Gifties from a Miss Fairy

Finally I can show some pics –yipee yahoo hooray..these are the gorgeous gifts that Michelle (no blog) gave to me for my b-day and Christmas when she came to visit in late Nov.

Not sure if they will be in the correct order ,and feel I have not taken pics of something- but will do my best.

Birthday goodies.

Absolutely stunning table runner..

Just beautiful colours and look at that hand painted as well…

Tried to get a good close up to show the painting detail it’s awesome.

OOps bad me have just now forgotten the name this slipper comes from , but filled with beaut ribbons.

And look there is more and now I get confuzzed think this was all Christmas..

Opened up this glorious singer tin…

Isn’t is so cute eh?

Look what was inside spoilt muchly  not 1 but 2 glorious jelly

rolls in lovely pastel shades.

Gorgeous pin cushion/decoration, and there was some pins and a teatowel too..

How wucky was I eh?

And then Michelle handed me this..Oh MY Goodness such a talented lady..

Her name is Ruby..and no she cannot come stay with you for awhile..

Thanks heaps again Michelle, you know I loved them all.

Cheers Vickie

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Thank you

Merry merry Christmas to one and all of you special people that have been out there in the world wide web, that have visited me and sat to read awhile and if time permitted left comments you are all close to my heart and I hope to one day meet many more of you.

To those angels that send me are you ok emails when I have not posted here for a while..I love you dearly.

To all my wonderful swap partners over the past 12 months, I thank you dearly for participating, your time in making gorgeous item/s for me and making the swaps I join enjoyable.

Fantastic morning here opening up my swap presents…WOW awesomeness goodness I did receive, wonderful gifts made for me..I feel totally spoilt…

hehehe I bought hubby a camera for christmas so when it is charged I will snitch it nicely ask to borrow it so I can post some pics…

Wishing you all a safe Christmas and if you have to travel I pray that you reach your destinations and return again safely.

Cheers Vickie

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christmas goodness

I would love to share some pics of my b-day goodies I have received and my christmas swap item so far..however the card reader and I are at loggaheads grrr..so just a wordy post will have to do
I am enjopying my Advent swap parcels from Pat, my 1-2-3- Tote swap also has arrived,a gorgeous bag from Teri. Hope to be back next post with pics.
Cheers Vickie Thanks for dropping in.

G'day there

Just popping in to say helllllllllllllllllo..I'm not ignoring your blogs I am reading them rather quickly..life has me spinning at the moment. Have had lovely visit from Michelle  in Adelaide, golly gosh you should see what she spoilt me with for my b-day & christmas-yep I had to open my girfties soon as she gave them to me.I will take some pics and post real soon..truly gobsmakking... Mrs D's husband passed away last week quite sudden and have the funeral on Monday, have truly had my fair share of funerals this year.
My health has been somewhat undesirable to say the least, but I am marching on.
Mailed out christmas swap and totally my partner is going to get a surprise when she recieves it, another christmas swap going in the mail Monday..Then one more to finalize and mail out then woohoo all swaps done and dusted for another year.
Cheers Vickie Thanks for dropping in.

Spoilt pets

Well this is what sight greeted me after I had been buzzing around cleaning for a few hours this morning..

there is 2 cats and 2 dogs in this pic..I cat is on the tv cabinet just in front of the the tv to the left…click on pic for larger view….one would think they are very relaxed in their surroundings eh?

Cheers Vickie

I’m back.

Yes I'm back from my week away and very tired after 2 days work..arrived back home some ungodly hour Wednesday morning feet and legs decided it might be fun to swell up on me -so not happy with that.

Oh where have I been ????????

 

Well I flew down to Mackay and surprised my daughter (Shantal) by turning up at her baby shower

Such a picture of perfect health..and see that awesome cake that was made by my sons partner Sandee-

Isn't that cake just a work of art eh?

Shantal was so blessed to

have wonderful people turn up and gift her some gorgeous items for bubs..

Time to open them all up..so many different expressions of awesomeness came across her face during this time..

And of courcerous I did the must do shopping whilst there..

Nice sturdy pram/stroller with a waterproof cover.

And a cuddly car seat-gosh not like back in the day when my kids were born…

and many more stuffs my mind has gone blank , all I know is yeah for next pay day..

hehehe getting in some early practice with gorgeous we bundle called Azazel he belongs to Shantals friend who held the baby shower for her-he is such a  cutie..

Oh I shall be back in a few days with sewing news-true I will

 

Cheers Vickie Thanks for dropping in.

Sewing

I’ve not had as much time as I would like to sew(you know where a zillion projects are in your mind that you wish to do), but have squeezed it in where I can and have managed .

