Blocks and More Rain...

On Friday I was feeling so much better and after spending most of the week in a bean bag hand stitching finishing off blocks.... 

and

the sky looked lovely and blue...

 so I decided to make some room in the sewing room so I could do a little sewing.... just enough to use the machine, cutting board and iron...

So put the 2 1/2 inch squares around my ''Birdie Stitches Bom'' found at littlemissshabby

Blocks one and two...

I am using Amy Butler ''Soul Blossoms'' range ''joy... passion... bliss'' just love Amy...

I also finished blocks 1 and 2 of  ''Retro Nine Patch'' found here

My middle daughter helped chose the fabrics for this table cloth... they have purple, lime, aqua, yellow in them... so those are the colours of the threads I am using...

The photo doesn't bring out the background colour all that well...

I have also received 2 blocks from fellow swappers in the QBSA both are just perfect...

 This is from Sue my February partner and the most gorgeous wee pin cushion made from the cut offs...

thank you Sue...

 This one is from Marie and she was my January partner... for some reason the post decided to let this one go the long way around... it's a great block and I just love the pattern... thank you Marie...

With Marie's block came this most cute wee owl... he is so weeny and I love him...

don't you think so too...

AS I said the sky was blue... but come around 4pm the sky started to darken... and at 5pm the clouds let loose... in half an hour we had 57mls of rain...........

I thought the roof was going the fall in it was so heavy... and it did run down the wall above the stove and got into the power point there and smoke poured out and smelt so foul and then blew the fuse and then we had no power in part of the house... not much you can do in the middle of such a storm...

 MMMMM what caused it.... ANTS....

they made a nest in there so when all their ''nesty stuff'' got wet it blew it up so to speak...

and because the rain was so heavy and we have the gates all blocked from the flowing water surrounding the house to stop it coming in... the inside water has no where to go...

poor quality but it is night time and still spitting...

this is us pumping it out...

that building is my sewing room which always goes under first from the outside water...

so everything is back up on tables... and the room smells musky BOO HOO...

Feeling So Much Better....

Thank you to all of my ''bloggy friends'' that wished me well.... what was a head cold and sore throat turned into ''broncial pnemonia''... yes hubby had to take me to town as I had a pain in the chest on my right side... through the water and washed out road we went... with spare knickers and a towel hahahaha isn't it terrible when you cough and sneeze that you pee at the same time hahahahaha...

the antibiotics have kicked in and I am feeling so much better even though I get a little tired...

These are some of the photo's I took before I went to Perth of the rain...

You can see the water starting to sit and move... I went to Perth a couple of days later and the road to town was very washed out... since the rain from cyclone Dianne the road is now under water in parts and even more washed out it took me an hour and a half to get home last Friday...

I have sent off my ''colour swap'' parcel...

my partner has wished for ''purple''...

some thread

a fat quarter

something pretty.... could be bought or handmade

something yummy

all these were ticked and done or purchased and wrapped and have now been sent...

once I know that the parcel has been received I will show you the contents...

This swap was organised by Maree... the next swap that Maree has organised is ''RAK'' random act of kindness....

An Award...

From Cathy... thank you...

This is what you do...

1) You have been tagged, do you want to accept?

YES! then create a post on your blog and post the love blog photo.


2) Link back to the person who gave you the award and say if you accept.


3) Choose 3-5 of your favourite blogs to tag, link these in your post too and tell the lucky people they have been tagged.

Now to choose.... and if I choose you and you do not accept that is okay I just love looking at your blog and I am sure others will as well...

Bobbie

Roseanne

Wendy

Leah

Ok these are my chosen girls as I went looking I see most of you have been awarded.... wonderful... happy blog looking...



Still Here...

Yes I am and full of flu from Perth and feeling so crappy...

I was going to Perth for a dentist appointment on the Tuesday and to take the new puppy down for my middle daughter and her partner... there will be photo's...

before I went we had massive storms here which blew the computer internet out but we weren't sure if that was the problem so off to the next station to check the cable... yep that worked fine... next a trip to town to borrow a laptop from the shire (helps when hubby is a councilor hehehe).... not the modem so it's our computer... I took it to Perth and yes the internet card was blown and you know what??? I did turn the computer off and my sewing machine and it still happened... and the sewing machine was the last thing I turned off and that is worth more than the computer????

Anyway while away I purchased a laptop for us for a spare when the desktop doesn't work and also so we have one when we are away... so in saying that I am on the ''new lappy'' as the ethnet cable from the modem to the desktop has broken the little ''dohicky'' that clicks into the ''whatsit'' hole on the modem!!!!!! Our eldest is sending a new one... oh to live round the corner from the shops that has all this stuff and not 7 hours away......

Once I get the lappy sorted and my printer and the camera loaded onto it I will have photo's of some

finishes

blocks that I have received

puppies

blocks that I have made

oh and the water that is surrounding us once again from cyclone Dianne and now cyclone Carlos is going to reform so it looks like more water.... OH HUM life is not Drum hehehe

and like I say I have the flu and I feel like ^%$# and I spent yesterday morning in bed which is not me at all I am an early riser... up before anyone else in this household... and yesterday I spent the afternoon in the bean bag watching DVD's and hand sewing... plus my sewing room is packed up and up on beds and tables due to the water around... oh well that's life hahahahahhaa

Found This...

and you can find it here... 

go looky...

It's Been A While...

Well I have been slightly busy... 

a trip to Perth for a wedding...

spent a few days in Perth staying with our middle daughter in her new house that her and her partner have bought... it was the first time her Dad had seen their new home and he was very impressed... it is a great house with wonderful big rooms...

Then just catching up on things around here and seeing we have a few days of below 40 weather wise... yes it is forecast 31....

we have started cleaning up various areas around the station homestead area... first the platform area of the big shed

this shed is about 10 yrs old and over  his time much ''junk or crap'' which ever has been put up here... furniture old/used, station stuff... old bottles... washing machines... fishing gear...

 mattresses... beds... doors... useless wardrobes...

old furniture that is to be done up...

several trips to our tip...

 the pile got bigger and bigger

so much better... it did take 4 hours to do

we now have three sections...

1. a garage sale

2. station stuff

3. our stuff

the reason for this clean up???? we are going to put the place on the market in a few months... I am ready to go and have been for a long time... I miss having people around and it has just become too much for hubby by himself... so there are greener pastures beyond Wondinong... isn't there??? tell me there are hahaha

 

I also did my partner for February's block this weekend...

Sue requested shabby pink and green...

the pattern is just called ''star'' and can be found here... it was pretty easy to do... I do love the colour combination soft and sweet...

pop over to here if you would like to join...

I am also in a ''winter'' tea towel swap...

Umbrellas and rain...

Perth would love some rain about now with the terrible fires that are down there... 35 houses lost so far..

I have also joined up on this place with a ''block lotto''

I think there are 8 of us... we all make 6 blocks of 8 1/2in ... one winner is drawn and we all post our blocks to her... instant quilt top... the winner chooses the next theme and colour... this month was Easter or Spring...

Now I must get to my colour swap partners surprise...