Happy Valley, South Australia

hmm anyone reading here who may live near Happy Valley????????

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A QUILT for a special lady.

 Please pop on over here and read this....post ...
There is a giveaway happening but not just any giveaway -
There is a quilt being made for a special lady and below is the main focus fabric-print (think that's the right word),
anyways if you are able and would like to participate you just make a 6½" ninepatch in line with the colours below and send it too Bluebird Quilts...remember go read the post

Picture borrowed from Bluebird Quilts blog.
This is such a worthy 'cause -sure hope you are able to get your skiddles on and donate...
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OPAM challenge

I will try not to  be negative-I will try not to complain-and  I will try not to moan and bitch-but dang having no power form 6.10 am till 1.30pm (Unscheduled outage) for the whole of Darwin….sucked big time….And yes folks that was all of us up here yesterday,ok have that of my chest now, and will not go any further with it.-squeek ok just to say it was caused by lightening.

Yeah yipee I have actually complete 4 items for the OPAM challenge for the month of January and have a couple still in progress….

A friend is often making trips for a night or three in  hospital-so I decided it would be nice if the family had a bag to take his things in rather that the good ‘ol plastic shopping bag-so without any more rambling here it is…

Colourful but not too bright and a good size, I used the quilt as you go method for making this…

All my items can be viewed by clicking on the OPAM tab on the main page-now that page is set to no comment it is just a view page only…

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Australia Post

Well it really makes you wonder how the postal system works…last week I mailed out the giveaway prizes (which just all happened to be in Australia) , 2 to Victoria and 1 to Tasmania  and another envelope to England…

Amazing the one to Tasmania arrived very quickly like over the weekend..and the Victorian ones arrived today and i guess the england one will arrive umm maybe mon or wed next week..anyways that’s my wonderings for today

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Today I did a ME day.

Yep I sure did, all totally 100% for my benefit-oh dear that sounds selfish, but I had so much fun and fell very refreshed for doing so…and have surprised myself that I got so much done considering the horrid horrid weather we have—c’mon send down the rain pweeeeease…

Anyways so I got thinkin after a post last night that I needed to make some more clothes for some kitchen appliances, so up with the birds this morning I was and plans started to happen…

And keeping in line with the tea towel challenge Jenny put out..bugger it we just lost power, thank gawd I have UPS’s connected to puter and modem..lahlahtralala I shall keep typing…and quickly I may just get this post complete.

Looky there see the deep fryer now has a new cover and don’t he look sweet next to the wonky block toaster cover (made that awhile ago)..

And what is hidden under here????? That wee appliqué is a W-did you guess what it was?..Ok it’s my kitchen scales….

Aww don’t they look pwetty, all tucked away where they live.

Since I still had some get and go left in me..I made this cover for the microwave too….

Oh I love pie don’t you…

And if I want to put the box of bit’s and bob’s on top of the microwave then I can move the cover to look like this..oh yummy pie…

I have another pie set out ready to make-they just look darling…

I am off to jump in the pool man it sure gets hot quick with no air circulating…..

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I’m Busy

Yes that’s correct I’m busy,busy doing what?

Well I’m making pies of course-gotta run one has it’s ingredients' ready to be put together.

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I am a Dillberry

True some days I wonder about me, I truly need to stay on track at times-yep I get sidetracked easily especially when on this computer..and that is what happened with the the post below-I had typed it obviously got sidetracked yakking or playing  a game and saved it in drafts folder-but I did not realize this until after my last post bad bad girl I am.

Do you know how sturdy a tea towel is and it has many uses, you can use tea towels to make many things around your home..and they wash and wear well ..I recall making my children library bags out of tea towels and I adorned them with puffy paint-I also made bags for my daughters calisthenics shoes.Oh and numerous plastic bag holders(but no we don't want them any more plastic bags are being banished eh)..Well the gist of this is Jenny has set out a challenge for you to make something out of tea tea towel in  January-let them creative ideas flow..
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Tea towels

What no I not talking dishes-go wash your mouth out…

I am talking about the many other things you can use tea towels for – like making things.

Over the years I have many things outta tea towels and it wasn’t until recently when Jenny posted about making things out of tea towels that I started to think about the things I had made – without even thinking about it ..Mainly I used them because they were the right size and sturdy kind soft canvas type fabric.(I don’t know what you call it)

Then I decided my poor deep fryer need a new cover.

Ahh all chooked up.

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I am

So not enjoying the end of year financial crap I am going thru at work,there has been umm 4 diff people in the past financial year and locating needed documentation is a nightmare to put it mildly..and this puts me in the I don’t want to do nothing when I get home syndrome…but I still do it anyways and before i know it the shitiness that had been creeping up on me due to the workload has vanished and so a good nights sleep is had ready for the next day.
Ahh I feel so much better for getting that off my chest..
I am enjoying our wet season, the rain has livened the gardens and the grass is juicy green and I can just go berserk with the secateurs and take cuttings from around and stick them in the dirt and they grow.

Ahhh so nice an lush looking and i should not of been lazy and should of walked down the stairs to take the pic.

