New quilts

I recently made a quilt for my cousins new baby. I have 3 cousins who my mum commissioned me to make a quilt for each new baby to their families.

I have made a few quilts now, I don't charge my mum to make these as its part of my gift to my cousins. This time I didn't have time to quilt it myself.

I asked my friend Anita if she would quilt it while I was oversea which she was able to do for me.

Once again I was very happy with the quilting that Anita did for me, this was just a nice all over design.

I joined strips of fabric to make a nice binding.

The quilt was given to the young family the other day and was very appreciated which is nice when you have taken the time to find something that you hope they will like.

long weekend

typing one handed is slow and annoying!

why am i doing this you ask? cause my kitten has made herself comfy in my left hand and is nice and warm hehehee

I know you are all hanging to find out how my calf muscle is, it improving thanks for asking. I'm icing it and resting and one of my gym instructors is going to modify a class specially for me, shes awesome!!

Went out last night to hear a band play, first time in years the hubby and I have done that, worst thing was I couldn't dance grrr. We left the froglet at home with her friend, that was another first.

I have left the girls at home alone before but not at night and when I am a fair distance from them. Its not a matter of not trusting them as I do, its more if something happens and I'm not just around the corner... I kept checking the phone but they girls survived without me.


the noisy one has gone away with her friend for the long weekend so its been quiet here.

Work for me tomorrow... good thing is the pay as its a public holiday!!

Injury alert

I'm not a happy camper this evening. I have been getting back into my training at the gym and was back to my weights that I was using prior to my trip overseas.... had been upping them little by little so I didn't hurt myself.

So today, doing the circuit class and was only jogging on the spot, nothing hard or overly vigorous, when "ping" I felt a nasty pain in my right calf.

Now this isn't a good pain I thought and tried to gently work through it to see if it let up. For a while there I thought I was onto a winner and it would ease off.....

nope.

I had a girly moment while I iced it outside the gym and had a little howl, then pulled myself together...



I was lucky enough to have an appointment with my osteopath/myotherapist, so rather than working on my upper back she tackled my legs. I didn't like the nodding and faces she was pulling while I told her what happened and the pain I was experiencing and had a nasty feeling she knew exactly what I had done.

She had a gentle fiddle with my calf and confirmed my fear that I had pulled the muscle in my calf ARGGHHH.

so now I have to be a good girl and no exercise for a week... oh I am allowed to do upper body weights and swimming, so will do this and no more as I don't want to have lingering pain or problems.

So the next 3 days I am icing and voltaran and gentle ambulation.... boy am I pissed off.

new family member

just recently we found that we had acquired a new family member. this stunning black cat adopted us and is living on our back veranda, she is soooo friendly and such a pretty cat. my husband is a self proclaimed cat hater but this is the second cat to adopt us and he is a little smitten.

THIS however is our new kitten, cookie. she is a rag doll kitten and is a lovely natured kitten. the first photo is a little evil looking lol.



yesterday I did a 3 hour mega class down at the gym and then last night
I went out with the fisherman and danced for hours in my new shoes.... I was a little clever though and took with me some flatties for the end of the night, so happy that I did that!!

Ireland

We went to Ireland and stayed in the town that my father in law lived in. The froglet got some authentic Irish dance shoes as she was needing some new ones. The fisherman got to fish with his Dad and the noisy one met her Irish cousins.




please note that you need to double the price of the fuel from Euros to Aussie dollars.... yes you are reading correctly.... now you may pick your jaw off the ground.


No trip to Ireland is complete without kissing the Blarney stone. We all did this and now you can blame the stone for my non stop blethering!

heart beats

Well back to reality for me.... had to return to work after having nearly 7 weeks off. what a bummer! (have to take some more holidays soon!).

I will post some more pictures of the trip soon I promise, but here is a picture of my newest toy.



I have been admiring heart rate monitors for some time now and when one of my friends said she had bought one for a good price I thought I would check them out... the rain the other day kept me from going to the car so I ended up with this little beauty.

I have used it in a pump style class and burned up 330 Cal's. The idea of using a HRM is that you workout smarter and more efficiently so time will tell!

Bound for Ireland

This is wollerton Hall, a very stately mansion near my father in laws. There are free roaming deer on the grounds and the girls were intrigued by the mole holes in the ground.

The mansion has some rooms done up like it would have been when the family resided there and the rest of it is a museum of the most unlikely artifacts from semi precious stones to stuffed animals. Now of course animal lovers would not be happy about this but these were done in the days waaaaaaaay before animal rights and it does give one the opportunity to see some animals up close.

We drove from Nottingham to Holyhead in Wales to catch the ferry to Dublin.

Had a chuckle when we saw this on the ferry.... made me feel so much safer lol

This was our first view of Ireland from the Ferry

Of course we saw many white swans as we travelled, I love our black swans but the white swans are very beautiful too.