Tis the Season...........

Yesterday was a sewing day..............weeks ago I had planned a day with a couple of friends............I knew I had this week off work and it is school holidays so perfect...........no matter what I was going to fit it in somehow..............champagne, yummy lunch, chatter with friends - talk about recharging the mind..........perfect.........

finally we got into some sewing.............

as the deadline was looming I set to work on the Tis the Season..........by Natalie Bird.....

this is my label block.........

quilted in the ditch around the white stitchery blocks.........

preparing the binding..............

The fabrics I used are Robert Kaufman - Sparkle All the Way

finished the binding just before midnight....(deadline 3oth Sept)........had a few of the quilting threads to fix up this morning............So pleased to have this done..........

The Stitch-a-long blog is very busy.................heaps of posts yesterday and today so head over and check it out.............there is also a slide show on the left sidebar where I keep adding finished quilts............

My favourite block...........

Can't wait to hang this one up for Christmas..........

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

Chookyblue

Quilt Airing Cancelled..........

Unfortunatley due to rain Kerry had to cancel the quilt airing..........

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

Quilt Airing Nundle.............

Cottage on the Hill NUNDLE 3rd Annual Outdoor Quilt Airing This Saturday 1st October  10 am to 4pm  In the paddock surrounding the Cottage Come and enjoy the over 100 quilts on display Devonshire tea will be served all day Fingers crossed that the rain over the last few days will clear and that Saturday sees the sun shining. Kerry will up date her Blog on Saturday morning to let everyone know what the weather in Nundle is doing www.kerryswainscottage.typepad.com My plan for today is to sew with some friends at home  so lets hope I can make some progress on my Tis the Season............ .........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

the great escape..........

highlights of the day..........good and bad...........

• Lots of rain so planned to loll around tidying etc in PJ's until lunch when road would be drier 
• phone call at 9am to say the cows had escaped and were miles away from there break 
• tell Fairy Girl to grab some food in a back pack fast.....(6 tim-tams, 2 muesli bars, 2 snack packs of BBQ shapes yummo.....)
• another phone call to say some of the cows were in someones crop
• mobile going flat
• mud flying everywhere while riding on the bike to the cows
• electric fence at break broken in several places - cows obviously been out since about 1/2way thru the night
• Fairy Girl singing me songs with new words esp for me......very funny
• MIL's at home to pass messages onto Mr Chooky since phone was going dead
• Rocks - used one to hit a post back into the ground
• approx 70kms on the 4 wheeler - numb bum
• Mr Chooky having wet sheep and finished early so knew of our troubles and brought pies and coke
• Unfortunately Mr Chooky also found another 12 cows who has wandered about 12kms away from the break

The escaped cows being headed back to break............took several hours...........

See the row of gulars on the fence not so clear as I snapped it on the phone........

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

Chookyblue

OMG it stuffed up and rained.........

Super eXcItEd here............last night it RaInEd 

I am sSsOoOoOoOo HaPpY.......

Nearly 2 inchs of rain (48mls) 

(photo sourced from internet)

This means we have now had just under 7inchs and we are 9 months thru the year............our annual average is 20-21inchs so we are a long way short but lets hope we get some more and maybe just maybe the cows will be coming home within the next month...........and we can stop feeding the sheep.............and boy that will be a happy day...............

the cows will stay in their break and we'll see what the weather is like at lunch time.......(me and black soil roads don't agree).......maybe we'll have to go down on the motorbikes to let them out for some grass.............see what happens.......

....house cleaning here I come............

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

hmmm.......

Yesterday I was back at the cows.............it was a #*^%^&$%(^ day everything was going fine......till I went to leave........flat tyre.......so me and Fairy Girl ended up on the motor bikes all day at the cows...........NOT my plan...........to windy to stitch..........the grasses and wind was seriously driving my hayfever NUTS........

Not sure if I am going to make the SAL deadline for TTS............my eyes were so yuk last night I couldn't sew............

the grasses above are the worst for me.......barley grass and the little thin one at the top makes me want to scratch my eyes out...........lucky I had the eye drops with me...........anyway as i knew my day wasn't going to be fun I decided to snap some photos of the beautiful things I saw.......I couldn't stitch and you can only play angry birds for so long and I had read all the posts in google reader........

"r ap e flower"

Milk thistle

gum blossom

not sure this trees name but i'll try and get a better photo of the flowers today............

here is the tree.......very pretty

a new baby for the mob........

a stray sheep who thinks he is a cow now........

Have a great day...........thank goodness I have the car today........

....it's going to be very windy once again.......but hopefully tonight some rain............

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

Chookyblue

hey........

Just popping in to say hi............I've have had a great week...........3 days at work (busiest week of the month) and then after work on Wednesday straight into a choir camp for 3 extremely full days and nights (24hrs/day) as one of 2 main parent supervisor of 24 mostly primary girls (in our cabin) with one other main supervisor and a few others popping in at breakfast or tea/bed time to help out our cabin which was a wonderful help........170+ kids in total take a lot of food, supervising and WATER..........we had a fairly warm week for spring..........the big concert was last night and the kids all did sing and perform so well.........a few tears here and there from some very tired kids over the last few days but all in all we had a great time.......yes I would be crazy enough to do it all again.............even if my knees and feet are killing me right now.....

I'll tidy a bit here and then find where I am up to............I know I need to sort out a couple of things for the SSCS.....with a quick look on reader I see much excitement for the swap......I have lots of posts to catch up on.............and my backup assistant for the Stitch-a-long blog Maree has helped me out there again this week updating the blog - thanks...........I MUST get my Tis the Season finished this week.......DEADLINE 30th Sept............

i'll try and get back here soon with some sewing news or you will all stop visiting my blog..............

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

Blog stalking........

For all the Secret Santa swappers you should have your swap partners details in your inbox.............let me know if you don't and i'll resend it............ Lots of blog stalking happening...............in the nicest possible way............ If you haven't posted for a bit get to it and pop up a post for your new visitors........... I only doubled up on 4 girls matching with someone they have sent to before and I have managed to change them all around so all is ok...........I just keep moving names and details around in the list until the countries are all mixed up...........I could go nuts if I thought to much about it like peoples styles etc...............so it is all very random..........so long as your sending overseas that my main concern.......... &&&& I'm not sure if you have noticed but the linked list of swappers is up ..........I did it different this time so all the links will be fine but just make sure your name is there............head over and check out all the blogs.........there are a few that are new to me too.............so go visit and leave a comment............you might make a new blog friend........ ......I know there is lots of blog stalking going on and present planning..........someone has already started their ornament............well done.............we only have a few months to make this year since I am a little later then usual starting the swap................I am so glad I did as your all SOOOOOO excited about the swap..............makes my job so much easier.............. .........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........