A OPAM Finish

and there is a good chance it will be my only finish

for April due to moving house

Hubby bought home the latest Homespun magazine on Saturday

on the cover was a gorgeous sewing machine cover

that I knew I needed to have.

Yesterday I made the time to sit and sew

but thanks to my iron (big scorch mark that will teach me for keeping

the old iron for sewing), the design has changed just a little

bit

Ta Da, one very snug fitting sewing machine cover

isn't it cute, I am really happy with it.

Today I am working on a swap item, I need to get it made

before the weekend, so I can concentrate on the immense

task of packing the house, with the kids here......

roll on the evening of the 21st, we will be happily living

in the house on the hill.

Happy Easter

Good Friday we attempted to go fishing in dh work boat

sadly the fish also had a long weekend and were

nowhere to be found :)

Saturday Em went to her friends house, we had a potential buyer

of this house come through for a look and then we decided

we really needed to have a good look through our 'new house'

before we moved in, so Imogen came with us and we went

for a look, it's alot roomier than we realised, we planned who was

going into which bedroom, discovered that there really is nowhere for

our current fridge to live inside the house, plenty of room in the garage

for it, so came home via retravision to buy a new fridge

this is what we decided on

and this is what we currently have, although ours is 9 years old

 the girlies woke up to find the

easter bunny had been to visit and spread little eggs

all over their bedroom floors.

they enjoyed a breakfast of chocolate and hot cross buns

hubby and I had bacon and eggs and coffee.

Yesteray afternoon saw us visiting friends for an Easter drink, before

heading to a bbq with other friends, it was a late night

we didn't get home until midnight.

and today we decided to have another go fishing, we caught

enough for Henrycat to have a fresh fish feast.

I need to start organising myself this week to shif next week.

We get the keys Thurday morning, that will give me 2 days to

get everything bar the furniture over to the new house and

unpacked. The removalists are booked for the 21st and we have

a few friends with utes and trailers hepling out too, the only payment

they requested was beer and a feed at the end of the day,

that I can do.

I did get some time to sew on Saturday afternoon, I sewed up the last

of the hexagons for my Kaleidoscope Hexagon Quilt, now I just need

to finish stitch the centres on, and I have 2 small blocks to make to be

up to date with my hubby's New York Beauty quilt

and my mama, she is still in hospital, still hooked up to

an IV of antibiotics, she has had 2 or 3 blood transfusions and

in our daily text told me today she is very bored lol

she must be feeling better. Hopefully she will be home

tomorrow or Wednesday,

I hope your easter was as fun filled and as full of good times

as ours has been.

Be still my beating heart

Miss Sophie had a girlie-friend come and stay on the weekend

Miss Emma was at her girlie-friends staying over

so I thought as I was minus the chatty, attention span

of a gnat girlie it would be a good time to introduce

Sophie and Miss E to stitching

designs were picked and traced

cotton floss was selected

needles were found

and voila

Miss Sophie and her first of many stitcherie's

meanwhile I have continued to sew hexagons

I have made the required 123 hexagons plus a few extras

as I want straight edges not the jagged edge the pattern

has

I still have 25 more to sew but they are all cut out and tomorrow

I will sew them up ready for their centres to be stitched on at night

I am hoping to get back to sewing Miss K's granny square quilt

tomorrow and I need to catch up on my New York Beauty

as this weeks block came out today and I haven't made last weeks

yet.

there is lots of sewing on my agenda this week, plus a farewell bbq

here on Saturday for one of hubby's work mates who is

moving north to another Port next month

(as soon as she is gone we get to move into the House on the Hill)

 it will be a stitching free weekend for me!

The pressure the pressure

and we are still having tv issues, tv man is supposed to be coming

today to see what he can do........emphasis on

SUPPOSED lol

and we are down to 1 child this weekend as the big girlies are

off on a scout camp, 2 whole nights of peace :)



Progress Reports

Progress  Report # 1

I went and spoke to Imogens teacher yesterday and

I am thrilled to say that my

sensitive, gentle, quiet little bean took it upon

herself to speak to him, without me there

he has spoken to 1 of the boys concerned

and still needs to speak to the other, in a hurry

because she told me today he and another 2 boys

were bullying her again today, so she went and told

her teacher again, hopefully there will be some

consequences this time.

Progress Report # 2.

I am offically EXCITED actually beyond

EXCITED

we are moving house.....to the other side of town

to the House on the Hill

the Harbour Masters house becomes vacant next month

and we are moving in.

YIPPEE

Progress Report # 3

I am still sewing down binding on

Em's quilt, it seems to be taking soooooo

much longer than any other quilt

but I must keep going, I promised dh

I would have it finished before he gets home on

Thursday

He is at The Australian Maritime College

doing a refresher course in the Ship Simulator

lucky bugger is staying at my mum and dads too

Hopefully the binding will be finished tonight

tomorrow I will share a photo and share the next

New York Beauty block I did today.



Nigella the 2nd (I wish)

My girlies love home baked treats, sadly when I do

bake them, its like they INHALE the goodies

and they are gone.

Its raining here today so I have gone on a baking

binge,

rock buns, my grandmas recipe and my daddy's favourite

chocolate crunch, Mrs Prosser taught me to make this in

cooking in grade 7 (28 years ago)

and Fudgy Brownies a recipe in the Herald Sun last week

if they inhale this lot, I won't be happy ;)

not very weightloss friendly but bugger it

you only live once

I found and ordered some 1930's charm squares

this morning at The Fabric Patch  

I think they will work well and what was even better was

I didn't have to pay for it  Webby did :)

picture from The Fabric Patch

Mum starts her treatment today Chemo and Radiation

fingers crossed for her that its a good outcome after her

treatment is finished.

I managed to get February's SAL blocks appliqued last night

after lunch I am going to sit down in front of the tv, catch up

on what I recorded while I was away and do the feature stitching

then prep some more blocks and see if I can get a little bit ahead

I am a bit over sew, laugh, love I will save whats left for my next trip

away which is supposed to be a camping trip over Easter

(but we might be moving house instead, fingers crossed please,

no not home to Tassie but to the House on the Hill

aka The Harbour Masters Cottage, ocean views, a HUGE HUGE

block with plenty of room for a new cottage garden, chickens,

the kids and the dog)