Organ donation

After having a moan about my lurgy I read today another bloggers post and it made me feel a bit of a phoney. I know my lurgy will pass in a few days or a week but there are others out there that have conditions that will be with them for ever.

I have posted about donating blood before and hope that some of you have been able to do this.

Now I'm going to ask you to think seriously about organ donation. All my family are for this and we are registered with the organ donation register.

Please take the time to discuss this with your family and friends, think about the fact that we cant use our organs when we die (fact) but we could help many others live a full life and give a give a life saving legacy that money cant buy

Go and have a look at curlypops blog, she is a very talented crafter with an excellent blog who has all the info you will need to register for this.

ps i am feeling better thanks :)

bugs

I seem to have caught some nasty lurgyc.... I thought it was the flu, had all the signs with the aches and pains. My poor fisherman didn't sleep well on Sunday night, I was freezing cold and shivering like crazy, he brought me my lovely warm dressing gown and 2 panadol and wrapped me up like an onion.

Then last night I just about drowned the poor guy! I think I sweated out most of the lurgy and felt better this morning. Of course I did a little cleaning up and had to strip the bed.... by 3pm I felt disgusting again.

I do love my neurofen at the moment....

My bed is calling to me, I think I will answer its call post haste!

wet cat

I couldnt get a photo of cookies face, he wasnt terribly impressed.

Cookie has been 'washed' several times since he has come into our home, we are lucky as he isnt that worried about being washed and just hangs there while you wash what ever bits are needed.

The other day he was being a smart arse and was walking around the rim of the toilet while I was having a shower... he usually sits and yells at the door until I open it and talk to him. This time he slipped...... yep his backside had a cold wash cycle!

I grabbed him as he was shaking his back legs and washed him down with warm water as I was still in the shower... this made for an even wetter cat and I think he was rather unimpressed.


Now although we are searching for a dog to join our family this isnt our new puppy, this is my friends beautiful new boarder collie pup called Nelly.

I know she will be a lovely companion for my friend who is doing a great job of bringing her up.

finished my block of the month...

A few years ago I made my first quilt that was designed by leanne's house called leanne's house. I enjoyed making that one so much that when I saw her next one called the quilters journey I set about making this one too.

I had enough fabrics left over from the first quilt to make this one without buying any new fabrics. This time rather than selecting fabrics as I went along I cut the entire quilt out in one hit.


I had some great cream fabric with little sewing notions on it that I wanted to use for all the embroidering bits and thought I would cut it all out at once to make sure I had enough. Then as I looked at the pattern I could see that many of the blocks were the same sizes and in fact some were identical.

So I got out my big zip lock baggies and cut them all out so that it looks random but goes together well.


I decided to sew my blocks together, press gently then traced the embroidery pattern on with the blue pens that wash out.

Once I had done the embroidery I washed the blocks and set them aside until I had several ready to sew together.

By the time I was finishing the last touches to the final block the first 6 were sewn together so all that needed to be done was the final 3 sewn to the bottom of the first 6 blocks. I now have the boarder fabric ready to hand sew onto the top, so in a way I guess the top isn't quite finished.... close enough for me to post about it!!

Now this random photo at the end of my post is my heart rate monitor that I bought myself a few months ago... when it was my birthday a few weeks ago I got up at 5.30am to go to circuit class and when I put my watch on I got very excited as the little cake was there to greet me.

no photos

the froglet has stolen my camera so I have no photos to show you as I haven't uploaded them yet.

*sigh*

I had to go to the podiatrist today (much overdue) I got plantar fascitis some years ago and had to get orthotics. After many years of wearing daggy shoes it has pretty much healed.

Today they told me that rather than getting corrective orthotics I can now get supportive orthotics and this I hope will help remove the pain I feel when I am exercising. Think of the pain you get when you have been on your feet for hours walking or just standing and that's what I often experience after 15Min's of running around the gym.... not good when you are training for triathlons and such.

I'm on holidays for 2 weeks and I can see this time being taken up with visits to dentists, Dr's, the vet, the tax man, the mechanic, the auto trim man to fix the roof of my car that is falling off... makes for interesting backseat travelling.

Will retrieve my camera soon.

Weekends of fun

Home from my busy weekend away. I was very naughty and didn't take one single photo..

I said in my last post about the things that I would be taking with me on retreat...


1. Double wedding ring (hand piecing) as pictured in the last post.

I did sew some of my DWR, and put together my first "melon".

2. Leanne's house, quilters journey, last block with a tiny bit of embroidery to finish and then sew the final blocks together.

I finished my quilters journey, now to audition some fabrics I have for the border and then to hand quilt it.

3. Fix the work quilt that I made... it was defaced by some plebs who obviously have the intelligence of a rock.

I fixed the work quilt, ended up fusing fabric together and fusing it to the quilt to cover the defaced squares which I did a simple stitch around the edge and voila!!

4. Table mats that I bought as a kit, finish these off.. some quilting.

I finished them off but didn't fancy quilting them.. maybe another day!

5. country sampler... hand pieced quilt that I am hand quilting (on and off.. more off than on lol).

Didn't take this one with me in the end!

Like most retreats, I slept too little, laughed a lot and sewed up a storm... a good time was had.


The dancing was excellent and the froglet and her team partner came 3rd in the 2 hand, so they are 3rd best under 19s in Victoria!!

quilting retreat

the froglet went her her first 18Th birthday recently and made the birthday boy a special card... I found out he likes sparrows that's why it she chose this bird... my goodness she is talented (she gets that from her mother lol) I will post the picture she did for my birthday... is a butterfly, the noisy one said she is going to have it as her first tattoo (oh my)


One of my favourite times of year!! quilting retreat.

I'm off tomorrow with my quilty friends to spend most of the weekend indulging in things that I love to do.

Sadly I have to leave on Sunday morning as the froglet has her biggest dance competition of the year that day and I cant miss this.

For the first time in 4 years of going to winter inter club at MSAC I will miss this Friday night, but I felt this compromise was acceptable this year.

I have several things packed to go so that I can decide on what I feel like doing the most.

1. Double wedding ring (hand piecing) as pictured in the last post.
2. Leannes house, quilters journey, last block with a tiny bit of embroidery to finish and then sew the final blocks together.
3. Fix the work quilt that I made... it was defaced by some plebs who obviously have the intelligence of a rock.
4. Table mats that I bought as a kit, finish these off.. some quilting.
5. country sampler... hand pieced quilt that I am hand quilting (on and off.. more off than on lol).

I think that is all I am taking and I'm confident that I will complete numbers 2 and 3... specially 3 as my boss will kill me if I don't do this quickly!!