Card making

Had a great day making cards with friends Wendy and Janet.

Loving these little blackboards.

If you'd like a kit to make them, they're $4.50 plus postage, they come stamped and ready for assembly. Just leave me a comment or email me if you are interested.

My kinda sweets

These look delicious and thankfully they'll leave nothing on the hips.

I found a tutorial here

This post is just to let you know I'm still here just pretty busy at the moment, I hope to be back sharing all my crafty adventures soon.

I have been AWOL

Hi everyone! Have you missed me? My little family, including my pooch caught The Spirit of Tas to the mainland for a three week camping/fossicking adventure. We spent 5 days at Murray Bridge, South Australia and attended the Gemboree, an annual gem and mineral show. We then headed north to places like Burra and Olary and then headed east into Broken Hill, New South Wales before heading to Victoria via Echuca. We even spent a couple of fantastic nights with Kez and her gorgeous family where Brett helped out on the dairy. The last stop was at South Gippsland at the Mother and Sister-in-law on their small farm.

I did a little stitching but not as much as I had planned.

Life's also about to change again as my hubby is going back to the mining industry which means I get uninterrupted nights of stitching and TV so I should get some finishes under my belt.

Olary pub

Echinoid fossils found at Mannum, South Australia

Me on the big seat, Broken Hill

Stitch and be happy!

On Saturday I spent the day here

along with an excited bunch of stitchers from near and far!

I didn't do any stitching as I played shopkeeper

which gave Helen and Lynette an opportunity to roam around the room talking and assisting the ladies with stitching techniques.

The ladies were given two kits in their goodie bags

This was Lynette's project

and this was Helen's project

 Lynette bought along some great new tools which help make glue stick applique not so messy and Helen showed her new wash away applique papers.
And of course there was lots of shopping at Helen's stand

 and Lynette's stand.

The day was catered by the most amazingly talented bunch of young ladies from the Buckingham Rowing Club, Thank-you!

I even tried my first macaron...absolutley divine!

But the part I enjoyed most about the day was catching up with lots of friends including

Cathy, Georgia, Leanne

new friend Dee, Pauline and Lib in the background there too.

It was a special day and I hope we all get to do it again one day!

Thank-you also to everyone for your well wishes to my son, he doesn't require any further surgery and it looks to be healing well. He is now in a red fibreglass cast for four more weeks and then everything will return to normal. It hasn't been much fun being dressed by your Mum when you're 16.

10 minutes

Geez life can turn so quickly, one minute your 16 year old is asking if he can stay at his mates place and you head off to drop off some clothes and a toothbrush only to find in that 10 minutes he has fallen over and broken his wrist.

He's bummed as next week he has a Master Class at GYC for admission to a VET hospitality course, no right hand means no chopping. I'm sure he'll get another opportunity.

So as I sit here watching him resting after they've put his bones back into position and plastered him up I think when did my baby grow up to be so brave.

Thank-you to the doctors and nurses at Royal Hobart Hospital, the treatment has been exceptional!