 
Ahh miss Delta is possessive of this towel seriously that look on her face is saying “listen here  female human you try and take this off me again and it will not be pretty”

I am also taking time out in the evening (that’s when the flippin power don’t go out), to do stitching on my In Pops Garden  designed by Rose ,I have now completed the center stitching and will start the sides tonight I am enjoying this so much-thanks Rose.

Just update so the link takes you to In Pops Garden post on Roses blog.
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Hellooo

Well hello, seems like ages since I have been here-time is flying so fast I find it hard to believe we are in the 3rd week of  Jan already ....Oh before I forget to those girls who won something in my giveaway I finally managed to get to the post office today-my apologies for the delay...
Not much sewing been happening here as my sewing machine went clacketty clacketty clunk-blasted thing like for goodness sake it never asked my permission to up and keel it on me..there is only 1 person here that does sewing machines so I will have to get it dropped off to him and wait for him to get back to me with a diagnosis--hope it don't hurt to much...
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Cute Givaway

Nah not here silly over here Cath is celebrating her 200th post
and you have the chance to win

A weee cutie similar to this-well what are you waiting for go leave a comment.

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Friday night sew in.

Button is over there, no not that way  this way to the right -yes you see it now don't you.Nothing like some motivational support whilst you sew eh? Cheers Vickie
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THISLEDOO!

Neat and clean and quick to load-yep thisledoo me.
Don't know - can't know -but will take some time to get back up and running fully dressed again.
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Big Crash

so not my day today…will get to fixing things as soon as I am able, for the moment i have limited the access to my blog-I apologize for the inconvenience.

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Giveaway grinners.

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

9-wins the fat quarters
19-wins the moda holiday charm pack
15-wins?????????????????

Timestamp: 2010-01-09 11:52:43 UTC

Now the first number generator gave me 3 numbers the same pfffft out the window with that one, then I ask hubby to call out 3 numbers from 1too 28-derr bad idea he calls out prime numbers only..so baloney I find another random number thingy and hey presto …

So what number was your post?
Thanks too all who came and commented, remember I do a RAK (Random Act of Kindness) every month and anyone who posts within in that month goes into the draw..

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I have been

Umm well busy yep that’s it..have I been chatting on the phone ermm nope definitely not with these horrid storms we have been having.Have I been chatting on Messenger nope I not available..must mean I’ve been chatting up a storm on Skype?   Oh and nooooo I have not been playing copious games on facebook. Nope sadly not----Oh so you think  I am still kicking up the dust and cleaning the house eh? fat chance –no way I am back at work..so what have I been doing?…..Well  what is a girl to do when it is the first week of the new year ? Well of course she that’s me  just had too go wandering in blogland I truly did, and I landed HERE can’t even remember how I got there..and next thing I knew I was madly sending an email away to join..yep I think I’m addicted to swaps..what do you think?

Anyways that did not kept me from all the above mentioned activities for long, nope but this has had me busy every night..carefully following the instructions man it’s like Rose is standing beside me saying the instructions they are written so well and I am listening true I am..aww ok I’m not fiddling around with the placement of my 2½ squares-man I would still be at border 1…I am just reaching into my box of 2½ squares-which are a mixed sort, grabbing the required amount and then sewing them together..

Oh and oops I must be more careful when tracing the pattern Rose does say several times make sure fabric is centred, ok I must slipped a bit –on one of the thin borders.

So finally here I am ready to start stitching the first block-let the floss come alive-woohoo

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Givewaway------oopsy

I on my 245 post I said I would be having a giveaway on my 256 post..well dang I just posted post 257..which makes this post 258..ummm yep I am naughty…

A fat 1/4 of each of these fabrics and the trim shown will go too the first name drawn..

And cause I was so lapse in keeping count of my posts..

This pack of Moda-Roman Holiday 5” charm squares will go too the second name…
And cause I can I will send a gift to the third name drawn as well-just not sure what that will be yet…

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In the mail

In the mail today came a  package from a long long time friend who lives in Toolamba.and has no blog arghhhhhh….she kindly sent me a couple of wee bags of fabric bits from a local patchwork shop-

Now how excellent is that eh? The pile on the left are 2½” or 5” wide so they will be chopped up for my in pops garden quilt…thanks heaps Jojo, –your a gem and you didn’t even know I was needing more bits for 2½” squares for my 2010 project.

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Today I am

Sewing some more on the King Blue even though blue is not one of my colours this is coming together quite well-oh hang on I’ll go take a pic of some blocks joined already

 

I know the lady I am making this for will be over the moon when she sees it.

………….and then I am getting stuffs ready for my In Pops Garden quilt that I won the full set of patterns from Rose of Threadbare Creations designed by Rose…

See I have purchased all my floss…

And all this fabric is going to be cut up into 2½ inch squares..catch you later snip snip of I go.

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Today

When down the street today I was forced summoned into the local opp shoppe, yep true I was

and I was delighted to find these 2 Tupperware items @ $3.50 each..

 

Are they not just the funkiest colours, yes see I knew you would agree..

Anyways the lady in the shop did not know what they were, and when I showed her she was gobsmacked and said “well you scored well didn’t you”..I replied yep sure did and walked out of there very happy…

these will be excellent for my limited storage space…

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