a surprise...

I entered a giveaway at fatmumslim.com...and to my surprise I won a $200 gift card from Birdnest

which I then quickly ordered some clothes....and this is what I got all nicely packaged

 

dress spotty shoes and a bonds track pants and sloppy joe

I'm very happy with them...

 

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Cool...

first fire of the season!
I did intend to spend some time today
In the sewing room....a couple of rows stitched
But now the fire is going...I'm back inside....
That's the only thing wrong with having a sewing room
Separate from the rest of the house!

redwork swap arrived…

The sun was shining today…

so I was determined to find some time to sit in the sun!

…it was so nice to have sunshine…there has been

so many grey or raining days since the start of the year…

Then the postman arrived with a surprise…

…the redwork swap!

from Alison at thisoldauntquilts.blogspot.com

…and inside was all these surprises!

…redwork table centrepiece!

…it now sits ion the dining table!

I love it Alison…thank you!

red work swap…

..the red work swap was in the mail today!

I don’t know who is sending to me…so it will be a surprise when it arrives!

…yesterdays sunset

…the black spots in the sky are flying foxes!

nice day…

…almost Easter and it was such a nice day

some time was spent cleaning!

It started with pressure cleaning the footpath

of mould from all the rain…and then the outdoor

area…then moving the furniture around

…and this is how it now looks!

…the door at the end is to my sewing room…

 

…this pretty package is something I bought last week from Cathy

…and inside was this linen Jeanne Oliver Elsie bag!

Just love it…

what I have been working on…

 

…raining all weekend!   So there was some time for stitching…

…and this is what I am working on!

…I know I have lots of other quilts I should finish first!

But this is so pretty…

…though I did finish a quilt!

..my baskets are quilted and labelled!

…and I had to add a pic of these pretty roses!

I love flowers in my house…

Happy Valentines Day…

Happy Valentines Day…

…hope it’s a special day!!

wet Australia Day weekend...

This weekend has been a weekend of

 spending time indoors...with

strong winds and torrential rain...

 ...and puddles in our backyard!

 ...the birds were trying to stay dry!

 ...I love how the babies are in the dry spot!

 ...and our friendly magpie also found 

a spot out of the wind and rain!

The rain has now stopped and the wind is less

so maybe tomorrow will be a nice day...

  

Happy New Year…

Happy New Year…I hope everyone in Australia is staying cool in the heat wave and not in fire danger!

Only the last 2 days have been really hot here…

The christmas decorations have been put away for another year…my son who lives in WA sent me this little glass present decoration it matches the glass tree he gave me last year that he bought in England.

…our youngest son was home for a couple of weeks.

Which was really nice!

And I was seeing this scrappy trip around the world quilt pattern on blogs so I played in my sewing room…the tutorial is here

…and a couple of pictures of this years baby kookaburras…so cute!

Happy Christmas...

Happy Christmas...


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