Grounded.......

Where to start?  I guess the best thing to do is start where I left off......I had just got home from a few days with Leanne at the beach.......the next day I picked up a friend from the airport and we spent a couple of days touring around the Barossa, eating (lots of fun stuff) and even managed some stitching in the evenings.  It was a lovely time and it was over all too soon.  It is always great to show a friend around my neck of the woods.  We aren't into wine, but there are many other fun things to see and do here...a lot of them involve food!  All too soon I was seeing her off at the airport and heading home to get ready to go back to work - I packed a lot into just one week off!

I started a new project after receiving my Flowering Snowball templates from Baycreek in the post.....and can I just say their customer service excellent! ..... the templates are easy to use ...and the blocks go together easily...so what more could a girl ask for?! I chose the 8" finished size block so the pieces can be cut from a 5" square....and I have lots of those.....

It has taken a couple of weekends to get these blocks done....there always seems to be something that needs doing, but then I am not in a hurry with this one and am enjoying the scrappiness of it.  There was a quiltalong on Mary's blog a while ago, and I particularly liked Irene's quilt here so ordered the templates and the rest, as they say, is history. 

Work has been crazy busy over the past few weeks and I haven't done much stitching at night as most nights I go to bed with the chooks (as in not really WITH the chooks - more like at the same time as them.....)  so, not very conducive to lots of show and tell!

However, having said that, (let me say this).....I have had a finish...... Gail's stitching folder started in Port Campbell a few weeks ago.....

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..and here it is all packed ready to take to stitching with the NTFW girls..........

Always great to catch up with everyone - Shay bought healthy snacks as always.....although I must divulge that she also bought strawberries, real ones, not lolly ones which I haven't shown here.......

 

 Shay is working on this beauty and was busy making hexis....not too much glue hopefully.....

I finished this Christmas stitchery, another Gail Pan pattern......

.....and started stitching on this little beauty from Anni Downs .....

....I know it's almost November, and I have mentioned Christmas a couple of times in this post.....I went to one of my favourite stores the other day and came home with some Christmas decorations.....too early????....I didn't want to put them away (where they might be forgotten when it IS time to decorate ...soooooooooo.......

a cute wire tree with buttons and bells with some metal deccies......loving these.....they might stay out all year :)

So that's about it from me.....a quick catch up of the last few weeks....not sure where the time goes really.

'Til next time..................Lorraine