Rewind please

Can anyone tell me where Sunday has gone......

I seem to have missed it :)

and because I appear to have 'missed' Sunday its way to late to get the girlies to draw my giveaway winner tonight,

so,

I am about to put the names into a bowl/hat ready for the morning.

AND

because I am running late, I will giveaway a 2nd pincushion,

looks like a girlie will have to be chief bowl holderuperer and the other 2 will be the drawer's.

Makes sense to me

Make sure you check back tomorrow :)

oh and I am truely sneaky :)

I rang mum last week to ask her to go to spotlight for a dress up cape pattern, so she did, and she found a little red riding hood cape. Fast forward to yesterday, she rang me for the required length, it appears Gumdrops has made the cape..

Go gumdrops we do love you :)

YIPPEE lol

Ready to Post

Yippee

I picked up the last couple of things for my Secret Santa present.

After reading Chookyblues post on Swap ettiquette I read the comments and I have to say

Thanks for the ideas, I took them on board and went from there and I hope my recipient is happy.

There is a little bit of this and a little bit of that :)
my book order hasn't arrived and I haven't heard anything about the parcel I sent 2 weeks ago to my stitchers' angel partner......and she hasn't replied to my emails. its frustrating

girlie # 3 had dancing today, we went to the supermarket, had lunch with daddy. We have friends coming for dinner tonight we are having lasagne, salad and garlic bread :)

Have a great day :)

Sad

my niece is expecting her 1st baby!

I found out today.

due May/June, she is having a scan next week.

and I am happy for her but also sad for her

sad because it sounds so familar

I was 17 when I had ds I am 37 he is 19 (20 in 10 weeks)

So I called him and made him promise that he wouldn't even consider having children before I am 50, he promised me he wouldn't.

I get to make a baby quilt now :)

It's a GIVEAWAY kind of day

As promised today is the day of my 50th post (according to blogspot) so you have to leave a comment to go into the hat/bowl for the following goodies

one of these

in these fabrics

and this pattern

and a little fabric basket designed by Pink Penguin and made by me sorry I don't have a picture of it.

You have until noon Sunday Western Standard Time (2pm EST) then I will get the girlies to draw out a winner :)

Have a fabulous day I am off to do some housework (blah)

Love Letters

The girlies all received a postcard from Gumdrops and Grandpa yesterday with a ' we want a letter' request. So they all sat down yesterday afternoon and wrote their letters and did a drawing for Gumdrops and Grandpa to put on their freezer, because magnets won't stick to their fridge.

Here is their artwork

Girlie # 1

Love the way she made sure grandpa had his moustache and that is one of the cats in the background lol

Girie # 2

Girlie # 3

and this is from girlie # 2 also

I think there will be a very happy Gumdrops when these appear in her maill box.

Introducing & a giveaway

my sewing assistant.

My sewing assistant is just gorgeous and never too far away from my side, although my assistant does need to pick his time better for a rest other than when it is time for me to actually sew. He normally sits off to the side but this morning he decided that right beside my machine on top of my project was the best place!

So without further ado

and as promised a picture of my frustration

not the best photo but it is a miserable day here, wet and windy. I cannot wait to get this done.

I am off of to lunch with my gorgeous husband and then to the patchwork shop as I need to cut my backing fabric into 3 and I am too afraid to do it alone, and I don't want to have to buy another 4.5 metres if I mess it up :)

onto the giveaway, my 50th post is going to happen TOMORROW and to celebrate I am going to have a giveawy. Now to be in the running for my giveaway you HAVE TO LEAVE A COMMENT. ( lol it was late when I posted yesterday and obviously at 11:30pm my maths isn't the best lol)

whats the giveaway I hear. A big pincushion, a thread bag and a little suprise (yet to be decided).

SO wait for my post tomorrow and I will have a picture of the pincushion etc then the fun will begin.

Have a fabulous day

48th post

I only started my blog so I could participate in the Stitchers' Angel swap and the Christmas swap. I never imagined that I would still be happily blogging 48 posts later.....

anyhoo

I have had a slightly frustrating day, mums christmas present is doing my head in 100%. I had stitched all the outer bits, and was in the process of stitching the centre pieces together. I finally got all 3 centre bits done except for the pieces that make the hearts, imagine my disgust when I sat down today to finish off the centres only to find that I had used the wrong paper piecing bits, I was trying to use the small jewel shapeswhenI needed to use the large pieces. A few choice words and a trip to the LPS, some unpicking and I am back in business. I have completely finished ONE centre yay me lol. Photo to come tomorrow, but that means I have to re do the other bits that were already sewn togother.

My mum had better like this bed runner lol or it will be on MY BED instead.

Tomorrow is a girlie free day, I have no plans as yet other than dropping them all at school I guess that I should do a spot of housework then I might just sit and continue working on the frustrating bed runner while watching Prison Break, we are up to disc 4 of season 1 and season 2 is sitting here to be watched.

Have a great day whatever you are doing :)