Christmas Delights

They are all out and I am home alone, so it

was a perfect time for me to blog about Chrsitmas

From Cheryll my partner in 

Mrs Martin's Christmas Angel Swap 

I received these lovely lovely goodies

there were also chocolates, but some girlies who live here

might have eaten  ate those......

from Leanne, who was my partner in the yahoo

group I am part of, again the girlies who live here

might have eaten ate the chocolates

from Peg, who sent me these so I had something to open on Christmas day

as my SSCS gift was held up due to bad mail handling....

I sent to Anne-Heidi in Norway

her Christmas Day gift

and the decoration

from my dh and the girlies,

The Naked Chef cookbooks (I love Jamie Oliver)

and Andy Allen who won the last series of Masterchef

I ADORE my new winter hat, really I love it and it was 

THE BEST present I received

Angry Birds 3DS game and pencil toppers

from my MIL and FIL

and from Santa

The complete BOM set of Butterfly Garden

by Leanne Beasley

as soon as I have mums quilt finished this is my next project.

Its lovely having mum and dad here, we have all eaten too much food,

drank alot of coffee, maybe drank a lot of alcohol, MAYBE I said ;)

we have just pottered around and done some touristy things, they are 

currently at the Whale Museum with Em and Imogen, we have been

to Bega and shopped, the kids had Christmas money they needed to

spend. Dh has only worked today so he has been home too its been lovely.

No sewing has been done at all, not even at night, we have been

playing Canasta of an evening, which is alot of fun, but time

is ticking by too quickly and Monday will be here before we know it

I am going to have Dh take them to the airport and I know

mum and I will cry if I take them.....

Lancaster BOM

I am slowly but surely keeping up with this BOM

and here is my progress so far.

month 1 & 2

I have one corner of clamshells to appliqué 

here is month 3's progress

and this is what I am currently sewing another row 

of diamonds and triangles

and I must thank Sharon who has given me lots of assistance

with this pesky BOM, I must say this is not one of the designers

easiest to follow patterns....

I have been battling a nasty headache for the last 2 days,

so there really hasn't been very much hand sewing going on, but my headache 

is finally starting to ease up so I will be back to stitching in front

of the tv tonight.

and

my SSCS recipient will be able to stalk her postman

as my gifts are going postal in the morning all the

way to .......................................

Keeping Busy

Its 'D Day' today, Mums results of her

fine needle biopsy are being delivered at

3pm

I am very very nervous today

So I have been keeping myself busy sewing

I have finished my 12" mini swap

I have done some work on

(In RANDOM photo order) 

my C.R.A.F.T swap

and my SSCS with Chookyblue

my Mrs Martins Angel Swap

My Lancaster BOM, still working on Month 2,

month 3 is here waiting

and my shopping, well the shopping I could find

from my trip home

This gorgeous book from

'The Needlewoman'

in Hobart

and the Batiks for dh NYB quilt

from

'The PatchWorks' in Hobart

I think I just need to find another stitchery book

and you will have seen my shopping.

I need to buy some wadding desperately, I have used ALL

my scraps, so I will be heading to Merimbula 

tomorrow so I can fix that issue.

and

 for the first time EVER, I have not finished my SKoW quilt

before the cut off, I just need to quilt it, but have had

far to much on my mind to even consider getting it done.

Its on my list of things to finish over the school holidays.

Is it 3:30 yet???

Have you met my Stalker?

No matter where I go in the house, I have a stalker watching
my every move..... as everyone has gone to bed early
tonight I thought I would have a little surf of the www

and look what is behind me

my stalker.......

Henrycat

fast asleep on my unpicker and pin cushion. As soon as I

go to bed he will saunter up the hallway and launch

himself to my side of the bed and eventually lie down

beside me and go to sleep, with his head in my hand....

and I have another OPAM finish ( I am on a roll)

but this one I can't share as its for a Christmas swap :(

but I can give you a sneaky peek

and that's all I can share with you :)

there will be quite a bit of secret sewing going on

in the next few weeks as I get my

Mrs Martin's Christmas Angel Swap gifts

made 

and then there is

Chookyblue's Secret Santa Christmas Swap

gift and ornament to be made, I have my thinking cap

on for that one......

lots of sneaky peeks coming up :)

I made another 5 Irish Chain blocks today,

that means I only have 4 more to make yippee