Friday, 7 September 2012

weekending...inside outside


scraps from another quilt top ready to be unpicked and made into a new quilt for baby flutterbug

add in a few extra 'stash' fabrics

layout...trying not to change my mind one thousand times  

TV addict!

a favourite


water paint


drying
more drying
 
a monster grasshopper spotted in my garden!

I hope you are enjoying a grasshopper free weekend.  

this moment

A ritual. A single photo or two - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
If you're inspired to do the same, leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see. (From: soulemama)


Thursday, 6 September 2012

rediscovering...

Lately my head has been stuck in this lovely book that arrived in the post the other day.

One recommendation is to sort and organise your scraps. Initially this seemed like a daunting task to me. 

But I decided this was as good a time as any...so out came my scraps.  I discovered I had more 'stash' fabric then scrap fabric.  My taste in colour, shades, tones and type of fabric has change over the years as you can tell by the range of fabric above.

 I really enjoyed sorting through fabric that I liked many years ago. 
It reminded me of life in the country and when I first learnt to make quilts.
Once reserved for forgotton projects in the past, Sunday Morning Quilts inspired me to think of new possibilities. 

At this stage, rather than sorting fabric according to colour, I decided to sort according to style/type and 'value'.  I used a Value Finder kindly given to me by my beautiful girlfriend who is far more experienced at quilting than me. 

This is close to the end result (above).  I had a few more piles to sort and I labelled the bags according to their value.  Of course this was only the first box!  Amongst this fabric was brights etc that I have decided to leave and sort for another time. Upon rediscovering what I had hidden away my mind started to think of ohh... all the possibilties.

Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Reading...

2012 is the National Year of Reading.  This morning I picked up the free 'get reading 50 books you can't put down guide' from our local library.  I enjoyed having time to read this little guide. Ahhh time to read a novel again from start to finish...how wonderful that would be.

Monday, 3 September 2012

welcoming in spring

It's the first week of spring.  Here's wishing you a wonderful week ahead!




Sunday, 2 September 2012

weekending...special days (2)

Happy Father’s Day
I love...

I love the way you help me blow bubbles

I love the way you watch me play
I love the way you hold us close and squeeze us tight
I love the way you guide us


Thanks for being the bestest Daddy. 
We love you all the way to the moon and back xo. 

weekending special days...

Happy Birthday Miss Charlie xo
home-made pre-party decorations
late night cake baking

early morning cake decorating

the princess castle cake!

in her party dress passed on from a friend; hair specially done by 'b'

with her favourite aunty

This is what I've been the last few days...preparing for a special birthday celebration.

Yesterday we gathered for afternoon tea with family and a few friends to celebrate little miss flutterby's 2nd birthday.  Her birthday is really today but as its father's day today we spread out the celebrations.  By the time we blew out the candles there was a change of clothes as it was pretty cold outside.  The boys loved helping little miss flutterby unwrap all her presents.  For some reason I didn't take a lot of photos; I found myself just stepping back, watching her and enjoying the moment remembering when I first held her to now.  She is growing so quickly right before my eyes... now a little girl.  Oh how lucky we are. 



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