Moving along

I have spent a few days with Mum, she is much better and seemed to enjoy her birthday.
I have sewn a few more stars

Bit of a dark photo but 5 new stars

Today I drove over the Kaimais to Tirua and met Julie of My Threadbare Life blog. We had a wonderful catch up in a lovely cafe, before having to head on with the day. It is always a treat to spend time with Julie.

A bit up the road I had a quick refreshment break at Matamata and so I went to the info centre, just love this building based on the Hobbit movies.

The rain has been really bad today, driving rain for nearly 3 hours is a bit much to take.  Not to worry I am now in Auckland with Jenny for the night. Moving on to catch up with more bloggers tomorrow.

Happy stitching.

Wonderful

to be back home again..I have a few photos on the camera to update here. I met up with the lovely Julie of Threadbare Cottage for lunch while I was in NZ. We met in Tirau which is famous for the corrugated iron signs in the town. We had a great lunch and then a wander up to the Christmas shop , which was amazing!

Julie gifted me a lovely goodies bag, which I opened this morning

the bag got a bit squashed in the suitcase

but inside was a beautiful candle Julie made and decorated, even  has my name on it, and a lovely handmade soap. I have had one of these before and they are beautiful to use and smell so good!!

Thank you Julie, you made my day.

We took some snaps of the signs and buildings in the town

  the local mechanic shop, and the Info centre

sadly the buzzy bee is a bit hard to see

Mrs Pukeko looks very flash with her pearls and shoes

Mr Pukeko is plainer just sitting here on the roof.

this shepherd was at the local church, you could put money in a box I was told by a man passing by and he would talk to you, I thought that was a little creepy so declined!!

I headed off and drove back over the Kaimais

I stopped at the top to take a photo out over the Waikato and to search for a geocache!

Later that weekend when I went up to Auckland Jenny showed me a book swap fridge at the end of her street

I dropped off two book crossing books and took a thriller. The contents of the fridge were  mostly children's books. Nice to swap books around.

I did manage to get a few more stars sewn

the star family is a wee bit bigger now

I must say that Jenny gave me a beautiful cup (she has the T-shirt to match)

Halloween Chowdy dogs!!How cute are they. I am very blessed to have wonderful friends.

I am off to rediscover my sewing room.

Happy sewing.