15 Minute challenge and Hot Christmas on the horizon

 The forecast for Christmas Day is 37C as today is a balmy 21 and tomorrow is 28 I am hoping they have got things very wrong.  Mo and I did the shopping on Friday and we planned a hot lunch so we will be cranking up the air-conditioning early and keeping it on all day.  

Mo is working late tonight and working again tomorrow (Christmas Eve) so she can't have the usual day with her boyfriend where they put together a gingerbread house and exchange presents.  She is making a cake house this year not sure when its going to get finished tomorrow after work.  

Last week wasn't a good week on the stitching/crochet front as work had a bit of drama again... I was glad to walk out the door on Wednesday.. fingers crossed things have settled down when I return in January.  There were a couple of days where I just was so damn tired of it all I didn't do anything and went to bed early and read a book.  

Friday after spending most of day at the shops including a trip to the Market in the city I pulled out an old Christmas UFO.  It is a design by Viv's Creations, luckily I have a few of her patterns I love her naive designs but sadly Viv passed a few years ago.  This one has lots of lots of detail to go and I have all the threads and the plan was to use beads for the berries.  Must say my stitching isn't as good as it use to be it will probably pick up as I get on with it.  

I've also done some work on my Judy Newman quilt.  Still haven't finished the hand piecing part but pretty much all the other blocks are done, when I get sick of the embroidery I'll get back to the hand stitching.  

Got a bee in my bonnet about finding some linen to make a table runner for Christmas (next year)  ended up pulling out most of my white/colour fabrics and ironing then a refolding.  Found quite a few pieces of linen that will be good for embroidery.   

I have bought myself a couple of Japanese embroidery books for Christmas which was
why I was on the hunt for linen.  

That's it for me this week.  Everyone have a lovely Christmas head to Kate's.  

15 Minute Challenge and Holidays are Almost here

 2 more days and I am on holiday I can't wait to just leave work behind for a couple of weeks.    It has been less than great at work the last few weeks I am so glad it is pretty slow client wise this time of year and we have time for all the other things that are happening behind the scenes.  

DH and I spent a lovely night away at the Adelaide Oval Hotel, and enjoyed a great meal at one of the city pubs for our anniversary a couple of weeks ago.  

The trip to Skein machine with the crochet guild was so much fun.  The 2 guy's who run the shop are just so talented.  One is a knitter (of only 3 years) and does the most incredible shadow work knitting check out his patterns on the site and the other  is a crochet guru.  They dye their own yarn and stock lots of local  products and yarn from the area.  Shopping was done and a picked up some sparkly yarn for my crochet baubles.  

Here is my piles so far.  Not all will make the finished wreath but they have been fun and easy to do.  I've purchased a polystyrene wreath, and i'm also working on a crochet piece to cover it using a sparkly sock yarn.     I need to get working on some candy canes and will do some flowers as well to help fill in the gaps.  There is no way it will be finished this year, I'm aiming for next year. 

The weather has been a real stinker the last couple of days 40 yesterday and 39 and humid today.  Work at least has very good air conditioning so it was good to be in the office for a few hours.  

Coco has had to have another tooth removed and she has been a bit flat the last few day, the heat probably isn't helping.  She had a reaction to the anti inflammatory meds she was given but is a lot better today.  

I really need to get back to the quilt I'm working on, most of the blocks are done apart from 2 more strips of hand piecing.  I want to top at least finished for a class in March so I need to get back to it.  Hopefully over my break I will get back to it.  

That's it for me today head to Kate's.   Hope to get back before Christmas.