A finish

has happened today, the Aussie hero quilt has gone to the PO, ready to go tomorrow, the posties are having another day off today I am told. Probably just as well as it sure is hot here today...34 deg C last I looked!! Phew!!

Ready to go!!

Shane said goodbye to Tupai this morning, he has to go back to work today.

So we went into Geelong and dropped him at the train station, then I thought I would call into a couple of shops!! Well how silly am I!! Geelong was packed, both shopping centers car parks were closed, so after driving around and around in the 33 deg heat I found a park and walked.

I went to the collectibles shop to look at another mouse but it was closed!!  I guess I just saved some money, which I promptly spent on a new pair of walking sandals as mine have died. They were reduced by $20 so that was a good deal.  Then I walked up to Lincraft to get one of those roly sticky things that takes lint of your clothes, they are perfect for the dog hair that gets on quilts!!

I did find those and

this is perfect for backing Aussie hero quilts, at $8.00 per m.

this is just cute!!

this was also $8.00 and will be a present for next Christmas..I just need to make it up!!

yup, what I went in for!!

and this because I might use it one day!!Perfect for the stash!!

The day after Boxing Day hubby and Shane went to The Mill markets to look for records, so I wandered off to Spotlight and came home with

some dinosaurs!!

Pooh Bear, poppies and some green Christmas fabric

and this because it made me laugh out loud in the shop!!

and some cotton wadding a good buy at 30% off!

Life is back to near normal now, the boys have gone back to work, so it might be time to pack away the Christmas decorations!!

My best present this year was this.

Yep the boys coming home!!

The biggest surprise was this.

new gumboots from hubby to wear on the garden!! How flash are they!!!

Well it is super hot here in the room with the computer so I will finish up and go sit in the cool.

Hope your day isn't too hot.

Happy sewing.

Fabric frenzy

Today I had to take Shane to Waurn Ponds to meet up with friends.....they are off to the music festival that has been moved from the Otways  to Torquay because of the bush fire there....I looked for a cache near there but apart from being ripped to bits by bushes didn't have any luck. There is a beautiful old blue stone bridge at the cache site with a two lane road on one side and a huge over bridge over the top, and another two lane road on the other side...kind of forgotten.
On the way home I stopped at Spotlight as they have a 40% sale happening and had a fabric frenzy!!!!  I was very happy to find some fabric at $4.00 and $6.00 a meter. I am set up for a good while now, unless I see something I can't live without!!!! Lol!!!!

love this next fabric...shame blogger has decided to put it upside down!!!!!

love the little orangutan peeking over the little elephant.

Off to pat my stash!!!!

Happy sewing.

Out and about

Yesterday I took Eve over to the Mill Market antique centre on the Geelong Queenscliff Road, so she could search for postcards....I had a little look around and then walked up to the shopping centre to put on Eve's Tatts for her, then back for lunch.....then I wandered down to the quilt shop, Bellarine Sewing centre I think it is called....had a lovely browse there....all during this time the weather was getting windier and greyer

I think the change in the weather is coming

my shopping from the quilt shop.....the fabric on the left is linen with writing on it...not such a good photo....I am hoping to do my last Underground Railroad Sampler block with the green fabric on the right...it looks  so blue in the photo....love the little owls and hedgehogs and fox fabric...just needed that because!!!

Yep the weather has changed and the car is rocking about with the wind....but I have magazines to read and nuts to eat and all  is good...I am not going outside for a while!!

and here is the evenings progress on the wasgij....we are slowly getting there...nothing else is being done mind you, the sewing and knitting have all been ignored!!!

Have a great day!