Frustrated

My car rego runs out on Christmas Eve, so I received my renewal and off I went to the local Transport department to change it over from Tasmania to Western Australia and I left there so frustrated.

My car is less than 12 months old, I have owned it from new (and have the proof) I had the relevant paperwork filled out but no its not that easy, all my paperwork has to go to Perth WTF #1, paperwork is faxed to Perth, the tare weight wasn't acceptable WTF # 2, so I rang dh who works at the Port, do you have a weighbridge Yep he said so I went to the Port and had the car weighed on the weighbridge, back to transport the girl still didn't know if that was going to be acceptable so she called Perth and they said Yep that's fine. So I am still waiting to hear if I can change the rego, told DH that if Perth says NO again I'll just renew it in Tasmania and pay the fine if I get pulled over. Heaven help transport if they say no this time.

See I am 100% frustrated today.

Will share the photo of the tree skirt and our Kindy graduate later tonight, I sewed the last piece of binding down at 11:58pm last night!

Getting worried

I have been checking the recipent of my stitchers' angel swap blog to see if she has received it for weeks it seems and I don't think she has gotten it, and she hasn't replied to my emails but then I haven't received my stitchers' angel goodies either.....and I have been checking my SSCS to see if it has arrived and no luck there either,it should be there this week I posted it on the 21 /11 and it went to the USA. Should I sit tight a few more days or start asking Australia Post some questions???? and should I email the person who was sending to me in the stitchers' angel swap with a please explain or leave it???

Anyhoo

The tree skirt is almost done I have approx 20 more inches of binding to be sewn down YIPPEE

will get back to it as soon as I hit 'publish post'

Have to get it done I am detiremined to go to bed with it around the tree TONIGHT!

only 15 more big sleeps according to the girlies until gumdrops and frumpa arrive we are very very excited but dh is not so excited lol

Binding Issues

Is what I have had for the last few days

Last night I rectified it all though I worked it out and cut it out and tonight I get to sit and sew the binding on the tree skirt :)

I have only ever used continuous binding with mitred corners but the tree skirt required a 29" square cut in half on the diagonal then I had to draw lines across it at 1 3/4" spaces....managed to do that it was the sew the short ends together and cut that had me stumped but eventually figured it out and next time I use a pattern that calls for that type of binding I know I have to match the drawn lines up lol lol lol

but all is good and hopefully tomorrow I'll have a picture to share.

The girlie's school concert was great but I wasn't in the best photo taking spot so I didn't get any. Thursday night is kindy graduation so I will definitely get some photos of that milestone.

I collected the girlie's book packs for next year this morning ($190 I might add for 2 x year 3 and 1 pre primary). The littlest girlie is concerned because she doesn't have a pencil case I told her we would fix that before school starts lol.

Tomorrow is back to work on the bed runner day I am running out of time on 16 big sleeps until gumdrops and frumpa arrive, us girlie's are getting very very excited :)

Hope you all have had a great day, I am off to do some blog hopping and some binding sewing

O' Christmas Tree

We have put the Christmas Tree up , the girlie's did all the decorating and actually managed to use EVERY SINGLE decoration we own lol. I think they did an awesome job.

My personal favourite part of the tree is this

The 'heavily' decorated with balls side, I'll have to try and get a picture of it from outside.

and my tree skirt is almost ready for quilting I just need some more 505 fabric adhesive tomorrow, I ran out as I started to put the top on :( plus I need to do the binding which I am still 100% confused about lol. SO that means I should be working on the bed runner.

Tonight we have the girlie's school concert, will have to make sure I take the camera, girlie # 1 is a shepherd and to our amazement girlie # 2 has found her singing voice and she is in the choir and if you knew this girlie you'd be amazed too, and girlie # 3 gets to sit on her daddy's knee and watch.

I hope you all have had a fabulous day :)

Sewing and Shopping

I have been sewing up a storm over the weekend.......that pesky tree skirt now just needs to be backed, quilted and the binding put on...tomorrows job after I get some binding help as its a done a very different way to my usual binding way! Have to finish it the tree is up (much to Henry's delight)

and shopping...

I love shopping especially for yummy patterns.

I took a peek at Quilt fabric delights on Friday afternoon and found some things in my shopping cart!

I bought these

Yummy little pin keepers

and for the girlie's teachers Christmas presents

and then for the girlie's on Christmas morning

and just because I love Janelle's bags

so it was a great weekend here for me :)

DH took the dog fishing yesterday morning they came home without any fish and lost a few hooks and broke the reel.....oops lol, then he took the girlie's to the beach for a swim

today her took them fishing at the jetty and they came home with 1 lil fish, ripped pants and bloody knees the littlest girlie took a tumble :(

A great weekend :)

only 2 weeks and 4 days til my mum and dad arrive

We are excited.

It will be a big sewing week too, I have to finish the bed runner no excuses must be done THIS WEEK!

a big thank you too Chookyblue to for her hyperlink help, couldn't have done it without her :)

I hope you all had a fabulous weekend

A Bit of Fun

**** I'll apologise now for the links I have no idea how you do those hyperlink thingies ****


DH sent me these in an email today

the ball is driving me mad

I won't tell you my score because its just too shameful

http://thedogpaddler.com/RandomUploads/Ball/ball.htm

then there is the parachute

lots of fun

http://www.bassfiles.net/parachute.swf

we have had these ones for ages,

this one is great for the days that you just need take your frustrations out on something, its very therapeutic lol

http://n.ethz.ch/student/mkos/pinguin.swf


and finally the sheep, I love the sheep

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/sheep/reaction_version5.swf


enjoy :)

Tree Skirt

I am slowly making progress on the tree skirt. SLOWLY being the word lol



this is why I needed the 10 degree wedge so my V's match up

but I am not to happy with the amount of wastage I'll have to try and make something out of it all I think

and no helper today, Henry has had a hard morning of eating and chasing moths so this is how he has spent his day

and I still have 5.5 piles of strips to sew might be a long afternoon/night

The fabric range I am using is by Moda and will match the table runner perfectly which was my intention all along although I can't have the same backing as the table runner as the skirt needs fabric 2.2 metres wide, so I have a rather blah browny/beige fabric to use but its all good as you won't see the backing AT ALL and it will hide the dirt from the floor really really well. The living area floors in this house is sealed concrete.......awful awful awful, so hard to keep clean and the girlie's track sand inside constantly so I fight a constant battle with dirt and sand and the dead moths that Henry the great orange hunter kills nightly.

I hope everyone has had a great day :)