Christmas Is A Coming.........

As much as we don't want it coming it is and fast...

I can not believe how fast this year is zooming only a few days and it will be September...

And seeing that Christmas is just around the corner my Aussie and Canadian friends at ''Applique -Quilting" have started our ''Xmas pressie swap'' in other words ''Secret Santa''...

This year we are doing table runners... there are rules and posting dates as there must be...

One rule is ''Christmas colours or fabric''... another is it MUST have some applique on it and the applique must be a suitable size for your runner size... and the applique MUST be stitched...

I have chosen to use Christmas fabrics and to use both piecing and applique...

Here are a couple of sneak peaks...

A braid for the centre... this was the first time that I have done a braid... I had one set of instructions that said use a foundation and do you think I could keep it straight on that......

geez no way....

my lovely friend Annie Mac helped me out with some emailed instruction and away I went with no trouble at all...

And a sneak peak of my applique which I am in the process of sewing by machine...

You will get a look at the finished product once all quilted and binded...

Luv T xxx

Baby Blue.........

Yesterday I finished sewing the binding down on this very lovely blue baby boy quilt...

sorry about the quality of the photo as I did take it in the early morning sun coming up light yesterday hehehe....

IFQ had this as an event....

I did change mine just a little....

and I did put an iron batting in it and

backed it with a very nice lemon coloured polar fleece...

now it will be extra warm and a little softer for when he is having floor time...

I gave it to one of our local girls yesterday who had her first baby a couple of weeks ago... yes a little boy well not so little as I think he was very very close to 10lbs... ouch....

Luv T xxxx

oh don't forget to be come a follower in the next few days to be in the draw for

my 100 posts give away.... which is only about 2 postings away....

Health

OK so I have decided that I need to get healthy again oh and a bit fitter...

I use to do Tae Bo, ride my push bike 10 km, swim oh and walk...

but then my hips started playing up.. badly.. like coming out of their socket and yeah I know you are saying ''no way'' but yes way... to the point that I would fall or be in a huge amount of pain until it clicked back in.. so off to doc's I go...

2 operations later and a heap of metal in one and a fair amount of weight...........

but do you know last visit I was told I need to live near a heated pool so I can swim all year round and a gym so I can strengthen the muscles, ligaments and tendons... he knows I don't live anywhere near these things so low impact is what I need to do... no jumping up and down no running... and can't ride my bike as the knee's don't do to well these days...

ANYWAY.....

I got myself one of those pedometers..... mmmmmmmmmmmm what I have realise is that

I DO NOT take enough steps in my day.... 10 000 steps is what you need to start to make a difference in your fitness.... I have been managing 5000 if lucky... but I have been doing a lot more walking around my yard even if it is just to see what is flowering... walking to the silo to give the pets their lupins and walking up to the shearer's quarters to check on tourists...

and I have managed to get to the 10 000 steps on these days...

but........

I have also noticed that I am being wakened up by hip pain in the night....

which I am just going to have to live with as that will not change and I do need hip replacements but we are trying to get out of my 40's before we need to do that...

I am going to keep walking and once the mornings get a little warmer I am going to go for and early morning walk each day... not far down the road just enough to get some more steps on the pedometer....

Oh and I do have a wii board that my kids brought me for my birthday and I have been doing about half an hour a day on that and that is so much fun... plenty of giggling there....

AND

don't forget about my 100 post give away... you only need to be a follower and I will draw out of that list...

Luv T xxx

Flowers and Some Babies....

I picked these jonquils out of my garden... their smell is just gorgeous...

As I walk through my lounge room I can smell them... actually you can smell them as soon as you enter the house... they are beautiful I just love the double flowers...

Babies......

Yesterday we had some baby calves to mark... 8 of them... and the others got there botulism injection.... and see that big red cow.... yeah she is a ''real cow of a thing''...

do you think she will go into the race???????????? no way... same as last year....

so once again

Hubby hung off the fence and she got hers in her butt...

This is her baby and he is so cute...

you can't see it all that well but his colour is close enough to ''champagne pink''....
A closer photo of him

All eight babies marked... six boys two girls...

Hey don't forget that I have 100 posts coming up and there is a give away... all you need to do to be in this is be a follower...

Luv T xxx

Bloggy Friends

Dotty Jane Designs I happened upon this lady this morning...

she has a great display of hexie's that she is working on...

If you are into tea cups and tea pots this lady has some free stitcheries for you...

they are really cute and I have some printed off...

Memory Quilt News....

The family have received the quilt... which I posted Thursday and the got it in there small coastal town on the Monday very impressed Australian Post...

there have been lots of tears... the email message was ''can't stop crying long enough to ring you... but will''... even her 21yr son was impressed and ''gobsmacked to see his brother in fabric''... I am so happy that they have it you always worry that a quilt will get lost in the mail???...

100 Posts

I see that I will soon be up to 100 posts.... woohoo...

so I have decided that at that point I am going to have a giveaway seeing that I missed my 1 year blogging mark hahahaha...

not sure what it will be but it will be good and I have decided that it will be open to ''followers''...

so if you are not a follower now is your chance to be one between now and the ''100 post mark''...

I am off to Perth for the weekend so I will be gathering for this giveaway...

stay tuned...

Luv T xxx