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!!

community festival

Today was one of our local community festivals. The froglet and her dance school participated for the second year.

this year they couldn't dance in the lake area as there is actually water in it!! There was a black swan enjoying himself though!

After the dancing (it was damn hot too, makeup melted!) The froglets friends all gathered together and we went to look at the rides.


You wouldn't catch me on this sucker, however for a large amount of money I would consider it!

The froglet and her friends went on... she loves these rides, no truly she really really loves them and the bigger and more scary the better.

I have a photo of her laughing and swinging her legs and her friend is screaming in terror lol.

I loved the animal farm and got to pick up some lovely little chickens and got a photo of me with a little piglet squealing its head off..... then to my delight on the way out we found the reptile guy with a great selection of beasties. A black headed python (about 10kg) got a pic with him on me, a lovely little gliding possum that was sound asleep, kookaburra, Tawney frog mouth that turned his little yellow eye on me.... a fat green tree frog, a large wombat but the coolest one was the fruit bat that seemed to like me hehehehhehe

6 days straight

I have new roster starting next week at work, today I finished the last of my 6 days straight and the last weekend I am rostered on. After doing weekends for 8 years I am happy to be giving them up and will occasionally pick them up when the other clerk is needing a weekend off.
I will now work 3 on 4 off then 2 on 5 off. Should fit in with the gym schedule, the quilting, swimming, dancing and all the other things that I seem to be involved in!

This weekend is no different with 2 swimming competitions a Irish dance teams practice and a teams competition on Sunday afternoon.

I only have 89 days left until I do my round the bay experience and I'm getting very excited about it, hope my buddies are just as excited as I am. I have been watching the tour De France and tonight there is another evening of riding to be seen, however I am not going to sit up till 1am yet again as the last 2 nights I have fallen asleep only to be startled awake because the fisherman is yelling at the television telling them to get a move on.