A Finish...

Remember this pinned up on my wall and had been for about 2yrs...

 well I took it down and added another row which was and Angel and more stars...

 it was started on a site I was on then the lady shut it down...

5 of us signed up to do the row by row

each month we chose a theme and you could interpret that anyway you wished

the first was family

I chose to do five stars representing the five in my family as they are all stars in my life

next was nursery rhymes

I chose Humpty Dumpty...

 then flowers

 then birds

and next

things you see in the sky

then I decided to add another row which is the Angel

I will be putting this away to be used at my house as a play mat for future Grandies...

don't you think it will make a great I spy as well...

Last week I was in Perth and while driving to Spotlight my daughter and I had a bad car accident... we were rear ended by a car while we were stopped at the lights...

we are both ok a little bruised and sore

and my car is a bit busted up

the main thing everyone is ok...

Babies...

For the past few weeks I have had Emu's walking around here with baby chicks... 

every time I go to get my camera they run away...

can you see them running away from me?

 but this time I was sneaky...

 I snuck around through the garden bed and waited until they can around the corner

and took this better photo...

 and

this is the ring that the newly engaged couple have chosen.

I Have Had The Crappiest Of Time Of Late...

or should I say "we have had the crappiest of time of late"

both of us have had the flu really bad I spent four days in bed... which isn't me at all... we both have the flu still holding on not quite ready to leave us yet... 

it is the crappiest flu I have had for a long long time... so no sewing for at least a week or more there... next my latest boob squeeze (mammogram and ultra sound) revealed a lump so I am now booked for biopsies next week... I have BIG BOOBs the needle is going to have to go a looong way in so not looking forward to it but hey I am a big girl and I will be so brave and all will be well...

next our home was broken into while we were in town at the local race day... we came home to glass and broken bottles of alcohol and stolen money and our house had been gone through every room every drawer in each room... my jewelery was looked at but none taken and Granny's silver was still in the dining room drawer... money and booze and a tire of a trailer... OH and the most disgusting of all one of the or both who knows and who knows why they do these things our carton of milk in the kitchen fridge was urinated in??????????????????????????????

the police have one of them he is 16 the other that is still being looked for is 14??? 

there was 4 altogether.... we live 72 kms from the nearest town and these weren't anyone from our local community.

so limited sewing has been done here as I felt a little violated and my sewing room is away from the house a little and I felt trapped in here so I didn't sew...

BUT now I am feeling ok and back to sewing and hubby is home...

BUT

to make it all so much better our eldest daughter got engaged on the weekend and we are very excited for her for them both and now we have two daughters getting married so exciting...

you will laugh though......

we decided to get up early to drive 4 1/2 hrs yesterday to see them and congratulate them... we had a wonderful lunch with them and our other kids who decided to make the drive from Perth which is 2 hrs... our daughter was so surprised to see us all... we left at 1/4 to 4 to drive the 4 1/2 hrs home and about 2 hrs into our trip our car started playing up and we are in the middle of nowhere.... so we drove at 40kms hr to the next town which was 150kms to use a phone as there isn't any mobile coverage out there/here in parts... we organized a friend/mechanic to come get us if we weren't at his place by 9pm as we had another 145kms to go.... 

all is well he gave us a car to drive home and he fixed our car this morning ( it was the fuel filter from dirty fuel) and we drove back to town to get it....

so all the crappiness can stop now...

but I have been doing some sewing...

this is for Aussie Hero's and I started it before the flu

now I need to quilt it... I used 5 in squares cut from my stash all those pieces less than a fat quarter and some leftover grey homespun... the pattern is in one of the latest Homespun magazines... 

 a mug rug for a swap...

 lotto blocks... theme chooks and roosters with a red border...

 and this has been hanging on my wall for ages and ages... it needed another row which I have now done it is all sewn together and backed and under my machine getting quilted so stay tuned...

it will be a floor rug for a baby... there is so much on there it could be a little like an ''I spy"...