My next post will be my 200 post and I thought I should probably organise a giveaway for that one but it looks like I am not organised ... well I am sort of organised but the thing that I am going to have as a give away is part of a swap and I can't reveal it till the end of the month so you will have to be patient. 

Above is some more drawing and painting that I have been working. I will be chopping the piece up into 4 ATC's these are the first ATC's I have attempted think I will try some more before I start to trade. 

Sarah (QFD) mentioned in her newsletter that it is 2 months till Inspired Stitches and I for one can't wait. I don't think it is about the classes it is more about having a stitching weekend with all my sewing friends. Stitching with the girls has been sadly lacking over the last few months.

I have just received a couple of skirt patterns in the mail from Sarah and I think I will have to do some serious fabric shopping in the next week or so. I just don't have any nice skirts its all pant or black stuff for work. I also found a place to enlarge the patterns in my apron book though it is going to cost an arm and a leg to do it so I will just be getting those patterns that I have to have. I see some serious serious cloths sewing in my future and I might have to unearth my mannequin though god knows where I am going to put her because there is STANDING ROOM ONLY in the sewing room and she has only been saved from the big rubbish dump because she is in a corner between a bookshelf and a cupboard and has a heap of stuff piled on top of her.

Happy Dance

I love Cathy Penton's charms and I managed to get to the site just after she posted some new ones and got two of the tiny charms she had for sale...

Over the Worst

Well at least I am hoping that we are.  My son's tonsil's came out on Friday afternoon, he was looking forward to the ice-cream and jelly now we can't get him to eat anything and today he won't drink much so we might be in some trouble if things don't pick up tomorrow.  His specialist said not to worry about the food as long as we can keep fluids into him.  The dr also told us that there was a lot of scare tissue due to the number of infections he has had so that he will be in a lot of pain due to the amount of tissue that they had to remove.  

The last couple of days have been pretty rough on the little guy, hopefully he will start to feel a bit better tomorrow and  get some food into him.  I guess the upside is that I am getting some sewing done and I am sure that will continue tomorrow I got a pile of dvd's from the video store today so I am sure a large part of tomorrow will involve sitting on the lounge watching pokemon movies. 

A return to childhood

Last night I didn't feel like watching the box and sewing, so when my son had gone to bed and husband was busy doing work on the computer I decided to get out the sketch book again and work on the design for the quilt that is in my head.  The other day I had done some preliminary drawings so I combined them into a bigger piece to get the feel about how the design will come together.  Then when I had finished the sketch I decided that I would get my new paints out and have a play with some colour.  

I must say it was 3 hours of pure bliss finishing this.  The ipod was plugged in I listen to an endless array of music and just made art.  I don't think for one minute that it will win awards but I had fun creating.  I would always draw as a kid and I think it only stopped when I became a teenager and became more  judgmental about myself and my abilities which didn't meet my expectations so I stopped (how stupid we are we we are young).  

Off to buy some more paint brushes this week I think some more pages just might get filled while I am home with the tonsil boy.

A little bit of drawing

I did some shopping yesterday, I just had a feeling that Hetties would have some bolts of fabric that was after.  The fabric was Swanky by Chez Moi and I gave myself a jelly roll and layer cake at Christmas so I thought now would be the time that the bolts would be arriving and I was right.  You don't get the full picture when you buy jelly rolls, it just isn't the same but the fabric on the bolt well....mmmmmmm love it.  Well I just loved some of the bigger prints so i decided on one and got 2m of it then a couple of half metres of two others....might go back for some more after I finish the quilt in my head.  As I was getting the fabrics ready for the picture I spied the stripe that I bought last week when I was at Patchwork by Sea and I think it will work very well with the fabrics as well.

I think the quilt will involve hexagons.  The background is white on some of the prints so I am going include lots of lovely white which I am really into at the moment... thank you Janelle and Don't Look Know.  Then I have to work out what other types of blocks to do might have to crank up EQ which I haven't used forever.  

With all this in mind I did a little drawing last night, I have been scared off drawing  because my last efforts weren't what I thought good enough.  Although the page turned out quite messy in the end I was happy with what I came up with.   

Is there a Dr in the House

I don't know if I have mentioned this but my son is scheduled to have his tonsils out next Friday and we have been battling to stop tonsilistis since the operation was scheduled. Last week he got what I thought was a cold, he had a day off and I thought that he was on the mend then he came home from school on Friday he complained that he was cold, so I upped the dose on the preventative antibiotics the dr had given me as it was too late to get him back to the dr and he doesn't work on the weekend. By Monday he was getting worse so back to the dr and he has a chest infection as well as the tonsil problem.  So know he is on stronger antibiotics and ventolin, last night he still had a fever but this morning he has sprung out of bed and is getting ready for school so maybe we have turned a corner.  Now we just have to clear up that cough by next week and hope that the tonsils don't flare up again.

Valentine Swap

I don't feel like I have been achieving much lately but I guess I have been doing a few swaps. Here is my effort for the Valentine Ornie Swap. Below is what I got in return.  They look fabulous as always.



Here is the latest birthday swap item that was sent of for Mill who's birthday is today.