A New Year - A New Page

What this new year will bring is anyone's guess 

and no guess is too crazy or way out there.  

So just take a moment to stop .... and breathe.  

I've been busy in the kitchen today but no, not cooking.  Cobwebs banished, walls and ceiling washed and some decluttering going on.  When it comes to household "stuff" this year my motto is - "if I don't use it...lose it!" Freshly washed curtains re-hung and I'm smiling.

My "just because" photo.

2019 Up and Running

Already one awesome family filled week has passed.  New Years Day lunch was spent with our daughter and Grandson P, our son and daughter-in-law and Grandson J.  Our son-in-law had to stay back for work.  Then my parents arrived and the following day we hit the road for a 9 hour road trip north and west back to our daughter's place for a longer visit.

So lovely to be able to celebrate with Grandson P on his 2nd Birthday.  Happy Birthday gorgeous little man xx

One day we went for a sightseeing drive towards Middlemount and passed a coal mine up close.

On the last day we went for another sightseeing drive, past the Bedford Weir and ended up in Blackwater for lunch.

Then we were up bright and early for the return 9 hour drive.  Needless to say it was early to bed last night and a slow day today putting the house back in order, packing away "stuff" including Christmas as there just wasn't time beforehand.

Now it's back to 'normal';  housework, washing's on, bills to pay and by the end of the month it will be back to work. Some sewing plans have been made and started so I'm hoping my posts will include many more crafty projects this year.  Already I have 3 projects ready to commence so bring it on!  We won't mention all the UFO's.

Happy New Year 2019

A Blank Canvas Awaits

Happy Sewing Year

I am starting 2018 the same way I finished 2017 ... happily sewing.  Yesterday when going through my stash for sashings,  I couldn't find a second purple fabric that I was happy with for May and November. Then this morning I remembered I still had some of my dyed fabrics from way back when. The winner was number 60.

Never when I closed the lid on my finished blocks did I ever imagine they would be spending New Years Day 2018 together.

I even have the perfect place for them on our loungeroom wall ... so considering their current size and I quite like them as is, I'm thinking of just quilting and binding without another border?

May 2018 be your year.

A Relaxing Start

Happy New Year

Firstly, here is my last hand embroidery for 2016 ... Billy Goat's "bleat" and mouth ... no. 1 of 12

Followed by today's  first hand embroidery for 2017 ... Bluey the Dog's "woof" and mouth ... no. 2 of 12

We've been enjoying some beautiful rain since sometime through the night and it's been showering on and off most of the day ... 46mm.

I have so many projects and ideas running through my head. UFO's I would like to get back to ... patterns I would love to start on and a BOM I am very tempted to sign up for. Let's hope my enthusiasm keeps going as a new year unfolds.

May your 2017 be all you could wish for xx

Little friends may prove great frienda --- Aesop

Farewell 2016

My last machine sewing for 2016.

It's a bit hard to see... Curtains hemmed and hung at the kitchen window to cut the afternoon sun scortching in. It was cheaper (and quicker) to buy ready to hang and cut them to length. Bonus is I have just as much left over to make some curtains for smaller windows in the house.

Wishing all a Happy, Healthy and a thread-filled New Year

Swealtering

It's just way too hot and steamy to feel like doing much at all.

Farewell 2014

Hello 2015

New Years Eve 2013

Our year began with floods and isolation (post here) and ends in drought ... still feeding the cattle and awaiting the rain to fill the dams, tanks and grow the grasses.

We celebrated the wonderful wedding of DS and DIL in April, (post here) who I will now on refer to as Mr and Mrs C.

In July I promised myself that any ball of wool entering my home would be used and not hidden away in a stash. Pleased to say that only the large variegated mauve ball is left over.

This bundle is a different matter. I think I may have used two of the variegated balls.

But I did spend a lot of time all year complaining that I had no time for craft or sewing so that could be the reason. At least once the cooler weather rolls around I'll have some wool to get knitting with straight away.

So as the hour hand ticks around towards midnight on this last day of 2013 (7.5 hours away) I would like to wish all my lovely friends and wonderful family a

 Happy New Year 

May 2014 be all you want it to be and more.

A New Year Begins

To all my blogging friends and those I am yet to meet ... wishing you a Healthy and Happy New Year with as much sewing as your heart desires.

Thankyou to the ladies who have committed to making 1 Xmas Item a Month (see link list on left side bar). No pressure girls ... we're just here to support each other, enjoy sewing and get a head start on next Christmas.

If you're looking for some other inspiration to help your sewing along this year, here a few sites I've found this morning.

'Once a Season Swap' ~ Gone Stitchin

'Sew It's Finished' 2011 UFO Challenge' ~ Sugarlane Quilts

'UFO Thursday' ~ Cookies and Cream Craft

Another Brutus finished last night in the fading hours of 2010 so I shall share a pic later.

Raise Your Glasses for 2010

4 hours and counting till ...

HAPPY NEW YEAR

(no pics tonight, internet isn't co-operating ... I'm hoping for a more reliable connection early next year)