Happy Easter

Happy Easter to everyone. I hope the Easter bunny finds you all tomorrow.

Some more 2016 GDITC

I just wish this could happen more than once a year.

Just keep stumbling upon a Dory here and there..... found one in Nundle too.  She's so cute!

My stitching buddies helping me bind my quilt in time to show Anni. Thank you Kate and Gail.

Lea  with her beautiful "Natures Journey Quilt"  

My beautiful roomies including Lea above. Thank you girls for the best time.. love you all, Gail, Sandy ,Deb and Lea.

Beautiful Kate called to help with the binding

Beautiful Projects by Anni Downs

Kerry Swain from "Cottage on the Hill"  and Anni Downs designer of  "Hatched and Patched"

gave us a beautiful Girls Day in the Country.  I was very happy not to see hexies or EPP in this project.

Anni cleverly designed a sewing roll and needle case with interchangeable motifs and stitcheries.

                                         
                                 Happy Easter Everyone !

Girls Day in The Country

What an amazing weekend I have just had meeting up with a lot of the blog girls.

Gail, Googy, me , Shiralee Stitches 

Chooky browsing the swaps

Getting some tutoring from Anni Downs 

My swap  for GDITC 2016

"Days Dale" and "Happy in Quilting"  Peg

Anni is a beautiful spirit and an amazing designer, I love her work. 

"Itching for  Stitching" with her Sue Spargo quilt.

With Anni Downs -the designer -and my "Natures Journey" quilt finally finished and beautifully quilted by Betty Field.

One more Lucy Boston done

Time With Our Family

We have just returned home from a few days with our kids. Thursday til Sunday.  We let Nanny and poppy from Bundaberg have a day off from their baby sitting duties and Boo Poppy and Bam ma ( Bernie and I ) did the job. 

 This was a rare treat for us as we live so far away, but this year I have reduced my workload from full time til 3 days a week and Bernie took a day from his annual leave so it gave us some family time.  Usually we drive 6 hours Friday night get there about 10 pm and then drive home again sunday afternoon so it was lovely not to do that. 

We started at a "chic" little cafe called "Oodies" with a big long breakfast. 

Then the Zoo and the park. Bundy has a small free public zoo so nice for kids. 

She has Boo-Poppy wrapped around her little finger.( why boo poppy-? because when we face time her he always play games with her  and he goes BOO  to her. Her other grandfather is Poppy also ,so she calls Bernie Boo Poppy)

Boo Poppy is exhausted....no ... She just wants him to be on the slide with her...LOL

Then we made biscuits

And pressed them

We had a ride  at "W"  (Big W) as she calls it.

Then relaxing with a movie and her new "listening ears". She is travelling on a plane soon and her mum and dad thought this might help because she hates loud noises and loves movies . I don't think it took her long to get used to them - no trial period required- like a duck to water. 

Our son is trying out his new birthday present from us. Lots of cleaning was done.

Our little family 

A busy and fun weekend.  Better get into the sewing now . My side bar just reminded me how close Girls Day in The Country is. 

Turkey Tales

In my life as a home economics teacher I have taught a lot of people to cook but never have I tutored someone from thousands of miles away by blog and email. The rolled and stuffed turkey is a tradition in my family. Its not Christmas without it.

Denice from "Denice's Day" in the USA decided she wanted to make it after seeing my blog photos from Christmas time. So we emailed back and forth until she had completed turning the brontosaurus sized bird into a culinary delight.


This is Denice's beautiful bird.

I think I should give her an A- just so she tries again to get an A+.  Makes me hungry.

This is the one we did with our son at Christmas time teaching him how to carry on the tradition. This was made the day before and served cold.  Denice could have done a better job... It was a fun experience. Check out her blog to see how she went .  You will find her on my side bar.