a perfect sunday morning.....

.... a perfect LAZY Sunday morning ~

tea in my favourite mug

a couple of favourite magazines

some sewing

the sun shining through the curtains

... and Ollie snoozing by my side

perfect.....

how did you spend your Sunday morning ?

Ollie and T xxx

Hello again!

Just a quick catch up on a few of the things that were made while I was not blogging.

The ones below were for swaps, gifts and raffle prizes ~

My quilt, made in a Round Robin with a few lovely quilty friends.

This quilt is HUGE ~

...and the two below were for a mini quilt challenge in our Wednesday night group (the little heart quilt is actually about a quarter of the size of the mini log cabin quilt ~ more of a mug rug really lol)~

Back soon!

Ollie & T xxx

a fresh start.....

Finally, a fresh start at blogging - thanks to Sue for her encouragement!

This past weekend, Sue, Tracee, Marg and I had a lovely weekend away at St Leonards, at the beach.  It was a wonderfully relaxing weekend - good friends, good food, a little bit of shopping, and lots of sewing.

Good food ~

Marg's fantastic Kangaroo quilt ~

Tracee's Perry's Place quilt ~

Sue's chookies, and a duck ~

And my hexies, mostly in beautiful French General fabrics, my favourites  ~

It was a wonderful weekend, and included a long walk along the beach on Sunday morning ~ the sound of the water on the shore was so peaceful and calming.

It was hard to come back to reality!

Back again soon ~

Ollie & T xxx

soooo frustrating.....

Hello!  Once again I have been a remiss blogger - my last post was in June?!  Really?!? Time does fly....

But, all of a sudden I have lots I want to post about, and my home internet has suddenly died.  Which means I can write posts on my computer at work, but cannot upload any photos.  And I have so many photos to share, and currently no way to upload them until I can get my home internet fixed - hopefully soon.

I have been a busy little bee these past couple of months - some quilt classes and workshops, an amazing weekend retreat with art quilter extraordinaire Helen Godden, an extra long weekend spent in Canberra which I had never visited before, and some craftiness to share....

Hopefully I will see you all again very soon - photos in tow!

T xxx

a gorgeous surprise.....

My lovely friend Sue brought me these beautiful flowers on Friday - "just because", she said.

I think it is "just because" she is a truly wonderful, kind and thoughtful friend, and I am very lucky....

sooooo cute.....

My lovely and already very talented, soap-maker extraordinaire, and sewing friend Gabbie has recently started a photography course.  While she was visiting a couple of weeks ago, she took these lovely photos of Ollie for practice -

I really adore these photos.  Just as well he had been groomed by his "canine stylist" (my sister) recently; he was suffering from a rather severe case of bedhead prior to having his photoshoot (yes, that is one naughty (and very cute!) little doggie who sneaked into my bed one morning.....)

m.i.a.

Yep, I seem to have been missing in action. Not really sure why, only that sometimes life kind of just.... happens. A few things have been worked on -

the cushion for my niece now finished (and she loved it) -

a few more of the windmill blocks -

a new scrap quilt in pinks and greens, just cut into simple squares -

the centre medallion block for the Round Robin challenge -

and some more of my crochet blanket -

I have also been working on an Irish Chain style of quilt, done in mostly William Morris fabrics.  Looking forward to posting piccies of that soon.