I know... where have I been..???????

I have made up my mind that I will get back into it all this year.  We are off to St George to collect our grandees for just over a week so I will be pretty much tied up until the end of the month. We are heading over to Straddie and we are going to scatter Luke's ashes at the end of the month. This is the first time his wife has been able to do this as they are back in OZ to clean out their house. Cath and the kids now live in NZ. Then to end it all off before they return back to NZ we are heading to Sea World for Luke's youngest daughter's birthday. We are going to make this as happy a time as we can. Time for us all to move on as best we can.

Hubby and I are still enjoying being in the camera club. Hubby did pretty well last year in the club competitions... I never won anything...LOL But Hubby has a new camera and I have inherited his old one. Darn I don't know what I am doing wrong.... Santa bought him another new camera and I just get his old one...LOL Twice now this has happened... LOL I will just have to put more of an effort into it this year and see if I can improve... I have a better camera so no excuses......!!!!!

Here are some of the shots I took last year...

 

This is a group shot of most of our club at our end of year breakup for 2014.

This is a shot of hubby and I at the break up. We had a fantastic time.

Ok I am off here now.. have to do some more darn housework......

I am Back.......

Hi Everyone... Here I am at long last. We have had, [no other word for it] but a SHIT of a year so far. As most will know we lost our only son in a horrific car accident in late March. Since then I have been so out of it... I just haven't felt like doing anything. The only things that have kept me same is photography and reading. That is all I have done all day long every day. That is until a week and a half ago... All of a sudden I am back crafting again.

I will pop up some photos soon...... Before that terrible morning March 27th... I had finished and sent off some items to the magazines and most have appeared in Country Threads and Handmade throughout the year.

Here are some of my photography shots taken during this time.

Too numerous to tell you what I have read... but I can tell you my Samsung Galaxy Tab3 is the best investment I have ever made.......I love it.. so easy to download and just read away...... That is what I am about to go off and do again now... so until I take some craft photos....... I will say have fun and chat again soon......

Bus trip to Warwick.......

Yesterday I went on a bus trip to Warwick with a group of ladies from the Tenthill craft group. We had a wonderful day.

Our first stop was to the most wonderful patchwork shop. It was called Glenrose Patchwork. The shop was amazing. The ladies there provided us with a lovely morning tea. Unfortunately it was raining when we arrived and I left my camera on the bus. But I did steal a couple of photos from their website. The first one is of inside the shop and the second is the shop front. A few of us sat out on the veranda with our morning tea and watched the rain... It was lovely.

Another lovely shop we went to was Canning Town Patchwork. I got a couple of photos inside there.

From this shop I bought the most amazing tiny ric rac... I fell in love with it and got 10 metres of each of these three colours....... The large ric rac from another shop Shelly's Curtains and craft and yes I got 10 metres of it as well.....

We had a couple of competitions on the bus and I won one of them... Look what I got as my prize....

We also found a surprise waiting for each of us when we got on the bus to come home... mine was a wee small pink wheelie bin to sit on your desk... I forgot to take a photo of it...

I bought this at Spotlight in Ipswich last week. I need it for a project I am working on for the magazines.

You may have noticed the back ground in my photos... it is my most wonderful bag that I received from Cindy as a Christmas gift...... Here is a photo of the bag......

And lastly a photo of a name bunting that I have made for our newest grandee... Odin..... I have made these for our other grandees... Xavier, Rilee and Charli. They are so quick and easy to make. I think I will write up a quick little pattern and have the alphabet there so you can make what ever you want to. I have also made Merry Christmas.....

Well I had better get off here as it is time for me to prepare lunch. Steak and veggies today.....

Happy crafting......

Boonah Quilt Show.

