needlefelting....

This has to be the most fun you can have with wool and a needle... Sharon a friend from NZ showed us how to do this and I just love it..... I am nowhere near as good as she is.. but I will improve......
this is what Sharon did with one of my drawings...

























Isn't it fantastic..???? I just had to get straight in and have a go at this one..... It may come as a surprise to those who know me but I knew exactly where to find my needles.. bought years ago when I was having a go at reborn babies and my overdyed wool.. which I bought over a year ago as well..... I did this and I am proud..... even though I need Sharon to have a look and tell me what I am doing wrong...LOL but still I love her...






















I will be doing more of these .. I just love them...

Well this morning I have to go grocery shopping.. yes I know most of you are envious...LOL

Stitchery club.....

I am working on having a stitchery club. I will be sending out at least 2 stitchery drawings each month and I will also give directions on how to make the stitcheries into a wall quilt by years end. It will be a real mystery as you will not know what is coming next. I will be giving you dimensions of the size of the patchwork sections, but it will be up to you to have whatever design you would like in there. Eg three 4" blocks... you can then do whatever design you would like. I think this will be a fun way to get rid of a lot of your scraps. Plus have fun along the way.

As soon as I can figure out how to add a link on here, I will give you all two freebies so you can have an idea of what you can expect.

Stormy skies

Thought you all might like to see the storm we had on Sunday... It was lovely while it lasted. Not a lot of rain though, but the breeze was absolutely wonderful..... I say breeze, more like a gale.. but oh so cool....... The it started to clear and we had the most glorious rainbow.. so I know I am going to have a lucky year... The end of the rainbow was so close.

Still trying...

Well I have been trying to use my own designed template in here... but alas I do not know enough about it all to try it just yet... But I will get there one day...LOL

Yeah it rained and we now have three quarters of a tank of lovely clean drinking water... yahoo.... that is a load off our minds..... I am washing today so rest assured it will rain again....

Still getting all the pics onto my new website. I can't wait to be able to share that with you all...

And Angels website should be up and running pretty soon as well.....

I have been doing some more pixeling.. oh I love doing that..... having a ball I am.

Today I hope to get some stitcheries drawn to fabric as well... I have lots of ideas for new ones so will also have to sit a draw them up as well.

Well if I am to get anything achieved today I had best get to it...

I will leave you with one of my new pixels....

Still learning

Well I am still trying to work out how to set this darn thing up...LOL and Sharon seems to have gone out..... so no help on hand...LOL

But I will master it.. I tell you... I will win, come out on top.. very brave words I know. But it still early in the year and I am really enthused remember...LOL

Just have to tell you all what happened to us..... It has been raining here so that is good, very good... so in our wisdom yesterday seeing as it was overcast and raining we decided to empty out our water tank and clean it out so it could be filled with fresh clean rain water.... Yep you guessed it as soon as we had emptied the tank the sky became blue and sunny...LOL And what a job it was too, four frogs later and not much slush at all we now have a very clean water tank.. but alas it is empty...LOL The scary part is we do not have town water, we survive on rain water for drinking and cooking. We do have what we call the chook tank.. the one that is full of holes and we use to give the chooks a drink... So we have about three rings of water left in it.. so everyone rain dances please...LOL Weather bureau said that it would be raining all week.. should of known not to believe them...LOL

I have a ton of work to do today.. some samples to finish and send off, some new designs that I have just put to paper have to be now taken to the next step. Some pixeling to be done and more website work. So this is it for me for the time being.. off to get stuck into it all.....

A new year a new beginning.

This is my first voyage into blogland. Like I need more to do in the day. Not enough hours for me now. LOL But here I am anyway, full of enthusiasim and ready to take on the world. Wonder how long it will last.

Hubby and I are very into crafts. We make a wide selection of craft items which we sell through our website cathroncountrydesigns.com ..We also stock and sell patterns and craft supplies. I have the full pattern range from Angels in Disguise as I am one of the owners. And I have a selection of Annie Smith's adorable raggedy patterns. Plus I am starting to add some of Hatched and Patched patterns as well.

I am at the moment designing a new website for Cathron Country Designs. I love this kind of work and have designed all the pixel drawings myself for this one. I have also just finished making a new website for Angels in Disguise. This will hopefully be up and running n a few days.
here is my lower banner...

Another new venture that I am about to embark on is an online doll class. I was starting this last year but die to a death in the family and other family happenings i was unable to get this to happen. But for those of you who have booked it... woo hoo it will start at the end of this month.... This is the cutie we will be making. The second pic is her little pet or is it her lunch box....?????


Well it is breaky time here for me so I am off out to cook the usual. Bacon , poached eggs, tomatoes and toast.... Oh and my first cuppa of the day... How I love this one.

I will catch up with everyone again later on.. have fun...