I am able to show one of the sneak peeks as it has been received .It was a bag for a bag swap and as soon as I saw the pattern in a recent magazine designed by Jenny I just knew it would make the perfect swap bag.

I really enjoyed making this and Juwles (Julianne slack blogger) loved it.

I was fortunate to win one of the monthly OPAM draws from Peg and in that package was a lovely Florentine doily pattern designed by Fee.

I will admit this is not a pattern I would usually go out and purchase, but I fell in love with it when I saw it and just had to make it.

I do not have a yoyo maker but have a bag of yoyo’s I made many many years ago so I pulled them out and with some gorgeous variegated Cottage Garden threads I stitched.

Am very happy with how it turned out.

Another sneak peek of something made with Magic Fine charms by Eleanor Burns.

Oh and one more yummy yummy purchase that I made from Sarah at patchworkplus  came in the mail, oh I have to be patient and finish of some other items before I can play with these.

Cheers for now Vickie

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Crafting away.

Oh yes I have been keeping myself distracted with plenty craftiness, but alas I can’t show pictures as it’s all secret sewing..So not being one who likes to post without a pic I just went for a walk around the garden and took a pic of a head of blooms from each of my frangipani trees..Oh such heavenly scent…

Vibrant yellow centres.

This one is has slightly different petals and leaves it’s called a bush or wild frangipani.

This one has the loveliest off whit colour flowers.

Splendid pale pink on the underside and pale yellow centre.

 

This one just opened today oh the inside is such a brilliant yellow it’s awesome.

Lovely and pure white with soft yellow centre…

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and some sneak peeks

Well they have to be sneak peeks cause I ma in several swaps and I wouldn't want to spoil a surprise now would I.

And now sneak peek 2.

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hello blogland

Hi there, yes I am doing ok thankyou for the kind emails & text ‘s. Have had a yukky couple of weeks-a friend passed away last Sunday from Leukaemia (was only diagnosed in Jan 2010).I was visiting with her on Friday evening and she was very coherent but oh my   in so much pain –so ‘tis a blessing she is no longer suffering..

And have had some erkk health issues..slowly dealing with them.

I have been sewing –several items actually…but arhhh they are secret gifts so I can’t show them here-oh ok I’ll take some sneak peek pics on the weekend..

I have been doing a bit of hand embroidery..and was wondering how do you do it-like do you just hold the fabric ? Do you hoop it? Do you frame it? Me it depends on the size if it’s above 12”x12” than I frame it first..under that it is hooped..

I cut the fabric a tad longer than needed and then I sew it with the machine onto the  webbing of the frame.

And tada here it is already for me to start stitching..

Cheers Vickie.

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My Schnibbles top & a win.

I so love my Schnibbles Times Two book and can see myself making more from this book..

I made the Bennington small quilt and added an extra border then agonised for days over what to use for binding, after sitting several fabrics alongside the top and catching a glance of them for a few days I finally had one leap at me and am so happy with the finished result.

And whooly molly to my surprise hubby loves it.

I was fortunate enough to win Ilene's giveaway and these goodies arrived in the mail last week –I tell you the angel she is beautiful ,and the threads are my big like colours-once again thanks Illene.

I have found my sewing mojo come back in leaps and bounds you see all I needed to do was join a few swaps hehehe…

Cheers Vickie

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Punkin’ Pooch giveaway

Oh this is the cutest crotchet Punkin’ Pooch –pop on over to Doris’s blog and leave a comment for a chance to win him,

cheers Vickie

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Photos at last and RAK for May-June-July & August

Finally have pics of some goodies I have received..

This beautiful Christmas table runner I received in a swap in a yahoo group ..it is huge and will be adorning one of our tables come December.

This beautiful mat..such lovely pinks SO me me me and now proudly sits under my monitor..

 And golly golly gosh some people have to much time on their hands (oops) maybe that’s just that they are very patient? Look at that pin cushion and the scented heart all made from fabric selvages…Thankyou Miss Fairy for the 3 above items and also the cutest wee key ring-scissor fob  tag that measures –2”x 1¼” and has my name stitched on it –‘tis so mighty cute but it’s at work so it missed the photo shoot.

Bad bad me has got sidetracked these past couple of months and totally forgot to draw my monthly RAK (Random Act of Kindness)..I have gone thru the last 4 months posts 1 by 1 jotted the names and done the draws..and now have 4 people whom to send a envelope to..

 

May = Lindi

June = Marian Edwards

July = Bev C

August = Jenny

Please forward me your snail mail addy.

Cheers Vickie .

