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this time I have been tagged by Leanne and I have to list 8 random things, the rules are as follows:

RULES – Post rules before giving the facts – Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves – People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules – At the end of the your blog you need to tag eight people and list their names – Leave them a comment on their blog, telling them they have been tagged and not to forget to read your blog.

this is what I have come up with!

1. I don’t do dressups ( I can hear Leanne laughing…..)

2. I hate green beans…..(but I do like peas!!!  LOL)

3. I like to drink water but straight from the tap… not cold from the fridge!

4. Anytime is chocolate time…..(especially when sewing..)

5. I am not very computer literate…thats what my boys are for…

6. I LOVE to read and if I could read and sew at the same time I would..

7. I hate being late and I have been known to be extra early just so I won’t be late!!!

8. I went to uni to become a teacher but dropped out to go to Europe….thank goodness for that..I never would have had enough patience to be a teacher.

I won’t be tagging anyone as I have run out of people to tag from last time!!!!

Off to Maccas for Liams birthday with my family,

bye for now

Gail xx

over the weekend I was able to stitch together more of my double wedding ring,

 

I have done some more arcs as well but this is going to take me about 10 years to finish!!!

I have also been reading this book

I have read this before but I really enjoyed it so decided to read it again. It is the sequel to "The Harp in the South" , a very Australian story. A good read!!

It is Liam’s birthday tomorrow and my baby is going to be 10!! he is really excited and is looking forward to a birthday tea of McDonalds. (we don’t eat much of it anymore!) I also let my kids choose a cereal for breakfast that I don’t normally let them have so he has chosen Fruit Loops and he is having a lunch order at school as well. Presents are hard to choose for him as being the third boy, his brothers have usually got a lot of things he can now have!   Whenever I am asked what Liam would like for his birthday I never know what to say and he doesn’t know either. Whatever he gets, he will have a lovely day anyway, he likes to be fussed over and that is what we will do. Happy Birthday Liam.

I need to go and bake a cake!!

Have a good week

Gail xx

I am starting to receive photos from some of the girls who were at Loxton, of their finished projects. Here is Lorraines bag, it is gorgeous with some lovely pom poms along the seams.

You can see that she has been making the most of her time off reading as well. Lorraine started the red shoe craze so its all her fault!!LOL.

Here is a photo of her basket as well, she certainly has been busy.

thanks also for the lovely chocolate and the gorgeous tag, made from a photo of the bag, which has inspired me to do the same with some of my photos! (when I get around to it that is!!!!)

The bag pattern is now available so if you are interested, check out your favourite patchwork shop for a copy.

Back to a normal kinda life this week. I had a lovely class on Sat with some girls over at Missy Moos. we worked on a small quilt which I have called Daisy Summer.

here is a close up of a block

these are not my normal colours but I really liked the fresh feel that they bring, who knows maybe I will gravitate to more of these colours .

the other quilt I am working on is called Flowers for Thee and I posted a picture a while ago of the blocks. I have now put it all together with a border and am ready to quilt.

I just need a few more hours in the day to catch up on some of my sewing.

Hopefully i will have that finished soon and move onto the next project (no doubt it will be a Christmas one!!)

cheers

Gail xx

Okay so this is my third post about Loxton and I hope that you are not bored with it yet. Here are some more photos of the girls and their projects.

Me, Carmel, Sue and Amanda with works in progress.

Annarein and Viv with the top for the memorabilia basket, there were lots of lovely versions of Vivs project.

This is a photo of the wall in the toilet!! there are lots of comments written and it makes for good reading if your forget your book!!! Leanne drew these gorgeous butterflies and flowers, just under Pam Hollands comment.

So if you are in Loxton and visit Almond Grove Crafts, make sure you go to the loo and leave a comment!!!

Have a good weekend

Gail

After a couple of relaxing days (well not really!!) I have asked my boys to draw a winner each for the "summer romance" bag pattern. So congrats to Maria W, Michelle P and Lucy C. Please email me with your snail mail address and I will pop them in the post for you. thanks everyone for your comments, it is lovely to read them all.

More Loxton photos for you to see. also you can check out Leannes (not Beasley!) blog to see some of her photos. I am sure Leanne Beasley will also have some soon (maybe the one with the hat!)

the Roxby girls had pink jackets made for them all and gave us one too. Here is Tricia, me, Viv and Leanne all wearing out Loxton 07 jackets, very nice of them to do that for us so a big thank you.

