Treasure

Some things I just see and say "Oh yes , I have to have that", and this lovely bowl(perhaps a soup thingy) was one of them.




It is a tad crazed (think that's the word) inside but otherwise it is beautiful-on the bottom it's stamped
Genuine
Staffordshire
Hand Painted
Shorter & Son
England
Oh here are some way better pictures-I suck at photography...

Anyways It is sitting high where i can admire it-would not use it for food or the like.
And you just want to hear this don't you...cost was $6.

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Change is good?

Kindly excuse any mess you may see whilst I redecorate, many thanks
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$1 yep just one dollar

Oh wee oh wow, happy dance happenin-yeah small things I know…but hey look at this

Oh this is so soft and umm what’s the word pliable? easy to seperate..sooo soft-not sure what I will use it for yet..hmm maybe a santas beard and hair would be superb-ah blah I don’t do christmas stuffs-ah yes I could make one as a gifty..hmmmmm

and at just $1 I had to bring it home.

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Swap items

Look at these wonderful swap items I have received lately, from online craft groups.

One was a Christmas in July swap where you sent your partner items beginning with the letters that spell Christmas.

C=chook pourer and bowl

H=Herb –wire chook pot holder

R=Ribbon assortment

I=heart photo frame(in love)

S=Stained glass chook

T= Trivet with a rooster on it

M=Mitts with chooks on them

A=A design by Ann Francie Dimmer=lovely needle case

S=Staionery made just for me with my name and chooks

Can you see a pattern her hmmm anyone would think I like chooks eh?you got it I do so long as they are not real. Great job Lauren I love it all.

Next swap was an apron or peg bag  swap-I couldn’t decide which I would like so I typed surprise me…

I was speechless when I opened it up to find Judi had made me 2 items woohoot…Judi had made me a peg bag and an apron..

Oh Miss Jenny are you reading this one..

eh looky here see I do love girly stuffs this is just so awesome-

This peg bag will not be going outside, I reckon it can live in my sewing room and look after some lace and trims for me..the fabric in these items is gorgeous.thanks heaps Judi I adore them greatly.

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I have sewn

Yeah it’s true I have done something these past weeks..just been slack in the bloggy dept…am going to endeavour to improve that from here on in….

Remember awhile ago  I enlarged and stitched this Wonky Houses designed by Jenny from Elefantz… Well it has sat on my work table since –I would spy it every now and then and think hmmm what will become of you-and then the light popped on and I got sewing….

And there we have it one Wonky House toaster cover.

Mental note to self iron item before taking a pic.

Now ona  totally different scale of things, a lady I know had a b-day last Monday, and I decided in all my wisdom to make her a frog-cause she is mad about frogs like I am chooks….

I had this pattern that I bought awhile ago-it’s 3 diff animal pincushions..so i decided I was making the frog…ermm well this blasted thing took 2 days to make and has bucket loads of fart-fiddly hand stitchin.The pattern lacked many instructions. From somewhere inside me came the determination to finish this beasty and I did…Hubby thinks it’s kewl for a frog LOL….

When I took it downstairs to show hubby it tried to runaway and jumped in this stump…

Then on the way back upstairs in jumped in here

Suffice to say it is now packed in a bag ready to go to it’s new home.

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Some crafting

I have been playing with the hot glue gun..gotta love that thang..

One on the left is an 8oz jam preserve jar and the other is a 16oz mason ball preserve jar.

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A blog win oh my goodness.

Isn’t this so cute..funny how I have made several of these but have never made one for myself-lucky me won this one-yes me I won something-

from Lissa @ frabricologist anonymous..it was wrapped in this lovely fabric photo does not do this fabric justice it truly is beautiful umm oriental style.And inside the bag was this.

Gotta love them charm squares …and the crème smells good enough to eat..Thankyou soooo much Lissa.

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Territory Day

Territory Day/Cracker night is a fun filled evening that is slowly  being pushed to be scrapped thanks too idiots who let crackers off without care and injure innocent people and light fires and leave them unattended- for the majority who take care and enjoy the celebrations fun is had.You can only buy crackers on the 1st of July between from 9am till 9pm.So many don’t even know why the Territory Day celebration is for…1st July 1978 is the day NT Govt dared to be different and self government was attained….

