Bird houses

I have been busy, busy busy! Mostly quilting, but in the cool evening today I nipped out and popped these up. I painted them ages ago and then never finished the project.



I made the red and brown house (above), but the rest were collected here and there.





The aim is to have a collection of brightly coloured bird houses scattered through the agapanthus bed.


I still have to get some more paint colours in town on Saturday and paint the rest of the poles.


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Topper finished

I got some more white and finished putting together this topper.





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Whirly Gig finished

I finished stitching down the binding on the whirly gig quilt last night. It for Mum as she loves pink and green together.



By pure coincidence I found this pink and green check fabric for the backing.


This was good fun to make. For the quilting I simply outlined every second whirly gig about a 1/4 inch in from the edge.


I'm sure it will look great on Mums couch as a lap rug.


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Christmas 2012

So the day started like this...

and quickly progressed to this...

"Santa" made an appearance...

And was treated like this... 

Angus was thrilled with his telescope.

As was Sam with his lego.

Henry's car track was 'awesome!'

And William loved his balance bike

 We miss ya, sista!

Merry Christmas!

Ho Ho Ho

Notwithstanding Christmas slap bang in the middle of the last few days, I have managed to finish off and start a couple of projects.

Christmas was wonderful and relaxing and everyone had a ball. I'll put some photos up later, but for now, back to the quilting.



I saw this type of quilt on a blog and it was described as very easy to make so I decided to give it a go with leftover scraps of fabric. I laid it out, but oops, I've managed to run out of white fabric. Some of the blocks are missing it, so I've stacked it up and put it aside for now.



I'm very pleased to reveal my finished log cabin cushion. Milly showed me how to insert a hidden zip and I backed it with purple stripey fabric.


I think it looks great on the couch teamed up with the Pezzy cushion and the Raggy Circle quilt.






Finally I spent yesterday afternoon and this morning piecing together this whirly gig quilt. I've had the fabric sitting there for a while not sure what to do with it. Milly showed me this pattern so I decided to give it a go. It was fun to make, but once again I don't have any backing fabric so I will put it aside until I get some.


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We have orange belts!

Karate windup on Thursday.


Angus and Sam both achieved their Orange belts.


On the way home we noticed someone doing Christmas, country style!


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The last few days

The cloud burst at home put a stop to the last scrap of harvest we had to do. This meant Richard could come to Perth with us for the kids karate grading.




We had lots of fun at the beach.
















The karate grading went well. Results next Thursday. Nana and Poppa made the trip into the city to watch. Angus the Killer accidentally gave a fellow white belt a blood nose when he came too close!




Henry decided on some holiday colour! He's got such a soft, mush ball expression you'd never guess he's a little devil!




Bieberesque... Or funky metro man?




William inherited a toy dinosaur from his cousin George. It makes growly noises and walks and he is quite scared of it. Or at least he was ...




Seem to be best buds now!


This is why I love Freo. It has a personality all it's own. Where else would you find a tree wrapped in a hand knitted scarf?


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