Dyed Cotton Velveteen

I  received some cotton velveteen in the post on Friday.  Now I have a special secret project for it but I can show you the first step which was getting the dye pots out.  I have lost my dyeing instructions but luckily I still have a couple of bottles of the dye bath mixed so I had enough to do this and hopefully replacement instructions will arrive soon from Country Dye Works.

The shop didn't have as much as I wanted of the cream plain velveteen so I also got some embossed which when dyed came out really yummy and I think I like that better.   Now all I need is the motivation to get this project finished in time.

Quilting Arts Gifts

 My Quilting Arts Gifts has finally arrived.  The first copy sent never got delivered so they sent me another in a Global Priority Envelope.  Just in the nick of time as I am deciding on what to do for the next Christmas Ornie swap and although I have something in mind  I don't know if I will be able to get all the supplies I need to make it happen.  I also don't know whether they will safely arrive so might have to change plans at last minute but as I am swap mamma I might have an extra day up my sleeve.   

My latest purchase from the US just hit my bank account and I don't think I will be doing much US shopping for a while as the exchange rate is absolutely shocking,  I couldn't get the fabric here in Oz so it can't be helped.

New Toy

Everyone who knows me knows that I love my gadgets and toys.  Well sick of the kids  fighting me for the computer I decided it might be time to get myself a laptop.  Then I started looking at Macs and decided that they look a whole lot better and then there was the rumours of the new Macbook so I decided to wait.  Well I picked up my new baby on the weekend and I am starting to really love it.  Getting my pc to talk to it has been fun (NOT) but I am gradually transferring what data I need to and soon the kids can have the pc to themselves and they can leave me alone. 

p.s. thanks Tan for letting me know what kind of bird my visitor is.

Visitor

For a couple of months we have had an early morning visitor (very noisy), it is an exotic bird of some kind obviously escaped from an aviary somewhere. Please let me know if you know what type of bird it is, I might have to find out who I need to tell so they can capture it.

p.s. to Jill (sorry you have noreply on your comment) Yes I am that one.

Holly Jolly Christmas

Here is the first block from my Holly Jolly Christmas Quilt by Viv's Creations. It uses Jelly rolls so it is going to be super easy to put together. I have traced 12 Days of Christmas by Viv also but I don't think that either of these will be finished by Christmas this year, good thing they keep coming round so they both will be finished some Christmas in the near future. I am using a mixture of Sulky 30wt and Valdani machine embroidery threads on the embroidery and they are both nice to use.

p.s. Lorraine I think I have fixed that thing now so only this blog now shows.

I don't know what happened to my time but I didn't set aside any for the usual Cake extravaganza that usually happens at the kids birthdays so a tower of cupcakes was the birthday cake for my son's 8th birthday with the family. As you can see from my daughters picture they went down all right.

Did you ever have a day when...

Everthing you touch is a disaster. It all started with the modem...9am it just died... so I ended up taking it to the service provider to check it out. Then it was my mobile decided that it wouldn't charge so rushed down to the phone shop as I was waiting for the Tech to ring. Luckily that was at least fixable. Then I get the news that the modem is dead and buried so wait for hubby to get home and run down to office works and get a new modem which says EASY INSTALL. Get it home and take it out of the box and all its internal bits are rattling around in the case..so back in the car to the shop for another modem....back home and try and do easy install and the thing gets its nickers in a twist....so then have to wait for 9am to speak to tech again. Meantime husband is really concerned about the modem (he never worries about the computer). Turns out he needed to do some work from home as he was having the day off today.

In the meantime I decide to work a bit on my last birthday swap turn the iron on do a bit of work with the iron then some sewing then back to the iron and it is dead. At that point I decided not to touch anything more electrical and finished tracing The Twelve Days of Xmas Stitchery which kept me out of trouble till bed time.

Today was my son's 8th Birthday. This day started as early as possible, and then we headed out with a couple of his friends for a movie and lunch at Macca's with a hoard of kids on school holidays yuck. Once we dropped off the friends then we headed to the shop to spend the birthday money and now it is 8.30 and the kids are in bed and after making home made pasties and sausage rolls I am a bit pooped to say the least.