Birthday Pressies...

I am a member of two online groups and both do Birthday Fat Quarter swaps... and seeing my birthday was while I was in Perth looking after my son most of my pressies remained home unopened...
until now...

the first group that I have been with for a few years now (and you can find them here) sent me all these gorgeous oranges as that is what I wished for  ... plus there were some gorgeous cards as well

 and 

the other group I am with is a private one and these are what I received from these lovely ladies...

 this gorgeous bundle is from Shez of enjoyinglife

and the card is made by Shez as well... thank you lovely lady...

 this bundle of goodies is from Maree of on my verandah...
ribbon, pin, fabric scissors and more... thank you lovely lady...

 this wonderful bundle is from Carol of quilt club narromine... under the fabric there is a gorgeous piece of hanky linen which I will save for something special... thank you lovely lady...

 and this wonderful bundle is from Jenny of jenny of elefantz...

and she totally spoilt me... thank you lovely lady...

and my friend Val who is such a sweetheart sent me a box of goodies ''just because''

 look what was in there... and the folded fabric is a laminated piece and I just love it... 

and Val did send me a gorgeous fatty of orange for my birthday but 

she also included this butterfly and crystal mobile

 it is just so delicate

and I will be saving that for my new sewing room...

my very special friend Jane sent me these goodies for my birthday just loving the lime fabric...

 and a little while ago I won this bundle from Christine at MacDonald's Patch...

all in my fav shade of green hehehehe

so thank you all you gorgeous ladies one and all

I totally enjoyed opening all my gifts from you all

BUGGER POO BUM...

I have to share this one!!!!!

Vicki at The Pickledish Patch

has a GO! Baby to give away...

and how I wish I didn't have to share hahahahahaha

only joking my friends

and this is what you need to do...

Now you can have a chance to win your very own Go! Baby Fabric Cutter and 3 dies of your choice.

I will give you a few chances to be in the draw to hopefully win your very own

Go! Baby Fabric Cutter.

Here’s all you have to do………. 

1 entry - Leave a comment telling me why you would like to own your very own  

Go! Baby Fabric Cutter and 3 dies.

2 entries - Become a follower of my blog and leave me a comment telling me you are or have become a follower

3 entries – Visit Accuquilt and see which dies you would like and come back and tell me.

4 entries – Blog about it on your blog and come back and tell me you done this.

Please don’t leave any comments on Accuquilt’s Facebook page for my giveaway. I have been asked to tell you this by Accuquilt.

That's all…easy peasy! Of course you don't have to do all four but of course you want to have as many chances as you can right?

Ok…this giveaway will go from now until Sunday 6th November 2011. AEST and I will announce the winner on the 7th November 2011 , you need to make sure I can contact you via email.

Also check out the Get 22 Free Patterns Button on the left side of my blog, all you have to do is sign up with your email and you can download 22 free patterns. Awesome patterns too!

so ladies go do it and good luck.... 

A Fantastic Give Away...

Over at ''Stray Stitches" there is a fantastic giveaway... Linda is celebrating 300 followers... 

that seems a long way to get to from my 33 followers... 

what a mile stone though...

so go look here as there is a pattern and 25 fat quarter plus 5/8 yards of black fabric to make the pattern up...

 Bringing In 2011

Well what did you all do last night???

We stayed home and didn't manage to see the New Year in... mind you I did stay up later than I have been... today we might go visit some neighbours... 
it has been unbelievably hot here... yesterday it reach 45 even the pool water is warm which is YUCK but at least it is wet... the garden is really suffering and the poor bush birds...

 This is what I won over at Cheryll's for participating each day in her 12 days of Christmas... the pictures are so cute and I will use them in a small project... thank you Cheryll...

 This stash I won on a site for Aussie girls... a Christmas raffle... there is so much in here... labels, Christmas decorations, Christmas fabric so much to list but a great raffle...

 This is from my lovely friend Val in Victoria... a perfect mosaic tile block and the most gorgeous needle case which I have filled with some needles and have it with my hand sewing...

and this book of ''iron on quilt labels'' they are just wonderful and so many designs and so many ways of decorating them... coloured markers or stitching or both... 

thank you Val for your wonderful gift...

And I wish everyone a great year ahead in

health

happiness

family 

friends

oh and sewing 

A Give Away At Fiona's....

Mother's Cupboard is having a fantastic give away... go see... Fiona is launching her new free Bom ''Flowers of Love"... this is what she has to say...

To celebrate the launch I am giving away a complete set of blocks to 1 lucky Follower + the fabrics to complete the 9 blocks in either colour way shown. All you have to do is leave a message and blog about my BOM. You must also be a follower. You can use the Icon on my sidebar too if you wish. I will draw the winner on the 1st October when Block 2 is released.
I will set up a Flicker group in the next few days so that we can all see one another's finished blocks. Have fun with my gift to you.

Ok now head on over there and she what she asks you to do...

NOW.........

My 100 Post Giveaway....

This could be yours................

Cottons.... buttons.... coasters.... afternoon tea place mat... pins... hanger... a great magazine... oh and 6 fat quarters.........

and all you have to do is be or become a follower

and

I will draw this on Friday

and

I will send overseas as well....

Luv T xxx

Baby Blue.........

Yesterday I finished sewing the binding down on this very lovely blue baby boy quilt...

sorry about the quality of the photo as I did take it in the early morning sun coming up light yesterday hehehe....

IFQ had this as an event....