Ok enough of the lesson here is a couple of pics from our celebrations that are held at our place every year.

Above pics of ermm about half the firecrackers we had..got a tad carried away and forgot too take a pic at the start.NOO I did not buy them all everyone who attends brings a bag or box of crackers and they are all placed out and you just grab and play –safely of course.

 

umm confession to make I was having so much fun I forgot to take pics of the big boom sparkles…

  

Ok I musta looked up …LOL isn’t the moon lovely…

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Secret Sewing

Well ok not really secret, but well I liked the quiltalong that Dana from  Old Red Barn Co was doing, so I decided I’d follow along at my own pace and in my own time(not much of that lately)..anyways I had to go with whatever fabric I had so I was thinking hmmm…it’s dry season what colours do I see,I see brown and green and pink and red-so I pulled some fabrics from the cupboard and said right just cut it….

   I did not hesitate the cutting as I know I would of started going oh but that don’t go with this blah blah you know how it goes eh?        

Now when I went too start sewing this cat CYA had other ideas,she was not going to move and if looks could kill that sure is a killer look eh?

Gosh it almost looks like ermm dare I say technicolour scrap heap.

The photos don’t do it any justice

It truly looks ok..the pic above showing the cut fabric is a good pic of the colours..the individual blocks ended up measuring 11”when sewn up and my quilt measures 6 blocks by 8 blocks and when completed it may just live on the horrid lounge (brand new and I never knew I would have a reaction too microfiber) –always have to have a cover on  it….

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FOG in the top end

Well some will find it hard too believe with our day time temperatures always being around the 30 degrees mark, that we do get fog during dry season I just had too take these pics to share…and this was at 8am.

I know there  is a road out there somewhere.

Wow I usually can just see the house up behind us, but with this fog no chance.

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Farmyard friends

Well I am on a stop buying magazines from the newsagent phase….

But but but I just thought I might break it when I saw Cheryl’s post of her farmyard friends.

Then I had a bugger of a day umm Thursday and on the way home called into a newsagent to make me feel betterah and bought a magazine without really taking much notice as to what it was called…Imagine my delight when flicking thru the pages I found Cheryl’s farmyard friends.

So last night I set about to make Carmen the Chicken, strange that I should want to make that one right away eh? Anyways I happily snipped and sewed and she looked cute…

Then when I sat her down for a picture shoot..I was dang –bugger it-i don’t believe it I have made a big boo boo..

I realized I had sewn her wings on backwards-what a clutz, but then when I showed my hubby the pattern he said anyone could of made that mistake..I’m like yer really being sarcastic (yes I was).

On the pattern sheet of Carmens body piece where it has the wing position it says blanket stitch between the dots.(well I saw broken lines).well that's what I did kinda LOL..I stitched around the broken lines...oh my this  Carmen can now fly backwards...I wonder if I will be the only ninny to do this..

Aw well my Carmen is unique she can fly backwards…

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Home today..

Well I woke up this morning and felt like I had been hit by a Kenworth…

So it was a day at home for me with my throbbing head –raspy throat and runny nose.

After a few more hours sleep,I awoke too find a bitterly cold wind blowing .

I set  myself up with my blankey and sat in my chair in the lounge with the sun beaming in on me-

and stitched my new wonky house that generous Jenny shared with us yesterday.I traced it last night ..soon as I saw it something just said too me do it on mushroom pink fabric, I opened up my tin of messy colourful arrangements of embroidery strands and just picked basically the first one I saw.

I sure hope that new erasable    marker I bought erases itself-the other one I have erases before I have finished stitchin…..

I like the way it turned out.oh yeah I made it biggerer then the original…I have a couple of ides as to what the finished item will be-just have not made my mind up yet..

I can say though the day in and out of bed and cups of tea and aspro and vicks rub and strepsils have worked a treat as I feel 80% better now than what I did this morning.

