My ‘babies.’

My lovely Simon, who is currently in the UK, but headed back to Canada soon. He’s been living in Ottawa since last January.

My sweety Emma on the left with her friend Lisa.
This was taken 20 years ago!!!!
I will scan in her Year 12 formal photos, the last I have as she is camera shy!!!

Rowan at his Year 6 Farewell Dinner Disco in December.

Wow, what a swish night, they didn’t do
anything like this when I was at school.
Oh dear! I sound like my mother, back in the old days………………….

When I first walked in I thought they were hosting the Logies!!!

It was brilliant, the kids came through the arch of balloons on the red carpet with their best friends to be presented.

The tower of cakes!!!!

The theme of the evening was ‘The Stars of 2008.’

Last day of Year 6.
My baby starts High School this year!!

Cats, cats, cats

Another passion!!!! We’ve had 8 but are now down to just 2,
as old age has caught up with them.

Tabitha (left) & Basil . Aunty & nephew.

 

Our dear Tom, we lost him to cancer.

He was always on hand to help with my sewing.

The girls, Sybil & Tabitha, with their dinner guest.
He/she comes nearly every night to share their dinner.

We are often tempted to get a kitten or puppy but I don’t think the girls would be impressed. They are 15 & 16 now, aunty & niece.

Bags, bags, bags

I’m a bit of a bag lady. I like to make them & to buy them, so I thought I’d add some pics of a few I’ve made.

 

This is a bag I made for Rowan’s friend Becca. It was one of the quickest bags I’ve ever made.
The pattern is on one of the Quilting Arts DVD’s.

 

One way to use some of my many Japanese fabrics.
I’ve made another set of hexagons of Harry Potter fabric that I need to actually make into a bag.

I made this bag for a friend.
It has a pre-printed stitchery panel set into it.

 

I had to have a purple bag!!!

 

This is a bag I made for magazine a couple of years ago.
I did a lot of outline quilting on it which I enjoyed doing.

 

Here’s Sybil giving it the sleep test, it passed.

House Pictures

We recently had our house on the market, here are some of the professional photos that were taken. Due to circumstances beyond our control our planned move to Melbourne is on hold.

 

 

The kitchen/family room. We tend to live in this room.
The French door leads into the sunroom.

The lounge/dining room. I’ve since hung an Antique blue & white pinwheel quilt on the wall behind the dining suite.
Notice the rug looks like a quilt.

There’s a dollhouse on the right of the picture. Miniatures are another of my passions. I’ll take some pics of it & add them. It’s a 30’s house with miniature quilts to suit.
I’ve also built a mini quilt shop & classroom.

Rowan’s room, with the Harry Potter quilt in place.

My sewing room, which has changed considerably since this pic was taken. The screen which hid a double bed is gone as is the bed & all my fabric shelves are now where they were. There are also too many boxes of stuff waiting to be sorted & put away.

It’s a great place to sew as it’s actually a bedsit, so I have a kitchenette & ensuite & can spend the day out there without being distracted by housework, lol.

When it is all sorted I will take pics.
I go out to sort stuff & get side tracked & start sewing. :-)

I am a Snapdragon What Flower Are You?

Some pics.

Having re-read the posts I posted last year I thought I should add some pics of my finished room. I’ve finished the wall hanging I mentioned & it looks quite pretty behind the bed.

 

I also finished the Harry Potter quilt in time for Rowan’s birthday.

New Beginnings

Well so much for keeping a blog!!!! It's been a while since I last posted but I plan to actually achieve lots of sewing this year & keeping track of it here.
First I'll post a few pics of things I made for my dear friend Pinky.

Pinky has a soft spot for chooks though being an American she didn’t actually know they are called chooks here in Oz.

The sachet is designed to hold needles, scissors & a pins.

  I’ve only done a little beading though I’ve made
this necklace several times as gifts.

A simple scissor fob with Pinky’s initials.

BIRTHDAY SWAPS

I’m in a couple of birthday swaps this year, The first is a block swap.

Leween has asked for a red & white block, any size, any colour. Leween loves redwork so this block jumped into my head. The pattern is from an old magazine. I resized it to a 12” block.
I cut double so I can make the block for myself too.

A close-up of the centre.

The 2nd Birthday swap I’m in is an ATC swap.

Two ladies had birthday’s on Jan 1 & this is their ATC’s.