I did change mine just a little....

and I did put an iron batting in it and

backed it with a very nice lemon coloured polar fleece...

now it will be extra warm and a little softer for when he is having floor time...

I gave it to one of our local girls yesterday who had her first baby a couple of weeks ago... yes a little boy well not so little as I think he was very very close to 10lbs... ouch....

Luv T xxxx

oh don't forget to be come a follower in the next few days to be in the draw for

my 100 posts give away.... which is only about 2 postings away....

Health

OK so I have decided that I need to get healthy again oh and a bit fitter...

I use to do Tae Bo, ride my push bike 10 km, swim oh and walk...

but then my hips started playing up.. badly.. like coming out of their socket and yeah I know you are saying ''no way'' but yes way... to the point that I would fall or be in a huge amount of pain until it clicked back in.. so off to doc's I go...

2 operations later and a heap of metal in one and a fair amount of weight...........

but do you know last visit I was told I need to live near a heated pool so I can swim all year round and a gym so I can strengthen the muscles, ligaments and tendons... he knows I don't live anywhere near these things so low impact is what I need to do... no jumping up and down no running... and can't ride my bike as the knee's don't do to well these days...

ANYWAY.....

I got myself one of those pedometers..... mmmmmmmmmmmm what I have realise is that

I DO NOT take enough steps in my day.... 10 000 steps is what you need to start to make a difference in your fitness.... I have been managing 5000 if lucky... but I have been doing a lot more walking around my yard even if it is just to see what is flowering... walking to the silo to give the pets their lupins and walking up to the shearer's quarters to check on tourists...

and I have managed to get to the 10 000 steps on these days...

but........

I have also noticed that I am being wakened up by hip pain in the night....

which I am just going to have to live with as that will not change and I do need hip replacements but we are trying to get out of my 40's before we need to do that...

I am going to keep walking and once the mornings get a little warmer I am going to go for and early morning walk each day... not far down the road just enough to get some more steps on the pedometer....

Oh and I do have a wii board that my kids brought me for my birthday and I have been doing about half an hour a day on that and that is so much fun... plenty of giggling there....

AND

don't forget about my 100 post give away... you only need to be a follower and I will draw out of that list...

Luv T xxx

Flowers and Some Babies....

I picked these jonquils out of my garden... their smell is just gorgeous...

As I walk through my lounge room I can smell them... actually you can smell them as soon as you enter the house... they are beautiful I just love the double flowers...

Babies......

Yesterday we had some baby calves to mark... 8 of them... and the others got there botulism injection.... and see that big red cow.... yeah she is a ''real cow of a thing''...

do you think she will go into the race???????????? no way... same as last year....

so once again

Hubby hung off the fence and she got hers in her butt...

This is her baby and he is so cute...

you can't see it all that well but his colour is close enough to ''champagne pink''....
A closer photo of him

All eight babies marked... six boys two girls...

Hey don't forget that I have 100 posts coming up and there is a give away... all you need to do to be in this is be a follower...

Luv T xxx

Bloggy Friends

Dotty Jane Designs I happened upon this lady this morning...

she has a great display of hexie's that she is working on...

If you are into tea cups and tea pots this lady has some free stitcheries for you...

they are really cute and I have some printed off...

Memory Quilt News....

The family have received the quilt... which I posted Thursday and the got it in there small coastal town on the Monday very impressed Australian Post...

there have been lots of tears... the email message was ''can't stop crying long enough to ring you... but will''... even her 21yr son was impressed and ''gobsmacked to see his brother in fabric''... I am so happy that they have it you always worry that a quilt will get lost in the mail???...

100 Posts

I see that I will soon be up to 100 posts.... woohoo...

so I have decided that at that point I am going to have a giveaway seeing that I missed my 1 year blogging mark hahahaha...

not sure what it will be but it will be good and I have decided that it will be open to ''followers''...

so if you are not a follower now is your chance to be one between now and the ''100 post mark''...

I am off to Perth for the weekend so I will be gathering for this giveaway...

stay tuned...

Luv T xxx

A Giveaway

Vicki over at Tozz's Corner is having a Birthday Giveaway... Vicki is celebrating her 2 year birthday in blog land...

the giveaway looks and sounds fantastic so head over and leave a comment...

Luv T xxx

Oh Look What I Got...

Have a look at my new sewing machine that my hubby gave me for Christmas.... a PFAFF 4.0 and do you know what.... I need a license to drive it hahahahahaha... and do you know what the first thing I have done with it..................... mending hahahahaha... it has loads more room for bigger projects and loads more decorative stitches.... yes I am excited but scared of the ''new beast'' at the same time hahahahaha

Snow Bound

The first block in the new Bunny Hill BOM

so head over and have a look and print off the pattern and while there check out the other free patterns on offer...

The weather has been much cool this week 41's and the difference from 44 or 45 is big... even though some of you might not think so.

Luv T xxx

Another Fantastic Giveaway

Oh my how fantastic is this giveaway and in all my favourite fabrics... Amy Butler... Gee I am itchin to win this one haha... head over to http://katicupcakequiltingco.blogspot.com/ and leave a comment... Oh and don't forget to say that you read it here on my blog.
Luv T xxx

WooHoo A Fantastic Giveaway

Hey head on over to Barbs Creations..... http://barbscreations.blogspot.com/ .... and check out this fantastic giveaway she has posted... all handmade by her... my she has been busy.
Luv T xxx