wonderful weekend...photo overload !

last weekend was really great as per usual. The lovely Faye treated us to lots of delectable feasts, none of which i photographed as i was too busy eating! Faye freezes the leftovers for her TV dinners but much to her consternation we ate BOTH lemon meringue pies, not a skerrick was left :))
Some of us sat up on Saturday night and watched Merry's son Tim compete in the hammer throw in the Commonwealth games. He came 6th, Wtg Tim....
I showed Di how to make felted lilies, hers worked beautifully,
mine i pulled apart:( another failure lol.

poser!!

She made another one the next day using doily as the centre , it semi worked just needed bit more wool to felt it together.

I made no knit scarves, so wonderful to be able to lay out everything without having to pack it all up all the time. i got five made......not terribly prolific, i was sick :(

added some sari silk to this one for Lucy...

Our craft room, the old squash court.

this is some of the girls work....

H's lovely needle felting

V had her music quilt top all cut out friday night and was hand quilting on Sunday...

arent these appliques lovely? h was working from her own photos.... the bungle bungles...the fabric is perfect for those rocks. They will be further worked with free motion stitching.
and a boab tree...i always think they look like upside down trees to me...



the pointy garland are for a quilt Merry is working on ....

H was also working on freestyle crocheting to put onto bag mesh. Now if i could crochet :(


anns lovely stitchery....

Dis bought this gorgeous red hat and just Had to make scarf to go with it. she added some of my red sari strips to put in it...



Di's quilt....

group photo...Thank you all for such a lovely crafty time away.....

Busy hands....Heathcote 2010

quickie post ....

Just dropping by to say hi and a quickie update.....

Whats news in this part of the world? well Ive applied with my friend Jenny to be part of Christmas Handmade market stall on Dec 18th . We don't if we have been accepted yet but we are in planning stages. Ive been working on some collages and card ideas as well as making some sewn things like pincushions. Its all very exciting!

I'm off to Heathcote for crafty girls weekend away this weekend, cant wait! more fun, lots of laughs and great food for sure !

2 weeks later I'm flying to Brisbane to attend the Gutsy girls art day. Jenny and i have taken some time off work and will spend 5 days up there . the stitches and craft show is on too , so it will be another wonderful mini holiday.

Lucy has her dress entered in the ag art show tomorrow , so keep your fingers crossed!!

Charlie has just returned from a 4 day school trip to London. While she was there she texted me to say how she would like to catch up with some of the English rellies. I texted over Paul's Auntie J's no and lo and behold next thing she caught two trains and spent a lovely few hours with her.
I found out later that that she snuck off during free time on the tour.
My Miss Independence!

Other than that here is my metal card for Inkurable stampers, using my foil background.


And then some Birthday cards....
I love this one, the background is all layered napkins and the butterflies [from Blue Bazaar but their website is under construction] are just gorgeous....The back side actually looked better but i broke the body pulling it apart. However i did manage to rescue the antennae....

This one the text background is form the packing off some lovely flowers i ordered, probably Prima ones...


and this i used twinkling's on the vintage Japanese prayer book paper. They work beautifully , it just sucks it up....

and lets not forget Halloween

Smokin hot..


House of fun....Traded.


Waiting forever....


Hervey traded.


now there's a mixed bag for you ....have a good week....xxx