a bit of randomness.....

I need to delete some photos off my camera, so today as I was going through them, I found quite a few to share that had not been on my blog previously -

fun Halloween decorations last year, outside my favourite house in Gisborne (not mine, sadly!)

an amazing and beautiful sunset

 the beach at St Leonards - on holidays with Sue

 flower mini I made last year and sent to Maria, in Cheryll's swap

a get together of blogging and sewing friends in April - much hilarity was the order of the day

 taken on the same day with a few of us ladies from the Mill Rosies group

my gorgeous nephew playing basketball -

just about my most favourite activity for the week is to watch his basketball games

my gorgeous boy

you may not know that Ollie also comes to work with me... in his basket next to my desk at work and looking very handsome, having just been to the groomer

my sister's and niece's gorgeous dog Scout... she has the most beautiful and affectionate nature

a delicious lunch last weekend.... home made vegie soup and a cheesy toastie on a cold day

  

 ... and some delicious afternoon tea, a homemade banana cake just out of the oven...

being the nature geek I am, I loved this beautiful lichen on a tree at work

xx

mill rosie friends - may 2014.....

Another wonderful Mill Rosie Friends day has come and gone...

 

It is always a fantastic day at Mill Rose Cottage, Ballan...

 

As always, there were beautiful and amazing swap gifts from this incredibly talented and very lovely group of ladies...

        

 

some of the ladies - which us 'Gisborne Girls' (aka the Country Girls) - Sue, Tracee, Marg and myself - call the 'City Girls', could not make it this time around, as they were on retreat.  Tracee however made sure that they still made their presence known.  They did pop up in some unexpected places -

 

checking out some fabric...

 

and some Christmas sewing...

 

they joined us for lunch at the wonderful restaurant next door...

 

and for some reason popped up in the shrubbery afterwards - perhaps they were admiring the garden...

 

lots of laughter and hilarity as usual... Tracee looks like she is about to cry, but I am sure she was just wiping away tears from laughing so much!

 

 

as always, the paparazzi were in full force...

 

 

there was show and tell - this is Marg's beautiful Quilt Aid quilt, for which she recently deservedly won a first prize for at the local CWA craft show...

and of  course the day would not be complete without a few little purchases...

 

It was another wonderful day with wonderful people - lots more wonderful photos can be found here, here, here and here...

 

xx



fnsi - may 2014.....

I hope everybody had a lovely Friday night, both FNSIers and non-FNSIers alike!

Last night I worked on the next block in the Underground Railroad quilt, our 'homework' block for this month, Basket -

and I also started some knitting, a new winter scarf.  I loved this wool when I saw it in the shop, but am not sure I like it knitted up, at least not in this pattern.  I might try just a plain 2x2 rib and see how that looks....

One of my OPAM finishes for March was a pair of fingerless gloves which I made for my niece.  I had not shown them before now as I had not given them to her.... but I still haven't caught up with her to pass them on, so here they are.  She loves the minions from Despicable Me (even though she is 22!), so minions they are!

Today I am off to our Mill Rosie Friends group at Mill Rose Cottage, Ballan, for lots of fun, probably not a lot of sewing, and a delicious lunch.  It is always a lovely day with much hilarity, and as I have missed the last two, am really looking forward to it.  Hopefully, I will remember to take some photos!

Have a lovely weekend

xx