Life.............

Life is whirl wind...........good but OMG busy..........

so much fun catching up with Susan@Oh2Sew and Maree@Stitched Australia, Fiona@BubzRugz and Kris@TagAlongTeddies.........

The food is always great at the Park House Cafe...........

After food and chatting we went and checked out some patchwork shops.............

This is the range I got for a friends 50th birthday quilt.........

Combined with grey (first time ever for me) should look "blokey" enough I hope...........

Car pooling......

Few more bits.........sashiko, possible Lucy fabrics...........all paid for and waiting for the girls and..........

I found these beauties...........OMG fussy cutting heaven.........I got all 3 colourways as I could not decide what I loved the most........probably Lucy2 but maybe Lucy...........in all honesty probably got enough fabrics for 3 Lucys.........but I am not going there..........

To say the fog was thick was an understatement................when I arrived it was so thick it was difficult to find my way around.........it lifted but by the time I came out just after dark it was settling back in..........looks cool in the lights but hard to drive in when it got thicker.........

So impressed to see so many young people doing Relay for Life............we didn't stay all night as not prepared enough but the girls walked the whole time they were there bar about 15mins when they ate dinner...........

Fairy Girl was playing with the new camera..........LOVE this photo..........

Rainbow on my way home.............

cool clouds.........

Catching the last light.........

so surprised this turned out so well...........it was almost dark.........

Now for a few restful quiet days as the sore throat that's been hanging around for weeks now is NOT getting better and i've had another trip to the Drs........

Me and the lounge are going to be besties for a few days........

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue.........

Keeping the love of blogging alive

GDITC Saturday...........

Saturday started off grey and drizzly around but we enjoyed a nice walk...........

it was fresh but strangely the breeze was warm.............

a good breaky to start he day...........

Our gorgeous project was this from Bonnie Sullivan USA.............

new to me she is printing fabric ..........we appliqued a bit of wool on the spool, stitched over the leaves and added the buttons........done.........

I know sit down but I had a high achievement on the day...........

got my pincushion and needlebook done..............

Bonnie helped with the pincushion........it is attached to the lid of the container...........

great christmas decorations.........these are also preprinted patterns and you do a little applique of some wool and add a few stitches to smarten it up and it's done...........

lots of great friends to spend time with.........

my biggest partner in all things quilty Miss Jules and me.........

Kerri and Dawnie.........

Googy and Suzie..........

My table (back) Diddles, me, Lea aka Fairy Floss.......

(front) Googy, Suzie and Dawnie........

Me and Bonnie with my project finished so far..............

she was an absolute delight to have as a tutor........

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Thanks heaps to Kerry for organising 10 years of amazing workshops.......by chance it has become a melting pot of bloggers from 3 states.......all with the one amazing connection to blogging and stitching..........I was so so so sad to hear it was to be our last Girls Day In The Country............

the bloggy girls............

such a wonderful group.........

(back) Fiona, Googy, me, Diddles, Lea

(middle) Kerri, De, Marilyn, Janice, Deb, Jenny, Sandy, Dawnie

(front) Lynda, Susan, Dzintra, Bonnie, Kerry, Suzie

Sarah in the background but me and Elizabeth.......

late night party girls.........

such a ball.............thanks to Kim and the absent Heath for having us once again at the caravan park..........always such a perfectly neat park with immaculate cabins............and the great BBQ again on Sat night...........

I have missed swap pics so will try and get those taken but we did our Make it, Bake it, Fake it swap on Sat night.........

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue.........

GDITC Friday..............

Someone didn't remember sharing this quilt late on Thursday night.........

Isn't it gorgeous........so tempted to make this one............

An early morning walk with Kerry..........uphill and down dale 6kms done...........woohoo.........

Shopping at Cottage on the Hill...............

Lunch at the pub again............

Then it's nibble time...........

OMG the noise..........

then show and tell............

I know i'm behind.............but getting there............

Catch you later...........

Chookyblue...........

Keeping the love of blogging alive

Hanging with the bloggy girls......

I started this post a week ago.................late Thursday night after dinner............I want to rewind to that happy place I was with the girls and all the excitement.....not sad because it is the last GDITC......
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Thursday afternoon I snuck off from work a little early and headed to Nundle.......my usual partner in all things quilty was travelling with her partner this time..........

after hours of driving getting closer to Nundle I had to wait for a stupid train...........OMG I think it was the longest coal train in the world.........

the 10 mins I was delayed felt like 10 hrs with the girls on the other side waiting for me.........and me busting to get to them.........

nearly in Nundle I looked back to a beautiful sunset.......

dinner was heaps of fun and the exciting crazy chatter that only meeting up with your old friends brings.........the volume in the pub went right up.......

Me, Janice and Jenny.......

A photo for Dagmar @ Quilts and More

Me and Dzintra......

a photo for Denice @ Denice's Day

Me and Jenny

Omg so much fun...... Love these girls.....
Me, Fiona, Susan, Sandy, De, Kerri, Marilyn, Lynda, Janice, Jenny, Dzintra
More to come for sure........

Catch you later....

Chookyblue....

Keeping the love of blogging alive