4.3 people

Yep there is now 4.3kgs less of me

and I am feeling so happy with myself, especially

as I managed to lose 1.4kgs while we were away!

anyhoo onto a very tiny amount of sewing

that was done yesterday

on my Some Kind Of Wonderful quilt.

January's blocks

mind you I only had to stitch them into the strip,

the ice cream is part of February's blocks

and January's sashin is aready sewn onto Decembers blocks.

Guess I should get cracking on the final block of In My Garden

so I can get it finished and quilted and hung on the wall,

before my mama and daddy arrive in exactly

1 MONTH woo hoo

and I am looking forward to Monday because

SCHOOL STARTS for 2012.



We've been Camping

Last Monday we packed up the car and hooked up the trailer and left for a

camping trip.

1st stop was Canberra

Black Mountain Tower

The National Muesum of Australia

The War Memorial

Thursday we packed up and headed to Batemans Bay

along the way we stopped at 2 quilt shops in Bungandore and

Braidwood, I bought a tin sewing caddy and a gorgeous timber box in

Bungandore but nothing in Braidwood

I bought 3 pieces of fabric in Batemans Bay  and that was the extend of my sewing

on our trip, I packed it, took it, and didn't do any of it.

We packed up on Sunday morning and took the kids to Mogo Zoo

it waas FANTASTIC we saw

Meerkats

Rothschild giraffes

Simiang Monkeys

Snow Leopards

Ringtailed Lemurs

Monkeys

Red Pandas

Sumatran Tigers

Feral Kids

White Lions

and so many more.

We finally arrived home last night around 6, today I got the fun job of

5 loads of washing, a trip to the supermarket and unpacking.

and I still have 2 loads left to wash but have no room on the clothes line

to hang it out.

We had a FABULOUS time and are busy deciding where we will go for easter



Time Flies

Happy New Year everyone, I hope you all

had fun celebrating the new year.

Personally I was in bed by 10:30 asleep.

So the past few couple of weeks we have been

busy busy busy

with trips to the beach

trips to the pool

we have been on long bike rides

and big walks

we have slept in and stayed up late

we have played the wii and lots of board games

and cards.

and we have walked, ALOT

 dh and I  get up at 6 each morning and walk

for 1 hr, we average 5km then the kids and I head to the

beach and do another 2.5km, along the path

 I walk they ride their scooters.

this year I am determined to get

healthier

I haven't drunk any alcohol since

Dec 30, 2011

I haven't drunk any diet coke since

Dec 30 2011

I have cut my coffee intake down to 2 per day

1 with breakfast and 1 after dinner

 I am drinking 4 litres of water a day

we are eating low fat healthy food all the time

and since December 30 2011 there is

2.8 kg less of me.

and I feel fantastic.

2012 is going to be the year of the healthy me.

I am ashamed to say though that there has been very little

sewing being done, I haven't touched my machine since

before Christmas, and I haven't done very much hand sewing

at night either.

I have finished January's blocks for

Some Kind Of Wonderful

and I am onto the FINAL BLOCK of

In my Garden

as soon as school goes back life will return to normal for 4 weeks

then my mummy and daddy are arriving for a holiday

I am so excited.

Enjoy your summer holidays everyone

Done and Dusted for another 363 days

Well I for one am pleased that

Christmas is over for another year.

It was a very quiet Christmas here this year,

just dh, the girlies and I

and even though we had a great day

it just wasn't the same without all the

family around.

Next year will be different,

Mum and Dad have said they will

come here for Chrsitmas but I really want to

go home to Tasmania dh better start

saving his penny's :)

So I finally got to open my SSCS present from

Paula, and I love it

I received a mug which say Sew happy to be quilting, used needle

container, which will be used when I am playing with the quilty beast,

a photo mousepad and a bookmark

my main gift was a lovely crochet bag of Paulas own design

and Imogen having fun on the slip n slide the girlies received

Boxing day we sat around and did very little ate

leftovers, played cards and watched the start of

the Sydney to Hobart, I did some stitching on

my Anni BOM it was BLISS

Yesterday we took the girlies snorkelling

I sat on the beach and read my book and today I am

rather sore as my legs got burnt..... :(

then we went to Davidsons beach and did some fishing

not that we caught any.

We knew the Nemisis the BIG police boat was coming

into berth on the breakwater jetty as they had to do

a medi vac off a Sydney to Hobart yacht, so we went to have a look

and there was a Sydney to Hobart yacht in port, they had to

retire as they had rigging issues, Imogen was amazed that there were

so many sailors on it lol.

Another 2 came in overnight also having to withdraw.

Eden is the last Port before they enter Bass Strait, so if they have

issues they come here.

The girlies are at the beach with the neighbours today  and

 I am hiding inside out of the

sun and plan on stitching the day away.

Santa was very, very, very good to me this year.

I recieved a 3D, DS (big kid at heart) and a 3D game,

books, and a gift voucher for Virgin Blue

I can see 2 or 3 return flights home coming up over the next 12 months :)

I hope Santa was good to you all, and that you had a

fabulous Christmas with your loved ones.



Its almost time.....

for Santa to visit

are you excited.....

my girlies are

I am not only because I know

HOW MUCH WORK I have to do

in the kitchen, between now and Sunday

Its been a busy week for us

I have had an influx of stray children

I have had girlies staying over at friends houses

We spent a day shopping in Bega and Merimbula

 for all the last minute christmas gifts,

and food why is food so expensive

and then on Thursday afternoon the 2 big girlies were invested at

scouts

Let the badge earning begin

and my baby girl I love this photo of her

Today was a trip to the supermarket (again), dh and I went on

a slip n slide hunt, we were successful :)

& we bought some prawns and oysters for Sunday

then went to the beach for a couple of hours it was

so nice just to lie on my towel with a good book

listening to the kids have fun.

So as a result of the past week there has been very little

sewing of any kind being done :(

not even hand sewing at night

Tomorrow I have so much to do

I have a Nigella Pork roast thingie prepare

a meringue to cook

veges to prepare

all the Christmas presents to wrap after we watch

part 2 of Going Postal

I am looking forward to Monday :)

Have a Happy, Safe and Blessed Christmas

If you are driving, no texting, drive sober, no speeding

and stay safe

and I hope Santa leaves something special for you all

Girveaway

I love paper piecing, I just need to tackle

much smaller paper piecing projects so they

don't take me 3 years to do lol

anyhoo

the paper piecing guru of Australia

Sue Daley has a new book coming out

and she is giving away a copy of her

new book

Go here to enter

2 more to go

on my Anni BOM

Block 7 is done, I just need to stitch the Goose's beak and legs

and add some twine to the tomatoes

and what all the blocks look like as of today

Hoping to have this baby as my first finish for 2012

and there has been some stitch-a-long progress too

December is done and dusted, the sashing for January is

on , the chocolates are already stitched I just need

to stitch the daisy and January is done too

.I have swapped some fabric from the sashings, I have a dark

beige spot that I put into the sashing but I took it out and added

the cream/brown spot and the beige between the pink and green

blocks.

So lots of progress being made here.

YAY