What a wonderful time we had at the Boonah Quilt show, held on Friday and Saturday. I had my friend Lorraine next to me on her stall..... we had a ball. Lorraine's lovely grand daughters came with her on Saturday... one of them stayed and was making and selling cute little bracelets made from ... of all things, wee rubber bands... they were so cute. Lacey, my daughter who came with me to help and I both were given one to wear and keep. Though that didn't last long. I took mine off in the car on the way home as I was so hot and sweaty. Left it in her car and when she went back to Toowoomba our youngest daughter Louise saw it and ended up with both of them.... LOL went to town yesterday and found the packs to make them, for sale in The Reject Shop... so I have bought two packs for our youngest grand daughters to have a go at making some.

Here is a pic of my stall at the show......

And here is a pic of Lorraine at her stall.......

It really was a lovely couple of days. The Boonah Girl Guides look after you so well, a very enjoyable show.

The lady who ordered  the bone lacy zipper off me... if you read this could you please message me as I have lost your name and address......

Have fun everyone.........

What I made today........

I have been busy today, playing around making some little bags. Well two are really little bowls.

The first two are made from circles and are oh so easy to make.

 This one takes a little longer, but is still quite easy to make. I love the lacy zipper. Anyone who buys a zipper from me at the Boonah Quilt Show [on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th March], will receive the instructions on how to make the zipper bag.

 This bag actually holds quite a bit. Good to toss in with all your craft gear in your bag.

Well I am off now as all of our pets want to be fed.... they sure know how to tell me they are hungry.....

Have fun....

Project that will be in The Rusty Tin Roof online US Magazine soon.

This is a little scrap basket that I made.. well from scraps really. It is to sit beside your sewing machine or when you are hand sewing to collect all of your scraps in. Don't you just love the ric rac... it looks like a row of chickens running. I found the ric rac idea on Pinterest and thought..... I so want to do that on something...LOL 
I had so much fun making the basket that I got carried away and made quite a few of them in different colours. I still have to embellish the last 5 or so. The rest I have sold, so I cannot get photos of them. The remaining ones I will photograph as soon as I get them gussied up.

I really am going now. Hoping that after lunch, if it is fine, so hubby and I will get to go on a photo shoot and see what we can manage to capture. 

Lorraine's Birthday.

Yesterday saw me once again at my friend Jan's place for the Thursday get together. I usually can only stay until lunch time. But yesterday was a special day it was Lorraine's birthday, so we had a yummy BBQ lunch. Thank you Ross for doing the BBQing for us.

Lorraine, Nicola, Jan and I were there. Judy did pop in for a quick visit to drop off Lorraine's pressie and to cut my hair. I feel so much better no hair touching my face or neck. Drives me nuts.

Here are a couple of pics of the girls.
Jan who is listening to something that Lorraine is saying. I must add Lorraine keeps us entertained with her stories... The second photo is Nicola.

 And now we have the birthday girl herself.

 What do we usually do at Jan's on Thursdays... some kind of stitching and to prove that this does happen, here is a shot of Lorraine working on a couple of jewelery bags that she is making. They are gorgeous and I should of gotten a close up of them.....

 Here is the basket I made for Lorraine to bring all her work to and from Jan's place in. I made it from 2 large T Towels that I got at Aldi... I love that shop....LOL Old doley on the front. Lorraine loves purple and then green is her next favourite colour. OK I know not purple and green on the T Towels. But when I found them at home I thought the dark stripes were purple... Not even close. Maybe I need to go and have my eyes checked again.......

Inside the basket is just plain, no pockets etc as it really is for Lorraine to just grab all of her stuff, throw it in the basket and then over the shoulder and be off. It worked too, everything fitted into it. You will notice that it stands on it's own. I used fast to fuse interfacing in it. After awhile it does tend to soften a little so we will have to see if it still manages to stand when that happens.

I am off here now as I have some more stitching to finish on the last of the stitchery sets I am working on at the moment. Then I will be sewing them into something. But that may be a couple of weeks away as I have a quilt show coming up in Boonah in a couple of weeks time and I have a few things to get ready for that. Things to paint and fabric to cut and fold.

Have fun everyone......