Wishful thinking :)

See this quilt label? Notice the completion date? Now that's what you call wishful thinking :)

The blocks on my Tis the Season quilt are all done...YAY! I've stitched the quilt label, which is sort of unheard of for me...to be so organised, and ahead of schedule, even!

The borders are on...

...and I'm all set to pin and quilt. Now...to find the motivation to do that :)

Wooohoooooo...I can feel a finish coming on!

TTFN xxx

Just because...

There's an old saying that goes something like when you're on a good thing, stick with it. I have to ask myself sometimes when this little polkadot obsession of mine is going to end, but as the saying goes, I'll just stick with it for now :) After all, it has made me pull out my scrapping stuff again, so it's all good, right? LOL

A funny thing I've noticed...when I'm not scrapbooking, I don't take the time to think about the little things that make up my life, the little things that make me happy....things like fresh roses on my kitchen table. Each week I buy some just for me, just because they make me happy. My favourites are white, followed closely by yellow.

This week I bought red, just because they were so stunning. My cheeky husband was away at the time, and asked me if I had attacked them with white correction fluid, to make them polkadotty LOL...he knows me so well :)

I've mixed up the patterned paper a bit here...some Echo Park, October Afternoon and a little Prima. I inked the doily with my Sepia inkpad, before attaching the alphas and adding some Kindyglitz sparkle to match the Prima chipboard.

It's so windy and rainy here in Perth today...I'm off to snuggle under a blanket and do a bit of stitching :)

TTFN xxx

Bumps in the Road

Had I known that all it would take was some polkadot paper to get my paper mojo flowing, I would have bought some ages ago :) Of course, it didn't hurt that I have a big stack of beautiful photos all calling out to be scrapped (thank you Sharon )and a favourite colour palette from The Color Room to play along with, either :)

So...here it is...a scrapbook page!

I wrote the journaling a couple of months back, so it was easy to bring a few simple elements together and get it down on a page. If you click on the photo, you should be able to read the words ;)

Simple, with the focus on the words and the photos. Yep...that's the way I do it!

And can I just say...it felt good to be doing it again LOL

I've used bits and pieces mainly from Echo Park...Dots and Stripes, and Little Boy Collections, with some ribbon, brads and Basic Grey alphas as well.

Thanks for looking, and Happy Saturday!

TTFN xxx

Farmers Wife Friday- The Tangled Edition

I have one of my little chickies off school today...poor little girl woke up crying and complaining of headaches, so we thought it best that she spend the day resting on the lounge. It wasn't long before she requested a movie...

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...have you seen Tangled? It is her absolute favourite right now, watched over and over again. I have to admit, I've watched it more than once myself :) We love the story, the animation is wonderful, and there are a couple of very clever one-liners that make me laugh every single time :) A fantastic family movie.

While she was watching, I snuck out my Farmers Wife fabrics and made a couple of little blocks...I don't think she even noticed!

The theme this week seemed to be "broken". First up is Broken Dishes...

...otherwise known as Block 11, and Broken Sugar Bowl, which is Block number 12.

My pile is growing bigger...

...AND I have less than 100 blocks to go :) LOL

Have a wonderful weekend!

TTFN xxx

A new career?

(image source)via pinterest

Does this mean that I should be a professional chocolate taster? Hmmmm....I could do that!LOL

TTFN xxx

Seeing spots!

It's been a long time since I felt the urge to scrapbook.

If you had told me this time last year that I would go for months and months without creating a page, I would have shaken my head in disbelief.

Just lately, though, I have felt some stories spinning around in my head that I would love to document, and on the weekend I even pulled out some papers...just to get the feel of it again (slowly slowly LOL).

Something was missing, though...

...my paper stash has a disturbing absence of polkadots! And these days, I can't seem to make anything without polkadots! You can imagine my joy when an online search revealed whole collections of them...WOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

And now that my postie has made his delivery, I really have no excuses left...do I?

TTFN xxx

Farmers Wife Friday-The Sunday Edition ;)

So they're a little bit addictive, these 6 inch squares of fabric :) I'd heard that around blogland, and knew if I wasn't careful I'd get sucked in too....I'm fairly easily sucked in as a general rule LOL

After an extended morning of running around doing the usual Saturday stuff...trampoline training, haircuts, fruit market shopping, netball, birthday parties...I felt like I needed a little "me time". And playing around with little pieces of fabric is a great way to spend the time, don't you think?

This is what I ended up with...

...possibly my favourite block so far? It's called Box, and I love love love that yellow floral fabric :)

Number 10 is called Bowtie, for obvious reasons...

...any block that has that red polkadot fabric always makes me smile.

There you go...addiction confirmed :)

TTFN xxx

He caught me...

...as he does every year :)

I've been celebrating my husbands birthday with him for 19 years now, but somehow the "older woman" jokes just never get stale...according to him, anyway :)So it's always a good thing when August rolls around, and he catches up to me in age.

Such a momentous event as turning 40 deserved a hand-made card...

...if only due to guilt, because both of my girls made him a card, and were wondering why I hadn't done the same. Someone should really explain to these kids about missing mojo LOL

So Happy 40th Birthday to you, my honey...can't wait to celebrate with you when you fly home to me!

TTFN xxx

Farmers Wife Friday-The Happy Days Edition

Did you ever watch Happy Days as a kid? It was one of my favourite shows...each weekday afternoon at 5:00pm I'd snuggle into a lounge chair, ready for my dose of 1950's idealised family life...so far removed from my actual life :)

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I always pictured myself as Joanie...the little sister who was never grown up enough to do anything that Richie and his friends got up to...and if you ask my own sister, I was probably just as annoying LOL

So...why all the Happy Days memories, you may ask? Well, when I hit "play" on my CD player this morning in preparation for my morning Farmers Wife stitching, the CD started skipping...then the second disc started skipping, and then the third. In desperation, I hit the play button on the cassette deck, and what should start playing? The Everly Brothers. Nothing says "Happy Days" like the Everly Brothers...do you remember them? Bye Bye Love. Love Is Strange. Walk Right Back. Crying In The Rain. Classics, every single one of them :)

So it was with this soundtrack that I constructed my Farmers Wife blocks this week...

Birds In The Air...hmmm...lots of itty bitty pieces in this one. Just as well I was chilled out and happily immersed in my thoughts of Potsie, Ralph Malph and the Fonz!

Bouquet...totally the wrong colours in this photo, and all the tweaking in Photoshop just wouldn't make it better :) Try to imagine the stripes in bright pink, and the aqua as a nice fresh shade...as opposed to the muted colours you see on your screen :)

Now, what I really want to know now is...what song screams Happy Days
to you? Or better yet...what's your favourite Everly Brothers song?
Humour me :)

TTFN xxx

Hot off the ironing board!

Thought I'd better get busy this afternoon and finish off last months A Family Gathering blocks...these are hot off the ironing board!

But first, a progress shot....

...this little quilt of mine is certainly growing in size, and I have to admit, growing on me a little bit more too :)

This block is called Pool Party, and what's not to love about a pool party? Especially when you have red polkadot bikinis :)

This one's called Fishing...quite a sensible name for such a block, don't you think?

Loving the metallic silver fishing reel, and his oh-so-cute reindeer t-shirt.

Now I'd better get myself in the correct month, and start stitching before it disappears on me again!

TTFN xxx