Happy News

Todays post is just a short one to let you all know that the wayward wonderer's have returned home after being lost for 4 days..

It was a real surprise to find them both collapsed at the back door after we had spent time, energy and nerves looking for them. They were weak, skinny, hungry, dirty and covered in ticks but otherwise uninjured.

It seems that they could have been tempted by an animal and decided to get to it and chase it so therefore becoming lost in the bush in the area.

They have been sleeping and resting..They will hopefully recover and be back to their old selves again..

This video was uploaded to Youtube on the day they returned..I started filming them as soon as I saw them there on the back veranda.

LPQ Saturday Christmas Lunch

Today was the LPQ Christmas lunch at Tamar Cove Restaurant, Beauty Point. It was a sunny but windy day and lots of quilters were there. The food was really nice, I had fish with salad and potato croquets with lemon butter sauce. Plum pudding for dessert.

I was lucky enough to win 2 raffle prizes which are pictured. Also a stop at Calico Crossroads quit shop at Exeter on the way there and on the way back proved very fruitful. I signed up for another BOM for next year called Pop's Garden by Threadbare and bought a couple of fat quarters.

The picture immediately below is of the lovely gift I received from my very good friend Leanne (Lizzie's Page).

While at Calico Crossroads I found this pattern..It is really beautiful. A nice winter project to do..

These are the raffle prizes I won at the lunch. 2 Magazines and some really gorgeous fabric.

Here is Calico Crossroad at Exeter....A must do place to visit..

Here we all are enjoying good food, drink, company and atmosphere all in the name of friendship and Quilting..

Who Let the Dogs Out??????????

Yesterday, our two dogs decided to make a run for the hills and we have not seen them since..Today was spent making flyers and letterbox dropping all the houses in the area...

We found a very small area of bent wire in the fence where they have squeezed through...Well what can I say except that we cant do anything more than we have already...Now we just wait...Hopefully someone will find them and ring us...

This is a little video that I made of them and our letterbox drop today..

I was looking forward to a weekend of sewing, which I still may do but the mood has now changed...

Christmas Lights..

As Christmas is approaching fast, people have started decorating their houses. This post shows a couple of the ones we have seen so far. Christmas light drives have become a tradition here so we spend many hours driving around until the wee hours of the morning looking for houses that have been decorated..

Christmas carols played on the piano sound from our house and we are looking forward to roast turkey and all the trimmings.

The house below is ours...This is our Christmas tree for this year. Out indoor one is too big and cumbersome so we are going to get a smaller one. So this year instead of taking out our bulky tree, we decided to have a Christmas apricot tree instead.

Christmas is a magical time to spend with lots of LOVE and good cheer...

Christmas is coming!!

It has been some time since my last post. How the time flies. I did not realize how long it had been and I was also having trouble with blogger passwords and pictures.

I have been busy with many things like gardening and husband being home for over a month and being annoying.

Christmas lunches and BBQ's are going to be the regular activity over the next few weeks. I am looking forward to those and hopefully NOT putting on weight that I don't need.

A beautiful spring day was had visiting the Entally House annual Garden Festival in Northern Tasmania. Lots of nice things to see and do like walking in the historic gardens and having a look at the house. Listening to music and eating ice cream
Back to some hand piecing with one of my recent UFO's. Maybe I might have pictures of this project to show later on..

I have bought some lovely new fabric called Sweet Rose and it is pictured if I can get the picture thing to work properly. I also bought a really pretty pattern called Home Tweet Home which is an applique quilt featuring birdhouses.

Have a very happy and safe Christmas and new year. L.O.V.E to all of you..

Getting into the Spring of things!

It is nice to see that everybody in blog land has been so busy with really beautiful projects. Now that the sun is finally out there will be more daylight hours for more quilting and stuff.

I have been finishing off other

things and now am ready to get back to my very neglected sewing projects and more blog posts. There are so many unfinished things I need to get onto and now I can.

The garden here is very colourful and even mo

re fragrant. Lilacs are blooming. The picture below is of a large lilac bush at the entry to our back patio where there are three large wisterias that have not opened with flowers yet.

Todays post will be short. We have friends coming over for dinner and there is supermarket shopping to do yet. I can't wait to post more quilt related things as I am about to start finishing off some very special projects. They are not far from being ready for photo.

A couple of weeks ago we had a little drama when our little dog (and her accomplice) decided to squeeze themselves under a fence and head for the hills. Toffee (the accomplice Labrador) was captured with a piece of roast chicke

n by a neighbor and returned home but Pip went MIA for about 40 hours until we eventually found her. The fear of God is now in them both and they refuse to go near any open gates or closed ones for that matter.

What has been happening with me!

It has been some time since my last visit but I am back and will be posting regularly again. hopefully I will be progressing with more fun projects that I have been working on.

For the last few weeks I have been finishing off larger work projects and smaller ones are starting to ease.

Spring weather here has also brought a new reason to get back into the swing of things. After 3 months of virtually non stop rain here, it is just wonderful to have the sun shining.

Yesterday a bunch of blue wrens visited the garden and were singing past darkness, they are still very illusive and hard to take pictures of but here is one I prepared earlier in a different place and time.

We have hung up my gardeners journal quilt in out little sitting room and it looks at home here. There are still many quilts to hang and countless many to finish.

Two days ago we went to the Royal Launceston Show, I did not take many photos there but we had a good day looking at all the animals and things. We bought 2 chocolate show bags and ate chips and chicken burgers.

Cows are beautiful, these particular cows were very friendly and loved a kiss and a pat. There was also a lot of baby animals in the nursery.

Until next time.