Wonderful weekend

Tania and I headed off to St Leonard's on Saturday morning, plus dogs, to have a relaxing, stress free, sewing weekend

We stopped in Geelong to give the dogs a break from the car and to take some bollard photos - I love the Geelong bollards!!

Tania in charge of the dogs!

Tupai waiting impatiently!!

Isn't this just beautiful? I so love being near the water and it was a beautiful day.

Walking on the pathway over the water

I think this is a banjo shark, was just cruising along near where we were walking.

Yay!! I managed to finish something!! It was a "huge"job (not) I finally got the label sewn onto this mini quilt....has only taken me 5 months!! Oh boy now I am embarrassed!! And it only took 15 minutes!! Lol!!

Tupai went for a swim in the waves - he wasn't bothered by the howling north wind!

then had a snooze under the table

Ollie snoozed on the couch...while keeping an eye on the strange person with a camera!

I managed another finish on Sunday..my first block of the Farmyard Frolics 2 - now to get on with the next three awaiting some attention!!

It must be jelly fish time of the year...these ones were floating in to shore

some had been damaged, maybe by birds?

some are quite big

the toy voyagers had a lovely time sitting on the beach watching the world go by

this was one of the biggest jelly fish we saw

Monday morning we went for a wander along the beach, we left at 10.15 for a short walk to the Yacht Club and back, then decided to wander along to the boat launching ramp in case we could see some pelicans, we got to see three but my photos are all rubbish!! It was such a beautiful day we were in no rush to go back home, but eventually got hungry and were surprised to find it was 10 to 1 when we got back! We had lunch, then packed up and headed home. I was sad to say goodbye to the beach!!

Some sleepy dogs on the way home!

A finish

Yesterday I finished the last of the knitted blankets for KOGO, and managed to get 4 blankets hemmed, they are just lengths of fleecy fabric ( Lincraft had a sale!!) with the cut edges hemmed, they make great blankets.

love the fleecy fabrics

here is the prince frog to kiss!! LOL!

and the knitted squares all together and ready to go. I delivered them to a pharmacy in Bacchus Marsh today, they have a truck that come to collect the blankets, beanies, scarves etc people have made then they go in to the city for sorting and distribution.

I just went out to check the dinner and noticed the kookaburra waiting on the bird feeder for dinner, they come now and then, this one didn't fly off when I put some mince onto the feeder, was very trusting.

Mmmmmm...what is for dinner??

A few minutes later the whole family is here! not such a good photo it is taken through the kitchen window.

Thursday

Today I had to do this..

couldn't even take a decent picture!! I just couldn't put it off any longer...would have much rather been doing 

this with a book and a cuppa

or working on this

or this...but maybe later...Lol!!

Lazy Day

Why is it that some days I am fired up and can sew all day and get lots done and then I have other days when I just can not be bothered to do anything?? Today has been one of those days, not a lot done and now it is time to be getting dinner ready....oh well....yesterday was a better day, got at least a little done!!

i laid out the squares for a KOGO blanket and my assistant decided it was a wonderful place to have a snooze!! Wouldn't have been so bad if he hadn't muddled the rows up! Lol! I guess that tells me I need to clear the table and not work from the floor!

Wednesday group challenge nearly done, just need to finish off the threads and sew the opening closed. Can show a whole photo after we have unveiling. 

Halloween tablecloth nearly finished for Jenny, have to finish off threads and sew opening closed - there is a recurring theme here - not wanting to do the final things to get it finished!!! I would like some glow in the dark skeletons to hang on the corners - does anyone have any ideas where I could get them from please? Tried the local $2 shop but no joy there.

Another "bright" KOGO rug finished and ready to be delivered.

Next KOGO rug to be sewn along the long seams, then needs a crochet edge, there is another one lurking in a bag....to be done later on. This one isn't too bad most of the squares are of a similar size, the red ones just needed a bit of tweeking to fit.

I found an amazing hexagon quilt on facebook today

so far over 13,000 hexagons! But what an amazing quilt, it is like a Persian carpet!

and today is World Orangutan Day - the orangs at the Melbourne Zoo  had special fruit and plants today - was party day for them. 

Saturday morning

just wanted to show the henna patterns this morning with the dried bits gone, you can see the pattern much better - tried the bend the fingers and stretch out the wrinkles again!! Lol!!

Henna painting

One of the lovely young girls at school had her hand henna'd last week and when I admired it she offered to do something on my hand this week

I haven't lost any fingers, just trying to stretch out the old wrinkly skin!!!! Lol! The dark stuff is the dried henna which will come off and the orange underneath will slowly darken, then go orange again and then fade away in about a week. I love the pattern she has used, have been walking around all afternoon holding my finger out stiff so as to not damage the henna! :-) Can't get it wet tonight so can't do the dishes....what a shame!!! Lol!!

Found

I found this photo on facebook of my youngest son having a good time overseas.....love it!! It is so Shane.