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I have no pictures YET

I have been doing some stuffs yes I have, and strangely enough now that my computer is all fixed I feel my sewing mojo creeping back whoopeee to me.
I have in recent weeks pieced together a quilt top from my Schnibbles times Two book using 5" charms I love it.
I have also began knitting a cardi for the new grandbaby due in Jan.
There has been some lovely mail come my way, makes me feel all gooey when I get soft feeling packages.
My sewing/computer room is spotless and everthing is in it's rightful place.
Block 3 of In pop's garden BOM is complete.
And I promise my next post will have some pictures.
Cheers Vickie Thanks for dropping in.

yeah yipee happy dance

Yep dancing queen is me...new hard drive installed and new monitor and yeah all is working..have all my feeds agian oops like 4000 mass delete happened and now I can start posting without dramas and  travelling blog land again and see lots of inspirational masterpieces...
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Again I sewed

Yeah yippee I managed to finish another item today woohoo to me…

This was a present for Mrs D’s b-day last month and I knew I wasn’t going to get it completed in time and purchased her something else..and today it pleased me to be able to hand her over…

  This pattern was in Patchwork & Stitching magazine  Vol10  No9, I had a bit of trouble working out the design but a quick email to Maryanne Dodson (the designer of the pattern) I was off on my merry way- however the embroidery made my arm get very cantankerous so I limited the daisies' to just  a few and Mrs D loved it...

Whilst I was inside sewing this was going on outside

what you see there is the roof section off my carport hubby is making me..he’s a good man.

Then this afternoon I got real busy and totally cleaned my bookshelf in my sewing room.

 

   all the Magazines you see above are surplus to my needs many are doubles and some are just ones that I know I will never use, I shall hold onto them for a while in case someone is looking for a particular issue..so please don’t hesitate to ask.

Cheers Vickie

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I have sewn!

Yep yipee to me I actually have sewn not much but have finished 2 items for July…
I was in a Christmas in July swap and made my partner a cushion for her chair as a little birdie had whispered to me she needed one.
I tossed fabrics around and then just made up the pattern as I went along…
And best of all she loves it.
Then I picked up my beautiful stitchery that Lyn had sent me to do whilst I was recovering from my foot op..truly bad bad girl I am I actually misplaced the threads that Lyn sent me and to this day can’t locate them.  However I began this stitchery whilst I was sat with my foot up ..and then I went back to work and changed jobs and the stitchery just sat..well I was shocked when I picked it up I only had 4 letters of stitching to do to finish it..Thanks again Lyn this was lovely to stitch..
I finished it off sewing tiny gold beads randomly in the tree.

Not a very good picture as I have the fan going flat out and it is on dark,anyways I love the finished product and don’t you just love that hanger eh?
<-- Picture from Ilene's blog .
The hanger was a giveaway of several that I got from Illene , they were called bag handles but when I received them in the post –hubby said ah hangers for cloth eh? I looked at him like are you daft man, but arhhh he was correct I think they will all end up hangers except the actual bag handle frame/clasp with chain as I have fabric eyeballed for a bag to evolve including that handle.
Thank you again Illene for your generosity.
Cheers Vickie
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Stickers

Someone who views my blog has a husband who collects stickers?  But I can’t for the life of me remember who it is..please speak up,

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You know your good when

You know your a good person when a friend goes to USA and goes shopping (like anyone who goes away does)  and especially when that friend is a mate of your hubby and is 65….

I am so so lucky at what he bought back for me, the books I had requested and I had mentioned that I have a pounce pak here somewhere but can’t locate it..

He reckons I was like a little kid at christmas time pulling all the fq’s out of the bag..but wait there’s more

 

More fq’s and a lovely brown toning fat eighth roll..and yet there is more

This is the most gorgeous fabric and there is about 2½ metres of it---yep he knows I love chook stuffs…andddddddddd

Ahh there’s my books and some stencils and a brand spankin new pounce pad with refill-the one I have here in a safe place somewhere is 2nd hand –so now if I don’t locate it I won’t stress too much…

Oh yes I am a good person, and having this sitting on my sewing table all week has actually rekindled a need to sew …woohooo I am happy about that…

Cheers Vickie

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Happy Plant

You know what a happy plant is yes?..Yeah that’s right one that grows beautifully and looks awesome…Well I’m not talking about that kind hehehe, I’m talking about the one we call Happy Plant…

due to them growing hardy up here and a nice green large leaf we have several on the block..

Anyways the past week we have had a beautiful perfume on the block lovely smell inside the house and very very strong almost heady spin outside.We thought it was the frangipani tree but on looking at it it only had a few blooms so we knew it wasn’t that.

