A Tilda Swap And A Stitchalong!

  

I recently took part in another Tilda Lovers Club swap. 

We had to make our partner a wall hanging, 

table runner or table topper. I made this wall hanging for Fiona. 

This isn't a good photo as the colours aren't showing up 

as nice as they are. I used Woodland range of fabric.

This is the table runner I received from Natalie. 

Natalie used the Maple Farm range.

Week one of our Windy Days stitchalong was announced yesterday. 

I'm all set for project number one.

 

We were able to do all our stitcheries in advance of the

 stitchalong which was great. Now all we need to do is put 

our projects together when Fee presents each project. 

I just have to finish my last stitchery. 

The stitchalong goes for 10 weeks and 

we have lots of different projects. They are all 

a mystery until our weekly chat with Fee!

Another Birthday!

Happy 23rd birthday, Austin.

What a big year you've had. 

Buying a house and moving out!

I'm so proud of what you have achieved.

Love you heaps. xxx

Nelson's 21st Birthday

 

Yesterday we celebrated Nelson's 21st birthday.

 

 22nd October, 2000

I just love this cheeky face. 

He is about 3 here and off to his first day of three year old kinder.

Coming out of lockdown yesterday meant we could 

all get together as a family to celebrate. 

We didn't think Nelson would be having any sort of celebration. 

We had a spit and the meat, OMG, it was devine!

Nelson just wanted a carrot cake.

It's not decorated very fancy as with the shops still closed, 

I couldn't get any nice cake toppers. But he didn't care.

Tomorrow we are having a picnic with some of the other 

family members, all socially distancing of course. 

So we weren't able to have the same celebrations as 

Mitchell and Austin but at least we could finally get together.

Friday Night Sew-In and Wombats!

Last night I worked on one of the stitcheries for our next 

Tilda Lovers Club Stitchalong. We are getting the stitcheries 

ready for when we start the stitchalong next week. Managed to get a bit done while watching Paint Your Wagon. 

I've never watched it before and I really enjoyed it.

 

Thank you to Wendy from Sugarlane Designs for hosting us.

You can see what others got up to here. 

This morning I was sitting in the lounge having my cuppa 

and something caught my eye. A mother wombat and her baby 

came up from the creek to the top of our driveway. 

They then went through the fence into next door. 

We often have wombats come through at night

(and make escape holes for Rex!) but we don't 

usually see them at 9 o'clock in the morning.

 

We had a lot of rain overnight. 

Maybe that's why she was so late bringing the baby up.

This is the bridge next to our place. 

The Diamond Creek is now a "river"!

 That tree leaning in the water is usually above the water line.

This photo was taken on the bridge.

A Birthday Gift

 

A special little girl recently had her 3rd birthday. 

She loves dolls and I found this cute one at the post office. 

Instead of a quilt, I decided to make 

a sleeping bag for Madelyn's doll. 

It was a big hit with Madelyn.

Friday Night With Friends

I am joining the Tilda Lovers Club Windy Days stitchalong. 

Last night I started the first stitchery in preparation for starting.

The stitchalong is to coincide with the release 

of the new Tilda fabric range "Windy Days". 

The range was released yesterday and my order is on the way.

 

The boys and their girls gave me an accessory pack for my birthday. 

You can get these from Fiona from Fee Fee and Me.

   

There were lots of goodies in the box. All sorts of bits 

and pieces we'll need. This makes life so much 

easier than trying to source everything myself.

There are also fabrics and pre-printed stitcheries. 

It's great being able to do the stitcheries prior to the stitchalong so 

I can take my time and not rush them when the stitchalong starts.

Thank you to Chez for hosting us last night.

You can see what others got up to here.

A Surprise Gift and OPAM For September!

On Wednesday, we found a lovely surprise in our letterbox. 

 A Community Jar of Joy!

 There is a group on Facebook who have started dropping 

jars of joy at houses. The idea is you (if you want to)

then refill a jar and pass one onto another stranger to brighten their day.

This is the post they put up when they dropped our jar into 

the letterbox. And why mention "Where's Wally"? 

Can you see Wally on the sign? Shops and houses around 

Diamond Creek have Where's Wally pictures in their 

windows for children to find. As you can't see our windows from 

the road, we put ours on our MacDonald's Patch sign.

 

Haha. Our letterbox is now their cover photo!

This card was in the jar, along with some biscuits, 

a coffee sachet and tea bag. 

Maybe you could do this where you live. 

Here is the link to the Community Jar of Joy page.

Now for my OPAM report. Six tea towels.

Glamorous gloves.

Folding shopping bag.

So that's 8 finishes for September.

 

Thanks to Kris for keeping us inspired.

A little side story. 

My lovely friend Jennifer of Elefantz recently 

told me she couldn't read my blog. Her Nortons security 

was blocking my blog telling her it was a dangerous website! 

Very strange as Jennifer has been reading my blog for years.

Anyway, I submitted a review of my url to Nortons. 

This is their response - "Based on your recommendation and 

after careful evaluation of the Web content submitted, 

a Web Content Analyst has recategorised this URL as Personal Sites. 

I wonder what they had me classified as 

and why it was changed to that!