Fun Filled Days Part 2

DD2 and I went shopping and out for a lovely lunch on Friday. Then after picking the children up from school we went to surprise my LS for her birthday.
We were a little late as we got side tracked but finally found the venue where we needed to be.
It was so nice to see BOTH my sister’s and give my LS her quilt on her special day.





Now I can show you the secret quilt I have been working on for ages!!!!  The house I stitched on the quilt resembles the home we all grow up in.

Saturday we went to the beach. It was just a beautiful sunny day, perfect for a swim.



  


Afterwards it was off to buy some shoes. We could hear giggling from the kids and discovered them trying on shoes.



It keep them amused while we browsed. LOL





Sunday evening DD2 and I went out for dinner and then to see Billy Connelly. We laughed so much our cheeks were sore.


In the evenings we stitched and I finished my Easter Swaps.






     DD2 made the cute Hat and Basket.





and also my pincushion for that swap.






So you can see I DID have a fun filled few days away.

Fun Filled Days Away. part 1.

Have just returned home after having 5 busy fun filled days with my DD2 and two youngest GC.
Arrived Thursday afternoon in time to go to the kids school and watch them go out to fly their kites for Harmony Day.
There was just enough wind in a lovely blue cloudy sky.

 Hang on  



All the children wore clothes to represent different countries and cultures. My GC wore the Dutch Flag.

Later we went to see “The Sculptures by the Sea”.










and after lots of walking it was time to have our upside down tea.
Ice cream first.




Mmmmmmmmmmm!!!!! very nice.  We wanted to see who had the longest tongue. LOL

Then we sat and watched the sunset while eating our picnic tea.

FNSI

I am spending a few days in Perth at my DD2’s house. As it was FNSI we sat and did some sewing together.
DD2 make some Baby Blankets.



I sat and put together a Wool Pincushion for a swap.





Will be pleased to get this finished and mailed off to the recipient next week.
Have a fun weekend all and I will do a longer post next time.

Learning to Quilt???

Today  was spent in the company of my Patch friends learning to free motion quilt.



Our lovely teacher was Pauline who travels all over Aussie with her DH.

It was amazing how quickly Pauline taught us to quilt in a straight line with our feed dogs down. Well pretty straight.


Then onto mazes, squares, triangles, waves and sort of circles. My ended up looking more like an apple and peach so I gave them a stem.









It was a long day as I left home at 8.30am and arrived home at 6pm.  I had lots of fun and learnt a lot.
When I got home my DH had prepared dinner so that was lovely.
 So nice to sit, relax and enjoy my meal.

Ins, Outs and Eats

Yesterday was Pancake Tuesday so after swimming we



went to one of ladies lovely home to eat these



for breakfast.  YUMMY. Thank You Gill.
This is the view we had sitting on Gill’s the patio.



As you can see the ocean is still very brown.


Today I was thrilled to have THREE little cards in my mail box.
Look at all my goodies.



My Autumn Swap from Melody.



A beautiful Mug Bag and Mug Rug to match with lots of nice coffee and teas. As well as nice chocolates.

A Giveaway I won from Michelle.
Such pretty paper and card.






Inside I found a beautiful hand made journal and pen. Four great coasters, a lovely flower brooch, some great fabric and my MOST FAVORITE chocolate “Milky Bar”
would you believe it is almost gone


and another giveaway from Crafty Pug.
Three great Christmas Magazines.
 

Thank you to Melody,Michelle and Crafty for ALL my great gifts. I feel very loved.

While at the post office I popped Jan’s parcel and softies in the mail.


Oh!! I can now show you the Autumn Swap I sent to Fiona.
Hope you don’t mind Fiona borrowed your photo.
I forgot to take one.



Now I will sit and read my mags and have a cuppa.
and finish my Milky Bar.

Lost a Week!!!!

I seem to have lost a week!! The days just fly by and before I know it it will be Monday again.
Have spent a lot of my sewing time doing my secret quilt. Pleased to say the quilting is done and I only have to do the binding.
It was fun making this wee fella and a  Bunny to send to Leonie for the kids in Christchurch.



Look at my  Funny Bunny , he looks more like a dog,
hope someone will love him??     

 
Yesterday I went and spent some time with my friend Linda and we sat and sewed QAYG Blocks to send to Jan who will kindly stitch them into quilts to send to Qld and Christchurch. Have a look at the wonderful work she does.



Today I finished off this pile.  35 blocks = 1 quilt   BUT



Linda finished off these. 70 blocks. How good is that.
                     
   Great job Linda!!!!!

Small Finishes for February OPAM

Sometimes we do have to use these!!!  See that blue thing !!



I must say it did look better when I finished for awhile



until this happened. GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!



I was pleased that I managed to have a few finishes this weekend.




Sewing Caddy’s for the Qld Flood Ladies.



and I also made three blocks for some of the swaps I am in.
Hope you all had a great weekend.