triathlon take 2

OK so the count down begins again for this Sundays Triathlon. This time my poor team partner has been ill all week (I have an advantage moohawhahahahahha) no seriously I do feel bad for my team mate and hope that she is feeling better by Sunday (gotta say that as she might read my blog!!). We haven't done nearly as much training for this event but we have been keeping up the fitness in general so I know we will be fine.

We are going to go down to the beach on Saturday as they are having a registration/pre tri talk thingy so she thought we could take advantage of this and check out transition and where we will be riding and running. I hope that I don't panic and loose my bike rack position and waste valuable time like I did in my last tri. If the weather isn't too bad we might even have a dip in the ocean, if its cold I honestly don't know what we will do on Sunday, freeze I guess!!


I am making my sister in law in London a quilt, its now ready to be quilted by yours truly, (thanks to my friends for helping me baste the other night) I also have a baby quilt for the great niece (EEK I'm going to be a great Aunt!!) this is awaiting its binding to be sewn down.


I also have a quilt to make for my cousins new baby here, my Mum has 'commissioned' me to make all my cousins babies quilts as they have arrived, so another little girl turned up a few months ago. I am using a Moda bake shop recipe but have found the directions a tad confusing so have sat and re written them so that I can understand them. I'm not saying that they aren't well written, just confusing to me! Its a lovely pattern and I will post a picture once its done.

I have however run out of time to quilt this before I leave on our trip to the UK (did I mention this??) So I have employed the services of my lovely friend Anita to do the deed while I am gallivanting across the globe with my family. Then when I return I can pop on the binding and away we go!!

happy new year!!

Hey gang!!
sorry for the lack of blogging but here is a blog with girth for you to get your teeth into.

This is the gingerbread house that my mum bought us for Christmas, I usually make one but she beat me to it... not sure if I was happy about that or not LOL.

Now I finally finished the quilt for work... the boss was about to fire me!!


Please ignore the threads hanging about but it was obviously not finished at this point. I used the techniques that I learnt at my guilds symposium late last year with Kellie Wolfsohhn. I need to practise some more!!

This is one of the new guys at the zoo! the new seal enclosure is really good.


we timed our visit quite well and managed to watch a little one on one training with the seals, this one was very cute.



The baby elephants are awesome... Mali's little brother is a right bossy boots and was trying to push her down the hill but she dug her heels in and pushed his little wrinkly butt back.




I nearly didnt renew the girls and my FOTZ memberships but we talked about it and decided that we would renew for this year and see how it goes. The girls are getting older and going off with their own friends more often... poor old mum gets taxi duties :)

It was a good day out at the zoo... first one for the year.

this yummy little cake was devoured by one of my gym junkies children when we went out for lunch recently, she made up for the rest of us hehehe.

My boss very kindly gave me her cold, not happy Jan! but I got up, took my drugs and went to the gym and beat up my partner as best I could in knock out class this morning. Part way through class I thought I was going to die, then I got some energy from unknown parts and managed to finish the class, feeling a little less than good now BUT I am going to be really nice and share my cold with my quilting buddies as my mums quilt is ready for pick up tonight.

I was wondering to myself what to give my mum for mothers day and now my dilemma is all sorted!! just got to pull my finger out and get that binding on before Sunday.... piece of cake really as I know i can do it, just need to do it and not sit on this thing lol.

The new bike is great, but the weather isn't being very kind to me so riding is minimal at the moment, also trying to get my gym friends to come for a ride with me, there is a track we want to do which I am led to believe is about 40km which is what we need to do for our round the bay later in the year.

Hope everyone who is going to the show this weekend doesn't enjoy themselves at all... no just joking, I'm just jealous... I really hope you all have a wonderful time and spend loads of money and find some nice stuff for me heheheheh (not joking about that one lol).