Happy day

Yesterday I caught the train into the city and met up with wonderful friends and finally got to meet Fiona in person!! I met Fiona and Shez at Southern Cross, we caught a tram, after some stumbling and coffee spilling ( no names will be mentioned!! Lol!!)and met the other ladies at Flinders Street Station.

we met up with Christine and then Mel

then Marina arrived.

we had a look around Southbank...Christmas is coming!!!Then made our way to PJ O'Briens for lunch

Great food and wonderful company!! And a very obliging waiter who took many photos!!

Cheers!!

Marina sampled the Guinness....

and sported a Guinness mustache for Movember!! 

Christine and I wandered across the bridge heading back to the city...and we suddenly realised we  had lost the others....then they appeared...

slowly, slowly they caught up with us....obviously serious discussions were under way that made walking impossible!!

Shez decided to decorate herself with the toyvoyagers.....so they could get a better view of the city she said!! Lol!!

Our final port of call was Luccello's...who can walk past there and not call in???

Is very  hard to leave this shop without some goodies....

a nice little collection here that jumped in to my bag!!!

this little reindeer decoration just had to come home with me...

and look at these lovely Batik fat quarters and stitched decoration.....a beautiful gift from Shez.

Thank you to all, Shez, Christine, Marina, Mel and last but by no means least, the lovely Fiona.....it was a treat to meet you in person Fiona and enjoy a wonderful day out with everyone. Let's do it again soon!!

Happy sewing.

Catching up with friends

I had the best day today, drove up from St Leonard's to home to collect a few things, watered the plants, a quick visit to the supermarket and then to Tracee's place...I ended up travelling in convoy with Marg and Mel, the other car load of lovely people including Marina, Jo, Annie, Robin and Elyte...I bet lots of laughing was going on in their car!!! We all brought along bits and pieces to eat but Tracee had made baked spuds with all kinds of wonderful toppings...you should have seen the spread!!  Well I can show you some of it!!

Tracee had the tables set up and beautifully laid ready to go....

mmmmm.....

don't these look amazing....

passion fruit flavour pavlova's with whipped cream!! Yum!!

problems of the world being solved here!!

Tracee made a beautiful fruit tea, with frozen blueberries in it....love the cover on the jug, it reminds me of the ones my grandmother had....

Mel ready to tuck in to desert....Marina made her special baked cheese cake....

guess who was hanging out in the kitchen....me, Tania and Marina...

I grabbed Annie and Elyte while they were looking at Tracee's sewing area upstairs....good fun sitting the camera on something and then waiting for it to take the photo....you never quite know when the 10 seconds is up!! Lol!!

..this is what happens when you set the camera up on the stair well and say run quick photo!!! Love these ladies!!

relaxing in the lounge...

we had a wonderful day...thank you Tracee for hosting us and thank you Annie, Elyte, Tania, Mel, Marg, Robin, Marina, Jo and Tracee...you are an amazing, fun, supportive, chatty, wonderful group of ladies, I am very proud to call you my friends....we had the best day!!! Long may it continue!!

Treasure your friends!!