Rainbow Swap............

Trash organised a rainbow swap.............I received this wonderful parcel

from Janet Clare in the UK.............these are all the goodies she sent me

.............she has done some wonderful free motion drawing with the sewing

machine............I have no hope in the world to achieve this..........

I need to get a cushion insert for the cushion cover and it will look great

on my lounge..............

Oh and she "drew' these little chooks too..............I am going to make
the chooks into something special...........maybe a needlebook for
myself..........they are sooo cute.........

Thanks heaps Janet for the beautiful gifts and also Trash for organising the
swap.................

My parcel is in transit so I won't spoil the surprise for my
swapper.................

Take Care til next time..............
Chookyblue

Dust...........

Yesterday afternoon the winds picked up and so did the dust again..................the winds dropped on sunset but eerie as the dust was still just hanging around.................I think it was fairly still all night but this morning I got up and the dust was still here...............it is calm again this morning but the dust is still hanging in the air..........these are pics of the sun rising this morning.............guess the Christmas tidy and clean won't happen today just the tidying............no point cleaning.............and it is so beautiful and cool outside after a pretty warm day yesterday but I am NOT opening the

doors...........

While on temps.............it is the 2nd last day of the

month............for November our average maximum temp is 31deg (90yrs records) for this November our average maximum temp is 35.7 (hotter then our

hot months) so we haven't been going on about the heat for nothing...............and the coolest maximum we have had 28.4 Lets hope this is the worst of summer.........but i am sure it will not be.............

Take Care til next time..............
Chookyblue

swaps out............

First up we have the SSCS...............if this arrives at your door I am your Santa...................but it does have a long journey like all the other SSCS parcels on Santa's sleigh........and it will be delivered to ??????......some more parcels have arrived and Santa's sleigh must be on jet speed because some parcels have only taken a week.

it will slow down though with all the other christmas traffic...............

Next we have the second installment of the advent swap organised by Fiona at Mothers Cupboard.............dawdling on sending as I had the same delimma as Kate as in which gift of 2 went to you..............I have already sent some gifts to get Kate started........

And finally the Rainbow Swap organised by Trash...............wonder where this will end up..................

Take Care til next time..............

Chookyblue

SSCS Parcels..........

Under 30 parcels to hear about now regarding sending...............but the really exciting news is 4 parcels have arrived at there destination so keep an eye on your mailbox...........make sure you let me and your Santa know when your parcel arrives.............

.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

Nerves of steel.................

Well not quite nerves of steel but certainly testing.......doesn't matter where you go from my house you have to go quite a distance before you hit sealed roads.............my usual road is usually not to bad when it is wet............most paddocks have been top dressed with good dirt to make them better when it is wet............

Sometimes I go out another road (20kms dirt) and there is nothing worse then when you nearly get home and find there has been rain and the dirt road is wet............I tell you it involves LOTS of OH SHIT.........deep breaths to settle the nerves.............driving on this particular road is usually avoided when wet because the dirt is bad and it is like driving on ice (I am assuming no chance of ice here) the car goes where it wants

to...........unfortunately it started to rain heaps more while coming thru...........thankfully you usually never see another car on this road because if I had to pass one I would probably hit it.......it is bad enough the mobs of sheep and cattle I have to hope run off the road in time.............I have a pile of ramps to crawl over negotiate too and everyone I make it over I nearly do a happy dance...........only ended up in the gutter once and managed to get out............home safe and sound but not enough rain for anything yet just a wet road.............

SSCS have a pile of emails to go thru so when I grab something to eat I will try and get thru them all and update the sidebar................Thanks everyone............

Take Care til next time..............
Chookyblue
PS I have great mail to report on too...............my rainbow swap has arrived and also the nine patch swap is back from being swap with Christine...........

URGENT SSCS...........

Secret Santa Christmas Swappers

I have sent out an urgent email.

Please check your inbox ASAP.

.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

cool giveaway..............

Since you have all been so nice to me while I have been hot and bothered and

the weather today has cooled down heaps compared to the last

week..................not as much as down south but 32 is much better then

42............but so much more bearable........you may think I was going on

about the weather but it is not common for this time of the

year.......we may get a extremely hot day or 2 but not a week...........it is the weather we usually get in Jan or Feb not Nov......... long standing November records have been broken in a lot of

places....not ours thank goodness because it is 46 deg............a temp I

never want to see...........

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But onto the "cool" giveaway.........now I am having a little restrospective giveaway as while all

that was going on I also missed my 600th post........[yep blog to much] .........my random number

generator Fairy Girl picking a number between X & Y and the winner is

Levin..........send me your snail mail..............

I have had heaps of fun in blogland..............I have met and become friends with some wonderful people that without blogging I would never have met..............sewing, photograpy, inspiration, ideas, motivation, swaps, friendships, recipes and a few cow's............lol.............

thanks for taking the time to comment on my blog and reply to my comments I left on yours because without that interation it wouldn't be so much fun.............

Take Care til next time..............
Chookyblue

PS SSCS Hope there are lots of parcels being packed [like the beautiful one above] as I speak you have 2 days left to post so bust a move....22 people have posted so far.....I am marking people off on my sidebar..........email me asap after you have sent your parcel and attach a pic of your gifts to the email so I get it in one email............some beautiful gift have started to travel the globe..............

Since I have become a COW (even though Lurline thinks I am not "old" enough - so kind of you) there is one subject Nancy missed...........it has been bugging me for awhile so here goes............
I found a site that runs swaps and although not charging to enter the swaps at this stage (I can see it coming though) they have a "DONATE" button on there site to help with the costs of running a swap..................HELLOOOOOOOOOOO
what happened to just running the swap for the fun of it...........if you don't want to because it cost you money well don't organise them...........
As you may or may not know I am into my 3rd Secret Santa Christmas Swap SSCS............it cost me lots of time but not much money (a couple of extra parcels) ..............I run the swap because I want to not because someone may donate money to me.......... (well quite a few others want me to run the swap also....lol) but donating or asking for money - it is just wrong wrong wrong..........well that is my opinion and I can say what I want............all I need to receive from SSCS participants is "thanks" and they all do that..........

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Also get rid of the google ad's..............I HATE them..........I don't go to blogs with them usually............

.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

PS this weather better hurry up and cool down...........who knows what I may be blogging next............lol..........if anyone can be bothered to read my ramblings of the last few days hang in there things will get better............