Where?

I really don’t know where the last week has gone… it has been so busy in my little home. It has been a week of highs and lows… a horrible head cold, and exploding lemonade bottle, a dead and dying washing machine just to name a few of the low points but really I want to focus on the highs! We bought a new washing machine and I love it(as much as you can love a washing machine…Lol) It’s a front loader this time and it seems to wash the clothes much better than my old one. Tuesday(yes I know it’s now Friday) we had our Kindred Heart Stitchers day out at Michelle’s. ? and ? the other two girls who shall remain nameless went shopping with out me… and bought lot’s of lovely things that I am sure would look much nicer at my place :OP Anyway being that it’s Valentines day this month our theme was ‘hearts’. My Mum made a cute wooden heart decorated with a quote and a bit of bling, on the left is her finish for last month a silver tray repurposed to hold a photo… isn’t it lovely?

And ? made this gorgeous heart…

Michelle made this cute raggedy doll…

With a heart that says ‘Be mine’ 

‘?’ made her heart and attached to a silver tray…

Beautiful… :oD

For more pictures you can pop over to Michelle's…

I need to stop here… my teenagers are away at Youth camp and I am on milking duty for the weekend… DH is in town still so that leaves me to get the cows in…

Until next time…

Michelle

Valentines Day…

Happy Valentines Day!… Hope you are having a wonderful day… I received these lovely flowers from my husband this morning :OD And in return I am cooking a roast lamb for dinner!

I am happily appliquéing away on my Dresden plates…

 

I found this pretty pin dot fabric(the background fabric) in my stash and promptly ordered some more, I think it is perfect! And I have finished the binding on this free BOM Stitchery from Gail Pan Designs…

The weather this summer has been weird… it has rained quite a lot… and hasn’t been the warmest of summers… we are still sort of waiting for summer to come…today is warm though… and the garden is loving it… Just look at our pumpkin patch…

I have started adding more plants to encourage the bees to come and visit…

Stefan has started building a frame for the swing seat he made when we were at our old house (see my profile photo) it will be nice to sit and relax in it again…

 

I came across this website the other day and thought others might be interested too… I know I will be ordering a couple of things from HERE…

This post has become rather disjointed but before I sign off… What do you think of the photo’s? I am trying out several new(to me) free photo editing sites… I am curious do you have a favourite you use?

Keep smiling…

Michelle

Dresdens and a new treasure…

I’m not sure where the summer holidays vanished to…they have disappeared really fast!Today is the first day of school for Miss Olivia and the boys and I are slowly easing ourselves back into our home schooling routine… We are familiarising ourselves with the work we have ahead of us and designing title pages and such(fun stuff) I have three teenagers home schooling and each one of them is doing something different this year… so if things get a little quiet around here you’ll know why!

Over the past week I have been working on the Dresden plate quilt and I have finished sewing all 12 of them so now I am all ready for the next step… And as I mentioned in my last post I have a new treasure…

Claire generously gave me this gorgeous mirror… and it’s just perfect here… I can see my hutch from the kitchen now and it makes the room feel much bigger…

Well my lunch break is over now, so I better go get my teacher hat back on…

Michelle

Wishing Well Flowers…

There’s this cute little florist shop in town called 'Wishing Well Flowers' owned by the lovely and charming Katherine… she has just shifted into a new premises and it is gorgeous! There are lot’s of goodies here besides all the beautiful flowers and bouquets…

Please excuse the horrible photo’s (sorry Katherine) I was taking photo’s on my phone and it didn’t like the fluorescent lights!

If you are ever visiting Hawera make sure you drop in and say Hi… it is my favourite little shop in town!

And I have shamelessly stolen some of her ideas… which I will share in a future post…as well as my latest treasure… thanks Claire ;O)

Michelle

FNSI Results…

Last night I managed to chain piece all those little dresden pieces and now they look like this…

Now all I need to do is turn them and give them a press… I think it’s going to take a while ;O) And I finished the machine quilting on this quilt… but I want to do a little bit of hand quilting on it before I call it finished…

Better get back to those Dresdens…

Michelle

FNSI

I am joining in on the FNSI tonight… this is what I plan to work on…

I want to finish the machine quilting on this quilt… And I hope to turn these sweet little piles(240 pieces) into cute little Dresden plates…

As you can see on my sidebar I decided to join in on the Scrappy plate quilt along over at Bunny Hill Designs. I spent about an hour last night cutting them out and will chain piece as many as I can tonight…

Michelle

The Repurpose Challenge…

Yesterday was our first get together at Nancy’s for the ‘Kindred Heart Stitchers’ and this month’s challenge was ‘to repurpose something’ and Wow did we do well… even if I do say so myself… Just look at it all…

I repurposed the doily bunting and the embroidery hoop, they were gifts to Michelle as it is her birthday this month… the embroidery hoop has little pockets to store bits in for her sewing room… I also repurposed the blackboard it originally had an ugly picture on it but on a trip to the Warehouse a few months ago I bought some chalkboard adhesive 3 sheets for 99c(thanks to Michelle for telling me about it!) Now I can use it to write a special quote on it :O)

Michelle made this gorgeous candle holder…

And Nancy repurposed some wire coat hangers into a bird feeder…

Nancy is Claire's Mum and isn’t this a great idea… I have plans to make one too! The feeder is an Op shop find… she also made one for Michelle for her birthday..

 

This is one of Claires repurposed projects it was originally part of a two tiered basket that broke… turned upside and put on a plate…it now becomes a cloche, how easy is that!

She also made bunting by threading ribbon through old postcards, if you look close enough you can see it in the first photo.

Nicky made this pretty note board from an old wire cooling tray…

A great idea to display precious mementoes'! And a three tiered cup cake holder that you can just see in the photo. There were many other projects too that I didn’t get a photo of(maybe Michelle did?)

It is always fun to see what we come up with… next months challenge is something for ‘Valentines Day’. 

Nicky had a brilliant idea… each of us had to write down five things we wanted to have finished before January 2013 and then they were sealed away in an envelope which we will open again next year!

Nancy also showed us her notebooks, she is a list writer like me… but her notebooks are fabulous…kind of like a scrapbook they hold all sorts of things… a bucket list for the year… books she wants to read/has read… memories… photo’s… fabrics scraps from a project… magazine clippings… recipes…etc… it has inspired me to start one too!

And this is a photo of Claire’s oldest  UFO that has come out of hiding…Lol She thinks she started it 16 years ago…

This might just be the year it gets finished! How old is your oldest UFO?

My Mum has a project which isn’t quite finished… I will show you photo’s as soon as she does!  (Sew how is it going Mum, finished yet?)

Well I better head off and get a load of washing done and spend a little bit of time with my family the last three days  have been very busy and I feel like I haven’t seen them all for a while…

Enjoy your weekend…

Blessings

Michelle