Found some blogs.......

As as I was cruising around blogland I have found some new blogs to me..........thought I would share.........

Tiriltunge, Scrap Basket and Kviltstina - thought I had another one but lost it for now......

....also Day Day's blog is being updated more regularly now she does wonderful sewing besides a pile of bags and so does Peg (if you have not found them yet) and Bloom is back on air....

Here is a pic from my trip to Jodie it is a cactus flower - I have made it into a card also...........
Enjoy

Take care

look close...........THANKS

19th Feb is my 1 year blog birthday.......so going back thru 200+ posts.........I can't imagine my life without it now with my new network of friends online and some have also become real life now...........such a wonderful time I have had......so THANKS because it would not be the same without your comments and inspiring blogs ........

..as I have no sewing to report today here are some pics I took yesterday afternoon..........

dead flower, spiders, rain drops and spider web are some of the things I found in these pics when I loaded them onto the computer..........

This is my new hibicus flower I brought on the weeekend..............this flower is huge and beautiful............the rose is Proncess de Monocco and an oleander flower

My only problem is my online chatting friend Jodie is off the air - some internet problem my life is pretty quite with our her........

.............Take care...........

Here's another surprise.........

Yes this will be for Fairy Girl too.........when I was sorting out my sewing........(stop laughing Carey) I found some material from Fairy Girl's Princess Mary quilt that I made for her a few years ago...........so it will go well with her room...........

just enough to frame this stitchery and very scrappy pieced back...............

Now about the angel she came from a swap organised by Janet (mid last year) and I was lucky enough to receive this beautiful angel from Darlene at Bee So Whimsical......... I think these materials were just perfect for the framing..........

Oh and I nearly forgot...............head over to Kerry and wish her happy 2nd blog birthday......16th Feb I think she has been to busy to remember...........she is back into her wonderful retreats so very busy again.........

Take care til next time...........

Secrets and Shopping..............

No no the shopping isn't the secret............I am just slack and hadn't gotten around to showing you what i got while away............what else to buy on a road trip but Leanne's "Romancing the Road Trip"

Just happened upon a quilt shop open on a Sunday afternoon..............jammed on the brakes, pulled over and reversed back up the road...........well worth the stop........I don't have much in creams so got a few......

Now shhhhhhhhhhh don't tell Fairy Girl but she has a birthday coming up this week and since she has slept with Mr Red Rabbit since last week I thought maybe I should make her a special friend.........gosh i don't know how you girls make softies all the time..........so dam fiddly and I had to sew the crutch together again once finished..........so don't look to closely..............but I am sure Fairy Girl will love it............

Take care till next time...............

To add to my last post...........

After a few emails back and forwards with Jodie (one of three I regularly visit - so much confusion with that name) she said she still had her sample stitching from about 11 or 12yrs old I think and she still had her sewing box and her quick un pick......

.....so that lead me to showing you my first sewing box.......a cute little pink number........I still LOVE this little basket............

(there's another post of what I found in it.............it is only small but I found about 4 WISP's.............mainly embroidery and cross stitch)

then when I started sewing in High School I "had to have" this yellow sewing box as this is what all the other girls had............oh the pressure...........

I had a few girls comment as "no reply " sorry I can't write back to you................

beginning craft.............

Over the weekend I had a neighbour over to visit we were talking about a outfit I though I had and went in search of it.............hmmmmmmm not luck finding the outfit and I knew where it should have been so I must have thrown it out but what I did find was some old craft I have not seen for years .................forgive the quality but I think most of it was done in primary school................

Mr Rabbit is currently sleeping with fairy girl.............I think it was a project to pass a badge in Brownies or Guides............

Not sure where I made this foul orange bag but look at the blanket stitch..........pretty wild but I was just young............lol..........by the time you get to the next letter you can't see it is almost reverse blanket stitch.........lol......

Mushroom wall hanging............

such neat even stitches...................NOT.........lol

Even had a go at Hobby Text (is that what it was called) I know my mum had it but this was done in Guides..............I was in the Rosellas group...............we also had Lyrebirds........

Loved Smurfs at the time............also think we traced these pics as I am not a good drawer..........

These yellow ones were completed in Yr 3 or 4 at school so i was 9 or 10 years old......this yellow material must have been cheap..............hand stitching

My first needlekeeper completely hand sewn...............thankgoodness my sewing skills have improved since then...........I think I choose the red and purple as our stitches had to "show up" and we had to decorate it with stitches........

machine stitching here............same yellow see what I mean we did have a lot of it............

the cover of my needle work sampler.........

various hand stitches.............

and a few more fancy ones.............

finally I remember doing this with the Nun's..............this Nun was particularly strict ..........we pulled the threads out first and then stitched through........such neat knots on the back...........I was definitely in Yr 3 or 4 so i am very proud of the neatness of my stitching.............

Until I got all this together I didn't realise how much childhood sewing I had kept.........I am also very pleased that I did keep this.........could have been thrown out on a whin like the dress I was looking for......I wished I had the opportunity to do more and I have very happy memories from all these projects...............

.....makes me so pleased i am sewing with fairy girl and bookworm (ds)............hopefully they will have fond memories like me in years to come..........

Do you still have some sewing craft from your childhood????? Or am I the only collector which I seriously doubt............

Along the roads...........

As there is soooo much grass around...........over the last few weeks I have noticed all the amazing grasses and different colours and types of heads..........here are some pics taken when I have just stopped and snapped..........wished I had my big camera this day but only had my baby camera but she did do very well I think..........it is just so pretty driving around and I have been doing a bit of that........

We have had the most amazing summer so far..........I have not seen so much grass around in summer for .............hmmmmmm I don't remember how long so it must have been a long time............and we have had the mildest summer so far the temps have been very kind.........hardly a HOT day so far.........the power bill will be good hardly using the air conditioner.........I keep telling the kids take it all in and enjoy as this is not the "norm" although I could get used to it immediately.........

Take a look around and see what you can see along the roads..........

Progress.........

I did get some sewing of my own done on the weekend. The Disappearing Nine patch is coming along..........I have ordered some material for the border..........

.........my time has been taken up directing Fairy Girl with her quilt we are now on row 3..........with rows 1 & 2 joined together........thanks for all the comments and yes she is only little...... 6 but nearly 7yrs old..........as she keeps telling me............

so much to show and tell about but I need to take some pics........sorry cattle work has taken up today.........

..................take care..........