Fair, Fish and Flying Geese:

Meet South and Port my two new friends. Yesterday I went to Southport with my Sister, brother-in-law, niece, brother and nephew. We had a lovely picnic lunch on the Pier, then it was off to what is left of the fun fair. Paige and Harvey were having a go at a win a prize every time stall and we all laughed when they both won a goldfish. Paige asked me if I would like a gold fish, i said no that i did not have a gold fish bowl to put it in, but it turned out that the woman also sold little fish tanks. Paige bought me the fish tank and then went on to win me two fish. They are making themselves at home in my bedroom. Later at home I needed to get on with some serious sewing. I need to make a 176 flying geese for my outer border on my country album quilt. I think I've made about 70 so far.

Bala get away:

Hello everyone, sorry have not blogged for quiet some time I have been nursing a very broken heart. To get back into my blog I would like to introduce my new friend Chook. He has met Windy and they are getting along famously side by side on the windowsill in my sewing room. I bought Chook a couple of weeks ago whilst on a weekend break in Bala. It was so nice to get away for a couple of days just to chill out and relax. Chook was not the only thing I came home with? I came home with lots of insect bites and my body decided to have a bad reaction to what ever had bit me. Emergency doctors appointment and some strong anti histamines and I was out for the count for the next two days. OOOoo the Gods have a wicked sense of humour were I'm concerned lol.

Surprise post:

I received a fantastic surprise in the post today. This lovely A4 note book from my friend Janet Mc. The cover is lots of shoes, I love it to bits. Thank you so much Janet for such a wonderful gift.

Tuesdays to do list:

Tuesday was a very busy day. I decided I was going to write a list of things I must do and cross each one off as I completed them. I even included some house work on the list. Although in between each chore was a craft project that was to be finished. The first crafty thing was finish baby cardigan and hat. I then moved on to the fabric postcard swaps had not realised I had recently signed up for several. These four postcards are for a word mingle swap. In the group (Fabricards)there is a list of words you can put your name next to a word (only one word)when five people have each added there name to a word, the swap is closed and five new words are added to the list. You then make each off the other four people a postcard using the word that you have chosen. In return I will receive a postcard from each of the other people depicting the words they have chosen. Well as you can imagine the list of word was endless but for some unknown reason, the word I picked was UMBRELLA. As I was making my umbrella cards it started raining! Now how spooky is that?

T-shirt transfer paper:

I wanted to transfer some pictures on to fabric but I did not have a clue how to achieve this. I read in a magazine that to do this you needed transfer paper? The only transfer paper I could find was T-shirt transfer paper in WH Smith. It is a bit to stiff to use in quilts but for my fabric post cards it is great. Here is a postcard I made for a 1-2-1 swap. I transferred the image of the shoes from a box Michaela bought me for my b'day. I embellished the shoes with red beads. I really like the finished results. It is also very good for printing phrases and word art from the computer. It took me a little while to find out how you managed to print the word back to front??? oh Yes I had a few whoops.lol

Millie Jo's cardigan and hat:

My sisters friend Stacy gave birth to a beautiful baby girl yesterday, her name is Millie Jo. Stacy already knew she was having a girl so my sister asked me (months ago may I add) to knit the baby a cardigan set. I have not knitted for a very long time and was quite reluctant. Then when Michaela anounced her pregnancy Natalie knew the needles and wool would be out. I started knitting Millie Jo's cardigan weeks ago, then I put it down half finished and just never got around to picking it back up. However, I knew Stacy was due in the next couple of weeks, so on Tuesday I finshed knitting the cardigan and hat. The very next morning Natalie rang to say Stacy had given birth, mother and baby were both fine. Now how about that for timing lol.

And the Winner:

Is JAN Congratulations. I will pop your little black dress tote bag in the post one day this week. I also have a runner up who will receive a small tote bag and the runner up is Noel. Noel could you e-mail me your address I will pop your little bag in the post this week. I had six lovely ladies who entered my first give away and I would like to thank them all for commenting.