - sadly it is an older line and

not readily anymore.

I managed to find some at Southern Fabric.

I was desperate enough to order it.

Oh I'm glad I did as each piece is a really good size for a scrap.

My vote - scrap bags are great.

Thanks Moda :)