helping out..........

It's always nice to help people out and today I found I helped out 2 bloggers...........

Retired Dairy Queen found out how to get her comments emailed to her so she can reply easy

Cubby House Crafts gave the emailing pics to her post ago........

...I have these links just sitting in my sidebar and every so often I receive an email thanking me for the help............I am happy to be able to assist..............

so as a thanks for 2 lovely emails here are some pics I snapped yesterday to share with you...........

off for some breaky then into the sewing..........

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

blog win......

Kate was having a giveaway and I was lucky to win these beautiful fat 1/4's..............

Thanks heaps Kate it was a nice surprise in the mail this week.

Big frost here this morning and I am off to the mountains hills for the day for a class excursion..........tell me why did I say I would do this today...........it's going to be pretty cold up there.

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Visitors arriving later today for the longweekend here. Yep she has planned

to pack the sewing machine so we will be doing some sewing and maybe rodeo

and a quilt show if we get into town. Lots of motor bikes for the kids and

maybe a bonfire and campovens.

Have a great weekend!

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

PS I couldn't get this post up this morning so now i'm home..........survived the mountains.............was pretty darn fresh up there.................not too bad 1/2 the time except when the wind blew..........then it was time to pull the scarf up around my ears.........the car said 11deg when I was leaving after lunch...........

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Visitors arrive safe and sounds.....

Sock Puppet.........

Jimmity crickets........if we don't have a good frost in the morning I will be shocked.

Gotta be snowing somewhere down south........
more retreat news.........

Fairy girl had no idea she was coming to stay for the night.............I had snuck some clothes for her into my bag and when they called in I asked her if she wanted to stay and she said she didn't have any clothes............I showed her my stash of clothes and she was SOOOOOO excited..........she had a ball with us..........she also got to do some sewing too.............

Thank goodness we found out this week's homework before last weekend.

Fairy Girl arrived with a plain blue sock and look at her beautiful puppet

she made while at the retreat.

With a little help from the other Miss's stitching and scraps she made "sparkles" complete with strapless dress,

leopard print belt, sleeping bag and pillow.

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

more retreat..........

a pj sewing day - perfect even if some people just can't do pj's all day................lol...........the FABULOUS sun streaming in...........

FANTASTIC sunsets.............going.....

going............

gone............

the naughty ones got to sleep here..................lucky everyone was good...........

FLANNELETTE scraps come in handy for holding up FLOODLIGHTS............gotta be able to see for late night sewing FUN............

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

a baby quilt

Well I showed you some blocks and chenille and that was going to be one of my projects while away.............while grabbing things out I found these blocks left over from another quilt and after a quick late night shopping phone call and pics emailed to Kerry she slipped back into the shop and grabbed me some cream chenille and a border fabrics to put this quilt together..........

Supposed to be a babies quilt but it has turned out a bit bigger anyway it means it will last a lot longer........

Dale has very kindly taken it home to quilt for me........thanks so much.........

A busy day today loading and unloading pavers that Mr Chookyblue picked up at a clearing sale for a bargain.......it has been quite awhile since he brought home something very useful.........

.....then out to lunch for a friends birthday.....

 so a mixed day but I still have have a warm fuzzy feeling from my weekend with such wonderful people............thanks Cardygirl, Miss E, Kerry, Peg, Dale, Miss N and Miss Jules, Tooth Fairy.............Fairy Girl also got to go for part of the weekend and she was SOOOOOOO excited and had a ball..........she did some sewing too so will show you that shortly............

I need a detox from food...........we ate so much.............breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, nibbles, main and dessert...........late night chocolate...............OMG seriously excess of delicious food..........

More show and tell later...............

Catch you later

Chookyblue

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FREAKING
FANTASTIC
FUN

FABRIC

FIZZY

FAR to much FOOD

FABULOUS FRIENDS

a FATIGUED & FREEZING 

Chookyblue

is sewing possible?????

........well maybe it might be possible if I don't talk too much this weekend.......

......as I am such a quiet person I am sure I will get lots done

do you think this can become a quilt top??????

I will need to sew up a snow storm with the chenille..............

Check list..............

# champagne

# food

# sewing supplies

# chocolate

# sewing machines

# way to many projects to work on

# super duper friends to sew with (well I hope they are packing there bags and projects right now)

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have a great weekend and maybe just maybe I will have something quilty to show next week.......

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....oh and I just checked and about 2 of the last 10 posts have sewing in them so I better do something..........

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showery, cool, cloudy weather here so perfect for sewing and warm cosy fires with friends..........

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

cold wet dreary day...............

I know many of you girls I visit in blogland get plenty of days like this and lots colder and wetter but in my part of Australia we get very few days that are lucky to make it to 13deg cel maximum............with the breeze it is a few degrees cooler..............not a lot of rain just fine misty stuff all day................guess it is preparing us for winter which starts tomorrow............a perfect day to stay in doors with the fire burning keeping us  warm...............

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

PS for those in Oz Eurovision in on SBS again tonight 7.30pm if you missed it last night........lol......