Weekend fun ....

Last Thursday Helen came down for

a few days,

We ate, drank, shopped & stitched...

Thursday was just a relaxing afternoon

catching up with each other ..

Friday after dropping the kids at school,

we headed to the local embroidery guild exhibition.

It was small, but quite a few displays

that were nice.

We both picked up this christmas ornament.

I'm thinking of putting candy canes in it

then off to

Paritz Cafe for morning tea..

iced coffee & this Brest

it was HUGE ..Helens iphone is beside it

for size..

Then to the quilt shop ..

and we scored bargains..

we cant quilt , so we buy ..

Helen picked this one

I picked up this Christmas  one for my wall.

Just need to get some dowl to hang it.

Then out to lunch, spotlight, school pick up

then back home for tea..and a drink..

 Saturday we started with French toast for breakfast

we then stitched all day,

roast pork..heaps of crackling and vegies for dinner.

then we watched Muriels wedding..

such  a great Aussie movie..

Sunday our last day of stitching

this is what I was doing..

LHN Baked Goods ornament.

This is such an appropriate ornanament

for me ...

love, love, love Christmas

( already have brought decorations.. )

and baking ..

Back to normal now  :-(

next time think we need a week, it just goes too quick.

Some finishes ...

my little Quaker snowman,

done on perferated paper.

stitched and finished in 2 days..

a record for me ..lol

22/10/2011

Mill Hill Santa.

I had finished this ..I cant remember when ??

but it was sitting waiting me to finish the other

2 companion santas.

that's not going to happen soon :-)

so with a Fab 4 Lissy

suggestion, I made it into a

No Sew Cube.

OMG ..these are brilliant, who-ever came up

with the idea is fantastic

and deserves a gold star

no sewing machine ...



embroidery heart ..

after finishing the stockings & pillow,

I was "lost".

i got out and kitted up LHN "christmas baking"

but remembered I had this heart

all ready to stitch.

I had some rich purple perle

so used that.

I love this, and will be making

a few more.

it only took 2 nights rom start to finish.

Going to do a green for my christmas ornament tree

which is still in its natural form ..

Finally some finishes...

Boo Club

11 October 2011

After 2 days of having a good relationship

with the sewing machine   -our past history hasnt been good!

I have finished 4 things ...

Above is

Lizzie Kate Boo Club

I know we dont celebrate Halloween in Australia

but I love the colours.

especially purple & orange.

The back is lined with the orange.

 Sebastians Stocking

11 October 2011

And after 12 years both Mad & Seb have

christmas stockings..they still have their

pillow case style ones.

these are a keepsake / heirloom I hope.

They are Shepherds Bush

Harry & Elisabeth charts.

 the back of his stocking,

 Madelines Stocking
11 October 2011

I still need to do her

"made by" label

11 October 2011

And Shepherds Bush

Merry Be ...

Its beginning to look a lot like

CHRISTMAS ...

in OCTOBER !!!

78 more sleeps to be exact ...

I took Mad & Seb to Melbourne today

with my mum and met up with

my BFF Helen ..who needed a day out xx

last day of the school holidays, and

of course we ate ...

apple danish

&

iced chocolate

for kids

mango-passionfruit & chocolate

macaron for me

at Laurent ...

then off shopping, went to Myer

and found the

christmas department ...

 Seb browsing ...

a funky bright tree ..

or an

ELVIS

 themed tree

or a $5500

full size reindeer in pink & white stripped tights

candle holder - antellers hold the candles

I brought my 2011 ornament

and one for my new neice, oh and another

3 ..

and found this ornament tree

note sure if I should leave

it raw or paint it ..

a day out with 4 of my favourite people

doing my 2 of my favourite things..

eating & christmas



Trophys & books ..

this post is a mish mash of things.

First up is Seb, he had his soccer team

presentation last night.

Pizza for tea, presentation of trophies & awards

 and a game against the parents ..

It was pouring and I mean pouring/belting down rain

and thunder & lightning

but they played a game ..NO i didnt go out

my hair would have looked terrible later ..lol

they put on the outside ground lights and played

for 40 mins .. all came in soaked ..

but all had a great time ..

pizza was delayed as the pizza shop lost power ...

but we finally did get it 2 hours later ..

Presentation of the trophies next.

Seb won the

2011 Best & Fairest.

they were all awared certificates and medals,

and 4 players trophies ..

He was quite proud of himslelf.

The club has their big

presentation day in October.

now for BOOKS...

 The new adriano Zumbo book is out..

and of course it needed it,

ok wanted it ...

 his macarons ..

Zumbarons

 The man himself..

Adriano ...

 while getting Adrianos book

i saw this.. this isnt meant to be released

until Oct 4th ..

but I have a copy now ...

I love her show,

while in the U.S. last year

we went on a tour of Warner Bros studio & sound stages.

we saw 2 1/2 men, friends, ghost whisperer

cant think of the name - the one with Simon baker -saw that

being filmed.

and Ellens offices & gift shop  ....



but didnt see her  :-(

I could have got tickets to her show

but they werent available when we were there,

we had to stay a week longer ..i could have done that

but think the Visa wouldnt have handled it ..lol



soccer

watch out for this top...

 in the future...

ok a few more years..

Seb tried out for a soccer training acadamy position

on saturday , run by

Football Federation Victoria.

80 boys & girls tried out

for 24 spots..

guess who got in ....

YES

Sebastian

 my superstar ..