Homecoming Lane

When I went home in February I bought home a 

BOM that the always lovely Miss Pauline of

Calico Crossroads put away for me, it was

Homecoming Lane, by Gail Pan

I finished the last of the needle turn on Friday night and

spent yesterday and today sewing the blocks and then

sewing the top together

last night I started work on my next night time sewing 

project, 

Friends for Christmas, by Lynette Anderson and I have made 

more progress than this photo shows, block 1 is

huge, 10.5" x 42.5"

Thursday the girlies and I went to Bega to collect

our new glasses and popped into Big W

Sophie and Imogen came home with 

hot pink sneakers, I really wanted a pair too

but couldn't get my foot into a pair of 

kids size 5, so I am hot pink sneaker less :( and Em

chose purple canvas slip on's

Miss Sophie and her glasses, I love them

mine are far more sedate and yay I can see properly 

again

and we have been dog sitting for the last week

meet Boyd, he is a special needs dog

he is stone cold, deaf as a post

but he has occupied the naughty puppy

although he does like to dig, and chew things :)

but as he is only 1, I guess its to be expected, Boyd goes home

on Tuesday

and tonight Imogen got out of the shower and 

informed us through her sobbing that, and I will quote her

'I bumped the shaver in the shower and look what happened'

dh and I did laugh, bless her, it was very very funny

I have the ladies from my monthly quilting group coming for 

morning tea tomorrow, and the painter man is coming too

at 8am...... so we have packed up my bedroom and moved

into Sophie's room, hopefully I will be back in my bed

Wednesday night.

Other than the mundane day to day jobs,

the girlies have helped me make some changes in my

sewing room, hanging some little quilts up,

sorting repro fabrics into 

little pieces, bigger pieces and fat quarters and beyond.

Moving out

Yep we are moving out......of our bedroom

the roof has been  leaked and we have a rampant  mould issue

8 weeks of waiting for approval

several phone calls,

a plumber,

a cleaner,

and an email with photos

approval came through yesterday the words

'OMG fix it now' were uttered

so we are finally getting our room fixed

Lucky Sophie has a new bed for us to sleep in

and best of all I got to choose the paint

Antique White USA, I love that paint.

I have some happy mail in the post, so as soon as

it arrives I will share.

I love online shopping :)

Unintentionally I made....

Sophie and Imogen double bed sized quilts for

their single beds.

Its been a week of bargain hunting for me,

on Facebook there is a local buy,swap,sell group and

I have paid no attention to it before last week.

For a grand sum of $100 we bought the girlies this

a 12 foot trampoline for the huge sum of $30.00

and it does have all the springs attached

Hubby and Em went for a drive yesterday to collect 

Sophies new bed which cost us $70.00 and

included an exceptionally clean innerspring slumber-pedic

mattress

Ta Da, complete with her quilt which is a perfect fit

she loves it, I adore it and as soon as the weather

warms up I will spend a few days, sanding it back then 

re staining it.

Saturday night we had friends join us for drinkies and dinner

so we got a chimnea to have on the deck on cold winter

evenings, it was a fabulous night with lots of laughs, lots of chatter

and possibly lots of alcohol consumed.

Sophie and Emma had an all night movie night at

scouts last night, there obviously wasn't much sleep had as both girlies

went for a nap about 2pm and still haven't surfaced.

its school holiday time for us, I plan on getting some neglect machine sewing

done, perhaps start a new project and having daily sleep ins. Later in the week the

girlies and I are off to Bega to collect Sophie's and my new glasses and to get some

stitchery backing as this week my copy of Anni Down's new book should arrive, and

I am waiting on season 3&4 of Lark Rise to Candleford to arrive from the ABC shop.

She has

a new bed, well a preloved antique bed

found on a local buy/sell/trade site

I love it and once the weather warms up

I will do a bit of work on it, sand it, paint it or

re varnish it. we collect it 

lunchtime Saturday

this will be Miss Sophie's new bed/ guest bed

its a double and her super sized quilt will fit it perfectly

and it will fit perfectly in her bedroom..

We have a 'handyman' here today he is installing shelves into all

the wardrobes, Emma and Imogen's are finished, Sophie's just need to

have the shelves put in and I am guessing the ones in the my bedroom

will be done tomorrow.

Happy Birthday

To Me

Its my birthday today and I have had a fabulous day

I have been to school for the mini fete and made

popcorn for Sophie and her friends stall

I  had coffee with my man then we went to

Merimbula to collect my birthday present....

and Apple iMac 

after a couple of calls to telstra I can now

get emails, and after a help me call to Apple

I can now find the information bar when  I

have a page fully opened....

Loving this new toy.

Tonight we are off to the club for some birthday drinks

then to the pub for a family dinner, hubby has organised

a few friends to join is on Saturday night for a bbq

and more birthday drinks.

Will be back soon with photos of my stitching and

saturday nights fun.

Oh and no news on Ben, the search has been called off due to 

the weather, now we just have to wait for the Sea to give him back

so he can rest in peace

Fingers and Toes Crossed

My beautiful niece's partner is missing at sea

along with his best mate,

while setting cray pots off the south west coast of

Tasmania

we have everything crossed that there is going to be

a happy ending but as time goes on, hope is fading.

Love you to the moon and back Jess xxxx

Still Alive

We have just been really busy lately.

Gardening, yes, gardening.

I have chopped down 3 ute loads of tree branches.

2 ute loads of other garden waste

and I have maybe another 3 ute loads of

daisy bushes waiting to be taken to the dump,

and we have had so many people say that its

so nice to see the garden being cared for, it was

very neglected when we shifted in, I can't wait for

spring to arrive to see the fruits of all my hard

work.

last week we had the weather from hell descend upon us,

wild and windy and very very wet.

Unfortunately the 1 pine tree that came down in the storm

very cleverly fell between the other pine trees and

as a result the 30 remainng trees that need to come down so we

can get some sunlight all day into the house are still

standing.

the upside to the wild wet and windy day was I got to sit in

front of the heater and watch mindless crap on tv while I

stitched, sadly no pics to share as I am on the kids computer

while mine downloads the latest anti virus and emails.

I haven't been near a computer for almost 2 weeks!

My mama has had her last chemo treatment, now we wait and see

what the verdict is, she has everyside effect listed, and has done it

tough, but fingers crossed her final results are good ones.

My twinnies are turning 11 next week! I can't believe it 11.

My baby girl is learning Irish dancing at school, she is such a character

and our biggest boy Mr 23, has just moved to Melbourne for work

So all is good, we are all still happy and well and I promise

it won't be so long between posts again xx