Then hubby says the happy plant has flowers-like he was really shocked he has never seen it flower nor had I so last night  off I went and took some pics…

well just look at that flower, sure looks different and I smelt it ermm yeah very very very faint perfume..so I was a tad puzzled..then an hour or so later the heady perfume started to float on the air again..So I head of downstairs and outside to check out the direction of smell and sure enough it was from the happy plant’s and to my shock the flowers had changed so I rushed back upstairs and got the camera…

Just have a look at that hey..what a clever plant

keeping it’s precious scented inners protected from the damaging daylight-and opening up in the evening to share it’s beautiful perfume..

And no sewing happening here..am struggling to keep my eyes open for long..and am just brain dead from my new job..am sure things will settle down in a few more weeks..

Oh yeah and my )(*^%*&^$(*&^%$)( desktop computer is having on hellauva hissy fit..needs to be brain washed and re set grrrr….so it’s Lappy (laptop) for me yuk yuk triple yuk….

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Swelling

Hmm now that got your attention eh ?

Not me  err ok yeah my foot is swelling but not as big as this.

Yep that be a tummy beginning to swell as it journeys through pregnancy…And that be my 21 yr old daughter…(who lives in Qld) (shh do you think she is pushing her tummy fwd just a tad) … I was like 5½ months before you could even tell I was pregnant…
Anyways so that’s my news..oh yeah and bubs is due 19th Jan….

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hello blogland

Hello all and many thanks for all the inquiring emails ( re my non blogging), it is so wonderful to know when you don't have friends close by that there is a network of them a keyboard stroke away........and please accept my apologies if you have instant messaged me and I have not replied as msn has decided that I don't need IM to function 100% of the time this past week or so, arggggg.I am here sewing mojo has gone out the window for the moment . Have started a new job, blah back in the traffic every day grrr-oh yeah as a passenger I might add hehehe bonus to having a job that's on the way to hubby's work...there is a downside however-when he gets help up at the office that means I am hanging around like a spare at a wedding waiting to be picked up.
Foot has some issues that are annoyingly painful-test's last week should shed some more light.
So what have I been doing hmm well last weekend I got out in the garden early and weeded then spread hay,then a wonderful friend turned up in the afternoon with a surprise for me..man I was so stoked as I had just finished all the garden and here was Mrs D with some thing for my garden..

Don't he just look grand.
Umm oh yeah we had cracker night on Thursday night that went off really well, there was no injuries at our gathering and the neighborhood was very well behaved as far as lighting crackers after 11pm-think we had about 4 go off up to 11.45pm very good indeed.
Ermm as you can see we had just a few crackers eh?..oOopsy and yes for those with quick eyes that is a fire control panel..hehehe

Tested out the video on my phone, gosh watching playback them crackers sure go off with a bang.


And I've been doing some shopping, but alas when one can't drive to far it's internet shopping I a go woohooo yeah for the internet...ordered some fabric to make this pattern I won in the OPAM challenge.

Umm ordered some books ..some stencils & another pounce pad (cause mine is in such a safe place that even I can't find it)...oh and I'm off to order some threads I just remembered I  forgot..
Oh and I have some news to share in a few days time oh and I also have RAK to draw..ok off I scoot for now...
Cheers Vickie Thanks for dropping in.

Denim challenge

The last 2 days I have broken 5 needles in my sewing machine grrr arghhh why-maybe rushing –maybe denim fabric –maybe I don’t know…but soo frustrating but I kept at it as I wanted to finish a project..and I did

 

Bag front and bag back..with some appliqué hearts and a snazzy red belt….And what a funny size you may just be saying but ahuh this bag has a special purpose…This bag is to hold other bags yep you got it..like them green monsters that come shopping with me and other totes that house the groceries till they get home,

And here it is packed neatly  okay stuffed with bags…

Oh and guess what?..The reason the needles were breaking is because I had not set the machine back to straight stitch after doing the blanket stitch on the appliqué, here's betting I won’t make that mistake again..This is me done for the denim challenge thanks Jenny for inspiring me to use them jeans they will haunt me no more.

Cheers Vickie

Spice Jars

Due to food allergies I have gone back too the old fashioned way  more natural way of cooking food instead of buying premix packages of wot not, I am using herbs and spices –fresh when I can.

Anyways today I was going thru my jars of spice in the spice rack and man I was straining my eyes really hard to see the use by dates, holy some of them expired in 2006 anyways I decided I would empty the contents after I could decipher the use by date as gone and rinse them out and reuse them as I had seen Jenny do awhile ago on her blog.

So there they were all lined up in the drainer when dushdang I noticed an embossed use by date on the bottom of the jar…arghh that was a heck of a lot easier to read then the printed one on the jar surface..

So that’s my interesting day…

Cheers Vickie

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