Some Of The Best Things In Life....

 I managed to do some FNWF

its been months and months 

but I totally enjoyed the two time zones...

 the start of a Flamingo quilt, pattern from 

The Red Boot Quilting Company

(Toni has fantastic patterns, 

easy follow instructions, full size for tracing and wonderfully priced)

 a little bit of crocheting

and I got to spend a bit of time with these two

 In the Chittering Valley where I live 

there is an abundance of fruit to be picked at orchards 

 this little fella has a broken foot and is in a moonboot

BUT.... 

we took it off so he could have a walk through some water flowing over the road....

the water was freezing and turned the injured foot quite red /0\

back at Chuck and Yaya's it was time to bake cookies!!

one stacks his and pinches the chocolate chips out and the other lines them up

and actually takes bites out of the dough...

they're happy and life at Yaya's is a 

Little Bit Naughty...

Happy Birthday To Meeeeeeee...

Well parcels have been arriving for weeks

(such good swapping girls... unlike mega slack butt me) (oh but wait a minute.. I have had several excuses)(the dog ate... the dog hid it... the dog forgot to mail it...)

no really I do appreciate my birthday girls understanding...

but back to ME birthday girl ME...

look at all these wonderful squishy parcels 

(do you think a naked shot of me rolling around with them would be appropriate...

 a bit like ''calander girls"... but all on my own!!!)

 Looky Looky Looky

This bounty was from Kaylee...

Loving those birdhouses... will be sampling those teas in my little teapot this week.

thank you Kaylee for my wonderful parcel

 This gorgeous fattie is from Debbie... the big bold print is jut awesome.

thank you Debbie...

 This bundle of wonderful goodies is from Michelle...

You always find such fantastic little goodies Michelle and my fatties are beautiful.

thank you...

 This bundle of goodness if from Illene... the fatties are to die for, just gorgeous...

Thank you and thank you for the other goodies...

 This little bundle of sweetness is from Dzintra... 

the colours are just dreamy... thank you

 These gorgeous bold fatties are from Sue...

love love loving their prints...

Thank you Sue

 AND

this pile of awesomeness is from Peg...

you made my heart sing Peg, such a sweet sweet lady your are.

I am going to give the runner a good press and take photos of them all separate...

just AWESOME... thank you.

 We went to a place called Mandoon... kid friendly

...beer, wine, fine dining, picnicking... you name it, it has it...

wonderful day out with the kids and grandies... AND I got a ticket to Fleetwood Mac in November... little bit exciting...

 doing a little bit of Ripple stitch... but I lost a couple of stitches one end...

don't ask me how... I know I can count to six but I only had four one end???

it was annoying me so bad......... at first I thought yeah I can ignore it... NOPE it got the better of me so I unraveled it...

 I feel so much better now... OCD down boy down...

This is Jensen meeting his little brother for the first time...

Love at first sight...

The Craft Fair....

Yep I did I finally made it to a Perth Bloggers Meet...

I even put my "big girls blouse on" and drove in the city... then a deep release of breathe once outta there and home hahaha...

It was soooo nice to put names to faces and meet some new people... thank you to Anthea for organising the meet... 

this is the time I got up

the ladies from this end

 the ladies from this end... and there was a fella there to and he took the photo...

Leonie's hubby it was and he does patchwork..

 be prepared to be ''quilt bombed''!!!

Anzac's was a big part of this years show

 loved these mini's

 there was another display of ANZAC'S but you weren't allowed to take photos of that display...

 that was eerie walking through there but a good eerie...

these next quilt are a few that I liked

 I loved this one for the free motion haunted houses

 this one was huge

 loved the work in this

 admired the needle turn and some piece were so weeny

 this was awesome

 this one was made with embroidered doilies and quite big

must of taken years of collecting them

 loved the work in this one... plus I know the lady

 loved the free motion and use of bling

 this was the winner of the "something blue" challenge... 

I think it was Aussie themed too

 there were so many little pieces of fabric in this 

and all free motioned

just awesome

 hahaha I know this lady Jan-Maree very good likeness has been captured here

 I liked the mix of this one...

there were many more I could have taken...

I was on the look out for a cot quilt pattern

this one I found at Kids Quilts stand... my daughter liked it to

 so it was purchased... plus a couple of others...

and a new cutter... I am finding my fingers are aching a little so I need one that doesn't need holding in... a bit of arthritis I think boo hoo..

A good day...

so good to meet the ladies and wander...

Still Here.....

Yes I am... have you been missing me???? 

No one has enquired so you couldn't have :''''''((((

this is the first time I have managed to get on my blog with out the computer crashing...

new computer was picked up yesterday and hoping all going well it will be conected up Wednesday...

getting off now before I lose this post 

Name Day Ceremony...

On Sunday the Little Man had a Name Day...

Mum and Dad

 The four Godparents

 He who is the centre of attention

 need my Yaya

 found her

back to the parents for a little bit of water sprinkling

 and seeing it was my birthday during the week

we celebrated that as well... thanks Granny Sue for the cake...

 on the sewing front I have been doing heaps...

I have finished machine quilting this one 

and I will be doing some hand quilting on it as time goes by...

photo's soon...

 and I am getting a baby for my birthday...

he is only 2 weeks old so he wont arrive here until July.

I have signed up for Cheryll's FNWF