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Light Box

well yeah yipee I have come up in the world..as far as tracing stitchery's go..

The old way for me was to kick hubby off his puter (cause I have lcd screen),

open up blank word document-stick design to screen-stick fabric on and trace away..

hubby had all the stuffs to make me a light box, I was happy about this and waited patiently for it too take shape...

then I spy a pierlite (lighting manufacturer)box, I casually says what dat for -thinking to myself holy heck I have an immediate use for that...

anyways he starts to explain that it is for my light box and that he will do blah blah blah..instantly I wanted it as it was..so a wee bit of cajoling and I won...

so my light box is..unique

it is an exit sign the likes of what you see in stores etc, (approx 13" long x 5" width x 3 "  high) that show the way when lights go out.....'cept it has a blank plate.

Doing the cha cha here…yeah I know I get excited over the smallest things ….

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Bag sewing

Looky here another post..ok truth is this puter is being stripped down this afternoon,but it will be rebuilt, I am to use the laptop hubby has been readying for me..and it is naked so too speak it has windows 7 operating system and Microsoft office on it, being the patient impatient person I am, this has spurred me on to get my posts done in case something goes belly up  takes longerer than normal to do hehehe.

This weekend I have finished 3 projects yeah 3…

The chook table cloth is done.

Bag for an upcoming birthday present.

Bag from leftovers from above bag,this one is going in the mail.

Dang I could easily keep both bags I love them , that satisfies me that they are good enough for their new owners..maybe I could hold onto too them for a tad longer eh?

 

Oh yeah and I managed to get all my items for a CHRISTMAS swap wrapped up.

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Chooks

Ah wow 3 posts in one day…

I got a present yesterday from Mr & Mrs 20man..oh wow I was so stoked…

so after hubby had placed her in her pride of place spot..I took a photo of her and the others around her…

Isn’t she adorable? She came with her own eggs  I thought that was so cute.

This miss in her wheelbarrow came to the garden mothers day.

Mother hen and her chicks just  screamed at me to take her home, so i obliged and handed over the $$$…

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Biggest morning tea pics.

Well we all wore our aprons and there was food a plenty..and we raised quite a substantial amount yiipeee…

lots of food stuffs..

items for sale - all sold.

don’t we look cute eh? Oh and the other apron was worn by one of the guys..but I didn’t get his permission to post his pic so best not

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10 item swap

I participated in a 10 item swap hosted by Cass you made 10 items and sent them too Cass and included a self addressed large postal pack for your items to be sent to you in.. Cass organized groups of 11 and then sent you back 10 items..

my package arrived last week..what wonderful items I found inside.

First three items ..far left reversible sunglasses case made by Fran ,top right tissue holder made by Sandra, and the handmade cards (which the picture does them no justice at all) they have insects on them made by Tania.

Next three items…. lovely wee tote made by Xena, bottom right orange toned key ring & shades of green brooch made by Cam, top zip purse made by Aimee.

Far left lovely polymer clay pendant made by Amanda, centre felt flower brooch made by Michelle, right frank the frog magnet made by Nikki, centre front hair accessories made by Anna.

Thankyou to each and everyone for making this swap such fun, all the items are beautiful .

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Wonky Houses

supercalafragalisticexpialladocious ..yippedty doodah yippety day my oh my what  a wonderful day…Ok ok already I hear ya , I’ll stick to the sewing and stop singing,

But I finally have a pic of my completed item using the wonky houses blocks designed and gifted to bloggers for free by the wonderful amazing Jenny..

ok I know this isn’t it but how mean am I to disturb her so I could get a pic of the runner in good light…

Remember too click on pictures for a better view.

This is it, i made a runner for our coffee table  (too dark to take  a  pic of it on there) so needed to use the kitchen table,dang to the light reflection..

A closer up pic…I do not know what I bought these three fabrics for..yes I musta  liked them  no I needed them that’s right…I had 3 metres each of the florally ones and 2.5 of the other..I like the way the wonky’s sit with it..and it looks way betterah in real than a photo..

Thanks heaps jenny…

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