A very very BIG thankyou to Tricia and her family for having us 3 mad ladies, we had the best of time and cant wait for next year. If you are in Loxton you MUST visit Tricia, Liz, Viv and Anne. The shop is wonderful with lots of fabric, patterns and everything else you can think of!!

This is Glenys who won the door prize. I think she was very pleased as among the goodies was a jelly roll….oooh.

Here is Toni with her version of the winter shopping bag. She finished it on the same day and was very pleased with the result. the handles are ruched (is that how you spell it?) and some of the other girls decided to do that too.So well done Toni, it looks great!!!

I really should go and make dinner now or I might get in to trouble from 3 hungry boys (when’s dinner mum?..in a minute…..I’m hungry…..just a few more minutes…)

Cheers

Gail xx

ps.. I do love my red shoes!

WOW….what a great time we all had at Almond Grove Crafts. Leanne, Viv and I arrived home quite late on Monday night very very tired from our big adventure to Loxton.  All the ladies were wonderful and had so much fun.

Meredith, Georgette and Sarah are three of the "Roxby girls" who travel to Loxton from Roxby Downs each year. They are such fun and enjoy themselves heaps!!!

the food was divine, this is a selection of the sweets that we had. All the lunches and dinners were scrumptious, made by Mark & Tiffany, they did a fantastic job.

The talk of Sunday was the shoe shopping!! I managed to buy a pair of red shoes just like the ones Lorraine was wearing (thanks Neil!!) and by Sun afternoon lots of other girls had them as well….(and I also bought a blue pair…..they are gorgeous). They are so comfortable so I was very happy.

here we are with our red shoes!!!!

Hope you had a good weekend too!!

Be back tomorrow with 3 winners….

Bye for now

Gail

Only 1 more sleep until Leanne, Viv and I head off to Loxton in South Australia for a 3 day workshop. I really should be packing but thought I might play instead! Here is a photo of the project that I will be teaching

at Almond Grove Crafts. I am looking forward to 5 days of fun (I will probably need Tuesday off to recover!!)

I thought that it might be nice to have a bag giveaway to keep in with the bag theme, so leave a comment to win  a copy of "Summer Romance Bag" and I will draw a winner next Wed, there are 3 copies to be won.(I really will need Tuesday off)

bye for now

Gail xx

What a weekend I had up at chilly Rawson with 80 other women, all stitching and laughing their way through Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Even though it was very cold outside it was lovely and warm inside. It was great to get away with some friends and get lots (well some!) stitching done. The food was wonderful and there was plenty to eat.. (no more chocolate until Thurs at least!) There was also lots of show and tell and I was thrilled to see Fiona with her Magic of Christmas quilt which she started last year.

I also met lots of people including Anne and Bev who sat with us and kept us entertained all weekend. Here is a photo of Anne with her coffee mug bag which she made (which is also one of my patterns)

Jill from Gippstitch kept a few of the girls busy showing them how to paint on fabric with pencils and also had a fantastic costume for Sat night ( I am not allowed to show any photos as they have threatened to kill me!!) All I can say is that she was very green!!! Sue and Carolyn also kept us entertained with their sisterly love.

Sue, Carolyn and me.

I am now very refreshed and looking forward to Thurs when I am off to Loxton with Leanne and Viv Robinson. What a weekend that will be, only 3 sleeps to go!

Have a good week.

Gail xx

PS.. thanks to Marg and the girls from Pakenham who organised the weekend, it was great and I will be back next year!

I have been tagged again, this time by Lyn so i will list 7 things (if I can think of them! LOL) but I wont tag anyone else as I have run out of people to tag who havent already been tagged!!!!

1. My favourite colour is blue

2. My favourite book is Pride and Prejudice

3. I try to read everyday (even if it is the newspaper)

4. I don’t like beans so I never cook them!

5. I also don’t like ginger

6. I love collecting anything! ( If I like it I buy it!!!)

7. Lemon Meringue pie is one of my favourite desserts (I have a LONG LONG LONG list of favourite desserts!!) I always look at the dessert menu first when I go out to dinner!

So I have now run out of PS’s to put at the bottom of my posts for the next month so maybe i will think of something else to PS!

Lucky me, I am going on a sewing weekend with some friends. We are off to chilly Rawson with the Pakenham Quilters and I am really looking forward to it. We plan to sew, eat, sew, eat and hopefully laugh our way through the weekend. And of course there is a little (a lot) chocolate in there somewhere!! I will let you know if I manage to make something at all.

Cheers

Gail xx

PS What is your favourite dessert?